Best gift for son is a tough nut to crack. I have read and read a lot of blogs and asked my friends all about the gift that I should be giving out to my younger son. Games like Wii and Xbox he already has. So what is next for him on the birthday.. Clothes for a teenaged son is not a good thing that you can consider.

Then I heard my friend in the office talking about RC helicopters that he had built for his son when he was young.  I was interested. He gave me a references to a couple of sites and I checked those and was hooked. I never knew that these things are a big hobby in today’s world. At my younger age I was only interested in hiking and camping sort of things. Well that may well be the reason.RC helicopter

This site about RC helicopter has all sorts of information which can be helpful to you if you want to have some fun with the helicopters. More so if you want to have you son build up a hobby then this is good. Personally I do not like him sitting all day in front of computers and game boxes so this one will get him out.

RC helicopter means radio controlled helicopters. You would have seen these flying helicopters in toy shops. No those are strictly toys. The hobby helicopters are in the categories Micro helicopters. These are heavy and need to be used children aged above 8. Then there are other mini helicopters that are much more advanced and are used by even military agencies.

There are a lot of good RC helicopter brands and good helicopters. I am just outing a few of those down here..

Thunder Tiger Raptor E620

Dragonflyer X4

Dragonflyer X6

Dark Knight 2 RTF 6CH electric RC

dragon

I must say that after two weeks now I see my son fully engaged on with this hobby website about helicopters and he is also learning to build a one on his own. There is nothing like father and son duo flying a helicopter. I wish I had that oen when I was growing but still many thanks to my office co-worker for those words of wisdom.. Helicopters!