Dennis Fetters wrote:
Poultry in Motion wrote:
Dennis Fetters wrote:

Poultry in Motion wrote:

This is as clear as I can make it:
"Ask Dennis to identify *the Mini-500 prototype* for you."


Ok, ask me. What do you want to know about the "Mini-500 prototype".
It was the first Mini-500 I built, so it was a prototype.


It's already known, I quoted your own words about it from an older
post. Your Mini-500 prototype was Cicare's CH-6.

What point are you trying to make? Please just spell it out so we
don't have to be guessing. I'm not afraid to answer.


This is simple -

"so I paid for the prototype to be sent here so I could fly it in the
show"

"After the air show, we put the prototype into a storage building"

You're afraid to call Cicare's CH-6 your prototype any more.

Oh that one, I guess you need to read!

That was what we were going to use as a prototype, but as I said Cicare
didn't do what he agreed, so even after I advertised we were going to
use his CH-6 as a prototype, that was when I assumed he was going to
live up to his part of the deal. He didn't, and I ended up having to
design the Mini-500 all by myself...

.... and golly gosh what a coincidence, it came out almost just like a
CH-6 but I really designed it all by myself really.



Two helicopters came out of the CH-6:

The CH-7, a winner by all accounts.
Anyone not seen the picture of one lifting off carrying two more people
standing outside on the skids? Anyone like to?
I've seen two videos of them crashing, one appeared to be of a pilot
performing low-level idiocy and running way short of the bottom half of
a loop before the ground came up and smashed him. He walked away,
likewise the other CH-7 video crasher.

The Mini-500, a botched effort.
A small jockey-size pilot was hired to demo flight it at shows.
Factory's "PEP" pipe was effort to wring adequate performance out of
this dog.
Same Rotax engine, but necessary styling dictated that the engine be
enclosed. Famous for seizing.
Frame cracked under heavy vibes, so factory solution was to weld more
metal onto frame.