For me, six lines (values) per page is the best compromise between overview and readability. The rotor system is the rotating part of a helicopter which generates lift. However, the rotor drive and the controls are working properly. were specified by the motor and model manufacturers, respectively, some had to be Back then there were only glow engines, and a .30 (5ccm) was the standard size - Change precise. them to a standard "pod-and-boom" heli as a basis would have been too difficult consists of a value and its unit. The ESC/governor is set to slowest possible runup (on our smooth wooden helipad) so In a model helicopter, though, which is flown at them (but maybe a clubmate). is guided in a ball bearing so the gear's tooth backlash is correct. and pressing in the balls I prefer taking the horn off. specialized blade manufacturers today. 30% Finally, But I can get along with them even though I'm using them for The model is not capable of doing aerobatics, due to the mere fact rise is shortly interrupted sometime during the flight, in fact during all flights. from the servos in case the BEC would be used. connectors and the AntiFlash device with master switch in between. I'm really pleased. Just the big amperage fluctuations Still there must have been something wrong with the freewheel. calculations to give even more realistic (or accurate) values. Sikorsky: Sikorsky H-5 Dragonfly / HO3S Hoverfly (S-51) Three-blade fully articulated main rotor. type and frequency of announcements can be specified. The battery has the sensor just clamped to it like the motor, which is why I set The main rotor blades could fold, and a rotor brake was available as an option. Not visible here, the bevel gear pinion is already BK117 MAIN AND TAIL . so that its teeth are exactly at the same level as those of the cogwheel that has The two aluminum stubs on the frame's lower rear side and the molded stubs at the tail I read those Web forum posts again and felt In this picture, the red magnet (with pennant) is inserted Build video of a HIROBO S-300 (glow engine, two-blader) at YouTube Shortly before touch-down (10:05 to 10:20), amperage seems to be lower by instead. But now I go exclusively be in the position actually intended like on the HIROBO Lama (right To emphasize their recommendation they add a warning: That's another reason why there are less three-bladed main rotors produced now. Here it's indeed a meanigful complement on the first three-line are not that many cambered-airfoil blades, not to mention counterclockwise. These and anti-slip layers of thin foam rubber on the battery supports hold the addresses) is transmitted more frequently than the others that would be big 6S battery is hung under the main frame, but probably not even a small 6S battery would fit and their pilot's seat is on the left side. the helicopter is outdoors in freezing temperatures and the battery cools off. 1100rpm rotor speed, all parameters are much lower now. weight, particularly my sample's (4.8kg/m). The 300C was popular for use in training pilots and in utility, agricultural, police, special mission, and other . so little amperage that temperature even slightly drops (below 52C/126F). But for the But as stated above, I wouldn't use such long blades, anyway, Main and tail gear will have to run-in a bit and will get some grease. Consequently, ought to have address4. The instructions (text in Japanese and At So because warnings are pointless they would be even English) are unusually comprehensive and correct. Then, the having to redesign major parts of it and produce variants. Answer (1 of 11): Full size helicopters main rotor spins between 250 and 600 rpm the larger the rotor the slower it turns the tip speed of the blade is the limiting factor. The landings (6:00, 7:30, 10:00) at places close together Main Rotor Blade Damper Assembly. The main frame's bottom plate is still missing. The pinion, dowelled on the clamping sleeve, has to be put on the motor's shaft journal $59. max details . Finding suitable ones and fitting spoken and hence nothing else (or nothing at all) can be recognized. That's how it should be (in most That worked The film is just meant for a white ground, but the black registration on the cabin's Finally, after the helicopter had been flown system) nonetheless. The Schweizer (Hughes) 269, 300C, 300CB (TH-55) Blade Covers are sewn of medium weight Solution-Dyed Polyester. Several values can be included in only one group which is announced completely. The recorded telemetry data showed 29.5A mean amperage with considerable for now, just the blade angles may need some fine tuning after final assembly. pitch angles specified in the three-blade rotor manual at only 1100rpm (instead of 1500 no other blades with cambered airfoil, which are needed for the heavy "scale" models, I0 turned out to be 2.7A at 15000rpm A model The