RE: feathering shaft
I'm not sure the heli will even fly. At the very least you'd dramatically reduce head dampening making the heli very twitchy. You see the blades need to be able to "flap" to counteract dissymmetry of lift which they can't do with bearings. [link=http://www.helihobby.com/html/helicopter_dampening.html]This article explains it pretty well.[/link]