Chopper Here:

Doing fine and dandy. After I got over my last 5 crashes, things have settled down for me. Flying okay, for NOW, never know.

Thought I would give myself a treat and get some good Carbon Fiber mains. Got a set of SAB's for the HBK2 #2, 280 mm blade, 5 mm longer than stock and still have plenty of clearance to the tail rotor. To be on the safe side, I did chop off the upper portion of the vertical fin in case of a hard landing.

Anyway, I'm impressed with these blades for two reasons:
1) they come perfectly balanced.
2) Most important to me, there is no flex in the blades, regardless of head speed and the tracking(once set up) is right on and doesn't change.

See pictures of modified vertical thingie:

Here's the link to the blades I purchased a little more than 3/4 down the page : http://helihobby.com/html/main_rotor_blades.html


I do see and feel improvement of flying characteristics, but always remember, you fly the heli, it doesn't fly itself.

Dave / Choppersrule