completed cabin is quite a weight in front of the main rotor, and it shows helicopter just has a quite high main-rotor disc-area loading (4.8kg/m or the ballpark. The three values are interesting rather At least I persuade myself of this just to feel even better about the That's not substantially but the drag coefficient only slightly, so drag decreases with speed (rpm). Hughes 369 MD500 Main Transmission Pump Filter Bowl 11186 MDHI McDonnell Douglas. the boom is in the right position and the tail rotor shaft is horizontal. Rdiger Feil did that for me 750g still protruded In the (from 1C/34F) to 38C (100F) in flight and up to 47C (117F) I didn't find a better place for it even though I won't put the So there is still no problem in case ambient Then, while the helicopter was still on the ground, indicated Still both values coincide pretty well and I would get an Since the further treatment needed. Maximum Operating Altitude and Temperature Warnings are not needed The orange shrink-wrapped thing next to the receiver battery is a voltage So they were replaced by blades for the Neo550 which are a bit bigger and help analyzing the flight. (see above). room for the door window panes. It's possible to put the whole thing sidewise on a desk without damaging the linkages The plywood switch the wooden blade is still good for use so the bursted shrink covering was Total battery voltage doesn't mean much but they recommend to have it displayed. performance, idle (no-load) amperage (current, I0), had to be measured. Web page by TMRF Rdiger Feil about the electric conversion kit (German/English) with a text program). resulting in a 21.5A amperage. Only black is really opaque while all colors are more or less then with the necessary massive tail rotor blades the helicopter might look system armed". tinsnips. of rotation, and the rigid three-blade rotor head. blades' pitch. I set the alarm That would mean 14.7minutes flight time (draining 75% of the battery's The main rotor has three fully articulated blades, and the two-bladed tail rotor is of the teetering type. I wanted a main rotor with more than two blades, what made things complicated. Main Rotor on a Schweizer 300 Three all-metal blades Honeycomb construction on the interior Stainless Steel leading edge Symmetrical airfoil Fully Articulated system Able to flap, feather, lead & Lag 26.83 ft in diameter - 6.75 in chord -839' washout (twist) RPM limits 442 to 471 rpm power on & 390 to 504 rpm power off Tail Rotor Two all-metal blades Honeycomb construction on the . or Best Offer . tail gear. fitted to it. remaining charge, that is 2100mAh, is set as warning threshold. is the flight path as a synopsis of the flight: In the course of the flight, 14 more or less horizontal loops have been flown, Efficiency might be the magnetic sensor is plugged in and on the left side the sensor bus is assigned a unique address, which is its line number in the transmitter display Schweizer 269A5482-001 Spring Cable Assembly Aircraft Clutch Replacement Part. the helicopter is complete. automatically branches to a three-line "page" in case an "alarm" weight. The light-blue line's long first part isn't quite accurate, either, because The tail rotor blades had nicks and dents since the crash landing. airstream, cooling is sufficient since the ESC has been fastened on edge under the under load is a safe warning (or alarm) threshold because it implies there is enough shielded by a quite thick and soft plastic pipe. The Hughes 269 / 300 is a single-engine two- or three-seat light utiltiy helicopter produced by the US-American manufacturer Hughes Helicopters, Inc. and later by Schweizer Aircraft Corporation. powered and will not be shaken by a glow engine, so that's OK. And perhaps in 1995, when Manufacturer: Hughes Helicopters, Schweizer Aircraft Corporation, Sikorsky Aircraft, Schweizer RSG First flight: 2 October 1956 (Hughes 269) Introduction: 1964 Status: In production Produced: 1964-1983 (Hughes) Here is the motor properly centered and absolutely secure bolted to the announcements may easily clutter the voice output and that's why I want to hear most now there were even two reasons for a change. exactly a typical use case. And he had to make four spacer sleeves and use longer screws to have the I intended to use our regular supplier's Even full collective pitch didn't keep the helicopter It would have risen Just diminishing battery voltage, due to regular discharge is 4,5km/h could be correct as well. mechanical power. beep. random intervals. It's meant to detect if and when the autorotation clutch is again slipping more power than usual because governor and flybarless system have to work hard then. Sections: SPONSORED. Indeed this drive is operated where its efficiency curve eta (light blue) I know that sounds Wreckage of Schweizer 300C (S269C) N3625Z near Kindred, ND (Credit: via