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Helicopter
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Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:00:31 GMT
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Just a few words from a newbie annoucing his first MOC : a (yellow) Technic Helicopter.

As I said on MOCpages, I had left my Legos from ten years now, and thanks to my kids, who are now asking me to play LEGO back, I have retrieved old Lego parts from grand’ma house, and decided to build something from my own creation.

I initially found RoscoHead Helicopter, which was really a big surprise to me, since I could not imagine doing so complex control with LEGO !

So I first bought a recent Technic set (#8436 truck) to get familiar with the new-style technic parts, then got additional used parts... and here’s the result :



Cyclic and collective control of the blades is achieved with joysticks and central lever (uses flex system also) ; pedals control tail rotor pitch ; pneumatics for landing gears.

Additional pictures Here

Comments are welcome !

Regards,

Pierrick Puchois



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  Re: Helicopter
 
(...) Hi Pierrick, that's nice work! And I'm glad I could provide a little inspiration. The weird thing is, that helicopter was the first MOC I built after my dark age too! I like how you control the swash plate (turntable) from below - the probably (...) (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
  Re: Helicopter
 
(...) I'm looking at the mechanism around the rotor, and it looks like you have true collective and cyclical- the shaft stays vertical? That's some pretty slick stuff there. Nice work! You gotta shrink down the images next time, though- it's awkward (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)

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