Radio Controlled Helicopters

[Oriphus]

Anyone know anything about them. I have built a radio controlled airplane, but never flown it. Id love to fly a helicopter though. I have a cheap £30 indoor one which is cool, but would love the outdoor big boys.

[rsquirell]

Do they have kits? Those things are aeronautically complicated. The rotor mast must tilt the blades so that on the receding side the blade has a large angle of attack, and on the acsending side it's nearly flat (to compensate for the additional lift. Helicopters actually stall out by going so fast you cant reduce angle of attack anymore on the acsending blade...it picks up too much lift and flips the bird over and bores a hole in the ground. With the tail rotor you must hold left rudder when moving forward to compensate for torque (backwards from a fixed wing aircraft.) In addition, the whole motor mast tilts to give you forward and backward movement. With that many moving parts I'd think a kit would be highly expensive (if they're available at all.)

[Oriphus]

Yeah, there are lots of them available with loads of bearings. The bearings are expensive, there was one with 20 bearings, and then the same everything except 30 bearings and it was £120 more. The thing is i have a Futaba Skysport 6 (6 channels) Radio and was hoping to get a heli-wopper with everything installed. Just use my radio.

[rsquirell]

Neato...might want to load up on extra bearings when you buy one. Real Life helicopters get full inspections every 25 hours of flight...and several models call for engine tear downs and or replacement at hundred hour intervals. Lotsa moving parts.

[Oriphus]

The model im getting is called a Nexus 30 and it has a cracker controller - digital screen with a computer. Its £320

[SKD_Tech]

Hehe a subject I like talking about! I fly model airplanes. At the moment I own and fly a
Great Planes Giles 202
Morris Hobbies Su-do-koi
and in the building stage
Midwest Extra 300S (80" wingspan 60CC engine made by ZDZ)

[SKD_Tech]

By the way I use a Hitec Eclipse 7 Channel radio which I love to death You might want to take a look at them or JR

[Oriphus]

Hey, what do you think of the Sanwa RD6000 - it is a 6ch with computer as far as im aware. Im going to get it i think. Also, do you know where i could get some software for the computer to train on, since ive never flown a helicopter.
Cheers

[SKD_Tech]

Go to www.realflight.com . That is what I use for my airplanes and it also has helicopters in the G2 version which I suggest. Also get all the add-ons if possible. It is pretty expensive but believe me it is worth saving a heli/airplane

[Oriphus]

it looks really good, however i cant find anywhere to download it or a price for it.

[SKD_Tech]

You will have to order it...

[Oriphus]

Ah right - here is the helicopter and Radio i bought:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3145090771&category=1200&rd=1

Im going to get some mettalic spray paint and do the colour up a bit. Would love it to look something like this one :

[rsquirell]

Very interesting rotor blades and mast.

[Oriphus]

On which one - the one in the image or the one i bought. the one i bought doesnt have any rotor blades on it in the photo. The one in the image is a Morley F1 .46 engine, compared to my .32 engine. It would be a better performer in heavier winds, but very similar in control and performance it little to lno winds. However, the bodykit looks amazing on it, but would cost a lot more to fix in crashes. I think i may have a few of them

[Oriphus]

Its coming on friday

I'll post all info about my crash on Saturday LOL - I hope not