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Special Configurations
- Float Hawk
- Skydiver Hawk
- Water Balloon Hawk
| Crash with very
little damage
| Water Ballon
Dropper
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Century Hawk Sport
- Engine - O.S. 32
- Radio - Futaba 7CHP
- Gyro - PG-01T
- Severos - S148, Pitch - S3151, Thottle - S3004
- Blades - Aerotech 550mm wood blades
- Muffler - Stock Black
- Origin - Built from parts I had laying around
Water Balloon Dropper
My design for the water balloon dropper is based off of the Hawk Sport mechanics. First, the Hawk Sport has a gyro tray located between the engine and the fuel tank. This tray is the key to mounting the water balloon dropper and my skydiver dropper. I started by making a wooden copy of the stock gyro tray and mounting it exactly like the stock tray. The servo for both droppers is mounted on top of the tray and secured with screws into vertical peices of wood mounted on the wooden tray (seen below). Then i built the bar that holds the balloons away from the helicopter. The bar attaches to the wooden tray and fits up under the lower frames of the helicopter (seen below). The release mechanism is really simple (shown below). It has 2 metal wires that are attached to the servo at one end and a peice of thin plywood at the end of each wire. The plywood peices, while in the pre-drop phase, cover a whole drilled in the bar and pinches the knot of the water balloon and holds it in place. When its time to drop i flip a switch on my radio and the servo pulls the wire and plywood and opens the whole in the bar. Then the water balloons drop to the ground.
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