skyguynca
Gold Member
- Joined
- Sep 23, 2004
- Messages
- 1,413
- Location
- Acampo, CA
- Aircraft
- depends on what I have sold recently
- Total Flight Time
- 5000+
Hi, been a while since we have chatted. I still have a few of your early videos and pictures that you had sent me on your 3 bladed head from your gyro and heli. I was throughly intrigued with both the aluminum plate version with the engine mount blade attachment lead/lag flap arrangement. Also the fiberglass wound head, both show alot of innovation on your part and alot of skill in fabrication.
I just recently started looking at your "Dudely". Again another example of knowledge and skill put to proof of concept. Great job.
In reading your post about the 2 rev and having to use the slider head, reading through all the posts and emails we have sent back and forth I was wondering what was the weight of the Dudely and of the 3 bladed helicopter?
Could a marriage of the two concepts produce a new hybrid of the designs? I was thinking to bring the weight down on the head assy, we had discussed in a old email the 3 bladed design but with something like the Hughes laminate assy but in a simpler form because of the less weight and less complexity.
What do you think? Does it warrant a good old discussion or maybe just the round filing cabinet?
David M.
Oh my email address is still [email protected] if you would like to talk off list and discuss this further.
I just recently started looking at your "Dudely". Again another example of knowledge and skill put to proof of concept. Great job.
In reading your post about the 2 rev and having to use the slider head, reading through all the posts and emails we have sent back and forth I was wondering what was the weight of the Dudely and of the 3 bladed helicopter?
Could a marriage of the two concepts produce a new hybrid of the designs? I was thinking to bring the weight down on the head assy, we had discussed in a old email the 3 bladed design but with something like the Hughes laminate assy but in a simpler form because of the less weight and less complexity.
What do you think? Does it warrant a good old discussion or maybe just the round filing cabinet?
David M.
Oh my email address is still [email protected] if you would like to talk off list and discuss this further.