Jpiehnik
New Heliman
Location: York, SC
| Real CH 47 flightYour question about real chinook flight has a very long answer. However, in short, there are several other smaller actuators(other than the ones driving the swashplate directly) in a real Chinook, DASH, LCT, CCDA, not to mention flight stability computers. All of these make small changes to the flight response of the helicoper at various airspeeds to stabalize the aircraft and make it react more predicatably in ground, hover, and in flight modes. This is totally not do-able in a model as the electronics and computer logic that would be required would be cost inhibiting and massively complex. My advice is to trim the aircraft to fly at a hover with near nuetral stick position, and understand that at a hover or on ground aft cyclic will need to be applied to hold a position. As forward flight increases and goes through effective trasitional lift, to maintain a constant airspeed you will have to apply aft cyclic more than you would think. There is a bit more to it than that, but that is the short version.
By the way there is a new real Chinook and it is awesome, CH-47F. Very impressed so far. Been working and flying on them for 24+ years. Been into RC longer and just found out about the RC 47. Where can I buy one? |
