Roban AH-1W Cobra 700 Size Scale Helicopter

[sfcfury]

Nice, will be looking forward to seeing your report on the OH-6. I went with the Align blades for the shape. The stock blades are almost like Huey blades, with a flat tip. I wanted the more rounded and swept look of the full scale machine. I’m sure the stock blades would have been flown fine though.

Yea when I was messing with all of my blade balancing etc, I was like man just get some different blades!! I also thought about the blade shape as well at that moment... So I ordered a set of Rotortech blades (I thought the blade tip design was a lot closer to the real heli), just to realize that when they got here, they were shorter than the Roban blades... I had took for granted that everything said 700mm on the roban documents and never measured. So I had ordered that 710mm Rotortech... . thinking these will be just a hair longer! Nope... come to find out the Roban blades are 750mm. I definitely didn't want shorter. The Rotortechs looked great and I dry fitted to see how they would fit (no issues at all), but I sent them back. I think I am still going to order the 760mm Rotortechs... https://www.amainhobbies.com/rotorte...rt-760/p665902

[sfcfury]

So I'm finally putting the finishing touches on my first ever home DIY project lol... which was to convert my garage storage space into my hobby room. The way my house was built, they built a L shaped storage space in back corner of my garage on the elevated portion of my slab. It was basically 100 square feet on the other side of the wall of my laundry room. So why not make that part of the house right!? So for about $800 (materials and buddy labor) I've added a hobby room and about 11-12K in property value (I ran air/heat in there so it's part of my living square footage now!). Some before and during pics:

[sfcfury]

And after! What can I say... I am happy and excited about it LOL...

[PawPaw]

Great job, sfc! I’m liking that dark flooring.

[sfcfury]

Great job, sfc! I’m liking that dark flooring.

Thanks! I'm very please with the way it turned out... but yea that's were all my after hour efforts have been... now I'm working 12's in hurricane support lol...

[DCORSAIR]

Your new hobby room looks great, nice Cobra too, you want to sell it....

[sfcfury]

FYSA for you guys, if you need a cobra complete tail gearbox assembly, the Roban 600 size UH1N is an exact match.... (you guys might have known that already, but I didn't). I spent more money chasing down the two inside gears, when I could have just ordered the whole damn gear box... and the gearbox is what I actually wanted to do in the first place!

[DCORSAIR]

Sooo, any flights on that Cobra??? I have been flying both of my big Hughes 500 helis, got both of them completely done and several flights on both, still would love to have a Cobra.

[F106DeltaDart]

Ironically, I’ve got no more flights on mine, but I did build and fly one for a friend around Christmas. Was amazed an how well it flies. It’s slick, light, and agile. I can’t wait to get back to working on mine and get it up in the air.

[sfcfury]

Did some maintenance on the cobra this past weekend, put the new tail gearbox in, some bearings, new motor pulley (the cap lip had came off), some tweeks etc, and managed to sneak a test flight in before work this week... bout the best weather we are going to have for about the next 7 days (this weekend's forecast is terrible lol). I'm feeling pretty good about it at this point, tail seems to be pretty solid now, and can at least say some learning is taking place!! I really want to finish this thing up... get my lights on it, some minor details and get this bird in the air for real... gunning for mid March!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMeU5DD76Sw&feature=youtu.be

[DCORSAIR]

Wooohooo, looks great, can't wait to see the maiden flight.....

[F106DeltaDart]

Looking good!

[Jeman]

Hi guys….great reading ! This is my Cobra 👍. 800 class

[Shaun Evans]

Anyone have a sound system for this bird lying around?

[Shaun Evans]

Hi,

Now, a few years later, what's the advice on FBL controllers? I fly the FrSky X20. Just got my Cobra and am collecting the bits. Thanks!

[Gravythe clown]

I flew my 700 Apache with my X10, X8R and a Microbeast plus. it was solid.

Gravy

[Shaun Evans]

Thanks. Is it still flying?

[Shaun Evans]

Welp,

This is the first set of mechanics I've built in about 10 years. I just spent an hour trying to find the 'missing' parts of the swash linkage that are spelled out in the instructions. Then I took a look at your pics and guess what? LOL. Is there an updated instruction manual for this things? This one is dated 2013.

[Shaun Evans]

Thanks. Is it still flying?

[DCORSAIR]

Thanks. Is it still flying?

Gravy sold it to me and I flew it a bunch and sold it to a guy 4 hrs away from me and the last I heard from him not to long ago he was still flying it....