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Vario's quality at Roban price, it's 1/4.5 scale and comes painted. It flies great and the mechanics are first rate with steel torque tube.

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Some fun flying with the 500 size CH-54A and MH-53J last week.

Bell 47 sport scale complete and tested! Vario mechanics KDE power, 12S. Powerful and smooth.

It finally got cool around here so all the chickens are in the coop waiting for inspection and updates!!

Let’s see what your coop looks like! Post a new thread with your birds!

Got a few more flights in on the 500 size MH-53, and it’s good to have it behaving nicely. Finally got the cyclic gains high enough that it doesn’t feel as squirrely in ground effect any more. I think I can finally (mostly) call this project complete.

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After a few months of tuning and troubleshooting, I finally got the 500 size MH-53M Pave Low up in the air today. Still have some issues to sort out (uncooperative retracts), but it's now flying smoothly. Thank Paul Lange for the excellent in flight photos!

We are ready for HSM25. The Kamov KA-50/52 needed some additional blade tracking adjustments, and it's performing well. I've replaced the front cabin with the 'Black Shark' version 50, and it looks combat-ready. I can easily switch to the 'Alligator' version 52. Matthias Strupf's Heliclassics product is exceptional. Do you like the Black Shark or the Alligator better?

At Heli-Divonne Symposium, May 2025, France.
Also flown at 50 years Vario event in Germany, to demonstrate fuselage quality: 100% no paint, only stickers and vinyl. See also Vario Wiki for build tips.

Some awesome slo-mo footage of my 500 size UH-1C Huey Gunship at the Golden Triangle RC Club’s Heli Fly-In yesterday with some fitting music.. Thanks Raymond Cervantes for the fantastic video!

Some moonlit flying on the 500 size UH-34 this evening

Alexandra N.Z. Scale Heli Meet...videos to come...

Had a great time flying today at B.E.S.T. (Best Electrics in South Texas) at the Tri County Barnstormers Field in New Waverly, TX. Got a few photos of the 500 size Skycrane in the air as well as the HO3S-1 (H-5). The Skycrane is flying well, and the next steps will be working on the cargo release system, and painting/detailing. Possibly some revision of the tail rotor pitch linkage as well.

Pics from a recent visit to the Technik museum in Speyer Germany . Enjoy!

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A few shots of my 500 size UH-34D in the air last week.

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Just finished a Funkey AS350 (600 size) with a Scaleflying Flasher 600 (T-REX clone) inside. Let me know if you are interested in a "how it was done" story.

My Vario MD 500 1:5 has finished. The mechanics are from PSG in Germany, the Tail from Ludwig Benda, the blades are M-blades. Motor Pyro 800, FBL Bavarian Axon. The performance is great and I have enough power. The light unit is from Unilight.

Batteries 12S5000 flightime 8 minutes

Beautiful day to fly in Colorado!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2024.

Winter maintenance is underway!

Sikorsky H-34 in 1/4 scale
Rotor diameter (4,25 m) (13.9 feet)
Electro version with two times 10 kW Hacker Q100 engines.
Battery for more than 10 minutes flights time .
One of the biggest RC-models of the world .
TOW 75 kg or 165 pounds
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Maiden complete 😊 600 size Marvelcraft. Paint scheme honoring the Blue Angels

Any scalers sail this week on Disney Fantasy?

A cool shot of my KA-32. I am ever fascinated by this beast.

Success! Got the Roban MD500 out today for maiden of the new 5 blade head. Needs a few tweaks to get rid of an occasional tail bounce and add a bit more cyclic throw in. All in all, I am happy with it.

I set phasing as much as I could mechanically then finished setup with the Brain FCU software.

I have head speed of 1850, may increase to 1900 to see if it eliminates the tail bounce.

Out in Canton Michigan USA fall phase out air show 09/23/2023 pilot David L Foster & Steve pulley photos, (Red Bandana Dude Photography) Kurt Affholter jkooler@att.net

Few self indulgent pictures of my Vario !/4 scale electric EC135 taken at the weekend now fully operational. I just love the way this thing changes colours in flight.