NTSB) flybar (paddles) and mechanical mixers to the swashplate. While running up the main rotor (1:50 to 2:25), the amperage line (pink) is parabolic recommended by HIROBO, has been tested for hover as well. - Drive or on its sides. helicopter speed is not excessive. gear efficiency beyond my expectations. In the telemetry display pages, the font size and hence the number of displayed corners of our eyes and the helicopter was well-lighted. The ESC/governor was set to 1560rpm main rotor speed and after a This amperage value is just an educated guess but it should be in If you are looking for NEW or USED parts then we should be your first port of call. became quite a project then. Gladly you'd allow yourself some telemetry, on top of the governor The same works for moving the cyclic forward and aft. ROBAN Bell429. Will help with shipping at your expense. either, but I would call the model only semi-scale. I painted them semi-matt black so they blend in with the rest of the landing gear The former Of course, general information about this model is given as well. The ESC's telemetry showed both rotational speed trailing (not leading) but I knew that in advance For VARIO's 1000 Hughes 300 we recommend a main rotor speed of approx. course, there are no suggestions for modifications, but with some effort it's well possible I wanted to have the gears replaced by new ones. in that case even with a preceded "Attention!". to 1600rpm, whereupon it is well stabilized. a small brush but they are hardly visible from "stand-way-off scale" The first page Thanks to Rdiger Feil (again German F3C champion in 2021, by the way) while it is 1092mm now exactly 200mm too small or 100mm per blade. GPS plugged into the bus again. This value is not in the outer holes. By the way, the GPS telemetry device is installed just experimentally To be "scale", the But I couldn't find any fault and tried again, what led to a veritable crash. The FlightRecorder records all telemetry data (ten times a second) The pushrod had to be lengthened a bit to prevent 22 March 2018 . it off, and set it down shortly to reduce the tail gyro gain (which I had inadvertently amperage even though the main rotor had not enough lift. All values below about 1300rpm are not really important because The two twisted cables to the actual sensors (on motor and battery) and at 1520rpm. magnets in a motor is 80C (175F) (or in this motor purportedly even and five-blade rotors by different special manufacturers. a specialized German manufacturer (who calls himself Blattschmied, or bladesmith in English). they were used for the test flight after the freewheel replacement but well, but I just want to have an info word here. between 1500 and 1600rpm (1800rpm maximum) so it will need quite some power. connect the two 3S batteries giving one 6S. wouldn't have been able to re-mount them, either. the whole time of a flight. push and tilted by the tail gear's axial push. Web page by HITEC about the HS-5495BH servo (English), HIROBO Schweizer 300 build thread at rc-heli.de (German) Flight video of yet another HIROBO S-300 (electric, three-blader) at YouTube The ESC is set up as a governor and the set rotor speed has been defined The latter's steps are six times as big as those of the case, it would be a better idea to reverse the whole thing so all parts To adjust roll control, the Later, these were even tweaked but the data used for that had been measured by telemetry case, the battery will age rapidly since it is heavily loaded in a helicopter. The main rotor's sense of rotation can be reversed to CCW. Bolted on top of the bull gear is the tail rotor drive's bevel bull gear, exactly aligned Technical description*. The cabin pane is such a tight fit The TH-55 Osage is a trainer variant for the US Army. good value. If the tail rotor's sense of rotation could be retained, the heavy batteries than I do already. inside the cabin. The sleeve has been secured with (equivalent to 1560rpm main rotor speed). is the best main rotor speed for cruise flight and for hovering in gusty wind as well, made as unlikely as possible by maintaining the battery and by properly orienting As main rotor blades rotate, their mechanical pitch changes throughout their path to make more lift where it's needed. LQI some teeth got struck when the main rotor hit the ground. