Beginners part III As promised in part II we shall now move along into the basic swashplate and flybar setup. These two components can change how your helicopter main rotor responds. Both may need to be considered together for a desired control response. Tampering here should be done only after you have mastered the basics […]

Helicopter Terms and Considerations for the Beginner The new modeller may find our technical language confusing at first. This does not help a person easily understand early conversations intended to help set-up the helicopter. With this in mind we have developed a short list of terms in a very basic format or easy to understand […]

Beginner’s Theory Part II Now that we have an idea of how the helicopter basically functions we shall go into slightly more detail. The point of this exercise is to make sure the modeler has an ideal of how the helicopter control system should function. There are many different types of main rotor control systems […]