balsa heli on ebay!!

[MartinM]

So, what wrong with a wooden frame heli

I am building/converting a LMH nitro to electric. I had the kit shipped from the US and have made the new chassis from ply. All parts are bolted onto the chassis and I will fit the electric motor. The plans were glued onto the wood before being cut-out. I did not use the wooden ones that come with the kit at the holes for the engine tank etc were just too wrong.

This makes up a fine larger FP heli for training use, where the blades just bend when they hit ! It used wire drive tail and will give good flight times brushless using T-Rex 2200mah Li-Pos.

I will be flown with the plastic canopy.

I would love to try it in the nitro version but the wife wants to fly it in the garden.

See pics below and I will post more! I just need to add the links to the servos and it's ready for a test...

[MartinM]

Almost ready to test !

[ChrisB]

Looks like a micromold Lark to me...????

Or the new Knight

[Heliheaven]

We have a chap in our club who learned to fly heli's (?) on one of these. He brought it up to the field last October



After quite a bit of fettling.....



It flew, quite well, and then he got carried away


Which unfortunately led to disaster



I think that he said there was not enough left to rebuild it!!

[pchristy]

Well, if there's not enough left to rebuild it, put him on to me! I'm always on the look out for spares for them! I have a bit of a spares repository, and will pass bits on to those who need them. I'm always getting queries about bits.

Things that are in desperately short supply are tail-rotor gearboxes! So if your friend isn't going to rebuild it, put him in touch with me and I'll make sure that what's left is used to keep others flying.....!

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Pete