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Radd's School and More Crashes

It's been a while, so I figured I'd update the Heli Flyin' blog with my progress...  Well, I've successfully hovered for about a minute now, thanks mostly to Radd's School of Rotary Flight.  It is a nice set of lessons with the goal of helping newbie RC heli pilots become acquainted with their models and get a handle on the basics.  I

After completing all 10 batteries of the Radd's program I took the SR out to the Rosedale Park.  This is when I successfully hovered, actually several times, the longest being about a minute.  The wind was a bit more than I bargained for, and I crashed three times, but the only damage was to blades.

The next outing was less successful.  I went to an empty parking lot nearby and promptly wrecked after about 30 seconds of trying to hover.  The tail boom was "L" shaped, but I was able to bend it back to more or less straight.  I also broke the mixer arm from one of the blade grips.  This forced me to rebuild the head, so I totally redid everything with the MicroHeli CNC parts I had already purchased.  So far the following parts have been replaced on the SR...

  1. Replaced stock blades with stock blades.
  2. Replaced stock feathering shaft with stock feathering shaft.
  3. Replaced stock center hub with Precision CNC Center Hub from Microheli (MH-SR3002CH).
  4. Replaced stock blade grips with Precision CNC Blade Grips w/ Mixing Arms (BLUE) (MH-CP002BGPB).
  5. Replaced stock flybar cage with Precision CNC Flybar System (BLUE) (MH-SR072B).
  6. Replaced stock swashplate with Precision CNC Swashplate (MH-SR3012).

I also picked up a couple other parts from MicroHeli (all of which, btw, shipped from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam to NJ, USA in about 3 days - very impressive)...

  1. Precision High Quality CNC Delrin Main Gear W/Hub (MH-SR3102).
  2. FRP Carbon Fiber Main Blades (MH-CP088).

So far I haven't yet figured out how to get the pitch right - it's 5-6 degrees @ center stick!!  Maybe the swash needs to move up???  Hope to figure this out soon and be back flyin'!!!!

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