Nice work. Yours flies beautifully. Congrats on obviously getting it tuned properly. Really enjoyed your flight video. Bought the same package new from Motion RC when they first offered it. Had some of the same issues as you. Using the BeastX FLB controller and replacement high speed servos, got it to fly respectably. Repainted the fuselage in a patina’d, flat olive with proper markings to match the Viet Nam era’s, 191st AHC’s gun platoon livery: “Bounty Hunters”. This build commemorated my 50th year anniversary serving with the 191st at Dong Tam (with a unit move to Can Tho) from 1969-70. Loved flying the Huey both in combat and as a flight instructor back at Ft. Rucker for my remaining years of obligation. Although obsolete now as a combat assault “slick” or gunship, still have such fondness for the design and fly-ability of this historic relic. This is the reason I wanted to really scale mine out with 2.75” rocket pods, replacement windshield and the Bounty Hunter, “Yosemite Sam” nose art found on all our “C”-model gunships. A couple weeks ago, after about a dozen smooth and trouble-free flights, flipped the idle-up switch from a hover as usual, transitioning to forward flight and it went wild. This process was my usual procedure on past flights with no issues, but this time my hands were full. It became RC chain saw. Managed to wrestle it down, spreading the skids; and ever-grateful I had fabricated a tail stinger so no tail rotor strike. This sudden loss of control was puzzling (and butt tightening), so spent several hours going over everything. Could find nothing wrong even after consulting with a very experienced fellow heli driver who is far more knowledgeable about the BeastX. On the next flight: same terrifying experience. (?) So, rather than take a chance, pulled the mechanics/electronics out and passed them on to my heli-buddy who will eventually figure it out. For the past year, have been thoroughly enjoying my new Flywing 450 and Flywing 450 v.2. What a relaxing way to enjoy scale RC helicopter flying! Am so impressed with the robust mechanics and nearly flawless GPS-assisted electronics that I wrapped my first one in a scale, Hughes 500 body and will attempt to shoehorn the v.2 mechanics into my empty-shell, Huey body. Gonna be tight, as these Flywing 450’s are more like 500-size. Keep in touch…
Good day Steve, thank you for our service and thank you for your story. I had a "incident" with mine as well, I had the original cyclic servo's still and the one in the back crapped out while taking off. Luckily I was only about 10 feet of the ground so could get down without blade strike anywhere. After the post crash investigation I found that of the three cyclic servo's the one in the back stopped working entirely. What would happen was that as I would take off, all three servos would lift the swash plate, and as I descend the one in the back would stay in place, effectively allowing the swash to tilt forward initiating forward flight. When I have the elevator almost all they way down the servo would drop and all hell would break loos with a insanely fast decent, I was however able to get it down but with a bit of a hard landing, no blade strikes and structurally all seems good as well, no fiberglass cracks or anything of that sort. I have ordered the servo's and will be installing them shortly.
Hey Cudu, I run a blade pitch of 10 degrees at full tilt, and my throttle percentage is at 85%. This based on my motor size, the gearing and battery power that puts my main rotor at about 1800 RPM. A lot of people say that the ideal for scale 450 is 2200RPM but I find that this RPM just destabilizes the heli.
Nice work. Yours flies beautifully. Congrats on obviously getting it tuned properly. Really enjoyed your flight video.
Bought the same package new from Motion RC when they first offered it. Had some of the same issues as you. Using the BeastX FLB controller and replacement high speed servos, got it to fly respectably. Repainted the fuselage in a patina’d, flat olive with proper markings to match the Viet Nam era’s, 191st AHC’s gun platoon livery: “Bounty Hunters”. This build commemorated my 50th year anniversary serving with the 191st at Dong Tam (with a unit move to Can Tho) from 1969-70.
Loved flying the Huey both in combat and as a flight instructor back at Ft. Rucker for my remaining years of obligation. Although obsolete now as a combat assault “slick” or gunship, still have such fondness for the design and fly-ability of this historic relic. This is the reason I wanted to really scale mine out with 2.75” rocket pods, replacement windshield and the Bounty Hunter, “Yosemite Sam” nose art found on all our “C”-model gunships.
A couple weeks ago, after about a dozen smooth and trouble-free flights, flipped the idle-up switch from a hover as usual, transitioning to forward flight and it went wild. This process was my usual procedure on past flights with no issues, but this time my hands were full. It became RC chain saw.
Managed to wrestle it down, spreading the skids; and ever-grateful I had fabricated a tail stinger so no tail rotor strike. This sudden loss of control was puzzling (and butt tightening), so spent several hours going over everything. Could find nothing wrong even after consulting with a very experienced fellow heli driver who is far more knowledgeable about the BeastX.
On the next flight: same terrifying experience. (?) So, rather than take a chance, pulled the mechanics/electronics out and passed them on to my heli-buddy who will eventually figure it out.
For the past year, have been thoroughly enjoying my new Flywing 450 and Flywing 450 v.2. What a relaxing way to enjoy scale RC helicopter flying! Am so impressed with the robust mechanics and nearly flawless GPS-assisted electronics that I wrapped my first one in a scale, Hughes 500 body and will attempt to shoehorn the v.2 mechanics into my empty-shell, Huey body. Gonna be tight, as these Flywing 450’s are more like 500-size.
Keep in touch…
Good day Steve, thank you for our service and thank you for your story.
I had a "incident" with mine as well, I had the original cyclic servo's still and the one in the back crapped out while taking off. Luckily I was only about 10 feet of the ground so could get down without blade strike anywhere.
After the post crash investigation I found that of the three cyclic servo's the one in the back stopped working entirely. What would happen was that as I would take off, all three servos would lift the swash plate, and as I descend the one in the back would stay in place, effectively allowing the swash to tilt forward initiating forward flight. When I have the elevator almost all they way down the servo would drop and all hell would break loos with a insanely fast decent, I was however able to get it down but with a bit of a hard landing, no blade strikes and structurally all seems good as well, no fiberglass cracks or anything of that sort. I have ordered the servo's and will be installing them shortly.
So glad to hear no damage after that cyclic servo failure!
Beautiful love that machine
Thank you.
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hey. how many degrees of pitch curve do you have? and how many percent engine speed? please .
Hey Cudu, I run a blade pitch of 10 degrees at full tilt, and my throttle percentage is at 85%. This based on my motor size, the gearing and battery power that puts my main rotor at about 1800 RPM. A lot of people say that the ideal for scale 450 is 2200RPM but I find that this RPM just destabilizes the heli.
Sounds like the blades are out of balance