sama

hey, I found an indoor venue here in WA its the Midland SpeedDome held there every thursday of each month.

13BT

yep thats the same place i told you about earlier. I described it as the Midvale Speedome i think, but yes its the same place. Im on Aeromodellers WA's mailing list and they will let me know when the next meet is.

Or you can take a look at their calendar yourself:

http://www.aeromodellerswa.info/calendar.html

email Ross Cant for more info

FERNDALE AIR FORCE

I jumped off the cliff and bought a gyrotor today from hobbytron. They also have the piccoz's in stock. I thought about putting a couple of toothpicks on the wings, sort of like rockets. There is a picco z tool box site, looks almost the same as the aa tool box site. Tim

micro_builder

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the two sites are from the same guy i do believe, it should prove quite usefull.

how much was the gyrotor with shipping from hobbytron?

anyway, someone just posted this mod earlier today and so far i've got to say its one of the best thing i've done to it yet. its very simple, just cut a few millimeters of the leading edge off the blade, where it folds down. cutting an inch or more of the leading edge makes the heli have almost no vibration at the lower throttle positions. it can still be squirly when the cell is freshly charged, but once it calms down a little, its much easier to controll.

flight times are said to have increased, i'm charging now and will see how much time i get. here's a couple pictures of the mod (not my photos).

nick

TCYFudge

micro...
are you supossed to take off the peice thats cut or tape it on like the pictures?

micro_builder

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cut the plastic peices off like in the picture. he used the tape just to show where and how much to trim off. i trimmed the entire leading edge and it seemed good too, but i hold no accountability if someone trims off too much!

nick

googledperson

Hey ferndale could i have a link to that picco toolbox site?

FERNDALE AIR FORCE

The picco z tool box is at, www.piccoztoolbox.no-ip.com[link=http://www.piccoztoolbox.no-ip.com]picco z tool box[/link]

There is more info in rc groups. Tim

FERNDALE AIR FORCE

Micro, the gyrotor is 67. with ground shipping(fedex). My problem is it still shows to be processing. Can I ask what heli are you cutting down?

j.duncker

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Had to happen - someone has done an Airwolf conversion.

Brill

http://www.modelbouwforum.nl/phpBB2/...=575120#575120

13BT

wow cool conversion [8D]

Djstinger

I have put 6 pieces of the aluminum sticker on the nose and still only have moderate forward mobility. I will try to add more weight later. This second Z I got ( A channel-RED ). flies great compared to the B I had. I got the B because like the bipe I thought it would be the best one of the 3...

Am I the only one that has to turn on the Tx for the Z to charge ? I took the 1st one back because of this, the one I just got does the same thing...

This thing is a blast to fly !!!

Hammerhead808

that's normal.

TCYFudge

ok cool

frank10

what's better about the gyrotor? it's still a 2 channel

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Ferndale,
thanks for the price. i'm trimming the piccos blades. i havent gotten the gyrotor or micro mosquito...yet!

DJ,
to get some quicker forward speed without the weight of the stickers, put some canards on the nose, or make a little hood scoop on the nose. both of these will use the main props propwash push the nose of the heli down, making it go forward. it works really well, there's a pic of mine on page 4 of this thread. the differant channels shouldnt make too much of a differance on glitches or range as its IR, rather than RF. like the AA, it's hit or miss on just how well one heli will work compared to the next. but, also like the AA, it usually just takes a bit of tinkering to get it flying nicely.

frank10,
the gyrotor is bigger and heavier, so its more stable. plus, its got a simple but effective gyro in it so it holds its heading better than the picco's. its basically a slightly more fancy version of the picco, but the 3 blade tail prop is enough for me to buy one (i'm such a sucker).

nick

Tommyr

I just got my 3rd PicooZ this time from radio shack. They come in BOTH style packages, My Toy's 'r us Piccos came in the vertical style package and the RS in the horizontal style.

Just for everyone's info...

Tom

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Hi Guys. Just got my PicooZ yesterday and done a few body mods to make it look a little more Like my bigger helis. Let me know what ya think.

Tommyr

Neat! Nice job!

Tom

damisdad

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Thanks Tommy. I used some frame parts to a Dragonfly for the skids.

FERNDALE AIR FORCE

Micro, I just took a closer look at the trimmed rotor heli. It is not a picco z. Tim

FERNDALE AIR FORCE

Here are pics of my first picco z mod. It flew better but, I think the canards(me and my canard theory again) should be more parallel to the rotors.

138t, if you put your weight in the front in the form of a 25mm cannon, bulbous(sp?) with a snout, it would continue the gunship look.

For anyone, I think the body shape is more like an ah-1 super cobra. Do you think it's more like an ah-64 apache?

13BT

i wish i could try that ferndale, but i dont have my piccoz yet []

Djstinger

Fern, I am going to start calling "Canard".. Nice job , I will try it this weekand.

frank10

is this going to be available at TRU or radioshack?