jbeech
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Location: Sanford, FL (Orlando area)
| At first I thought you were fooling around but as I think about it I realize you were asking a serious question. It's a fact, however, I really don't think a 680mm blade can be fitted without interference but where there's a will there's a way, and as you know, there's always the will for some.
Consequently, let's examine this further. I.e. can a longer boom/belt be fitted and then a longer set of blades be used? Sure, but I really think this would be an instance where fitting our 50-class head with the much more massive 680mm rotor blade would be a mistake and frankly, I wouldn't recommend it. Instead, this would be the perfect opportunity to adapt an existing 90-class head to the Pantera's 10mm main shaft, which is up to the job. Actually, this would be fairly easy to do.
Hence, it's worth trying if you want to give it a shot, but it would require a judicious and experienced modeler to perform the experiment because there is danger inherent with experimenting. However, using these larger parts, i.e. parts better suited to this class of blade you may end up with something interesting as naturally, once a larger head is fitted to accompany the longer boom/belt I think it's perfectly feasible to believe you would end up with essentially a 90-class heli for not too much money. This is true especially in light of the fact both the bearings and the clutch in the Pantera are seriously overbuilt for a 50-class model and thus, are quite possibly up to the job as well.
Finally, you're not the first fellow to ask me about this, but previously it's been "after" we've found the bottom of a few beer glasses and thus, I've never thought about it seriouly the next morning. However, I have ocassionally mulled this very thought over, i.e. as a way to offer an inexpensive 90-class model to the market. However, I've not moved forward with the idea simply because I haven't thought there would be all that much interest in an inexpensive 90.
John Beech - GM (and janitor)
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