Just ordered a Bell 47G

[Disc]

Well, it flew for the first time today! The engine needed very little adjustment and it lasted about 25 mins on a single tank (well, pair of tanks, but you know what I mean). Absolutely brilliant. It was a very calm day today and the heli was hovering almost hands off. Obviously the engine needs running in, so I will do that over the next period of time. Once the weather warms up enough to work in the garage comfortably, then it will be time to dismantle it and paint it up.

Any pictures ?

[Mojogoes]

Is it the gassa you've bought Peter or the Nitro...........if its was the Gassa could enquire how much the kit was please!.

Thanks Steve

[Adrian]

Oh cool as mojo says please tell us how much ,and all the info .im intrested as well thanks

[Mojogoes]

Oh cool as mojo says please tell us how much ,and all the info .im intrested as well thanks

Aid a friend of mine has one for sale for £600 m8 i'm in 2 minds of buying it but i really need the money to finalise my tdi engine rebuild i'm nearly at the end of.........i'd convert it from 35meg though hey Aidian its 1750cm long i believe.

[Simon S]

Hi I too recently bought this helicopter. I was told it was the last one that Ripmax had in stock and that ones after that would be at least £500 more! I paid £1200 for mine. This will be the second one of these I have owned as I sold my last one in 2006 and have regretted it ever since. They have changed the kit slightly in the past 2 years. For the better? The cabin is mounted on 6 rubber cussions and the skids are bolted together with allen bolts. The only mod I have made is the connecting fuel pipe between the tanks. I made one up aout of copper tube and put a bit of clear tube half way. Still on the finishing stages.

[Simon S]

One thing I use to suffer from was antenna blind spot. I do not want to go to 2.4 ghz as I think this will not resolve it. Just go into lockout? I spoke to Terry at SM services and plan to use his opto isolator. This runs the receiver of a seperate battery. I also plan to use a base loaded antenna.

Would welcome anyone elses suggestions?

[Adrian]

Aid a friend of mine has one for sale for £600 m8 i'm in 2 minds of buying it but i really need the money to finalise my tdi engine rebuild i'm nearly at the end of.........i'd convert it from 35meg though hey Aidian its 1750cm long i believe.

would love it for £600..... trouble is ive just parted with £600 for a deposit for my wedding so needless tosay ill be having no helis for a bit . Cant have it all...shame realy...i need more helis

[Mojogoes]

I called on an old friend ealier tonight who has a couple of kids ( boy4 girl7 ) anyway i called round with a couple of pressies as ya do as i didn't get to see him over the Hol's........we talked about his busness and how crap it was at the moment (teaches people how to fly R22's R44's etc etc) any way we got on about a model i once built him some 10 years ago (A 50 sized Allouette with a Webra 50 motor ) which has only had 20min's flight time (don't know how we got on to talk about it again!! LOL Uumm) anyway he said he would have it down from the loft for me to sort out the next time we meet (suposidly next week!!) i've been trying to av it of him for some time now

[Mojogoes]

Hi I too recently bought this helicopter. I was told it was the last one that Ripmax had in stock and that ones after that would be at least £500 more! I paid £1200 for mine. This will be the second one of these I have owned as I sold my last one in 2006 and have regretted it ever since. They have changed the kit slightly in the past 2 years. For the better? The cabin is mounted on 6 rubber cussions and the skids are bolted together with allen bolts. The only mod I have made is the connecting fuel pipe between the tanks. I made one up aout of copper tube and put a bit of clear tube half way. Still on the finishing stages.

Hi Simon m8 tell me!!.........did one of the versions ever suffer at the gearbox end i remember my friend who bought one £1700 said that either the gearbox would move or the tail drive connection would disconnect or would stay put or something like......is/was this correct.......i think he also had to do a mod to sort it!!

[petervdb]

Hi Guys, the kit cost around £1200. Sorry no pictures yet, as I have been too keen to fly it to remember about pictures. I will try and get some next time I am out. I have done no scale work yet, but thought I would fly it as it is for the time being until the weather improves such that I can comfortably use the garage as a spray shop.

Quick observation on smell. I can confirm that as per one of the comments on this thread mentions, there is no smell from the heli to date.

Regards

Peter

[Simon S]

Hi Simon m8 tell me!!.........did one of the versions ever suffer at the gearbox end i remember my friend who bought one £1700 said that either the gearbox would move or the tail drive connection would disconnect or would stay put or something like......is/was this correct.......i think he also had to do a mod to sort it!!

I have not heard of that and it did not occur with my last one. Hope it does not with this one. It is important to put a 6mm length of fuel tubing in the coupling to act as a spring at the connection with the tail rotor shaft and the gear box? But this is in the instructions. It is also inmportant to glue the shaft to the bearings with super glue.

I will be writing an article for Model Helicopter World very soon on this model and have been taking many photos during its assembly.

[DenisS]

I had a problem with the tail drive on mine. I found it best to put a short length of silicon tube in both ends as with the 6mm length in one end it does not go very deep into the front coupling. Mine chewed the front coupling right on the edge, so after putting the silicon tube at both ends it was fine. As stated tho' glue the bearings as instructed. I've since sold mine (20 helis is more than enough for anybody really) and the guy is stripping it down to paint it. I flew it a few times but never actually finished building it. I had one of the early ones too, which wasn't as powerful but had more character, I think
Denis

[gd53drum]

hi ya just got a bell 47g with 20cc engine,could do with some help setting it up with my transmitter, jr pcm9x ii,can any one advise cheers

[trillian]

hi ya just got a bell 47g with 20cc engine,could do with some help setting it up with my transmitter, jr pcm9x ii,can any one advise cheers

I have a Bell 47G early version with a similar engine. I got mine with a JR PCM10 so I can give you the settings from this tx and hopefully most will translate over.

I have not flown it in a long time now as I have been horribly lazy about sorting out some leaky fuel tubing and replacing the rx battery etc.

[gd53drum]

that would be a great help if you could supply settings, i am new today to this forum and not got a clue how it works so just feeling my way cheers