do and donts for Hornet blades

[Tele]

well I was playing around with the FBL hornet..I needed some extra stability on the blades...so I added 2g of lead foil to the tips and covered them with heavy duty packing tape....I dont think anything of it at the time as I had dont this many times before.

I spooled her up and was looking at the tracking....when all of a sudden it went BANG!!! in a big way ...scared the living Sh#% out of me. I quickly spooled down and trying hard not to drop the bird from my hands as it was shaking all over the place.

The verdic..the tape on one side didnt hold the 2 g of lead and tape flew off accross the room ( luckly for me it went in the oppsite direction to me!!!)

The moral of the story ....dont use tape and lead to add extra stability to the blade.

I ended up drilling out 3 2mm hols and have glued 3 pices of lead solder in place at the tips. all up 1.5 g worth in each tip.


on a different note ..I got a set of century CP blades for the hornet. with just a bit of sanding to give you extra clearance on the hub they will fit perfectly! and they fly nicely too .

cheers doug

[Super-Hornet]

Hi Doug

That is dangerous. Don't do that again. If you want to add weight to the rotor (for stability effect), u can try use solder lead to coil onto the flybar instead.

I once spin up my DFly without Main Blades (Only Paddles) and all the sudden, I heard a loud bang! My face is very close to the paddles and it is at my eyes height. I didn't even see the paddle (one of them) flew off. I check my paddle and it was chip off a bit. The furniture has a dented marking for proof.

Super-Hornet

[Tele]

that was the problem ...there was no flybar!!!! ...

[Super-Hornet]

Oh... FBL stand for FlyBarLess.

OK... not to pour cold water on u, 2 bladed rotor without paddles is going to be very unstable. That is why if u look at real commercial/Military, those 2 bladed rotor tense to have paddles or some gyroscopic weight to stabilize it.

Have u ever thinking of going 3 Bladed or more rotor? By using 3 or more, your FBL Hornet will be much stable.

Super-Hornet

[MicroHeli-Nut]

For that, Super-Hornet.... I'm gonna make it one of my life-long ambitions to prove the FBL otherwise.....

It's not like u've flown an FBL b4......







[then again it's not like i did]

[Super-Hornet]

Hey MicroHeli-Nut.... I did flown Apache Longbow AH-64, Kiowa and Blackhawk before! All this do not required paddles because it is 3 or more blades...Oh... I flown it in computer games (Jane's Apache Longbow)


Super-Hornet

[Fit]

I've done the same silly things too. Its such a miracle that somehow the paddles flew opposite of my direction.
If it hits the face I shudder to think the result....bbbbrrrrr....

btw, can anyone view the photos posted by walt on the hornet forums?
I can't.

He had some pictorial guide on how to weigh the tips of the blade.

If you search the Hornet BBS for 3 bladed, you can see one of the threads on one. Very interesting and scale like.

[Tele]

yeah but I was working out how much weight was needed ..when I h:ad the final weight then I was going to put it in. Oh well lesson learnt ...without injury!!

cheers doug