The Piccolo Pro from Ikarus is one of the coolest Micro Helis I have ever flown. I would reccomend this if you have experience with nitro helis or if you have flown fixed pitch micro helis. The motor is a 410 class motor and it creates enough power with the stock 8 cell NiMh 700 mAh battery to do basic aerobatics. For example, it can do loops, rolls, and inverted hovers. If you would really like it to go ballistic on power and increase performance than you would want to go to lithium batteries and a brushless motor setup. The piccolo is very fun to hover in the house in the least amount of space and the little heli is even more fun on calm days outside. I have crashed this heli about 5 times. I have never spent more than 20 dollars on all the crashes. When the rotors hit the ground the rotor head will pop off to absorb most of the crash, Thus less damage will be done. Most of the times you can easily repair the heli with CA or Cyano glue.