Tweeked new Oz blades arrived today.

[Aussie_Paul]

I have been waiting for a while for the new Oz blades that I had tested a few months ago to come back &quot;tweeked&quot;. The manufacturer had been overloaded with orders, and had just gotten around to performing the adjustment that we thought was required.<br><br>Well today they arrived and tomorrow will be the first chance to assemble and fly &nbsp;them.<br><br>I am hoping that our adjustment decision will bring the performance to the standard that I require for &quot;Firebird&quot;. Tomorrow will tell the tale of woe or wow!!!!!<br><br>Hopefully I will have good things to report, but you never know until you have a go!!!!!<br><br>I could have left this post until after the testing, BUT I thought that you should all have to worry as well as myself untill the testing!!!!!!!<br><br>Aussie Paul.<br><br>

[John_wilkinson]

:PPaul how them blades going.

[John_wilkinson]

??? Paul is the wether bad or you lost them blads.?

[Aussie_Paul]

Hi John, no the wx has been reasonable but my training workload is quite high.<br><br>Have tested the blades again, and found that we have only achieved &nbsp;about 50% improvement in the pitch stability.<br><br>On the other hand, in all my years of gyros and various blades I have never flown anything with so much lift. Compared to the best of the other 30' blades that I have tried, these require somewhere between 200 and 400 engine rpm to do the same job at 60 MPH. because of my student workload I can't get to have them on for testing for any more than 2 days. I have to change the rotor head as well because the torque tube offset is less than the Raf blades that I am training on.<br><br>The 29' blades that I had done a couple of hundred hours on were bought by Chum for his single place. We just got another hub bar to make them 26'. As Chum is up and flying I have lost access to these blades.<br><br>Having to use Raf blades is a bit of a pain, although they do the job quite well. I have fitted a set of 30' extruded alloy blades again but had to change the head re torque tube offset. I have used these blades before on my Raf with a reduced offset torque tube, but I need to try them on Hybrid for a while to find out how they compare.<br><br>Geez, I have to go and get an exhaust before they shut. Cheers all.<br><br>Aussie Paul.<br><br>The Sportcopter blades that were supposed to come to a customer in Melbourne last April are not arriving untill January 2004. They were paid for back in April but Kelly &quot;asked&quot; him if he could wait because his machine is a long way from completion.<br><br>Sop it may be a few months yet before I get to fly and test Sportcopter blades.