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Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Helicopters / April 201030 size Helicopter floats
Anyone any idea where I can get a set of floats for a Shuttle? What kind of price are they>? GD >Anyone any idea where I can get a set of floats for a Shuttle? >What kind of price are they>? > >GD Try Sussex Model Centre, they had some a while back for about £7 plus postage. You only get the flotation 'bags' for that, but making up the cross pieces isn't too difficult. www.sussex-model-centre.co.uk tel 01903 207525 Couldn't resist... > Couldn't resist... Very well (upside down) when baggies are fitted :-)  SignatureBeav Please note my E-mail address is "beavis dot original at ntlworld dot com" (with the obvious changes) Beavisland now lives at www.beavisoriginal.co.uk No more produced.... Was few mounth ago by helimax... Hope this 7 year old answer would give you some smile... I still have one in stock.. Stil interested ? ;- -- lothar204 > No more produced.... Was few mounth ago by helimax... Hope this 7 years > old answer would give you some smile... I still have one in stock... > Stil interested ? ;-) Wow, talk about resurrecting an old topic. In my 28 years of messing with helicopters, I think I've seen "2" actually flying with floats. I've seen more than that with float installed, just never saw them fly. One of the two I saw fly, I also saw the owner doing some serious reprogramming of his collective pitch curves after installing the floats. I'd seem him fly it earlier in the day and it appeared to have a really sweet setup so I asked him why he was monkeying with it? When I get one flying that good, I don't touch nothin!! ;-) Anyway, he informed me that the floats would support the bird with no problems as long as it didn't have any negative pitch, he was resetting his to 0 degrees. IOW's, land the helicopter on water, pull the pitch out of it and, while the engine would drop to idle, the 4-5 degrees of negative pitch together with a rotor speed still near full flight rpms, would effectively "sink" the bird. I'm sure that was an interesting sensation the first time he figured it out! :-D Fly Safe, Steve R. |
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