Building a Hornet |
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When I opend the box that the Hornet come in, it's not much inside at first look. | |
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Here I have started to cut out the plastic body to the right. | |
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Started masking the windows. | |
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Also made a hole for the mounting. | |
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Made a painting rack for all parts that is going to be painted. I used an old Kyosho Mini-Z body box for that. | |
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Here is the main cassi and landing geer put together. It's not hard to follow the manual, but I had to be cairfull because almost all parts is glued together with locktight. | |
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Tailbom done. This must have been the hardest part to get right. So many parts that move and they have to move smooth. | |
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Rotor and tailbom. | |
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Here Im about to solder on the speedcontroler card on the motor. | |
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Speedcontroler on place. | |
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It's starting to look like an helicopter. I put on all the servos and electronics. | |
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Finaly with the body on. Just some electronics left to conect. | |
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I got a 12V batterycharger to this helicopter, and I wanted to be able to use it at home in the 220V. So I used an old PC ATX power supply. It worked nice, but I gave it up after I got a new chager that had a 220 and a 12V conection. | |
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Radio that Im going to use. I had that from my other helicopter (Ergo30). | |
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This is not my first try. I had my Hornet with me to work, so here Im flying or trying to fly in TV4's studio one. I did crash that day sevral times, but nothing happend. The helicopter is so light, it's only 290 grams with battery incl. But I did crash a little to hard one time, was up maby two meters in the air and did fly in to the wall. I broke of one of the /\ on the motor geer. |