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artic-corsair · 27-12-2004

Am I Right In Thinking That The Hopit Was A C/l Plan Of An Autogyro, I Remeber Scaling Up A Controll Line Plan Of An Autogyro Some Years Ago, I Fitted A Super Tiger X 25 Motor , Had The Blades On Ball Raced Bearings, With Elevator And Rudder Controll , The First Flight I Had Was Amazing, I Did About Four Circuits, Slow Flight Was Unbeliveable, Now For The Funny Bit , When I Was Building It , I Did'nt Know Which Way The Blades Would Rotate, Any Way On The Last Circuit The Blades Decided To Go Their Own Way And Left The Model Behind To Fall To It's Death While They Happly Floated Back To Terrafirma With Out A Scratch, Now I Know Which Way They Rotate, As They Had Undone The Bolt That I Had Tightened Against The Bearing, Some Where I Still Have The Scaled Up Drawings ? One Day I May Find Them And Build Another One (one Day)?

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artic-corsair Scale Model Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: CARTERTON/OXFORDSHIRE Real Name: PAUL My Models: boats , cars , planes , trains n gauge Visit artic-corsair's Gallery Posts: 114 Images: 30	C L 417 Hopit ? Am I Right In Thinking That The Hopit Was A C/l Plan Of An Autogyro, I Remeber Scaling Up A Controll Line Plan Of An Autogyro Some Years Ago, I Fitted A Super Tiger X 25 Motor , Had The Blades On Ball Raced Bearings, With Elevator And Rudder Controll , The First Flight I Had Was Amazing, I Did About Four Circuits, Slow Flight Was Unbeliveable, Now For The Funny Bit , When I Was Building It , I Did'nt Know Which Way The Blades Would Rotate, Any Way On The Last Circuit The Blades Decided To Go Their Own Way And Left The Model Behind To Fall To It's Death While They Happly Floated Back To Terrafirma With Out A Scratch, Now I Know Which Way They Rotate, As They Had Undone The Bolt That I Had Tightened Against The Bearing, Some Where I Still Have The Scaled Up Drawings ? One Day I May Find Them And Build Another One (one Day)?