In love with helicopters

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Mi-14 at Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT)

Here you can find a lot of photos from RIAT-2012 (by Сергей Кузнецов).

The next RIAT is in 2013:

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Flight Simulators

According to http://www.rchelicopterfun.com/rc-flight-simulator.html, it would be useful to train pilot skills on flight simulator. There are two mentioned there:

RealFlight

http://www.v-nix.nl/real-flight-6-r-c-flight-simulator

Quite expansive ( > 200 EUR ), and it also includes Inter Link Elite Controller (by Futaba).

Phoenix

http://www.heli4u.nl/phoenix-simulator-usb-rc-flight-simulator-p-1093.html

Not so expansive ( < 100 EUR ), and it has Custom Plug and Play USB interface, which probably allows to use any Controller with it. (Am I right? And it has E-Flite Blade MCPX model. )

Coaxial, 3CH, gyro, micro heli. At the beginning I was crashing it a lot. As the result, I had to buy Upper Blade Motor replacement at www.rc-fever.com (which is not really matching one in this heli. But I managed to put it in).

Then, I was reading http://www.rchelicopterfun.com, and come up with requirements to my next heli. So, it should be:

Single Rotor - it is more wind resistant then Coaxial, and can be flown outside
4CH / Collective Pitch - more challenging but more fun
Flybarless - lighter rotor, uses less energy, close to real helis
Mini - that I can fly it at home

Heli matching this requirements is Blade mCP X/2. But probably there are newer models.

And the ultimate goal is to have: Mini, Scale, Flybarless, FPV (telemetry / goggles) heli.

РТФ 450-ка для начинающих от Алигн за вменяемые деньги

http://forum.rcdesign.ru/blogs/58996/blog14198.html

Align наносит удар... то ли по клонам, то ли по ефлайту! Но удар знатный. Знакомьтесь - РТФ 450-ка для начинающих от Алигн за вменяемые деньги!!!

Очень интересный вариант сегодня увидел на 711. Алайн окончательно задавленный клонами, решил сделать "старт-ап" дешево и сердито

Т.е. повторяется прошлогодний опыт с 500-кой, только сейчас - 450-й.

Итак знакомьтесь - РТФ-сет!!! комплект Алайн 450 (удешевленный спорт), с передатчиком Футаба 6 каналов, батарейками в пульт и в вертолет, простенькая зарядка.

И все это меньше чем 500 долларов!!! (цена с доставкой получается 524$).

RCHELICOPTERFUN.COM

It's a great source of information about RC Helicopters!

http://www.rchelicopterfun.com/

Пилотирование от первого лица FPV RC

http://o4em.com/2009/06/28/fpv/

http://habrahabr.ru/post/116560/

FPV Forums

Russian:

http://forum.rcdesign.ru/f107/thread232635.html
http://forum.rcdesign.ru/f90/

English:

http://www.rcgroups.com/video-piloting-fpv-rpv-469/

Lynx RC helicopter with built in FPV system

RTF FPV heli:

Pilot: http://onlyflyingmachines.com/
Producer: http://www.hubsan.com/

fpv-полет со стороны (п. Зимари)

Heli: клон TREX 450
Kамера: GoPro HD
Goggles: Fat Shark

Fat Shark Predator RTF FPV Headset System w/Camera and 5.8G TX

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__20672__Fat_Shark_Predator_RTF_FPV_Headset_System_w_Camera_and_5_8G_TX_.html

420choky at youtube

I found one cool guy on youtube: 420choky. He is doing all kind of stuff: crafts, drives ATV, playing music, making pipes, and operates the RC FPV heli:

Heli: EXI 450, ...
Goggles: fatshark

Camera: gopro

Telemetry: ezosd
(http://www.readymaderc.com/store/)

Heli airframe: MSH Protos
Video camera: Sony Webbie

On Screen Display: RangeVideo (click here to see the RVOSD)

FPV

Helicopter: Copterx 450
Transmitter: Spektrum DX8
Camera: Gopro

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Osprey

First time I saw Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey on this photo:

Then I watched a lot of videos and read a lot of articles, like:

There are also RC models of V-22. Small ones from china are basically helicopters with two coaxial rotors (something like Chinook models) which are always flying forward.

Big scale models do also exist. One of them is produced by ROTORMAST. It is very expansive, and it also flies as real one - very fast in plane mode :)

One day I'll do scale model of Osprey V-22 in 1:72 scale, to accompany my Mi-8, Mi-24 and Ka-29 models.