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Opinions on the A/W95 chopper?
While the AW95 is a viable hop around the local patch implement once
completed is more of a build to sublimate or educate rather than recreate. Same with the original Adams-Wilson except that all current homebuilt designs marketed as plans or kits have a direct linage to the Adams-Wilson design . Although much evolved This brings up an old question that I have wondered about, and may be supplying a partial answer. But I really am curious: It seems that all of the homebuild helicopter designs that I have ever seen, both kit and plans, have a very small main rotor diameter--around 20 feet. It seems as though a larger diameter, maybe arund 30 feet, would require much less power and would allow much more economical engines to be used--possibly with nearly the same total weight. After all, the weight of the main rotor ad the tail boom should not be a very large portion of the gross weight of the helicopter. The only reasons that presently occur to me a 1 The first one was that way, and "new" designs are incremental 2 There was/is a design goal to store the craft in a one car garage 3 That is the smallest for with sufficient power is readily available Is there something I missed, which should have been obvious? Peter (I am not trolling, I am just baffled) |
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