Bell 222 UT

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Mark, as a follow on from Tony's post, it's great to see you back on the forum again.

Cheers,

Ron

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Any new pics of the build....how far have you got?.

By the way have you seen the TT Mil fus for the .50 Thunder Tiger mechanics its awesome.

Regards Sub.

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[ATTACH]46502.vB[/ATTACH]Update on this one - got sidetracked on a few other projects since this last post including taking in another Heli (A Classic 1980's machine too) I will be posting more on here shortly

As you can see since my last pic - that sheet of liteply has been transformed into individual components, all cut & rounded out by hand. Papered both sides (seals & strengthens the wood) finally coated with cellulose dope - 2 coats each side and sanded after each coat to give a perfect finish ready for painting. Paint is aircraft interior grey on the final assembled modules...pics to follow

Mark

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Final test fitting and trimming of all those parts above has been done and the fuselage checked out with a spare set of mechanics to check mounting positions etc. Final step is to check and repair any remaining blemishes on the shell and then I can commence the spray job. I have all the markings and logos all prepared on the computer. When the paint job is done they will go on.

In the meantime I have acquired another 3 Helicopters, a Thunder Tiger Raptor 30 V2, An original rare 1980's Heim Lockheed 286 and a Graupner Heim Ecureuil AS-355

Ps...the machine in the background of the pic is a 1990 MFA Sport 500 under restoration and conversion to a collective pitch head and full MD 500E Fuselage.

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Latest news on this one is that it is now Flybarless, I haven't bought one of the new fancy heads for this but have actually used original Kalt parts and modified the head. This has left a very tidy setup with only 2 linkages from the swash scissor mechanism to the rotor head, exactly as on the real 222 - it works perfectly and looks very scale indeed

Mark.

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After cutting out a lot of those wooden parts in the original pic, most of them were not needed so were left out in the fuselage build. I did make up one or two new bits purely for strengthening the fuselage. I remade all the tail parts (not shown in the pics) and adopted a different mounting method for the stabiliser bars with the side fins on. The plans suggested drilling through the tail boom and fitting these with specially bent rods - far too fiddly as I have found out on one of my other heli's that has this same system. I have gone for a more direct mounting of these parts which is a lot easier and as it happens, it is exactly as per the full size 222.

Pic shows tail parts under construction.

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As for the rotorhead I mentioned - a couple of pics for you.

First is the head with the flybar pivot tower still attached - the black tape on the shaft marks the cutting line. 2nd pic is with the pivot tower removed and cutting tidied up - leaving a very scale like flybarless head. This now only requires 2 linkages to make it work compared to 7 on the original flybar head

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