hawk pro ideas

[froghopper]

[QUOTE=Rotormotor;1105479]I have had a pod and boom Hawk Pro for many years now with well over 600 flights. I have also had a couple in scale fuselages. I have never had any vibration issues with any of them. In their hayday, there where 11 of them flying locally and most of them are still flying. Some have been installed in Funkey scale fuselages (Long Ranger, Bell 222, Airwolf and Hughes 500E) the Century electric conversion kits installed and FBL rotor heads. I saw them at a number of local events last year here in Canada.

Here are some videos of them:

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCNAZTugGWc[/URL]

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbvuTBdiWQk[/URL][/QUOTE]
thanks for reply, very good flying in the vids, love the ranger. i would like to scale mine and fbl it, but as some previous threads mention, is it worth the cost on an old heli !! being realistic i dont think so. its just a shame its sat here doing nothing. it has no electics as in rx,servos etc so even buying second hand stuff for it to fly as a pod n boom is probably money better put towards a newer heli.

[Rotormotor]

[QUOTE=froghopper;1105552]thanks for reply, very good flying in the vids, love the ranger. i would like to scale mine and fbl it, but as some previous threads mention, is it worth the cost on an old heli !! being realistic i dont think so. its just a shame its sat here doing nothing. it has no electics as in rx,servos etc so even buying second hand stuff for it to fly as a pod n boom is probably money better put towards a newer heli.[/QUOTE]

I have always used my older helis for scale mechanics. Specially when parts are still available for them as in the case of your Hawk. Scale flying is very easy on heli mechanics compared to 3D flying. This is because of the much higher head speeds used in 3D flying (1900+), compared to those used for scale flying (1200 to 1500). Note the difference in engine sound in the two videos I highlighted.

Also, you will find that 3D flying results in more crashes due to dumb thumbs, brain glitches etc. then does Scale flying. I saw many 3D heli crashes last summer and not one scale crash.

I believe that buying a new set of mechanics for a scale bird is a waste of money when I have a perfectly good older mechanics that flies very well at hand.

[froghopper]

[QUOTE=Rotormotor;1105697]I have always used my older helis for scale mechanics. Specially when parts are still available for them as in the case of your Hawk. Scale flying is very easy on heli mechanics compared to 3D flying. This is because of the much higher head speeds used in 3D flying (1900+), compared to those used for scale flying (1200 to 1500). Note the difference in engine sound in the two videos I highlighted.

Also, you will find that 3D flying results in more crashes due to dumb thumbs, brain glitches etc. then does Scale flying. I saw many 3D heli crashes last summer and not one scale crash.

I believe that buying a new set of mechanics for a scale bird is a waste of money when I have a perfectly good older mechanics that flies very well at hand.[/QUOTE]
yes i agree with all what you say, ive asked for opinions here and ive still no idea what to do :willy_nilly: my wife has put things on hold a while to move house in one or two months!! at least i can think things over. thanks for taking time to reply cheers