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3C2A7365- IMG 0425
- IMG 0426
- IMG 0424
- IMG 1764
- IMG 1758
- IMG 1752
- IMG 1763
- IMG 0427
- IMG 1761
- IMG 1405
- IMG 1756
- IMG 1755
- IMG 1385
- IMG 0407
- IMG 1760
- IMG 1759
- IMG 1403
- IMG 1384
- IMG 0422
- IMG 0416
- IMG 0423
- IMG 1757
- IMG 0406
- IMG 0405
- IMG 1383
- IMG 0430
- IMG 1762
- IMG 0436
- IMG 1768
- IMG 1406
- IMG 0429
- IMG 0226
- IMG 1767
- IMG 1402
- IMG 0428
- IMG 1401
- IMG 1407
- IMG 0414
- IMG 1382
- IMG 1400
- IMG 1753
- IMG 1754
- IMG 0418
- IMG 0404
- IMG 1766
- IMG 1386
- IMG 1381
- IMG 1404
- 2015-02-06 005
- IMG 1398
- IMG 0232
- IMG 1388
- IMG 1394
- 2015-02-06 003
- IMG 1396
- IMG 1395
- IMG 1397
- IMG 0234
- 2015-02-06 006
- IMG 1390
- 3C2A3239
- IMG 1391
- 2015-02-06 001
- IMG 0235
- IMG 1387
- IMG 1389
- IMG 0238
- IMG 1399
- IMG 0233
- IMG 0228
- IMG 0231
- 3C2A3279
- IMG 0227
- IMG 1393
- IMG 0258
- 3C2A3309
- DSC00123
- IMG 0236
- 3C2A3266
- 3C2A3318
- IMG 0230
- DSC00128
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- 3C2A3306
- IMG 1392
- 3C2A3282
- IMG 0237
- IMG 0239
- IMG 0229
- DSC00129
- DSC00124
- DSC00120
- DSC00198
Merlin and the Squirrels again 2002-04-28 - IMG 0242
- IMG 0263
- DSC00121
- IMG 0238
- IMG 0237
- IMG 0240
- 3C2A3261
- 3C2A3300
- 3C2A3324
- DSC00122
- DSC00130
- DSC00126
- 3C2A3249
- 3C2A3295
- IMG 0241
- IMG 0239
- IMG 0247
- IMG 0240
- IMG 0259
- 3C2A3290
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- IMG 0231
- IMG 0248
- DSC00127
- DSC00119
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- IMG 1058
- 3C2A3304
- IMG 0251
- 3C2A3331
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- IMG 0235
- IMG 0250
- IMG 0257
- 3C2A3292
- 3C2A3332
- 3C2A3284
- DSC00116
- 3C2A3341
- 142 4227
- DSC00199
Merlin and the Squirrels again #2 2002-04-28 - IMG 8174
- 142 4226
- IMG 0236
- IMG 0234
- 3C2A3288
- IMG 0256
- 103 0377
- IMG 0550
IMG 1062 raw- IMG 0244
- IMG 8172
- IMG 0232
- 132 3285
Rotor head bearings At this point, I only assembled one end of this piece. The bearing set in the bag fit onto the shaft with a collection of washers, spacers, bolts, loctite and so on. It's all a bit busy. Particularly sicne I forgot to put in a supporting piece rigth in the centre to had to disassemble the thing. - IMG 0243
- 132 3292
Coming together nicely now Tail piece is in, various tail-plane bits and bobs. The tail rotor blades are on the wrong way round here (and remained so for a while) until I realised I had the belt on the wrong way. I noticied this long before firing up the engine, thankfully. - IMG 0264
- IMG 8173
- IMG 0246
- 132 3295
Main drive wheel The belt goes back to the tail rotor. The grey spindle meshes with a drive wheel on the engine drive shaft. There is a shaft going up through these two wheels directly to the rotor hub. - 132 3291
Tail rotor assembly The red coloured pulley is a two-piece item, a flange fits on one end, and it can go two ways round. The correct way si with the shorter end into the pulley, longer end outwards. Otherwise, as I discovered, there is about 2 to 3mm play in the tail rotor shaft. Not good. - IMG 2971
- IMG 2529
- 142 4256
- IMG 2658
- 132 3294
Tail rotor The orange material you can see through the hole is the belt. The blades twist together, in opposite directions. This is how you point the helicopter. - IMG 2974
- 103 0378
- IMG 2537
- IMG 0551
- IMG 0248
- IMG 2995
- IMG 2526
- IMG 0556
- IMG 2973
- IMG 0247
- IMG 0554
- 002
- IMG 0548
- IMG 0233
- 004
- 132 3280
Engine in the frame, closeup - IMG 0553
