RC Turbine MD500

One very expensive helicopter.
Engine alone is around $3000

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Nicely Done Peter!

'Shop out the stub-rotor in #2 and you'd be hard pressed to know it's not full scale.

Thanks Jay
He has a 5 blade head that will hopefully go on at some point.

That will be sweet!

Great shots of it.

That thing is really cool, I have never seen anything like that before. How big is that thing?

Very nice shots of a very nice heli. Do you know the rotor span?

Travis here's the link to an older shoot of another turbine powered heli which has a 10 foot rotor span. The picnic tables are standard sized so you'll have something to judge size. Rumor had it that he paid $25K for it ready to fly. He has at least 2 other turbine powered heli's. I had a thread on it back when I shot these so no need to do it again.

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Thanks guys. For those who know helis, the mechanics are Hirobo Freya 90. 1.5 metre rotor diametre or for you guys about 3.5 feet.
The engines are around $3500. this heli would be about $5000

Peter if I remember right you fly R/C heli's. Do you know how they cancel out the thrust of the turbine so that it's flown using the rotors alone?

Nice work!

Hi Cicopo
There's a difference in engines from jet to heli turbine. This turbine has a transmission from drive shaft to rotor with a slip clutch.
The tail on these helis is always the method of cancelling out torque from the rotor.
Would be interesting to see a pure jet notar RC Heli though

Thanks Frank

I'd be afraid to fly this RC Heli. Granted, the RC heli I tried to fly didn't stay fly very long....I'll stick to the fixed wings.

I agree with Jay and his post...shop-out the flybar and maybe some selective burning of the canopy and you'd be hard pressed to tell it apart form a actual Helo. Nice shots! I've only seen one other turbine heli as Airwolf and unfortuantely i didn't have my camera with me.

awesome, number two would have fooled me

Thanks guys