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I figured It was time to make a helicopter and with the hype about the 42145 currently. (Like efferman's custom parts.) Plus I had the blades sitting here for almost two years. This is not any special make or model. 

It so far has I have a rotor top, cyclic, collective, and rudder peddles. I used, for now, a modified setup that efferman made;

But so far I feel good about the progress.

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https://www.bricksafe.com/pages/weavil/2022/helicopter-wip

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Hi!

This is a good begining!

Be carreful, it seeems but maybe i am wrong, that the collective mechanism will not work as it is monted now. 

The movement od the end mechanism should be horizontal, not vertical i think.

I'll follow this one.

s

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On 10/24/2022 at 7:56 AM, karmadrome said:

Wow, so compact and efficient. Great work.

 

Thank you.

On 10/26/2022 at 10:24 AM, steph77 said:

Hi!

This is a good begining!

Be carreful, it seeems but maybe i am wrong, that the collective mechanism will not work as it is monted now. 

The movement od the end mechanism should be horizontal, not vertical i think.

I'll follow this one.

s

I have been working on refinements, tweaks, and adjustments. The video was just a rough draft when I posted. Might post updates of it tomorrow.

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Update on progress. Redesigned the linkage, connection points for them, and started on the tail rotor.

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Here are a couple of tail rotor concepts.

 

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I have been busy, but have some progress to the build. The linkage was a problem with slop and/or function. Rebuilt, modified, or prayed to the goat gods, but I prevailed and I think I got most of the kinks out.

I got the tail and linkage worked out and then the rest started to fall into place.

Here was the first tail idea.

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Here was the start tail and the rotor.

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Here is the tail.

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This is the controls out.

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And in the helicopter.

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The redesign.

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The swashplate and doors.

And the tail adjustment axles.

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25 minutes ago, Jurss said:

That tail rotor is really interesting. Pic from other side?

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