- 142 4228
- 006
- IMG 2767
- 103 0375
Jappert - 142 4253
- IMG 0549
- IMG 0426
- 003
- IMG 2770
- 132 3287
Rotor head and flybar The fly bar, I think, ,ostly balances the main blades. They are on a single bar whose pitch alters with the cyclic, but not the collective (I think, lots of "I think"'s here!). The bar is supposed to be near-perfectly balanced otherwise it causes really nasty vibrations in the rest of the machine. Rememeber, this thing is a huge spinning top, really. - IMG 2755
- 142 4254
- IMG 1059
- 001
- IMG 0552
- 142 4252
- 005
- IMG 0428
- IMG 2972
- 132 3279
Engine in the frame - 142 4255
- 106 0644
- IMG 2656
- IMG 0433
- IMG 2540
- IMG 2659
- 132 3282
The engine The slot-shaped hole you can see is where the exhaust (muffler) pipe will attach, when it arrives. - IMG 2660
- IMG 2535
- IMG 0607
- IMG 2978
- IMG 2538
- IMG 2650
- IMG 2530
- IMG 2527
- IMG 2532
IMG 1065 raw- IMG 2765
- IMG 0430
- IMG 2750
- IMG 2542
- IMG 0545
- 142 4234
- IMG 2655
- 132 3281
Engine in the frame, other side - IMG 2534
- 132 3290
Tail rotor assembly This was a fiddly piece to put together. - IMG 2773
- IMG 2751
- IMG 2539
- IMG 0434
- 106 0645
- IMG 2541
- IMG 0546
- IMG 0429
- 106 0641
- IMG 2536
- IMG 2528
- 132 3288
Flybar again - IMG 0547
- 132 3283
Assembling the rotor head These bits will eventually sit atop the swash plate. - IMG 2652
- IMG 2525
- IMG 0435
- IMG 2664
- IMG 1063
- IMG 2771
- IMG 2756
- IMG 0425
- IMG 0427
- 900 0013
Merlin [2/6] - 132 3286
Look at the mess! - IMG 2663
- IMG 2546
- IMG 2543
- IMG 0432
- IMG 2533
- IMG 2761
- IMG 2653
- IMG 2545
- IMG 0544
- 106 0643
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- 103 0379
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- IMG 2654
- IMG 2772
- IMG 0608
- IMG 2669
- IMG 0609
- IMG 2662
- DSC00432
- DSC00098
Tara - IMG 2549
- 900 0015
Merlin [4/6] - 900 0014
Merlin [3/6] - IMG 2651
- 142 4251
- 142 4230
- DSC00095
- IMG 2668
- 900 0009
Merlin! - IMG 2544
- IMG 2776
- IMG 2649
- 899 9944
Tara! - IMG 2667
- 106 0646
- IMG 0606
- IMG 3014
- 142 4247
- 106 0640
- 142 4238
- 142 4232
- IMG 2665
- 106 0688
- 900 0012
Merlin [1/6] - IMG 2753
- IMG 2754
- 106 0652
- 900 0016
Merlin [5/6] - IMG 2778
- 142 4233
- 142 4245
- IMG 2666
- 142 4235
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- IMG 2777
- 142 4229
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- 142 4258
- 106 0649
- 142 4249
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- DSC00160
- 154 5438
- 106 0664
- 900 0019
Tara ...yes, I know you have a new toy... - DSC00133
dsc00030- DSC01248
- 154 5432
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- 142 4248
- IMG 0762
- 154 5423
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- IMG 2192
- 154 5424
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- 142 4257
- IMG 0754
- DSC00159
- 106 0654
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dsc00028- IMG 0612
dsc00046- IMG 2193
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dsc00031- 154 5436
- 106 0650
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- 106 0648
- IMG 0610
- 154 5437
dsc00029- 142 4237
- DSC00158
- IMG 0756
- 900 0018
Tara Okay, I'm bored now... - 900 0017
Merlin [6/6] - 106 0639
- IMG 2190
- 142 4236
- 106 0680
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- IMG 2191
- 142 4259
- 154 5430
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- 106 0681
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- 142 4265
- 900 0022
Tara ...I'm outta here.
