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Blades, Night Flying and Painting > New VBlade manufacturing process

Millibee
Heliman
Location: Kansas City Missouri

Vic's has a new manufacturing method that has improved the torsional rigidity of the VBlades too a point that seems unreal. The set I have feel like steel when you try and twist them but they still flex spanwise it's truly incredible! This new level of stiffness means that the blade tips will have little too no washout at operational speeds. This is great news as it seems most pilots seem to be looking for more performace from their machines. These blades with there substantially increased torsional rigidity are bound too improve the flight envelope

The difference between old and new blades is that cord has been increase to 62mm.

07-27-2002 Over year old.

Rex
Heliman
Location: Glendora California

New V Blades

Are the new blades identified, new part # or something ?? how do you get the newly manufactured blades??

07-27-2002 Over year old.

Rotor
Key Veteran
Location: USA

Vic, handed me one of his new ones for me to try and flex and there is for sure no flex. I don't know how he did it but they are STRONG!

My motto is this..Fly...Rebuild...Fly

07-27-2002 Over year old.

Al Magaloff
rrMaster
Location: 12,199 Posts- Enough Time Wasted. See Ya!

All Vic has to do now is make 'em white, and we'll have the perfect blade.

07-29-2002 Over year old.

Guardian
Senior Heliman
Location: Sarasota, Florida

nice

Hey those new blades sound awsome !!!! Where can I buy them ? I am going to need them for my current project , What sizes do they come in ?

07-30-2002 Over year old.

Millibee
Heliman
Location: Kansas City Missouri

Gurdian, the new blades will come only in the 60's sizes such as 680's, 700's and night blades. I stated earlier that the cord is 62mm but is actually something like 61.5mm. All the other VBlades will continue to use the wet lamination process instead of the pre-preg carbon which the new blades utilise.

07-30-2002 Over year old.

Blair
Key Veteran
Location: Republic of Canuckistan

Any sign of the 710mm or 720mm V-Blades?

Blair

07-30-2002 Over year old.

Millibee
Heliman
Location: Kansas City Missouri

Bigger!

Blair if you want big blades then you do need a set of the new VBlades. If we were to assume that the blade root is constant to the blade bolt for comparison purposes then the new VBlades would be only 11/2 sqcm shy of a 720 /60 mm blade.

07-31-2002 Over year old.

Safe_Cracker
Key Veteran
Location: Chicago, IL

Perfect blades?

To me the perfect set of blades would be able to withstand an @ss wiping (boom strike) !

07-31-2002 Over year old.

Lwnemesis
Senior Heliman
Location: Seattle, WA

well v blades are great for boom strikes (Speaking from experience) they have the best chance of surviving.

07-31-2002 Over year old.

HOMEPAGE

PAustin
Senior Heliman
Location: Des Moines, IA

I can vouch for the durability of the V's. They'll cut through a carbon
tail boom and tube like a Ginzu Knife yet have NO evidence of it!

I have to say that V-Blades are the best on the market.

08-01-2002 Over year old.

HOMEPAGE

Safe_Cracker
Key Veteran
Location: Chicago, IL

Hmmmmm.

Maybe that's the problem?I need to switch to carbon booms so that I can cut through them

!Aluminum has a way of ruining your day and the blades!!! Carbon snaps and aluminum bends...Soemthing to think about.

08-01-2002 Over year old.

FlyingFreak
Senior Heliman
Location: Succasunna, New Jersey

How can you tell what blades they are by looking at them. Will they be specially marked?

Is the Cost going to be the same?

08-02-2002 Over year old.

Millibee
Heliman
Location: Kansas City Missouri

Sound Check

FlyingFreak you can't tell by looking but you can by touch! Today I did some vertical tail slides and during the pull outs the blades made very little noise. I think with a little time one could tell which blades are new just by the sound they make because it isn't like the old model.

08-03-2002 Over year old.

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