EC135 - Align

[Desmo Pete]

Morning all.

After a long wait, I finally got my hands on a scale fuz for my 450SE V2.

I got the align EC135 but much to my disappointment it arrived damaged.
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I have notified the shop (Midland Helicopters) who are in the process of sorting it out for me.

Also I heard that Align fuselages are made by HeliArtist. Is this correct?

Pete


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[muscleflex]

yes, i believe align fuse are made by heliartist.
midland will get that sorted soon. i don't see any problems with that

i had my eyes on a hughes 500 for my 450 before... but i want to learn inverted flying so that plan was halted.

[Desmo Pete]

Thanks for that.

I love scale flying so am looking forward to dressing my 450.

Have spoken to Midland and they are going to ring this afternoon.

Pete


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[Desmo Pete]

Great news!

I had a call from Simon at Midland Helicopters.

They are sending me a replacement fuselage and I get to keep the old one as spares!

That's what I call great service!

Pete


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[electricsceadu]

if you find somewhere to supply a scale fenistron tail unit for the 450 size ec135 i'm interested in one

[Andy_Ran]

Love the service there from Midland.

for parts look for heli artists spares, they tend to be available but not Align branded. I had to get a spare set of fins for my 500 airwolf and had to do this.

[Andy_Ran]

if you find somewhere to supply a scale fenistron tail unit for the 450 size ec135 i'm interested in one

I have seen these, I want one for my 500 EC135 but can only find ones for the 450

I shall find link

[Desmo Pete]

if you find somewhere to supply a scale fenistron tail unit for the 450 size ec135 i'm interested in one

I believe heli artist does one.


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[Desmo Pete]

Well I fitted the 450 into the fuz today.

It went really well but I had to put some weight in the nose to get it to sit right in the air. Otherwise I would had to have dialled in a whole bucket load of forward cyclic.

The other thing it, the extra weight of the fuz and nose weight makes me have to go to about 80% pitch to get it to lift!

Anyone else had this?

[dave j]

you needs to reset the pitch with a pitch guage from the pod and boom settings to more positive pitch for the fuz

[muscleflex]

Yeah, I don't think 0 pitch at mid stick is the recommended way of flying with scale bodies? Unless I'm wrong?

[Desmo Pete]

So what should it be then. What degrees at mid stick?

[muscleflex]

Maybe just a flat line for your pitch curve? So Heli should be hovering at mid stick?! The only person I know who might be an expert on scale flying is pchristy on here?!

[muscleflex]

I found this on helifreak
HeliFreak - View Single Post - How to program a pitch curve for scale flying