[fly boy 01]

I'd reccomend a lightly upgraded Standard. The standard has a lot of plastic where the se has metal, and in turn it's a LOT lighter. I would only upgrade the heablock, and the upper mixers. I reccomend the Gforce head block, as well as their mixing arms. The arms allow me to get 16 degree's of collective when maxed out, and the head block has an oring dampening system which eliminates any of the typical raptor wobble. On mine the headblock was notably smoother than the stock one with infinivation damopeners. I also did a bit of work to lighten mine up a bit too. Take off all the washers on the frame screws, except the engine mount, and the bearing blocks for the main shaft. I also cut up the motor mount so it is just the 2 side rails, with no center brace. Doing that saves an ounce alone. Carbon frames are good too, but will only lighten it up, so no major performance increase like the mixers will give you. My current R90 is exactly 10.5 pounds, which is pretty light for this heli. The se's tend to come in around 11 to 11.5 pounds.