RAK402
Veteran
Location: Alhambra, CA
| Mark,
The paddles on the 505 are heavy, as you pointed out and, if memory serves, are somewhat small in area. There is also some hiller efficiencly lost in the fact that they change pitch (collective pitch) when changing collective on the blades.
What you have is basically a helicopter will almost pure Bell inputs, with a stabilizer bar (very little Hiller input).
Original 707/808 and Hirobo scale ship paddles had quite a bit of area and were very heavy. They also had the sort of "wing tip tank" thing molded onto the end (I suppose for more weight).
Hirobo was big on stability in those days.
I went to your website-I enjoyed your write up. I never tried Rocket City links on one, although that would have been an excellent choice. The Kavan Distribtor was local to us and friendly to us at the time, so we would purchase Kavan links by the 100's and divide them up amongst ourselves. They had a chrome-plated brass ball, as opposed to Rocket City's aluminum ball, which gave a very good service life.
Please continue to write these things up. I am really enjoying reading about them. |
