Thread: Swift and scale bodies

Well they did fit the swift into an airwolf body.. although that was 30 size...

if you search cyclicscoobies posts im sure theres a vid of hers with an airwolf body fitted, and she strapped her mobile phone to it to take the film!

just found it the video is no longer live but it was a swift!

I used to have the MD530 and it was designed around the Titan (long boom) although you could cut it down to take a standard Rappy 50,it was also a bit heavy as the skids pipes and the braces were metal..

Funkey may offer a better alternative and they do a 30 Hughes as well,,either way most scale bodies can be modified to take most mechanics

Originally Posted by pxr5

i was about to buy a nitro but decided to go with the swift and im interested to know this too. i hear the standard raptor 30 can lift 10 pounds of weight. sounds a lot to me that.

I had a raptor 30 installed in my tt md530... i dont think it had enough power for it tbh.
Ive since changed it to a 50 and flys much better.

Thanks Brian. I take your point about the ratio between the tailboom and the head. Just to make sure I am understanding, do you mean effectively the length of the tail boom would be wrong? If so, that would obviously be an issue with the Swift because the tail is belt driven and therefore has to be a fixed length.

The Airwolf (aka Bell 222) has a shallower body in relative terms as per the A1O9 which is the only dedicated body (as far as I know) for the Swift. So the space between the battery platform and the platform in the fuselage is obviously going to be much less than in, for example, the MD500 and therefore easier to fit together. Problem is that I am an MD500 man. Looks as though I am going to have to go for the T-Rex 600 to get over this issue.

Nigel