bones

Ok fellas i know of the load recommendation fo singles if around about 1.3 lb per sq ft, but what is the target to aim for with a 2 seater ???
Thanks

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Birdy2

buggered if i know, but thinkn logicaly id say the same.
thats why 2seaters have bigger blades.

Aussie_Paul

Around the 1.5 to 1.8 lbs/square foot Bones. The legal mtow of 1320 lbs with 30' rotors gives a disc loading of 1.87 lbs/square foot. A bit high, so that is why I have a set of 33 AKs travelling somewhere between Jeff and myself.

Aussie Paul.

Graeme

I have a set of 33 AKs travelling somewhere between Jeff and myself.
Paul, after Bones little adventure with transport of rotor blades, who knows, yours might be going via Perth?
The chook is looking good Paul, congratulations.

Graeme.

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russ

33 footers............next step 35's.

Unqualified to prove it, but i rekin we is headin into unchartered waters with these BIG blades [ hub bars ]

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Aussie_Paul

Thanks Graeme. Yea, I might have to get Adrian and the team from WA to bring them across.

Aussie Paul.

Aussie_Paul

Russ, I was hoping that you would get a 33' set and do some hours to see if they broke. Then I realised that you don't have a gyro !!!

The hub bar is 1.25" thick

Aussie Paul.

russ

That's Ok paul.........would rather be reedin about em, success or failure, then i could make an informed decision.

PS............has the flamechook ventured away from the bitumen yet, like a mile or 2.

Waddles's build should be in the air this next week..........should be. With 600 plus Lbs of thrust, it should be a ball terror

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Bell430

Hi Paul,

When you do your loading calc for the 30 footers, what are you putting in for the hub bar etc. I'm not getting the same number as you.... can you talk me through it, cos I don't want to miss something down the track.

Cheers

Paul

bones

Well Russ what other option is there, you people keep making the machines heavier and heavier, as Birdy would say "heavy pigs of things", so then you need more hp to push them, and longer rotors to hold them up, time to get back to the drawing board i think, or what on, i know someone whom has
cant wait for the fly off Russ

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