akerkhof
Senior Heliman
Location: Indianapolis, IN
| If you envision the main rotor as a disk and the rear rotor as a disk, then looking straight down on the heli, the two disks overlap about a half inch. In other words, the tail rotor is one half inch in the down wash of the main. Even with the blades flexing down enough to cause a boom strike, they will not contact the arc of the rotor, but its the aerodynamics of the thing I'm worried about. I guess that is what I was thinking of with interference, it didn't even occur to me that someone would put the tail rotor so far forward that it could be chopped off! 
I agree, being out of balance sucks, but I've got enough power (brushless setup) I could probably just add weight to the nose. I could also modify the canopy so that I can move the battery further forward. But before that, I have a few ideas on better component placement that might help. I'm also using the (quite heavy) GWS heat sink for the tail. I could lose that and see how it does.
-- Aron in Indiana -- http://www.neolith.org/cp2 -- Honeybee CP2 Resources |
