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Trex 450 Pro
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Converted to a Hawk Sport from the Hawk II that i bought as my first helicopter
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Special Configurations
Water Balloon Dropper My design for the water balloon dropper is based off of the Hawk Sport mechanics. First, the Hawk Sport has a gyro tray located between the engine and the fuel tank. This tray is the key to mounting the water balloon dropper and my skydiver dropper. I started by making a wooden copy of the stock gyro tray and mounting it exactly like the stock tray. The servo for both droppers is mounted on top of the tray and secured with screws into vertical peices of wood mounted on the wooden tray (seen below). Then i built the bar that holds the balloons away from the helicopter. The bar attaches to the wooden tray and fits up under the lower frames of the helicopter (seen below). The release mechanism is really simple (shown below). It has 2 metal wires that are attached to the servo at one end and a peice of thin plywood at the end of each wire. The plywood peices, while in the pre-drop phase, cover a whole drilled in the bar and pinches the knot of the water balloon and holds it in place. When its time to drop i flip a switch on my radio and the servo pulls the wire and plywood and opens the whole in the bar. Then the water balloons drop to the ground.
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Before being converted to a night flyer
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One day this summer i went out to the local flying field to fly my hawk sport. Well it was a hawk II but i just got done upgrading the control system to the sport version. Also i add a lot of new carbon stuff to it. It was a perfect day to go fly and i was going to test fly my hawk with all the new stuff on it. At first the tail was hunting because i added larger tail blades and carbon fins. Once i fix that problem i took it for a couple patterns before i started any aerobatics with it. Well i decided to bring it in to check a few things. When on final and about 40 feet from my landing area it started to yaw. So like most pilots i started to correct for it. But nothing happend. Within a few seconds the helicopter was spinning so fast that i could barely tell which way to try to control it. About ten feet off the ground it roll onto a knife edge while still spinning and went straight into the ground. Total flight time about 2 minutes. I found the problem and it was the tail rotor push rod had is connected from control arm on the servo. So i had power to the tail rotor but no control over the pitch of the blades. When it crashed it came to rest on its side but the pictures are after i stood it upright.
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Raven_50_UND_RC_Fun_Fly.zip 8.8mb EAA_Raven_50_Demonstration_Part_1.zip 9.6mb EAA_Raven_50_Demonstration_Part_2.zip 9.6mb Raven_50_Video_0001.zip 9.2mb Hawk_Sport_Video_Part1.zip 9.6mb Hawk_Sport_Video_Part2.zip 9.4mb Float_Hawk.zip 5.5mb No_Gryo_Hawk.zip 9.3mb Inverted_Auto_1.zip 8.9mb Inverted_Auto_2.zip 4.8mb Inverted_Auto_Oops!.zip 8.5mb
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My first helicopter bought in June 1999. Flew it in the Hawk II configuration for about 4 and a half years. Converted to a Hawk Sport in January 2004
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The University of North Dakota has a CRJ 200 Simulator as a part of their Commercial Aviation Major program. Me like other student in this program, in their final semester of college take the Advanced Aircraft Operations course where we get to fly the CRJ Simulator. As a part of the course I and my flight crew member learn normal profiles and procedures as well as various emergency procedures. In preparation for the flying the simulator we must take a CRJ system class where we learn all the system and operations of the aircraft. The course is set up exactly like an airline ground school only just a little bit more spread out in time. Flying the simulator I received 10 hours flying as a captain and 10 hours flying as a first officer for UND’s fictitious CRJ airline called Superjet Airlines.
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