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<DIV>One thing I did to tame down the tail rotor on the old non-gyro fixed pitch helis was to glue a large cardboard disk on the end of a wooden dowel, and tape that to the tail boom with the disk sticking out past the tail rotor. Did not stop the tail from swinging, but damped the motion significantly. In a slight headwind it would weathervane to the point that not much tail rotor control was needed. </DIV>
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<DIV>I also switched to a single-stick transmitter (Proline). Tells you how long ago THAT was. :-) Made the tail rotor input easier, IMHO.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 10/23/09, Earl Haury <I><ejhaury@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I flew the Hughes 300 / O&R in the '70's. No mixing, no collective, no gyro, no power - yet it looked like a heli and sure taught one to use the rudder thumb!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><B>From:</B> <A title=frackowiak@sbcglobal.net href="http://us.mc11.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=frackowiak@sbcglobal.net" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:frackowiak@sbcglobal.net">Anthony Frackowiak</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org href="http://us.mc11.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">General pattern discussion</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV>I have a .60 Shark I'm in the middle of rebuilding. Had one way back. I also have two NIB Hughes 300's with the O&R engine. Should be fun to put those together!
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<DIV>On Oct 23, 2009, at 6:13 AM, Bob Richards wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<TD vAlign=top>I had one of those, too. Engine never put out enough power, so I replaced it with the .60 conversion. I still have the remains of that copter :-)<BR><BR>--- On<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><B>Thu, 10/22/09, Tony<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I><<A href="http://us.mc11.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tony@radiosouthrc.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:tony@radiosouthrc.com">tony@radiosouthrc.com</A>></I></B><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>wrote:<BR>
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