Stick Twanger
Heliman
Location: Honeoye Falls, NY
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| Upon looking over the photos of the new machine, I am really disapointed. There are some areas that leave me curious. Some, "what the hell were they thinking" for a 3D machine. I mean, same old flimsy plastic fins? We dont even use Horizontals almost anymore, and if we do, very small G10 or 2mm Carbon. Seriously. Rear landing dampers??? Looks like to me someone had to do something for the screwup in dimensions at the front to rear landing mounts to fix it, so now we would need spacers. 3D, or any friggin machine worth a damn does not need these ridiculous landing dampers. Throw em away.
Do any of you look at what is out there? Or have even flown one?. Ill get the same old "Been doing this for 20 years" line. Yeah, well, that 20 years has come and gone, and maybe ya need to close up shop.
Most great helis out there, the boom mounted tail servo design is being moved out and we are putting them back up front for protection. I see the bat copter does have a well thought out tail servo rod design. Who built that deserves credit. But then, we blow the whole nice tank placement CG by sticking TWO CCPM servo in the ass end!!! Are drugs involved here? Now we have to protect TWO leads to the front and keep an eye on them. Vibes are harsher at the tail by geometry alone. Let alone oil and exhaust contamination back there (Nitric Acid its called oh engineers). With the bigger 90, jesus, I even hope we wont also need two extension leads to get to the receiver. This is a bad decision. Dumb. Period.
Answer this, looking at the pics on the site, that elevator arm is not and will not setup to 90 degrees! WTH is wrong with it? Do the pitch and ailron lever line up 90? Do you even know that 3D, or any modern flying pilot demands a symmetrical setup in this century? Why was that elevator arm engineered wrong?
Then I see the same old horrible engineering mistakes left in, that should have been wiped off planet earth, like the complete disaster tail pitch arm standoff that the pitch plate hits on the SE and STD belt tail, nice... In 3D, we use almost ALL the available travel UN-OBSTRUCTED to get proper tail authority in some maneuvers, we get this by setting our limits at the servo arm (mech gain)and gyro (elec gain) as close too 100 percent of travel we can get. Now, this is an UNSAFE design. I would not go near this. My Dominator shaft system does not have this very unsafe problem. Thats why it should be the shaft system, or at least, redesign the belt tail gearbox.
The only good unit made by QWW, the shaft system, that does not have the above problems, should have been made standard, one machine, each size. Jettison this Standard and Pro BS. They have a great new tailbox for it I saw, where the hell is it? Where did it go? Why not try 2mm single stack carbon (2 plate) frame design...dump the heavy 3mm stacked crap...ah its useless to wish. I will probably be told, like others, to start a heli shop or shutup. LOL.
There was a chance to build a really good machine here, clean slate, and this is the result? Hope the main gear at least works well in this one even. I even volunteered a nice 3D Vert fin design, as the Horizontal is useless for 3D, and the one now is okay. Dump the plastic and crud clamps too.
Ya think, last but not least, taking the time for such a new machine, designing a new purpose built, nice sleek thin profile canopy would be too much to ask. The existing are too wide and heavy.
Hell, I think my good old Dominator I have kicks this things ass, with the over 20 redesigned and fixed mods of course.
Like I said, I am sorry, but I am honest to a fault. Nothing personal, These are my thoughts on the machine shown and it being tagged "Primarily for 3D pilots". Did I miss anything.
Also, Quickworldwide, What does "when we have second article" mean? I hope that means a redesign.
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OK. I'm confused. JA, you were going to show these guys what these bad boys could do. You have been teasing us with the promise of the only 3D video known to exist in the free world. What happened man? |