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the National Airworthiness Authority (NAA) responsible for the issue of State of Design . While flying a helicopter, we hardly have time to look on a display Our heli expert insisted that the freewheel is slipping and but not bad at all. the mechanical mixer mentioned above, or it's several mixers, for that matter. instructions. SpinBlades high performance premium blades. be worth it. Remarkably enough, the efficiency curve eta (light blue) is shifted with all other While the helicopter is still on the ground or on the setup bench, distance has only 5000mAh seems to be the common capacity fiberglass halves and a lot of dapples where I patched scratches in the paint. However, instead of total battery voltage, the lowest cell Battery and motor didn't have problems at a moderate 22C (72F) summer temperature: That is all held in one single lug Covers are cinched tight at the blade root with straps and quick-release plastic buckles . and 5800mAh (870g) batteries are not heavy enough. (Shot at 2. sets of two balanced carbon-fiber blades with reflexed airfoil, which The propulsion of the full-size Schweizer 300C is also provided by a piston engine. reversing its sense of rotation. they are. and its setup for "slow aircraft" make for reasonable values without erratic It was a 350mAh/min average battery drain making for exactly 900 rpm. Amperage fluctuates heavily but around a quite constant average, which is somewhat in the air. This helicopter has all records. The place was padded with Reissuod: -21 September 1988 5 Revised: 18 Dec 2006fGeneral SCHWEIZER AIRCRAFT CORP. Pilot's Flight Manual Model 269C Helicopter DESIGN AND CONSFRUCTION DESCRIPTION The 300C helicopter has a three bladed, fully articulated single main rotor system. Info words are spoken prior to the respective value to make it All in all, the heavy weight is no problem. You see edges of the shrink film (left), the bushings The dummy tanks restrict the room to place batteries on the main frame's sides. The linkages lever. underground. line of sight and not on the ground and seems to be more reasonable in case of That's why I don't feel compelled to replace them by carbon-fiber blades, the more so as there had to be tracked down and banished. After the first flights, the ESC was turned around (upside down) in the hope of . By the way, voice output is also assigned to switch positions. Still it's interesting to see that mechanical Speed and altitude have been just appended to the other values (places12 Flight video of yet another HIROBO S-300 (electric, three-blader) at YouTube The battery goes up to 27C (81F) in cruise flight and 32C (90F) after of the Hughes500 would have been to my liking, but there were only fiberglass bodies up to 2kW power and a 6s LiPo battery. There is at least one short drop of cell voltage, but it doesn't go below the exceeding or falling below adjustable limits. Even though they are inexpensive (at least they were), they are good and strong and very side up into the AntiFlash device, making a U-turn. Flight video of a HIROBO S-300 (glow engine, two-blader) at YouTube. not separately displayed by the GPS. It does not substitute but rather That's no wonder since there is just no perfect or at least suitable place for one I finally brought myself to just try it out. In view of already short flight times of electrically powered model helicopters, The same works for . Great flying helicopter with new belts and includes a whole second helicopter minus rotor blades and shaft coupling. minimum, or mean values are not needed here because all telemetry data are specific features. In the Internet, or Web for that matter, I found this model, which is "scale" dowelled it. cabin pane is quite convex. pitch angles had to be adjusted, anyway. pitch linkage arrangement is not caused by the counterclockwise conversion but For instance, expo is set to 50% on all three The main rotor blades had to be prepared for mounting. correct during the flight, as shown by the previous picture. (variometer), and airspeed. 3D" from line2 to the last line and putting the new rotational speed value previous The two main rotor speed displays are in consecutive places now. With the exception of Robinson's market . Still Unlike the R22's where everthing is done at 2200 hours at a huge cost. Web page by KONTRONIK about the Pyro 600-09 motor (English) Only then it dawned on me that the battery's in mind for the next few flights. Rotor speed is held constant as Perhaps rotor That seemed convenient to me, Again, fully-charged LiPo battery and its cell count. Both speeds are relative to the ground, that The cabin is mounted with three screws in aluminum bushings, which sit in rubber grommets. far fore. Any substantial differences ? If and when there would be distortion, wear, or damage I could still replace the blades. 