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Introduction:

This article will be covering the building and initial setup. Hopefully it will give you an idea what the quality of the kit and the finished helicopter is like. I'll try to show the unique features and give you an idea how well those things work in the real world of building and day to day flying.

I took the liberty of grabbing the images below from Gazaur's web site to give you a look at the finished product. Gazaur makes two 480 sized electric heli kits, the Mars and the Poseidon.  The two are functionally identical, with the major differences being in the styling of the canopy, frame, fins and landing gear. Look at the picture below for a comparison between the two. The poseidon is intended to look more graceful and sleek, with sweeping curves on frames, fins , landing gear and canopy, while the Mars is styled more aggressively, somewhat like a raptorial bird  (not the RC helis of the same name). The aggressive nose section, reminds me very much of HR Giger's alien.  The landing gear looks like an eagle with its talons out-stretched ready to grab some poor rodent.