The Blade Nano QX Buy Now!
This neat little quadcoptor has a couple of neat features that make it awesome for newbies and kids. The fact that it’s under that $100 dollar price range doesn’t hurt either. One of these things is the built in rotor bumpers that allow you to bump into walls and what not without disrupting the propellers, so that you can keep on flying. (I call it the flying spider because that what it looks like to me-lol.) As a side note on the Hubsan x4, you can get a bumper to put on yourself that does the same function. The main difference just being that on the Blade Nano, it’s fixed and on the x4, it’s removable. This could be a negative or positive, according to who is primarily going to flying it. For instance, if a kid is going to be flying it primarily, I may go with the Blade so I know the bumpers are always on.
Another feature, and probably the coolest for the inexperienced, is a feature called SAFE which stands for Starts Assisted Flight Envelope. The name is not that important but what it does is important. First, it puts limitations on the pitch and angles that can be done so that you get more of a stable flight. New flyers are like babies trying to walk. You know they be all wobbly and stuff, but if you put them in a baby walker, now they have stability. This mode acts as a “baby walker” for the Nano. It lets you focus on getting the controls down without exaggerated movements. The second part of this, which might be the most important, is that if you get into a jam and need to stop all of the sudden, all you do is let go of the stick. Instead of rapidly free falling to the ground for a nice plop, instead the SAFE technology actually causes the quadcopter to go into a smooth level hover! I personally think that is awesome, if I do say so myself. All in all, this a great indoor drone kids and adults. With this rc drone weighing about 18 grams, small, prop guards, and SAFE technology, it means tons of fun for the newbie flyer that may need a “baby walker” ;).