WOW,,, what a heli ,,, she just got better!!!!!

[ThBrtmn]

do a blinding 540 and try to have the tail stop on a dime. It will overshoot every time.

Not with my TT in

The rubber band sound is a combination of the pitch and RPM of the tail rotor changing as it tries to keep with the demands of the gyro.

Your not talking about the sound of the gears right..? That is one thing about the hawk... Those gears make it loud.

[Tom Fiddler]

Originally Posted by Jeff H

Jim and Bart,
do a blinding 540 and try to have the tail stop on a dime. It will overshoot every time. That is wind-up, any demanding tail manuver is almost impossible with a wire tail.

Try full speed backwards flight or forwards for that matter, then do a pyro. Notice how the pyro speed is very inconsistant... that is the wind-up.

Jeff your whole post missses the point that the Hawk sport is a beginners heli. The wire drive tail is there for one reason ....it's cheap, to build and to crash.
A blinding 540 and full speed backwards flight are not in the newbies moves.
If the wire drive winds up you must use a slower servo ,less gyro gain to compensate.
No the tail won't hold like a Fury's why would you think it should?
Most people who have mastered hovering will upgrade to the carbon drive. Just like better fliers use better servos , gyro's, blades and radios

I may be wrong but it seems you and Ray want this thing to fly like your high end heli's, Not going to happen, why should it?

It may not fly as well as a high end heli but it will teach a newbie the basics, and what more could you want for $159

[ThBrtmn]

Go Scale! :glasses2:

[Lieutenant Dan]

Tom,,, another thing about the Hawk Sport, is a lot of guys fly it as a novelty, they simply want to fly it because it is a $160 heli, much like owning a MG Midget just because it's a small and unusual car...



Jim

[Lieutenant Dan]

so the other day I turned down some hard red Raptor head dampeners and installed them on my Falcon, she just got better !!


Jim

[WillJames]

Interesting Jim!!

[Lieutenant Dan]

yea,,, I hear'd guys are cutting down Raptor head dampeners and mounting them on their Century's 30s & 50s, so I had to do it too,,, I ordered the red and the blue dampeners and I can say the red's are quite a lot harder than the stock Century's dampeners, but the red Raptor dampeners are what you need for sure !! they really need to be cut-down on a lathe (use a very sharp cutter) to get them right, I don't see how someone can cut them down by hand with a hobby knife and get them right or get them each the same size,,,

how do they work ?,,, I have heard guys tell on-lookers that learning to fly a RC heli is like learning to balance a ball on the end of a stick, well with the red dampeners the stick's diameter just got smaller,,, although I added 5% more Expo on my cyclic's servos my cyclic became more responsive yet at the same time the heli felt as if it tracked better and felt more crisp yet more solid too, (you know how good carbon blades "over wood blades" makes your heli feel more solid in the air yet quicker on the cyclic at the same time), it felt as if I didn't need to finesse the cyclic stick as much to get it to do what I wanted it to do, yet at the same time she felt more solid and clean, I only got 2 flights in but I am sold and I will never go back to the stock dampeners, I will have to get some more red dampeners and get them turned down for the future,,, now I have to fly her on the high (expo) rates oo-yea,,,

go forth and do it to it guys !!


Jim

[ThBrtmn]

Cool Jim...
When I run out of my softy Century Dampners...I might have you turn down a set for me...
Keep us posted on the durablity of them...I would like to see how long they last.

[Lieutenant Dan]

you got it ThBartmn.


Jim