here you go everyone. I finished the longranger up and it was placed in the local club mall show. take care mike lansford

here is a better picture of the lights it is a fun-key 30 size longranger fuse. I put the hawk sport mechs in it powered by an O.S. 37. I have a futaba 7chp and 401 gyro with 9254 tail rotor servo

Hi Mike,

That looks awesome. Have you flown it yet? I have the Century one that comes painted etc. with the scale Hawk mechanics. It is an awsome flyer.

I noted in one of the pics that it is next to an S-300. Is that the one from century. I also have one of these (In yellow) and it too flies great (I love the opening and closing doors). Mind you I get ribbed by friends whenever I land an auto a bit hard because one of the doors will then swing open. They say the passangers just bailed on me :-))

They look great and you will olove how they fly.

Bert

both are from century the 300 is a good friend of mine. he put the lights in that night. I have and fly a hawk sport and love it. im sure i will be just as happy with the longranger as i am with the pod and boom. I am starting my bell22 and it is from fun-key. I am happy with their fuse's they just keep getting better and better for the price and to be sport scale. mike

Your Longranger is SWEET. Nice work.

Hey dude! I just saw your post in another forum (forget which one) and you mentioned that you and a few other fellows had a mall show in Williamsburg, Va on the 12 of March. Man I wish you had posted that in several of the other forums (this one and RunRyder) as I missed it in the one I found on the 25th of March. Crap!!! I was in Richmond that weekend. If I would have known this I would have shown up and would have been happy to talk. I'm still waiting for the Hawk Pro to be shipped. Next week I hope. I'm as bad as a kid in a candy store and my blood suger is low! Anyway, keep us posted on this stuff.

Later...

Scott!

P.S. - I also known as perfesser-zero

no problemk I will start kepping everyone updated on the forums. I will be getting together a helicopter fun-fly for our club in williamsburg around the end of june. This will be the first helicopter fun-fly and i hope to build on it. Im working on getting everything ready to include prizes for a raffle. Here is another picture of the helicopter next to the real one. The gentleman who helped in the build made the landing pad under the helicopter, and i think it made it lok great. If you get a chance i will pm the date to you for the fun-fly and maybe you can come down and fly. take care mike

That looks fantastic, I live in Chesapeake and would love to check that thing out while flying. I've recently started flying a Raptor 30v2, and have thought of the Hawk as a second ship. I'm also starting to become more interested in scale and really admire the work you've done (as I'm sure WAVY has), by the way did that get you a ride in the full size? The funny thing is I also drill on Eustis as a reservist. Maybe we'll meet there someday and exchange notes. Later - Mike

sorry everyone been gone for a few days. msloan where are you at here on eustis. I will have the heli with me tommorrow and friday. I am going to do my test flights this weekend and the story should follow the following week from wavy. It is nice to find rc pilots to fly with around here. We sometimes fly here at the parade grounds. if you want to see it in person just let me know and we could meet up here. take care. mike

Mike,
Did you have to use the SE metal sideframes on your Longranger? Or did you use the stock Hawk Sport sideframes on it? If so, did you have any major problems getting it to fit?
I have a stock Hawk Sport that I would like to put a Longranger fuselage on, that's why I am asking.
Thanks, and great job on the Longranger!

I had to use the metal side frames on the longranger and a small modification on the aileron servo. You eithe have to trim the top part of the fuse and slide the helicopter back some or you can line the main shaft like I did in the middle of the helicopter and just have to move the aileron servo back like 5mm not alot. it is a great fuse to work with as far as painting and sanding. take care mike lansford