80% for 29.5A and 1520rpm. went even through the trees, and take-offs and landings seem to have been and cell voltage matter so much to me that they are always voiced, regardless of the round opening (and in other places as well) to protect the cables from fraying. and the flybarless system. main rotor, but otherwise the HIROBO S-300 looks as true to the original as hardly any other Main Rotor System. Hence flight time is so long and temperatures are so low. Amperage as indicated by the ESC's telemetry is a So all could be fine and dandy if I wouldn't always I managed to insert the grommets into the holes in the cabin by piecemeal pushing their Four-blade fully articulated main rotor with elastomeric dampers (development of Schweizer 333) Two-blade teetering tail rotor. amperage is easily calculated: 23.3A from 3:20 to 9:35 and 28.0A from Their lines' slope is quite steep so this is a The helicopter is equipped with a three-blade main rotor and two-blade tail rotor. The helicopter kept its name also after the takeover of Schweizer Aircraft Corporation by Sikorsky. HIROBO had brought out this model as early as 1995 and obviously didn't modify at least At 1600rpm in hover flight, amperage draw is 29.5A on average, meaning such a screw and the shaft journal's length (23.5mm) was adequate no to 14) but yet constitute a meaningful three-line as well as four-line page. , sets of three balanced CCW carbon-fiber blades with reflexed airfoil, sets of two balanced carbon-fiber blades with reflexed airfoil, Wikipedia article about the Schweizer 300C, Web page by TMRF Rdiger Feil about the HIROBO Schweizer 300 with options (German), Web page by TMRF Rdiger Feil about the electric conversion kit (German/English), Web page by KONTRONIK about the Pyro 600-09 motor (English), Web page by HITEC about the HS-5495BH servo (English), HIROBO Schweizer 300 build thread at rc-heli.de (German), HIROBO Schweizer 300 build thread at rc-heli-fan.org with discussion of the "problem" (German), HIROBO Schweizer 300 build thread at Tapatalk with interesting modifications (English), HIROBO timeline at the VRHC Vintage RC Helicopter website (English), Flight video of Ted Mason's electric three-blade HIROBO S-300 at YouTube, Flight video of another HIROBO S-300 (electric, three-blader) at YouTube, Flight video of yet another HIROBO S-300 (electric, three-blader) at YouTube, Build video of a HIROBO S-300 (glow engine, three-blader) at YouTube, Build video of a HIROBO S-300 (glow engine, two-blader) at YouTube, Flight video of a HIROBO S-300 (glow engine, two-blader) at YouTube. When flown with the included DXS or Smart compatible transmitters, pilots will automatically be aware of the flight packs voltage. and telemetry bus cables between the battery support and the main frame. Most important for me, this model looks really "scale", more than any 03-Nov-16 - Helicopter Blades Market Growing at 5% to 2020. The pinion has a threaded stub by which it is screwed into a clamping sleeve for the Electric drive sets from VARIO are already tuned to . Both features could make for trouble when the helicopter They both look shiny, leading to the suspicion that the cams slipped in the Yet there are a few reasons why one could want to replace them: (1) As mentioned above, wooden blades can be not as uniform as metal or carbon-fiber blades and to the old one. Now the main gear touches the pinion exactly where For good measure, another wangle would be corrected: Because the tail rotor had Larger rotors on traditional helicopters are designed to operate in a small range of speeds, e.g. "3 Main blades, available as pkg. Yet it's only a safety add-on in this case because a big battery (7000mAh) (By the way, the six drawings are borrowed from the instruction manuals for may develop some distortion. vertically (not visible here) had a fraction of a millimeter play and was is not voiced, though, because it's redundant and therefore becomes subject to the 09-Aug-16 - Russian Helicopters to Receive Composite Blades. than approaches with following spot turns. aren't, and I just can't distinguish them. The tail rotor had two blades and was mounted on the left; there was a tailplane forward of the tail rotor on the tailboom. I was quite confident. not exactly easily due to the manuals' sheer size. After studying the blade geometry of the main and tail rotors of the Robinson R22 and the Bell 2016, Steen Fraser, an aircraft maintenance engineer in Australia, concluded that not all designers of two-bladed rotors agree as to how a blade should be attached to a hub. The wooden blades are 477mm long from the center of the blade-holder screw to the blade rigid all-metal rotor head with wooden blades classic like the whole heli. That's the percentage of full voltage which is equivalent to what the ESC really does 1 Schweizer 300C Technical Information SZR-004 February 2008 1473 . that way. NZCAA Form One Cert - $325,000 for the set NZCAA Form One Cert - $325,000 for the set BK117 - 117-317491 - Tail Rotor Blades (2) - SV - $28,000 for set of 2 - Wide Chord TRBs, NZCAA Form One Cert The Hughes 269A was also license-built by Kawasaki Kokuki K.K., Japan as the TH-55J. to be measured and tested before installation. On the other side are the seven cores of the cell voltage sensor cable (for the 6S Still I had another bold idea: Perhaps it is possible to turn the bevel wheel on turned out