well guys it has been way too long since i posted about the apache , i have not stopped her altogether although things have slowed down somewhat due to work , but the good news is that she is a lot closer to flying now , pretty much all i need now is to source out a custom length belt to go from the ergo mechs to the tail adapter as it was designed for a raptor that has a much larger final drive gear ,so i am currently searching out a belt , then all i need is a new engine as i had to use my hyper in my md530 littlebird as the old tt50 pro finally gave up the ghost .here are a few pics to show the progress i have made over the last few months ,the helitronics light controller is in and superb with the luxeon lights , although i still have to put in the landing light , the mechs have been fitted and the tail adapter and flex drive are in and set up , have connected the tads and ihads to the rudder servo and the tail plane works off the collective ,and the m230 will be set up to work off the roll axis,i have also made a suspended ,swiveling tail wheel thanks to Emile for his setup.
for size comparison her she is next to my 450 ep dragonus


front on showing the tads and ihads

in this pic you can see the rudder servo ,which has the ihads and tads connected to it , closest ,and the other servo is for teh tail plane that will be coupled off the collective the wiring is for the helitronics light setup

this next one shows you just how tight it all is and how much larger the ergo mechs are ,is a good indication of how helis used to be 5 years ago

and here she is , almost complete , still have some more surface detail and decals to add ,but pretty much if i had the new hyper and the belt she would be able to fly


i will get back into the construction post so that you can see just how easy it was to get to this stage