Representing flingwings at Jets & Props Over Arvada.

Ready for handover to the customer. Big Lama Turbine.

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Edgewood flyers Scale fun fly on Long Island NY. The event happened on 14th to 16th of July 2023. Some pictures of Butch Wellmaker, Comanche in action.
I also want to share my 450 Mi-24 Hind finally got it in the air.

Flying under one of Gods wonders today Canton Michigan 🙂🌈

Roban MD 500e 800 size out for some flights canton Michigan

Pops flying the mothership today out at Chatfield! Thing is mean.

Good weather in SE Michigan today MD500e in flight.🙂

Had a great weekend at Warbirds Over Denver! More scale helicopters flew than any other time in the event’s nearly 20-year history! The first picture is a shot of my HeliClassics Mi-171 expertly captured by Robert “Bud” Gates.

Out for some flights in Michigan EC-130 & MD 500e 😊

A few photos from flying the H-34 yesterday with Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule slung underneath. This was part of the noon demo period at the Warbird event at Bomber Field in Monaville, TX.

1/4.5 Sikorsky WS 51 (H5) built from scratch by Gilbert Escalier. The plug for the original is now in the USA and will be available in the near future

A few photos of my helis at today's Golden Triangle RC Heli Fly-In. Had a great day of flying with multiple flights on all aircraft.

Roban EC 145 some pictures of my build and flight video

Had a great day of flying yesterday. Brought out most of the heli fleet, including the 600 Bell 47, and 500 size H-5, H-34, Apache, and Huey.

Algerian Mi-24 Superhind MK3

A few shots of my 500 size Apache in the air this weekend

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This fuselage ordered from Vario Product, Installed with Trex700
3 Blades Head, control by H1 GPS. cut and painted by myself.

Vario Chinook!

Did a 2nd take on the Mercury capsule recovery today with the 500 size UH-34 Choctaw. Had perfect weather and some nice blue water. Finally got the shot for shot recreation of the original photo of Shepard's Recovery pretty close. Just after that, the magnet let go and left the capsule floating in the water. Luckily, I was able to use the rotor wash to push the capsule back to shore.

Eurocopter Tiger EC 665
Full scale 1 : 4,8
Both version France and German
Full scale body kit for turbine- or electro engines
Rotor diameter 2,75 m
Target eye is working
Cockpit with running LCD monitors
Turbine Jakadofsky PRO-X
TOW more than 33 kg
Model with German certification license for helicopter up to 150 kg
Flex drive system for tail rotor
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Wanted to share a few excellent photos of my 500 size Sikorsky UH-34D Choctaw taken by Chris Wolfe during the Bomber Field B-17 Gathering event in Monaville, TX.

Yesterday morning I finally had the chance to recreate the recovery of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule with my RC UH-34 Choctaw over the water at the Southern Scale Helicopter Challenge. The helicopter was modeled and painted in the scheme of the real Mercury Redstone 3 recovery chopper, so it was tons of fun to actually sling load a capsule underneath it.

I am very excited to have acquired what I believe is the only HeliClassics Mi-171 in the US! I had to modify my van slides to accommodate the 29” main gear. A Robart cradle holds the tail nicely. The scale detail is stunning.

Got my first two flights in on this museum quality Mi-171 built by HeliClassics!

I'm excited to get my Air Crane from Mark Smith of HeliWorkshop! This Crane shot is one that Joe Howard built for me quite a number of years ago. I love the Crane!

Heliclassics Kamov KA32 at NASA field! This time I am flying with the other civilian configuration and in minutes can be converted to the firefighting machine!

Finishing up a commission project, 500 size PKM Bell 412 finished as a Miami Dade Fire Rescue bird. Hoping to get the first flight completed this weekend.

Finished the final touches on the 500 size Miami-Dade Bell 412 and got a few flights on it. Very happy with how it turned out, and it flies quite well.

A few photos of my 500 size Sikorsky HO3S-1 (H-5) in the air at a local float fly. Need to get a floating F9F Panther fuselage to rescue some pilots..

Hello,
up to now I found no pictures on the Roban Bell 429.
So I will start with pictures of mine.
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