There is a new kit helicopter that is coming into the North America scene. The Dynali. A gentleman in Canada is the North America dealer and will be taking delivery of two ships early in 2008. Tech details will be forthcoming and I will publish them in the Experimental Helo magazine as well...

I'm looking for a castellated socket 2" OD with 6 tangs, splines, whatever they are called. Needed to disengage the yoke nut from the top of my rotor mast. Google just runs me back and forth thru India, NSW and other places. Anyone know of a source? Stu

I'm just having more fun than should be legal and it probably isn't if I look far enough into the County, State and Federal statues, but I am never-the-less. I have pretty much followed the Cafe numbers for header length and the 4-into-one collector. Keeping in mind friendship to my...

I've heard for sometime that the R-22 is harder to fly than the little ultralite Mosquito. This past week end I took a 1/2 hr ride in an R-22. In my opinion the cyclic in the R-22 with its lack of feel or any kind of force feedback is at least an order of magnitude more difficult to adjust to...

Just back from Bensen days and Sun'n Fun. I flew (hover taxiied) a 254# legal ultralite helicopter. I was amazed at the lack of any tendency to depart to a foreign zip code. The little Mosquito Air felt more stable to me than a Bell 47. At Sun'n Fun John Snider demonstrated several autos to...

Just got my Baby Belle out of its condition inspection, and had a couple of hours on it doing tracking and balancing and general hover practice when the local airfield had a special on fuel: Normally $4.60/ gal was $3.60 for the day. I lit her off and half way there the MR chip lite came on...

Hey Ol Shy & Bashful are your rotary wing interests pretty much restricted to the pilotage aspects? Are you interested in the aerodynamics and maintenance details? I've been seeding this NG trying to get something cooking for some time and haven't found either the right seed or the right...

Well after a year on the ground, which started out to be just a condition inspection, a 1800 sq ft building expansion got in the way, my bird took flight yesterday. After extensive re-rigging and checking to insure sufficient negative pitch to allow autoroatation, I carefully lifted the bird...

Is there anyone out there? I have been dissatisfied with my trailer that I'm using to haul my 1,000 # helicopter around. It is basically a car hauler that I've stripped the springs down to 1 1/2 leaves and put soft car tires on it to make the ride a bit softer. Even with the reduced springs,...

There is now a dealer in South Africa for the Aerokopter. He has written what I think is an excellent article on test flying the Aerokopter for the SA Flyer magazine. Unfortunately, Aerokopter is not presently interested in providing the ship as a kit and sells them complete only. Present...

Uniform Kilo is a recent book about a trip in an R-44 from England to Australia. Interesting reading. Trafford Publishing. -- Stuart Fields Experimental Helo magazine P. O. Box 1585 Inyokern, CA 93527 (760) 377-4478 (760) 408-9747 general and layout cell (760) 608-1299 technical and advertising...

The next big helicopter meet that I know of occurs near Cleveland Ok. The last week-end of September. The meet put on by John Spurling of Pro-Drive is one of the good ones. The flying is good and there is usually a poker run and prizes as well as a band and dancing. There are usually some 30...

A recent incident involving a Rotorway helicopter occurred. An accidental bumping of the clutch switch dis-engaged the clutch. The resulting autorotation resulted in a roll over and of course some significant damage. As I understand it, the switch was mounted in the overhead panel but the...

Is there anyone out there? If you are there are you planning on attending 1. Golden West at Marysvill CA, Homer Bell's at Hillsboro Ohio, or the biggy at Oshkosh? If you are at any of these events, look us up. We talk helicopters at the drop of a hat and will furnish the hat. We hope to...

Will there be a wake for RAR? Maybe an Irish wake? Stu Fields Experimental Helo magazine

Just attended a fly-in at Westport OK. There were some 27 helicopters there. Attending were Rotorways, a Brantly, some R-22s, a R-44, Schweitzers, a Hiller and a Safari. Only one of these ships had the tail rotor turning in the "right" direction. It as the Safari. It seems that Bell,...

We recently received an article for our magazine where the author performed a balance of his tail rotor on a bench using an electric motor and a dial indicator instead of an electronic balancer. I was impressed with his thinking outside the box. If there is any interest in this out there, I...

Here's one for the pros: I was balancing my tail rotor and had it down to 0.27 ips and still had just a touch too much weight where I had added it. So still needing to safety wire a bolt that is located in the center of the tail rotor output shaft, I chose to safety it to a hole 180 degrees from...

If you were there, you know what I mean. If you weren't there, I'm sorry. The first annual, they are already planning for the next year, Central Sierra Helicopter Meet was a resounding success. 13 helicopters showed. Schweitzers, Bell 47, Baby Belle, Ultrasports, Helicycle, a Scorpion II and both...

There is a new Helicopter Meet scheduled for early May: The Central Sierra Helicopter Meet. This event will take place May 5-7 at the Miller ranch located near Groveland Ca. Contact info: . This was motivated by their attendance at Homer Bell's fly-in. Should be a good...