Lowest comfortable headspeed for stock 6S stretch, and blades for it?

[madeye]

Been flying at 2100RPM since February, kinda like it there, with those flight times.

Now at the point where a) waiting for the parts to come after the crash, b) considering whether I want to go even lower, c) considering what blades I want to get.

The blades I'd been flying with were Curtis Youngblood's YEI-YB-350FBL - I got used to them, but honestly, totally forgot how other blades feel, it's been so long since the last change.

So, two questions -

- How low you folks get with the headspeed before you need to do things like installing bigger tail blades or looking for smaller tail pulleys?

- What 350mm blades work well on lower headspeeds?

[flint723]

I am flying RJX vector 360s with kbdd 61mm tail blades at 2300 sometimes, I can not get the tail to blow out. Stock tail blades at 2300 were pretty weak. I have not tried any slower than that. The vectors are heavy, if you want better cyclic response I think Align 360s are lighter. Any particular reason you are running 350s instead of 360s?

[jmtyndall]

I ran 1800-1900 with a 3s pack on 6s motor. Both 350 and 360mm mains, and 62mm tails. Tail was fine in piro circuits etc. Flips and acrobatics took some talent

[madeye]

Originally Posted by flint723

Any particular reason you are running 350s instead of 360s?

350mm is a stock size, I didn't know much of running 360mm at the time.

[mamartin]

The Radix 350mm flybarlss blades are going to be the most stable and "biggest flying" of all the current 350 to 360mm blades available on the market today. Its because of there chord width and wieght. There the heaviest blade as well.
The Aligns are a little longer but there also narrower through out and have a much thinner airfoil.

I'm running my headspeeds at 3300 to 3600 rpms and using the Edge 60mm SE tail blades.
I think that a good set of carbon tail blades can easily be tuned for any flying style or headspeed and will keep you very happy with your helis tail performance.
If your having issues with touching the tail however it probably wouldnt make much sense to by 20$ tail blades only to ruin them within a handful of flights.