Time to take to the air! Double Horse 9053 helicopter

[WillyThickfoot]

Friend of mine presented me with this chopper and I have been having a blast. it had issues out of the box but nothin a little mod wont cure. Seemed abit tail heavy out of the box so I shortened the tail boom by 1-1/4 inches.Over all length is now about 2 feet.It was slow to move foreward and backwards so Iadded a couple peices to the tail rotor to give more lift and it seems to have done the trick.This thing is alot of fun.Here are some pics and I hope to post a vid if I can figure out how.The body is mounted useing pressure fit just under the main rotor and a pain in the a$$ screw underneath that had to go so I drilled out the hole and used a screw out of my rc10 battery box.Much easier.

Dave

[WillyThickfoot]

Vid

[Lowgear]

Nice flying.

[youtube]CKWgCYZmqWM[/youtube]

[WillyThickfoot]

Thanks Lowgear and how did you get my vid to work?

[Lowgear]

When you're posting a reply hit the youtube button, and then put whats after the = sign in the video link between the tags.


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[WillyThickfoot]

Cool,Thanks

[kaiser]

cool heli. you're pretty brave flying it in that little room. lol it's not exactly a "small coax".
would you say that it's 250 size?

i just got a blade cx3 and it's almost too big for my living room.

edit:

i looked it up, i guess it's about the same size as a cx2/3, they both have 180 motors but the dbl horse has a tail rotor.
looks big though.

[WillyThickfoot]

Its about 26 inches out of the box. The plant you see by the window looks a bit different now

[kaiser]

26" long? thats a good sized heli.

i'm interested in this interesting little heli. maybe when i get some more flightime under my belt i'll pick one up.

how's the build quality?

[WillyThickfoot]

I am pretty happy with it. I took 1-1/4 inch of the tail boom. It seemed abit tail heavy out tof the box. I flipped the bottom blade assembly to help reduce blade strike and it worked well.Took 5 minutes. I am also waiting for a fly bar from a model 9077. It is shorter then the stock one and made of plastic.The biggest problem with these choppers were blade strike and blade/bar strike. I also added a prop to the rear rotor.

[kaiser]

the rear rotor opperates? and it's a coaxial? thats odd.

[WillyThickfoot]

Added a prop.

[m_vice]

i have a Blade CX2 with some mods. I added a boom and X-tream propellers so it handles better.
fun stuff.

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Vid:
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Custom canopy.

[m_vice]

the rear rotor opperates? and it's a coaxial? thats odd.

The tail rotor is to lift and lower the rear to make it move back and forward...
The reason is that it doesn't have a system to move the lower blades to make it move back and forward (I think it is called a mixer).

[WillyThickfoot]

The main rotors on the 9053 are fixed pitch.How many ch is the CX2?