Kevin wrote:
About 4 months ago, another freind of mine got an early xmas present, a
little 2 channel indoor helicopter. In its brief life, it gave many
minuites
of flying pleasure to several of us, which included an especially long
flight
of mine, when the breeze caught it, and carried it off towards Wakefield.
My
freind had to leg it down the park after it, and amazingly, managed to fly
it
almost all the way back to us, when the flybar came away, and it fluttered
somewhat ungracefully to the ground. Needless to say, we were all highly
amused, and hooked on the idea. I re approached my freind with the s****t,
and
showed him Alan Sazbo's tricks, and as a group we decided to learn to fly.
My
freind with the ruined aircraft, was fortunate eneough to be able to
return
his aircraft as faulty goods, and went off and bought a Honey Bee King 2,
which unfortunatly made a leap from his laptop, customising and re
arranging
the windowsill ornaments, before wedging itself behined the radiator till
the
engine stopped smoking. A lesson to us all in proper pre flight checks!!
The
rest of us are not as bold as he. I intend to buy a Walkera version,
because
id eventually like to learn how to do the aerobatics. Another freind, has
decided to buy a modern fixed pitch, which we will all use to learn to fly
on.
It is Ken's intention (he who owns the s****t 500), to only occasionally
fly
his, and is also in the process of buying something more up to date, so
although i may appear to be a little 'cavalier' about the difficulties
involved, i am a firm believer in, 'if a jobs worth doing, its worth doing
well'
if you are
>serious about learning to fly with the eagles why use a turkey?
I am serious about learning to fly with the Eagles, although i m not sure
your Analogy is all that accurate, as i m not sure that Turkeys can fly,
but
this is why we called it our 'Bolton Paul Defiant' project. It too was a
'Turkey', but at the beginning of the war it found a little bit of
airspace
to fly around and do what it did. Its just a new and intriguing big boys
toy,
one that seems to get dissed a lot, so Ken and i have yet to finalize the
colour scheme, but it ll either be whats known in the bike world as a 'Rat
chop', or I ll be painting it to look like a very very old wasp. I will
mention a turkey to him, the next time i see him.
>perhaps I am letting my head being ruled by the health and safety
>nanny's, but looking back through time with rose coloured spectacles
>only clouds your judgement
I'm more of an extreemophile than a hippie, for instance when you
mentioned
your club, I immediately imagined an open 10 acre field, with a sandbag
and
bullet proof glass bunker in one corner, and a lone figure, clad head to
foot
in Trials riding motorcycle gear, flying alone with only the glare of
telephoto lenses from the bunker to keep him company, but then thats my
rather warped sense of humour, and i dont mean to be offensive !
Im sure your clubs nothing like that, although give it another 5 years,
and
it ll probably be a legal requirement.
>if one of
>the reasons to restore it is lack of cash to buy something half decent,
>then you are never going to make it as a helicopter pilot as they are
>one of the quickest cash converters in the modelling world, only
>surpassed by true jet powered models, as you will crash it or any other
>helicopter you buy at some stage during the learning curve, and it a
>very steep curve unless you are some sort of natural and at our age its
>unlikely
>I admire the I will get it flying again attitude I just think the
>sentiment is wrongly placed
Cash is an issue, and im sure i ll crash, but before then, i ll do
everything
i can, and so will my freinds, to minimise the risks, hence why i m on
this
forum, looking for help and advise. My freind trusts me to do the job
right,
or at least to the best of my ability, and he knows that if in the end it
all
goes wrong, I ll make it right. As far as flying is concerned, i m already
at
a bit of a disadvantage, because my experiances flying both fixed and
rotary
winged aircraft many years ago, means i need a pilots eye perspective to
understand the controls. The simms ive tried, i have so far found
extreemly
confusing, so it may be that i will be the last of us to actually learn to
fly, but i will.
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