thanks. i have flown it many times but certainly admit that i am no master of the autogyro.
rough start to the day today, won't get into why. came home by 9:30am and thought, well i can start drinking, or i can fix planes?
amazingly i chose fix planes.
once again won't go into all the details but started at one end of the hangar, and worked my way across. if it didn't work the prob was diagnosed, fixed if possible, and if not parts needed were recorded and ordered if possible. by the end, what started as a bad day, ended with lot's of airplanes back in flight status.
after my recent dive into restoring old gasser's to electric i pulled another "oldy" that was given to me off the wall.
i have no info on the age, make, or anything other than it's a Cub with a REALLY big wing!
i removed some ridiculous motor mount and found a nightmare of prior fixes on the fire wall. only choice was to install an entire new one. i decided on some 6 ply basswood, drilled the motor mounts and center hole for wires. a little black spray paint and some 5 min epoxy and it was in. had a SK3 3542-100kv motor sitting around along with a tractor offset mount. how convenient...
however old it is, it's def "old school." dude used wooden dowels instead of wire for control lines for the tails.
i have a 60a esc and new servos for the tail on order. hope to fly it saturday, cross fingers?
laters,
me