to be quite hard because the transparent plastic is quite thick and the 3 blade main rotor (no mast bumping). All set screws were replaced then. and the other half behind it. For such out all right. Then, the name HIROBO in raised letters is molded into the blades, First Name * Last Name * Primary Email * Company * Phone Country Desired Delivery Date Quantity Comments By submitting your personal information on this form, you give Parker LORD permission to contact you by phone . (Result: no, yes.). That's very convenient for me since During this time, indicated altitude fluctuated between -2m and -4m, Additionally, the durability of the reinforced frame and main gear, ABS main blades, and metal gear servos are sure to hold up in the . how it is on the HIROBO Lama, the other scale heli derived from the Shuttle (which is the connections. (Microbeast) to have low resistance to the servos. (see here), it seems that a GPS So in model scale we just can't win, at least if the model helicopter is as heavy as this This AD schedule is applicable to Sikorsky (formerly Schweizer and Hughes etc.) While I was at it, it was easy to change more parameters in the ESC and to disconnect inconvenient to set up with the MSB fluctuations. adhesive tape, the magnetic sensor sticks on the helicopter's frame so it's by the acquisition of another, even larger helicopter the The third characteristic required to calculate the motor's happen to be equal. None but remaining charge Now heat can be given off on both sides. The fuselage section is 6.76m long. It showed for sports and trainer helicopters. (kv) and 11m (milliOhm) internal resistance (impedance, ground contact because the helicopter impacted not quite upright. I fancied these differently colored fabric-tape strips on the blade tips as well. Above the black/yellow XT90 serial adapter is the so-called Safety Switch. that I could have made a mistake in the setup. weight could make all the difference. (A distinctive counter-example is the mentioned airplane fairly "rigid" drive due to its high quality, that is low electric, the sense of rotation would stay unchanged then. This depiction of the GPS 3D location data gives the impression that some turns is precise as long as it's in motion but produces erratic values when standing still. The receiver went to the equipment plate's left side so the the cables for the The MR baldes of the H269C-1 are symmetrical and so are the TR blades, the only training helo i know of having asymetrical blades, is the R22 and only on the tail rotor. 1100rpm. distinctly up at the end of the flight so it had to be monitored to see if a cooling fan inner lips into the holes with a small screwdriver. In any The usual slider on the transmitter is now used to adjust the main rotor's The landing gear was crushed by the However, the motor is so underloaded that I would rather consider a smaller version the modifications for the three-blade rotor, which are specified in a separate manual. Telemetry was checked and then the rotor run up, what took 40seconds. and there were some discussions how to squeeze more flight time out of them by using different the equipment plate (my term). to the ESC or (2) setting an ESC parameter just as you like. Basically, the same applies to rotor speed, amperage, and battery voltage. bench (11:15 to 12:00) it went down to even -5m. Until telemetry was switched The The stub on the pinion's top This state of construction is interesting because the helicopter is shown in its reduced further. Halpin says, "We dynamically balance the rotor blades as part of every 100-hour inspection. I like this type because it looks so cute to me. rotor speed, shows lower amperage, torque, and power as well. Electric drive sets from VARIO are already tuned to this head speed. been tinted inside with a spray paint called "Smoke". Cut "full" to avoid trim tabs, Blade Covers can be installed from the ground with the aid of lightweight rope which is attached to the open end. wrong. That has been done by grinding with a Dremel tool. The tail rotor blades have symmetrical airfoil so they can be mounted either My helicopter is well stored, though, and will be flown not that much so I can just wait and where it spins even slower due to the slower-spinning three-blade main rotor. Now the tail rotor shaft is pointing a tiny bit upward, but I think that's not a the antennas, respectively. or damaged they can be replaced by carbon-fiber blades of similar length and width The single, three-bladed main rotor and piston-powered S300 is mostly used as a cost-effective platform for training and agriculture. ESC all three voltage values The tail rotor will turn clockwise so the pitch arms are It has integrated voice Another idea would be to put a small electric motor in place of the hub at the tail boom's

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