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- 2015-02-06 005
- IMG 1390
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- IMG 1392
- 2015-02-06 003
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- 2015-02-06 001
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- IMG 0550
- IMG 8174
- IMG 2658
- IMG 2526
- 142 4227
- IMG 0247
- 103 0377
- DSC00198
Merlin and the Squirrels again 2002-04-28 - IMG 0551
- IMG 2995
- IMG 2529
- IMG 0264
- IMG 2537
- IMG 2971
- 142 4226
- IMG 2538
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- IMG 1065 raw
- IMG 1059
- IMG 0428
- IMG 0556
- 103 0375
Jappert - IMG 2536
- IMG 2527
- IMG 2656
- IMG 2659
- IMG 2530
- IMG 2978
- IMG 2660
- IMG 2528
- 103 0378
- IMG 2653
- 002
- IMG 2534
- IMG 2767
- IMG 2655
- IMG 0248
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- DSC00199
Merlin and the Squirrels again #2 2002-04-28 - IMG 2541
- IMG 2525
- IMG 0548
- IMG 0426
- 005
- 006
- IMG 2535
- IMG 2750
- IMG 2545
- IMG 2650
- IMG 2540
- IMG 2532
- IMG 2663
- IMG 0433
- IMG 2770
- IMG 2549
- IMG 0430
- IMG 2755
- IMG 2667
- 003
- IMG 2664
- IMG 0549
- 142 4228
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- 004
- IMG 2654
- IMG 2765
- IMG 2533
- IMG 0429
- 142 4256
- 001
- IMG 2542
- 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 2668
- 106 0644
- IMG 2772
- IMG 2756
- IMG 0434
- IMG 2751
- IMG 2662
- IMG 2544
- 900 0014
Merlin [3/6] - IMG 2773
- 900 0015
Merlin [4/6] - IMG 0432
- IMG 0431
- IMG 2543
- 106 0645
- 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 2771
- IMG 2652
- IMG 2651
- IMG 2669
- IMG 2764
- IMG 2665
- IMG 0427
- IMG 0425
- 106 0641
- 900 0013
Merlin [2/6] - 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. - IMG 2761
- IMG 0547
- 142 4255
- 103 0379
- IMG 1063
- IMG 2666
- IMG 2649
- 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 0545
- IMG 2776
- 132 3280
Engine in the frame, closeup - IMG 0607
- 106 0643
- IMG 3014
- 142 4253
- 142 4252
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Tara - IMG 0546
- 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. - 142 4254
- 142 4234
- IMG 0544
- 899 9944
Tara! - IMG 0435
- IMG 2753
- IMG 2754
- DSC00095
- 132 3279
Engine in the frame - IMG 2778
- 900 0012
Merlin [1/6] - 900 0009
Merlin! - 106 0646
- 132 3281
Engine in the frame, other side - dsc00046
- 142 4251
- 132 3290
Tail rotor assembly This was a fiddly piece to put together. - 132 3288
Flybar again - 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. - 900 0016
Merlin [5/6] - dsc00027
- dsc00030
- IMG 0608
- IMG 2777
- 142 4247
- 132 3282
The engine The slot-shaped hole you can see is where the exhaust (muffler) pipe will attach, when it arrives. - dsc00044
- 106 0640
- dsc00029
- dsc00041
- dsc00031
- 106 0688
- dsc00028
- 142 4235
- 154 5422
- IMG 0609
- 142 4246
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- 900 0019
Tara ...yes, I know you have a new toy... - 142 4250
- 142 4232
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- IMG 0606
- 154 5425
- 142 4245
- 132 3286
Look at the mess! - 154 5436
- 142 4233
- 142 4258
- 132 3283
Assembling the rotor head These bits will eventually sit atop the swash plate. - dsc00045
- 142 4237
- dsc00043
- 900 0017
Merlin [6/6] - 142 4238
- dsc00036
- 106 0664
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Tara Okay, I'm bored now... - DSC01248
- 106 0687
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Tinsel Even more Tinsel... - dsc00035
- dsc00034
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- 900 0022
Tara ...I'm outta here. - 154 5431
- 106 0654
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- 142 4230
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- 900 0020
Tara ...enough already. - 106 0669
- dsc00033
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Random shot - DSC01211
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Size comparison The universal measuring device: A Coke can. - 142 4271
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- IMG 6339
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Size comparison - 131 3144
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- IMG 6289
Program AE - IMG 8671
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Program AE - 136 3643
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- IMG 8673
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- IMG 8719
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- IMG 0738
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- IMG 8676
- 122 2222
- 137 3708
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- 140 4097
- IMG 6361
- 137 3747
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- 142 4211
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- IMG 8720
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- IMG 6328
- 137 3740
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- 120 2013
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- 154 5413
- 120 2014
- 136 3693
- 131 3130
- 122 2207
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- 136 3650
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- IMG 6288
Program AE - 136 3657
- 121 2164
- 131 3108
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- 122 2225
- IMG 8680
- 137 3713
- 142 4205
- 137 3743
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- 121 2194
- 142 4279
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- 142 4280
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- 140 4094
- 136 3671
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- 130 3075
- 137 3712
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- IMG 6359
- IMG 6356
- 120 2007
- 142 4213
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- 137 3729
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- 142 4209
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- 142 4206
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- IMG 6327
- 122 2264
- 137 3707
- 122 2215
- 120 2100
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- IMG 6341
- 131 3197
- 121 2168
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- 131 3195
- IMG 8681
- 142 4207
- 137 3710
- IMG 8678
- 122 2201
- 136 3662
- 130 3090
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- 122 2211
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- 136 3648
- 142 4214
- 130 3094
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- 121 2167
- IMG 8706
- IMG 8682
- 131 3123
- 142 4216
- 122 2240
- 137 3741
- 122 2217
- 142 4210
- 121 2124
- IMG 6343
- 130 3086
- 120 2086
- 141 4132
- 136 3696
- 131 3149
- 137 3704
- 122 2246
- 122 2259
- DSC00126
- 131 3116
- IMG 6286
Program AE - 131 3114
- 140 4095
- 122 2208
- 122 2251
- 137 3705
- 130 3087
- 120 2092
- 137 3717
- 136 3659
- 131 3127
- 121 2126
- IMG 6354
- 142 4217
- 137 3718
- IMG 8683
- 137 3709
- 122 2212
- 137 3720
- 120 2093
- 142 4218
- 137 3739
- 121 2102
- 137 3734
- IMG 6330
- 120 2015
- 137 3742
- 137 3736
- 137 3715
- 136 3670
- 131 3199
- 131 3189
- 136 3649
- 120 2034
- 142 4212
- 131 3186
- IMG 8721
- IMG 8708
- 137 3716
- 121 2139
- 137 3728
- 131 3188
- IMG 8718
- IMG 8717
- IMG 8684
- 136 3639
- 122 2250
- 121 2127
- 136 3638
- 131 3119
- IMG 6290
Aperture f/1.4 - 122 2241
- IMG 8722