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3C2A7365- IMG 0425
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- IMG 1398
- 2015-02-06 005
- IMG 1394
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- IMG 1395
- IMG 1397
- 3C2A3239
- 2015-02-06 003
- IMG 0234
- IMG 1390
- IMG 0228
- IMG 1391
- IMG 0235
- 2015-02-06 006
- IMG 1389
- IMG 0233
- IMG 0238
- IMG 1399
- DSC00123
- IMG 1387
- 2015-02-06 001
- DSC00128
- IMG 0231
- IMG 0227
- IMG 1393
- 3C2A3279
- IMG 0258
- DSC00198
Merlin and the Squirrels again 2002-04-28 - DSC00124
- 3C2A3309
- 3C2A3318
- IMG 0230
- IMG 0236
- 3C2A3266
- IMG 1392
- IMG 0237
- 3C2A3294
- 3C2A3282
- DSC00129
- 3C2A3306
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- IMG 0239
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- DSC00115
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- DSC00127
- 3C2A3261
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- IMG 0247
- IMG 0238
- 3C2A3290
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- DSC00199
Merlin and the Squirrels again #2 2002-04-28 - IMG 0231
- IMG 0257
- 3C2A3292
- 3C2A3332
- IMG 0240
- IMG 1058
- IMG 0250
- 3C2A3284
- IMG 0235
- 3C2A3341
- IMG 8174
- 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. - 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. - 142 4227
- 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. - 142 4226
- 3C2A3288
- IMG 0256
- IMG 0550
- IMG 8172
- 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. - 103 0377
- IMG 0236
- 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 0234
- IMG 0264
- IMG 0232
- 142 4256
- IMG 8173
IMG 1062 raw- IMG 0244
- 132 3280
Engine in the frame, closeup - IMG 2529
- 006
- IMG 2971
- IMG 0554
- IMG 2658
- IMG 0243
- 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. - 004
- IMG 0548
- IMG 0556
- IMG 0246
- 103 0378
- IMG 2995
- 002
- IMG 2974
- IMG 0551
- IMG 2526
- IMG 2973
- IMG 2755
- IMG 2767
- IMG 0549
- 003
- IMG 2537
- IMG 2770
- IMG 0553
- 005
- IMG 0248
- 132 3282
The engine The slot-shaped hole you can see is where the exhaust (muffler) pipe will attach, when it arrives. - 132 3279
Engine in the frame - 142 4228
- 103 0375
Jappert - 001
- 142 4253
- IMG 0247
- IMG 0552
- IMG 0426
- 132 3290
Tail rotor assembly This was a fiddly piece to put together. - IMG 0233
- IMG 0428
- 132 3281
Engine in the frame, other side - 142 4254
- IMG 1059
- 142 4252
- IMG 2972
- IMG 2535
- IMG 2660
- IMG 0607
- 132 3288
Flybar again - IMG 2765
- IMG 2656
- 106 0644
- 142 4255
- IMG 2773
- IMG 2659
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- 132 3283
Assembling the rotor head These bits will eventually sit atop the swash plate. - IMG 2532
- IMG 2978
- 142 4234
- IMG 0546
- IMG 2750
- 132 3286
Look at the mess! - IMG 2652
- IMG 2527
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IMG 1065 raw- IMG 0547
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- 103 0379
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Tara - 900 0013
Merlin [2/6] - IMG 2543
- 106 0643
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- 900 0015
Merlin [4/6] - 142 4230
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- 900 0014
Merlin [3/6] - IMG 3014
- IMG 2665
- 142 4247
- 106 0688
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- 142 4232
- 900 0009
Merlin! - 142 4251
- 142 4238
- IMG 2649
- 899 9944
Tara! - IMG 2753
- 106 0646
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dsc00027- 900 0012
Merlin [1/6] - IMG 2777
- 142 4233
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Merlin [5/6] - IMG 2666
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dsc00028- IMG 0762
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Tinsel Even more Tinsel...- 142 4231
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dsc00029- IMG 2192
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- 900 0019
Tara ...yes, I know you have a new toy... - IMG 0610
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Merlin [6/6] - IMG 2190
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Tara Okay, I'm bored now... - 106 0681
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Tara ...I'm outta here. - 142 4240
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- IMG 0624
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dsc00045- IMG 0765
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Size comparison The universal measuring device: A Coke can. - 900 0020
Tara ...enough already.
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Size comparison - DSC00129
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Random shot - 106 0634
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Program AE - 136 3700
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Program AE - 136 3637
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Program AE - 131 3107
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- 137 3730
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- 119 1982
- 137 3703
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- 131 3194
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- 154 5412
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- IMG 8719
- IMG 8673
- 154 5413
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- IMG 6350
- 131 3131
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- IMG 6343
- 140 4079
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- 137 3740
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- 119 1985
- IMG 6304
- 120 2015
- IMG 6318
- 122 2212
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- 131 3179
- 121 2200
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- 137 3726
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- IMG 8717
- 140 4066
- 119 1986
- 136 3640
- 119 1989
- 131 3117
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- IMG 6342
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- 137 3746
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- 140 4076
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- IMG 6346
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- 121 2128
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Aperture f/1.4 - 131 3197
- IMG 6294
Aperture f/1.4 - 131 3133
- 121 2190
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- IMG 6347
- 131 3166
- 137 3727
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