jamesdh
Senior Heliman
Location: Houston, TX
| Years ago, I would guess 1982ish, I had bought a Cricket, built it and took it down to a parking lot near Rice University in Houston.
I had heard there was a man that flew there pretty regular that could help me get my Cricket trimmed out.
I found him down there and he graciously spent some time with me getting the little Cricket setup and trimmed.
Before long he had it hovering smoothly and even took his hands off the sticks!
Anyway the reason I'm writing this is to see if I can find out what kind of helicopter he flew.
It was a low, sleek looking heli with a full body all the way to the tail. The tail rotor was up near the blade plane and was driven via what looked like a speedo cable. It ran along the boom until almost to the tail rotor then curved out and came back to drive the tail rotor directly (Not 90 degrees).
It had what looked like a cooling fan just below the tail boom area and if I remember correctly it had a flybarless head (could be way off on that).
I believe someone told me he was pretty famous and had won championships etc..
Very nice gentleman.
Can anyone help with the heli model?
Thanks
James |
