Helicopters
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- Helicopter stuff
- Tools
- Catalog page for glow sticks from 1-800-FOR-GLOW. Pricing page for glow sticks
- excerpts from R/C Technique 6-1997(pic size about 100k each)
- JR ad 1 - CCPM Ergo 30; .21 powered Ergo
(for 3D?, CCPM), notice the tail fin.
- JR ad 2 - Scorpion fuze; Z230 gasser on
stilts; Type 2 Ergo 50 with new canopy, larger fuel tank, longer tailboom, slightly modified mainframes;
4 stroke .70 equivalent to 30/46 sized Ergo; nice tail fin on that
blue Jet Ranger.
- JR column 1 - 120 deg CCPM Ergo 30/46. Check
out that swashplate.
- JR column 2 - Looks like new upper frames and
swashplate to support the CCPM control system. Everything else appears
stock Ergo. Original system inset. The CCPM version looks even simpler
than the original.
- JR ad 3 - .16 sized JR engine, new govenor,
integerated horizontal/vertical tail fin.
- JR ad 4 - There must be an over abundance of
machinists in Japan.
- Hi Products - Cliff Hiatt at the top and Dwight
Shilling bottom left.
- Kalt ad
- Kalt column 1 - These have more detailed photos
of the control system. The mast is a thick 15mm. The head looks
neat and simple.
- Kalt column 2 - The swashplate only has two
control points for cyclic. How does it work? See the Sanwa/Airtronics
piezo gyro. Flapping head, tail drive off the side of the main
gear, supposedly a super light heli.
Aerial Robotic Vehicle