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Tinsel Even more Tinsel...- 154 5426
- IMG 0767
- IMG 2779
- IMG 0753
- DSC00157
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- 106 0678
dsc00032- IMG 0761
- IMG 2194
- 106 0637
- IMG 0613
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dsc00044- IMG 0763
- DSC00130
- 154 5431
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- 106 0663
- IMG 0766
- 106 0659
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- 142 4267
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- 900 0020
Tara ...enough already. - 142 4260
- IMG 0764
- 106 0660
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- 900 0024
Random shot - 154 5418
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- IMG 0765
- 106 0667
- IMG 0624
- 142 4266
- 106 0634
- IMG 0611
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- IMG 0757
- 154 5417
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- IMG 0758
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- IMG 0614
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- IMG 0752
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- IMG 0749
- DSC01210
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dsc00038- IMG 0751
- 133 3333
Size comparison The universal measuring device: A Coke can. - 106 0658
- 142 4264
- 130 3071
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- IMG 0620
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- IMG 0759
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- IMG 6339
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- IMG 0775
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- IMG 6357
- 142 4205
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- IMG 6289
Program AE - 137 3702
- 136 3678
- 154 5401
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- IMG 6326
- IMG 0770
- IMG 6327
- IMG 0779
- 122 2257
- IMG 0780
- IMG 0734
- 121 2184
- IMG 6340
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- IMG 0741
- 130 3085
- 142 4207
- IMG 0618
- 136 3680
- 136 3645
- 120 2050
- IMG 0738
- 136 3691
- DSC00126
- IMG 0740
- 154 5414
- 136 3700
- DSC01239
- IMG 0771
- 131 3147
- DSC01235
- IMG 6338
- IMG 6328
- 121 2185
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- 131 3138
- 121 2182
- 142 4279
- IMG 6358
- IMG 0743
- 131 3109
- 122 2252
- 136 3685
- 142 4283
- 130 3089
- 137 3732
- 136 3657
- 131 3137
- 142 4217
- IMG 0778
- 154 5410
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- 122 2231
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- DSC01233
- IMG 0777
- 136 3699
- 122 2262
- 142 4216
- 121 2166
- 136 3684
- 142 4210
- 122 2226
- 142 4284
- 131 3140
- 154 5411
- IMG 8671
- 131 3142
- IMG 6316
- 136 3688
- IMG 0742
- 122 2256
- 130 3090
- 122 2204
- 131 3191
- 121 2171
- 122 2263
- 131 3110
- 136 3692
