Airwolf again..For the owner.

Airwolf is owned by a mate of mine who has never seen it loop. Well, here it is.

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[Fudmottin]

This was the first time I watched that beautiful Bell 222 fly. I gave it a fave and like to make up for slacking. But I gotta sub points for not firing the guns or rocket launcher. Fair's fair, mate.

[brotherblonde]

@Fudmottin You're right, that's a fair call. I should have thought ahead and utilised Adobe After Effects to fire some "guns". Oh well, my bad. I'll cop the reduction in points.

[aviaterred]

G'day BB

I think I can keep the mech to one servo. As she is slightly tail heavy I am thinking of refabricating the front pivots out of aluminium and having some heavier duty carbon rods back to the main gear?

Cheers

RobB

[brotherblonde]

@aviaterred Yeah that would help. One of the probs is the arm that connects to the nose gear. The grub screw is stripped & won't tighten enough. Maybe no "flat" was filed into the shaft it's on. The is a bit of force required to retract to main gear from their over centre position (which in fact, locks them down s they don't collapse with no servo power), so as the servo is pushing on the nose gear arm to retract everything, it comes loose. Zap has helped temporarily. TBC.........

[brotherblonde]

@aviaterred PT 2. Don't think carbon rods are necessary because when the gear extends fully, they are all past the vertical...ie, nose gear points fwds, mains point back, so the weight of the heli keeps them locked down, even with servo unpowered. This means there is no tendency to bend the main gear rods. The prob you & Gaz had was the gear was never fully extended, so it tended to collapse under weight with no servo, hence bending the rods. Hope that makes sense. BB.

[aviaterred]

Nice one BB, I couldn't have lent my bird to a nicer guy if I tried. Shame you weren't able to strut your stuff on the day however that's the weather for you. I have quite literally loathed the gear design from the moment I first saw it, clever how it only uses one servo however the bits of spaghetti heading back to the main gear and its associated links are a travesty. Fixing them has been on the radar for some time and I have a solid albeit fiddly plan ready to go. She'll be back to 100% in n

[brotherblonde]

@aviaterred Hey buddy thanks for that, it's too kind. I guess it's a fairly inexpensive system, but going by the quality of the build, I would have thought they would have utilised a more secure system. I like the idea of the 3 x electric retracts. But since it's not mine.......

Anyway, thanks for watching and commenting!

[brotherblonde]

Thanks mate. I might just hand it back & say "fix it for me please."

[alm1191]

great job as always BB and good luck fixing the landing gear problems