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what heli is this?? - 7/18/2005 1:02:27 AM   
projectgothamracer


 

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RE: what heli is this?? - 7/18/2005 6:54:37 AM   
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RE: what heli is this?? - 7/18/2005 7:46:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		It's not a GMP Cricket for sure, as I have one sitting here. It might be a Schluter Heliboy.

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RE: what heli is this?? - 7/18/2005 1:44:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looks sorta like a American R/C Revolution. 60 maybe? The 40 had more of a bubble canopy.

Or a Mantis. It definately looks like American R/C though.

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RE: what heli is this?? - 7/28/2005 2:12:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Barracudahockey hit it on the nose, American RC but not a mantis. I'd go with the Revolution 60 model also.

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RE: what heli is this?? - 7/28/2005 3:20:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yea they came in Red and Blue annodized frames. Decent helicopters for thier time and the Mantis got fairly popular. They had a full scale plane crash into thier factory and the company never recovered.

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RE: what heli is this?? - 10/19/2005 4:50:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		i have the same rotor in my hands now...i flew the heliboy for years....the head i have had to be modified as metal fatque was comon back then....i have photos of the ols beast...its from 1979

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RE: what heli is this?? - 10/19/2005 4:59:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		sorry its the heli baby ..the smaller one....its pretty scary ...it loses its pitch settings.the larger heliboy was heaver so it was worse. im xcell123 if you could email more pics i would like that xl444@telus.net

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RE: what heli is this?? - 10/29/2005 6:33:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was just surfing this site a bit and came across this. American R/C Helicopters operated by John Simone Jr. & Sr. introduced their line of fixed pitch helicopters in competition to the Schluter HeliBaby in around 1977 / 78. They first introduced the Revolution .40 which was a knock off of the helibaby but was offered in red anodizied frames, block " self aligning " boom and flat pitch adjustment plates for the main blades. The helicopter noted in the pictures are of the Revolution .60 based on the more elongated upper blue tinted canopy and fibreglass lower deck. The Revolution .60 was introduced in around 1978. My father paid Lowell Draper an employee of American R/C to come up to teach us how to fly helis that summer. He was the first person I had ever seen hover nose in ( he also flew the tail rather than the nose ). With the introduction of the Schluter SuperBaby late in 1979 American R/C Helicopters quickly copied that and called their heli the Revolution Commander. It featured the collective pitch version similar to what is shown in the picture. The helicopter did not last long and I think the Mantis flowed shortly thereafter. The last time I visited American R/C was in May 1980 in Mission Viejo Calif. They were pretty well on their last legs at the time with John Simone Sr. out of the picture and John Jr. was doing more movie work ( Blue Thunder ). Anyway, I lost tract of the them that summer of 1980 as the Schluter Heliboy had become all the rage. I often wonder what ever happened to John Simone. Hmmm this was fun...brought back some memories....now back to my JetCat HP5 Vario TOW Cobra ( how helis have changed since 1976 )

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RE: what heli is this?? - 12/10/2006 8:33:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		your heli is an american revolution "mantis"- do you still have it?

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RE: what heli is this?? - 9/16/2007 4:14:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		[image][/image]Apparently this an American Revolution heli. I put in new electronics, washed out the fuel tank and cleaned up the engine. While running the belt used to start it got tangled up with the main gear. The belt broke and I lost some teeth on the gear. Where the heck am I going to find these parts.

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RE: what heli is this?? - 9/17/2007 10:10:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		The belt start shouldn't be hard, goto a vacum cleaner store and find something close.

The gear.......find a machinist and make friends with him cuz you probably wont be able to buy one anywhere.

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RE: what heli is this?? - 9/17/2007 11:30:55 PM   
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I have some gears here that came from a revolution 40 or a Mantis.They are 24 pitch 60 tooth gears, with 3 mounting holes around the center hole. The outside diameter is 2.560". The Inside diameter of the center hole is .755". Maybe you can measure the one you have there & if it's the same you are welcome to the ones I have here.
Ralph

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RE: what heli is this?? - 9/17/2007 11:32:13 PM   
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Oops forgot. The gear thickness is 1/4".
Ralph

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RE: what heli is this?? - 1/13/2008 4:35:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		It is the mantis 40 with the collective head, I have the fixed pitch and collective machines in my basement along with thousands of 1980 dollars in parts!! Learned to fly with the fixed pitch mantis no gyro never did like the collective head. Then went to the Graupner helimax with kraft gyro, like night and day to the mantis. American RC did introduce a 60 size collective, not sure if it ever made to market before the accident and the end of the company. John Simone used to put on some great displays out behind the Holiday Inn at the Toledo RC show in the early eighties. He made me buy a heli, guys in the club said it would never fly they were wrong and yes it did go into forward flight not just hovering! Now all we need are some pictures of the dubro sharks!! Gary jump in! Now I do feel old!

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