- 131 3107
- IMG 6288
Program AE - 121 2125
- 121 2183
- DSC01228
- DSC01232
- 136 3686
- 131 3134
- IMG 6287
Program AE - IMG 6286
Program AE - 136 3672
- 131 3139
- 131 3192
- DSC01236
- 131 3136
- 121 2165
- 140 4097
- 136 3644
- 122 2213
- IMG 6360
- 131 3143
- 120 2010
- 142 4218
- 140 4081
- 131 3148
- 131 3104
- IMG 6337
- 121 2181
- 121 2178
- 140 4094
- 121 2161
- 121 2101
- DSC01234
- 136 3658
- 136 3643
- 136 3646
- 121 2197
- 137 3701
- 121 2127
- 121 2193
- IMG 6359
- 131 3103
- 121 2187
- 137 3731
- 131 3194
- 122 2232
- 121 2124
- 120 2013
- 140 4095
- IMG 8674
- 136 3656
- 120 2011
- 142 4220
- IMG 6361
- 136 3653
- 136 3689
- 136 3682
- 136 3652
- 130 3093
- IMG 6341
- 120 2014
- 131 3129
- 122 2227
- IMG 0736
- 120 2007
- DSC01237
- 136 3654
- 121 2195
- 142 4214
- 140 4080
- 121 2167
- 121 2164
- 122 2253
- 122 2223
- 136 3679
- 131 3128
- 142 4219
- 122 2229
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- IMG 6356
- 121 2103
- 122 2224
- 137 3730
- 137 3703
- 136 3677
- 122 2264
- 122 2245
- 120 2086
- 131 3193
- 131 3132
- 131 3108
- 131 3190
- 136 3651
- 122 2219
- 142 4287
- 136 3690
- DSC01229
- 131 3135
- 136 3693
- 121 2198
- 120 2012
- 142 4222
- 122 2261
- 122 2259
- 121 2123
- 122 2218
- 154 5412
- 136 3697
- 131 3141
- 136 3641
- 120 2008
- 131 3130
- 137 3710
- 131 3146
- 121 2122
- 122 2260
- 122 2258
- IMG 8719
- 137 3723
- 122 2206
- 121 2196
- 137 3725
- 136 3671
- 121 2163
- 122 2221
- 142 4285
- 140 4066
- 122 2254
- 121 2132
- 120 2034
- 154 5413
- 122 2244
- 131 3198
- 122 2251
- 122 2247
- 122 2222
- 121 2177
- 137 3712
- 130 3086
- 136 3640
- 122 2220
- IMG 8673
- 131 3106
- 122 2242
- 121 2121
- 122 2249
- 122 2215
- 121 2168
- 122 2225
- 121 2188
- IMG 8720
- 131 3179
- 122 2255
- 122 2205
- IMG 0733
- 136 3694
- 140 4079
- 120 2084
- 131 3111
- 130 3087
- 137 3722
- 137 3713
- 122 2201
- DSC01230
- 122 2246
- 131 3131
- 131 3117
- 121 2112
- 131 3170
- IMG 6354
- 142 4215
- 140 4082
- 121 2194
- 140 4096
- 131 3116
- 121 2199
- 121 2160
- 140 4093
- 131 3145
- 122 2216
- 131 3105
- 122 2214
- 137 3740
- 122 2233
- 120 2015
- 137 3711
- 137 3706
- IMG 8717
- 137 3747
- 131 3196
- 121 2172
- 121 2150
- 136 3642
- 131 3123
- 119 1982
- 131 3149
- 137 3746
- 121 2126
- 121 2180
- 119 1988
- IMG 6330
- 137 3745
- 136 3696
- 131 3197
- IMG 6343
- 137 3726
- IMG 6348
- 119 1989
- 122 2217
- 131 3189
- 131 3174
- 131 3166
- 122 2240
- IMG 6350
- 130 3094
- 122 2241
- 121 2142
- 136 3662
- 137 3727
- 130 3097
- 136 3638
- 131 3118
- 131 3114
- 131 3126
- 140 4092
- IMG 8680
- 131 3133
- IMG 8676
- 122 2236
- 119 1985
- IMG 6325
- 131 3195
- IMG 6304
- 140 4100
- 136 3647
- 122 2250
- IMG 6346
- 142 4286
- IMG 6342
- 122 2243
- 136 3650
- IMG 6323
- IMG 6347
- 137 3729
- IMG 8675
- 131 3186
- 122 2212
- 121 2149
- 140 4068
- 137 3734