aaronredbaron
Senior Heliman
Location: West Linn, OR, USA
| I read through the info that Jbeech posted, thank you for all of that, I am very intrigued by the developements of early helicopters. I really like the Cheyenne (I may just have to build one if these fuses become available  ) I am just wondering about the other heli those articles talked about, the lockheed model 286. it looks pretty sweet and I am facinated by the gyro stabilizer they were testing. According to those articles and other sources, the model 286 had superior stability as well as manueverablity, I wonder if their stabilizer gyro would work on a model four bladed head (of course it would probably be easier to just build a basic 4 blade head and use a V-stabi or helitronics mixer) anyway I thnk the model 286 would make a killer model because the full size was doing loops and rolls back in the 60s(?) and it has a sleek look with retractable skids, not to mention that to be truly scale, the Cheyenne needs to have a tail mounted propeller for thrust anyway. (that would be cool, but doesn't seem very practical)
anyway thats my ramble for the day, thanks jbeech for posting that cool info
flippin and dippin, flying tail to the ground, I fly my heli's like a rabid greyhound!!! |
in order to mould it. They are too thin to be mouldable and will have to be done by other means, possibly vac formed of fabricated.
I have a Trex and was thinking about scratch building a light balsa fuse for it with the hope a making a mold later.
