Koen Smits
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Hi Erfolg,
I think you should rotate the HK head 90 deg. left or right and arrange 1 servo at the leftside and 1 servo at the rightside of the mast.. Mixing the servo control as V tail or Delta.
Succes.
Koen
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Paul and Andy
On page 18 from this thread Malcolm shows and discribes how to dril the holes on an exact and equal distance from the centre hole.
Koen
Edited By Koen Smits on 30/06/2013 12:18:40
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Trevor, remove the spats. With longer grass you can't get realy control the panther because a lot of movements occur you don't be aware of. I'm still in the hopping stage, my longest flight was 47 seconds and ended in a crash.
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Hey Markus, Allan and Trevor, your machines looks very good.
Markus, for the headplate they made a song long time ago called "Paint it Black"
or cover the plate with black oracover, orastick.Koen
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This is what I use to measure trust from a given motor - prop - battery combination.
The slide is made from a pair of drawerslides
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Hi Tim, after some "trimming" hops these were the best flights up to now
. Everything is repaired, Waiting now for some nice summerdays without much wind.Maybe it will take some time and more repairs but I think I get this thing flying.
Koen
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Hello all, here is video from 2 short flights with the Panther autogyro.
Second flight ends with a crash. Comment language is dutch.
Everything is repairable without much work.
Koen
Edited By Koen Smits on 28/05/2013 11:49:18
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Reading the title of the thread and without reading all the answers, this was the first thing that came up in my mind
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Gary,
I had also a issue with missing and double pages. I have send an email to [email protected] and I received within a few days a compleet mag.
Koen
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Here are some pictures from my builds
Peter Miller's Fournier RF4
Browne's Monoplane
Richard Harris's Panther
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Fling Wing
Trying to get the Panther flying at the moment, It's a totaly different expirience compared to fixed wings
Koen
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Rich, José,
Make the top from the sanding block(s), instead of ply, from aluminum, because after some sparts of sanding the ply will show some wear and your blades get thinner.
I have just finished profiling my second set of blades, ( spares ) and for the next set i need to make new sanding blocks.
koen
Edited By Koen Smits on 15/05/2013 20:23:46
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Hurray, the postman brought today a complete copy of RCM&E june 2013.
Thanks to Kerry Ann Wilkinson
MyTimeMedia Ltd Email Customer Services for the very quick service.
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Steve, I used VIVAK or PET-G for the canopy, thicknes 0.7 mm or 0.0275".
I don't know a good source in your country, I bought mine in Germany.
Pictures from my Vac forming rig you can find in the forum Hints and Tips,
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The postman has just delivered my copy of the June issue, but it's only half,
I'm missing all pages between 42 and 51, and also between 82 and 91 and the pages 35 to 42 and the pages 91 to 98 I have double.
If some one has the pages I'm missing, I would be glad to swap them for the pages I have double.Koen Smits
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Chris and all other readers who are struggling with bending piano wire
On the link below is a downloadeble drawing from my wirebender, feel free to download and use it.
because i am from the metric side of europ, the dimensions are in metric
**LINK**Pictures how to use the wirebender on the links below,
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Erfolg, I don't know how good you are in reading the german language, but in the link below there is a clear description how to make and balance a set of blades
Koen Smits
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This one I found a while ago somewhere on the internet, it's from a german autogiro builder.
Here runs the drum in the correct direction.
Be aware, it will gif a lot of dust.
Koen
Edited By Koen Smits on 12/04/2013 09:20:07
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Big T and all other readers,
I would never use the sandingdrum as in the video, he can be lucky the motor has little or no power and quits running as soon he puts the wood under the drum. If the motor was strong enough he was missing probably 1 or more fingers. Use of a sandingdrum ONLY when the drum is rotating AGAINST the feed direction.
To make a drum like that use the same principle as Bill Pettit used to make his sandingblocks.
Koen
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Richard, Malcolm and David thanks for the clear answers, I will keep the panther as it is now, try to fly again later this week, if the wetter gets a little beter and dry.
Koen
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Questions to the above post:
Question 1: Which of the distances is correct?
Question 2: I have the spindle mounted as in photo 1, distance to spindle mount center 35 mm, do I have to move my CofG now further back, to 28 mm or 23 mm instead of 18 mm from the front of the mast?Koen
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Yesterday I saw a picture of the assembled rotorhead, when I compared this rotorhead with the parts on the drawing I discovered some differences.
photo 1: Part HD3, distance to spindle mount center is 35 mm.
photo 2: assembly drawing, distance to spindle mount center is 30 mm.
photo 3: assembled rotorhead, distance to spindle mount center is approx 25 mm.
Photo 3: by David Ashby
Edited By Koen Smits on 10/04/2013 08:40:02
Edited By Koen Smits on 10/04/2013 08:40:44
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Hi all,
Thanks for the helpfull reactions on my question about the crash on maidenfligth from my panther. I think the most difficult thing will be to put aside the fixed winger in me as Bill Pettit wrote.
Thanks
Koen
Edited By Koen Smits on 08/04/2013 21:21:08
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Hello All,
Today we had super weather to maiden my panther, but the first attempt wend wrong.
As soon she was off the ground, she rolled to the right and with a damaged propellor and 1 blade, so the party was over for today.
Maybe the experts are able to tell what possible caused the crash and give advise how to avoid this next time.
2 short video in the links below
thanks
Koen
Panther Trainer Autogyro
in Autogyros
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Hi All, in the **LINK** is a small video from my Panther, its not flown by myself.
Koen.