A Comprehensive Introduction to Model Helicopter Aerobatics (The Modelers World Series)

A Comprehensive Introduction to Model Helicopter Aerobatics by Russ Deakin is concise and yet highly detailed in the art of performing model helicopter aerobatics. It provides valuable stepping stones taking you safely and confidently from your first circuits through to entering any of the chosen disciplines of advanced model helicopter flying.

Contents

Chapter 1 — Selecting a model
1. Selecting a suitable model
2. Big or small?
3. Best of both Worlds?
4. Checking out the spec
5. What drives the rotor head?
6. How about the tail drive
7. The rest of the tail
8. The rotor head
9. Controlling the rotor head
10. Narrowing down the choice

Chapter 2 — Radio control
1.What transmitter should l use?
2.The other end
3.The size of battery
4.How about gyros!
5.Servo selection

Chapter 3 — Of blades and paddles
1.The design criteria of rotor blades
2.The all-round blade
3. Tail blades
4.The flybar setup
5. Balancing and gauges

Chapter 4 — Let’s put it together
1. The approach
2. But what tools will I need?
3. Thread lock
4. A few more preparations
5. Assembling your model
6. Installing the radio
7.The importance of good maintenance

Chapter 5 — The mechanical set up
1. What is setting up?
2. But what shall we aim for?
3. Understanding the mechanical setup
4.Considering the pitch ranges
5.Understanding the pitch/throttle relationship

Chapter 6 — Initial adjustments at the field
1. Preparation and attitude
2. Start your engines
3. Above the hover

Chapter 7 — Advanced setting up
1. Main rotor head speed
2. Fine tuning the pitch/throttle in ‘normal’
3. Other adjustments in the ‘normal’ condition
4. Idle-up 1, on the bench
5. Idle-up 1, at the field
6. Idle-up 2, on the bench
7. Idle-up 2, at the field
First roll story
8. Throttle hold
9. Potential ‘throttle hold’ problems
1O. Cyclic to throttle mixing
11. Advanced mixing options

Chapter 8 — Plan your progress
1. Who keeps moving the goal posts?
2. The importance of the basics
3. What can I use to help me?
4. The overall ‘master plan’
Mission declaration

Chapter 9 — Let’s go flying
1-6. Back to basics
7. Control led circuits
Any problems sir?
8. Basic nose-in flying
9. Perfecting nose-in flying
A little role reversal?
10. Pirouettes
11. Starting to learn to fly backwards
12.Your ‘tail-first flying’ has just got harder!
13. Advanced hovering manoeuvres

Chapter 10 — Aerobatics
14. The chandelle
15. Stall turns
16. The loop
17. The dreaded roll

Chapter 11 — Auto rotations
18.The manoeuvre
19. Where should you start?
20. First attempts
It’s not over yet!

Chapter 12 — At the end of the day
1. Where have we been?
2. Don’t throw me away yet!
3. Where do you go now?