Yeah! Believe it or not, my ZZ went 40 feet with the 49 mhz. I had to do the antenna mod, but it went far. Also, for 27 mhz, do the mods from zipzaps.com and try the range extension. BTW, welcome to the forums, go to this page:
http://www.rcmod.com/mods.html for a lot of mods to trick out your zipzap. from the dual cell to the mosfet mod, there are a lot of ways to make your ZipZap fly.