The repairs continue. New shark mouth has been airbrushed to fix the crash damage! Also, got my new gearbox, and have replaced all of the gearbox bearings with aftermarket Boca Bearings for my own sanity. Getting close to flying again!
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500 size UH-1C Huey - 174th AHC
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Originally posted by JFandL View Postwow, they look outstanding. Where did you find them at?
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Definitely difficult to hunt down heli pilot figures. Will almost certainly be using these guys again when I need pilots for my OH-58, H-34, and HO3S. I did a bit more detailing work on the Huey today. Added in all the maintenance steps on the left side, and have the holes cut for adding them and the fuel port on the right.2 Photos
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More Huey progress. Sliding doors are complete, and finished the maintenance steps and fuel port on the right side. Also got to mounting the MK5 “Thumper” Grenade launcher in place. Glue is currently drying on the forward windows as well. If all goes as planned, Test flight will be tomorrow, and it’s off to the Texas Scale Championships on Saturday!3 Photos
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Thanks JF! Unfortunately, the test flight didn’t happed today. I worked like crazy today, almost 10 straight hours trying to get it finished up. Finally got it together, and was going to do a quick test hover before gluing on the rocket pods. Started to spool up the motor, and it was immediately clear I had a very large problem. The rotor mast was bent! It was not bent enough to see when turning by hand, but with the blades on, it was very obvious, and would have had disasterous consequences. So, time to wait again, shafts are on order but are coming from Germany so it may be a while. Here’s where I am at so far.1 Photo
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Originally posted by Hardway View PostLooks great! Bummer on the main shaft...:(
In the meantime while I wait for the replacement shaft, AkumaZero sent some update photos of the pilots and they are looking awesome! Can’t wait to get them in the chopper.2 Photos
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Well, I finally got in my replacement shaft and went for a test hover last night. Everything went well for a bit, and it flew as good as I remember. And then, in a 3 ft hover, the ESC went into LVC. Lost power, and had a hard landing. No damage other than a broken rear skid tube. Could have been much worse, but still incredibly frustrating.
After pulling the ESC logs, sure enough, the voltage dropped off sharply to LVC under about 25A of load. Battery was a 3 year old Thunder Power 4400 65C 6S pack. It’s been a bad week for batteries with me. One of my Admiral Pro 4000s dropped a cell, and another crapped out in hover earlier in the week. Time to make a bulk battery order I guess.2 Photos
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Originally posted by Hardway View PostWow. Glad it was fairly minor. Still sucks though!! Looks fantastic!:Cool:
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