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flying 1/18th blackhawk
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:15 pm
by bigsarge
I want to know how to make my blackhawk fly using the electric motor I have seen on here.Any instructions or advice would be appreciated.
Re: flying 1/18th blackhawk
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:42 pm
by pickelhaube
bigsarge wrote:I want to know how to make my blackhawk fly using the electric motor I have seen on here.Any instructions or advice would be appreciated.
Not to break your bubble buy R/C helos are one of the hardest things to learn how to fly.
3 times harder than regular R/C aircraft.
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:08 pm
by pcoughran
Like PH said, RC helos are tough. It is best to learn on a Non-custom helo. The weight/size of these BBI monsters makes this an expensive proposition. You're looking at $2500 minimum to put all the pieces together assuming you have experience building RC helos. You would want really good electronics on a custom like this and a great (read expensive) transmitter with the new 2.4 GHz range and heading hold/Lock gyro to help you control it.
If you really want to go down this path checkout the links below.
http://www.runryder.net/helicopter/gallery/31405/
http://runryder.com/helicopter/t181279p3/
follow NYTURTLE's posts on runryder and you'll get a lot of detail on his builds. You can also just Google Scalemaster Pavehawk or blackhawk and see some other links. He actually put one of these up on Ebay a while back. He urged for Experienced RC helo pilots only and it was very expensive.
Re: flying 1/18th blackhawk
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:26 pm
by USCGSARdog
pickelhaube wrote:Not to break your bubble buy R/C helos are one of the hardest things to learn how to fly.
3 times harder than regular R/C aircraft.
Thats an understatement! I am messing with a coaxial trainer right now, while not too bad, can be rather frustrating at times.
Check out this link,
http://runryder.com/helicopter/gallery/31405/. This dude builds some beautiful R/C helos using bbi and 21C models. nice stuff.
-Rob
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:28 pm
by USCGSARdog
Damn, I need to learn to type faster.
-Rob
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:51 pm
by chunks
Two old sayings come to mind. Helicopters don't fly, they beat gravity into submission and helicopters are 10,000 misc. parts flying in loose formation.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:07 pm
by pcoughran
An old RC helo modeller saying, " It's not if you will crash - it's when you will crash."
After putting in a couple grand in money and lots of time and effort tweeking - it will really suck when it does crash.
These things aren't toys obviously - you could kill someone pretty easily if it "got away from you."