I have been home for the past week or so. Girlfriend had some surgery last Tuesday, came home Wednesday evening and I have been keeping an eye on her. She has been sleeping a lot which has given me time to, well do what heliguys do.

I have been able to tie up many loose ends as seen in the previous post with the battery and ESC installation. I made a mock-up slider and spacer for the tail. The control bell crank and slider I have is a prototype from way back. The new version is more of what you see here.

I installed some "Jewl-ery" in the form of 5, 8717. One for the tail, and 4 for the swash. I also installed the carbon tail control rod. I am not sure I like the angle of the input rods from the servos to the swash. This could be corrected buy installing a longer ball on the swash. Once everything is powered up and I get a chance to overview the geometry, we will see where we go from there.

I have a JR 1222 RX and 2, 6010 regulators on the way. I will be running 2, 7.4, not sure what mah, lipos battery's into this RX and regs. I have not purchased a gyro for the tail. I like the 401 for its simplicity. Its a good gyro for scale stuff for sure, but when I flip this upside down, doing rearward flight at mach .63 with 720 degree per second piros I am thinking it could blow out.

Here are some photos of where it is today. It is starting to look like something.

Is that a nice follower or what? Notice who make it...

Butch