Patent ID: 8109802

Claim:
A toy helicopter comprising: a fuselage having a front end a rear end and two elongated lateral sides; a main motor supported from the fuselage; a main rotor operably connected to the motor by a rotor shaft and having at least one rotor blade rotating about a center axis concentric with the rotor shaft and generally laterally centered with respect to the fuselage, the at least one rotor blade being configured and positioned to provide lift and having a rotational path having a maximum radius; and a bumper having a central opening bigger than the fuselage with the fuselage extending elongatedly in a direction across the central opening, the bumper being fixedly connected to the fuselage and supported from the fuselage below all rotors rotating about the center axis and no higher than the fuselage, the bumper extending radially outwardly away from and at least partially around of the fuselage, at least a portion of the bumper having a maximum radial dimension from the center axis at least as great as the maximum radius of the rotational path of the main rotor.