Fun fun fun little kit:
Had a chance on sunday to fly it for the first time. ONLY on a MMX-1 motor because of a very tight little field. but even with the under powered flight it got about 20feet deployed very nicely and settled into a very decent spin for just about 16seconds. Landing in the street undamaged. recovered undamaged can't wait to get to a regular flying field to put a standard MMX-II motor in it.
I did do a few slight modifications to improve perfromance and reduce some aerodynamic bulk and shed a little weight.
After discussing these changes with Mr Flis. I modified the rotor/fin joint by removing the fin overlap. joining the fin to the split rotor trailing edge and the leading edge splinter. Just used plain old white glue for this and it seems to work like a champ.
To add a little strength to the piston. I mounted both supplied rings on the 1/8" shaft and improvised a stop with a 3/16" section of T2 (.246") body tube. this give a much larger gluing area while provideing a good solid shoulder to stop the piston. this also drops the exhaust ports another 3/16" on the motor tube.
Haven't taken the magic markered finished pic out of the camera but here a a couple of the modification pics
This is another great little Kit from Fliskits, parts were usual great quality and the instructions well written and fairly easy to follow if you've ever built a helicopter model before. it's is a challenging kit from first timers, I'd suggest building it with someone who has a little knowledge of HD models if your a first timer but it's really not hard..just involved
One of the funny things that happened during the build: I finished it mid last week but we've had an awful batch of weather since thursday, Rain and high winds So I was drop testing it thru the basement steps just to get and idea of balance and rotation. Well I didn't notice my house cat slip downstairs but she decided it looked like something alive and jumped on it during one of the drops, snapping two of the three rotors and bitting a chunk out of one fin.
wanting to give the model a real test, I didn't replace the rotors or fin rather repaired it as I would in the field with a little yellow glue and onion skin tissue paper. I'm happy to say with one slightly shorter but reweighed rotor and fin. it seems to be flying pretty well LOL... Sorta like a timeX Takes a licking and Keeps right on spinning
Hope this helps.
Had a chance on sunday to fly it for the first time. ONLY on a MMX-1 motor because of a very tight little field. but even with the under powered flight it got about 20feet deployed very nicely and settled into a very decent spin for just about 16seconds. Landing in the street undamaged. recovered undamaged can't wait to get to a regular flying field to put a standard MMX-II motor in it.
I did do a few slight modifications to improve perfromance and reduce some aerodynamic bulk and shed a little weight.
After discussing these changes with Mr Flis. I modified the rotor/fin joint by removing the fin overlap. joining the fin to the split rotor trailing edge and the leading edge splinter. Just used plain old white glue for this and it seems to work like a champ.
To add a little strength to the piston. I mounted both supplied rings on the 1/8" shaft and improvised a stop with a 3/16" section of T2 (.246") body tube. this give a much larger gluing area while provideing a good solid shoulder to stop the piston. this also drops the exhaust ports another 3/16" on the motor tube.
Haven't taken the magic markered finished pic out of the camera but here a a couple of the modification pics
This is another great little Kit from Fliskits, parts were usual great quality and the instructions well written and fairly easy to follow if you've ever built a helicopter model before. it's is a challenging kit from first timers, I'd suggest building it with someone who has a little knowledge of HD models if your a first timer but it's really not hard..just involved
One of the funny things that happened during the build: I finished it mid last week but we've had an awful batch of weather since thursday, Rain and high winds
So I was drop testing it thru the basement steps just to get and idea of balance and rotation. Well I didn't notice my house cat slip downstairs but she decided it looked like something alive and jumped on it during one of the drops, snapping two of the three rotors and bitting a chunk out of one fin. wanting to give the model a real test, I didn't replace the rotors or fin rather repaired it as I would in the field with a little yellow glue and onion skin tissue paper. I'm happy to say with one slightly shorter but reweighed rotor and fin. it seems to be flying pretty well LOL... Sorta like a timeX Takes a licking and Keeps right on spinning
Hope this helps.
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