jzanutto
Senior Heliman
Location: Fresno, CA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | I'm impressed with the performance so far. I've never owned a scale ship before, I had a big Schluter 60 and a couple of 30 sized ships, and a BUNCH of T-rexes so I was a little unsure of what to expect.
it hasnt done anything that I thought was strange, (except of course the wacky gyro and tail stuff) . But after talking with the Doc, I am going to go with the bigger tail blades, because I am almost out of rudder travel to hold the nose straight. Now with that small amount of travel I can still have full control of yaw going nose right.
After being out at the Army site yesterday, there is one scale detail I completely forgot about, the airfoil shape of the vertical tail. There is a concave on the left side, convex on the right so if they lose the tail rotor they can do a run-on landing. Being a pilot myself I dont think I would want to try sliding along on those skids. Seems like it would be a wobbly little goblin before it came to rest. Guess it beats crashing
BTW, in a similar story our local "captain Scotty" news helicopter guy had a TR out incident here in Fresno about 10 years back. The whole thing was recorded too, and they played it back on the news (over and over and over) . It was a little robinson, and the fuel cap came off in flight, went back and took out the tail rotor. He was screaming "OMG I'm dead" into the mike as the thing spun out of control. Fortunately for him it came down in one of Fresno's many ponding basins that was full of water. About 30 feet deep. He walked (swam) away, the little Robinson wasnt so fortunate though. |
