Re: +/- 9.5 degrees.. enough?

"Carl Farrington" <carl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The T-Rex is all put together now, just waiting on the Futaba S9257 from

> Skyline which will hopefully be here today.
>
> If I'm reading the pitch gauge right, then I've got pretty much 9.5 
> degrees pitch each way. (collective.. I haven't done any measuring of 
> cyclic throw on top of that, if that makes any sense). Is this enough?

Do you intend flying around upside down doing evrything you can when it's 
the right way up? If so, you've just about got enough. If you DON'T intend

flying around upside down doing all the things you can do when it's the 
right way up, youo've got too much negative and not enough positive to 
effect a good autorotational landing.


> It's nicely 0-degrees at center stick, so I don't think messing with 
> linkrods will make any useful difference. I suppose the only way to 
> increase it evenly both ways would be to move out a bit on all three of 
> the servo arms.
>
> Should I be looking for more pitch? I can't see that I'd use it right
away 
> but the chappie whose videos I had a look at ("Finless Bob from 
> helifreak") seems to go for 11 degrees, and he says other people go for 
> 12!
>
> whaddaya think?

12 positive and 12 neg. Then you can REALLY hammer it into the ground and 
give absolutely NO thought as to the repair costs, coz there won't BE any.

The heli will be deader than 3 litre Supra, so burial or a funeral pyre
are 
the only options.


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Beav

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