Augusta 109 ongoing project

[p51]

A mate found for me at last years Nats the 109 body shell and paid the costly sum of a tenner for it





After a short while decided what we had Raptor 60 was not going to fit, so a replacement was sort......

Predator 70 was bought and fits with minor adjustments.....





I decided I wanted it in army colours, and the first coats were applied....



Finally got it painted, so time to get it down the site for test flights.

All went well....





Had a few issues with the tail, but all sorted now and it flies very well.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ED3oPYoaA]YouTube - Augusta 109[/ame]

Still needs work doing to it, needs some armour adding and other bits and pieces. So still very much work in progress

[Mslater]

Looks great, I love the look of scale helis but worry that I'll get bored flying them, I guess most of the satisfaction is in the build and the end result.

Would that be correct ?

[Adrian]

looking good, and a bargain £10 for a fuze!

[buckers]

Looks great, I love the look of scale helis but worry that I'll get bored flying them, I guess most of the satisfaction is in the build and the end result.

Would that be correct ?

There's also the satisfaction of having to learn how to fly it "scale style", as a real one would fly. Harder than it looks, or maybe I'm just being anal..........lol

[rexflyer]

very nice indeed i like scale heli,s

[TomW]

Looking good paul!

[p51]

Few pics...









Not true to scale and was never meant to be

[Disc]

Looks great, I love the look of scale helis but worry that I'll get bored flying them, I guess most of the satisfaction is in the build and the end result.

Would that be correct ?

LMAO flying them isn't easy scale style flying

People think piper cubs are easy to fly and yes but now go and fly it scale like, its not the same as just flying around the sky thats the easy bit!

bloody harder than you think!

[Disc]

its looking good and diffrent and why not!

[coptermanic]

Paul, out of interest, what is the weight of the heli with a full fuel tank please?

[p51]

No idea at the minute.......

[coptermanic]

Why I ask is that when I had an A109 fuse on my 450, it put the weight up to over 1350grams!!

[p51]

Doesn't feel that heavy...

Certainly not as heavy as the Raptor60 Defender

[chrissy]

very nice bud well worth the tenner

[matt t]

looks good with the guns and the blades now