Revolution Mini 500 - is it buildable?

Well I guess that settles it. I will tell my cousin to find a different
project. For those of you who replied with help I thank you - for all
others I hope you find help. lol


Jim not a troll Anglin
Harmon Rocket II
RV6 built and sold
RV4 bought and sold
Looking for an RV3 project


"Jerry Springer" wrote in message
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Yes I believe he is just a troll, LOL Just kidding Jim.


Jerry




Bob wrote:
Jim, it is either the most successful Kit built helicopter ever offered
or the worst murder weapon created by mankind. This would depend on your
peers and their personal experience and your tendency to be impressed by
their opinion. So if you are in fact not just a troll and are a A&P I
think you have enough intellect to answer your own question.

Inspect the kit and use the judgement you would use to make decissions in
your field of expertise and you will be satisfied.



"Jim Anglin" wrote in message
link.net...

I have an opportunity to bring home a Mini 500 kit for no money or at the
least a couple thousand dollars. As far as I can tell it is all there
and has never been touched by the original purchaser. I have poked
around in cyberspace and learned a little about this airplane, some of
which is not good and some of which is really bad. I was wondering if
the experts here would know if this could be built by a competent
rotorwing A&P to be a safe airplane? If it is true that parts of the kit
were never delivered, is there a source of parts or plans to fabircate
them? The one place on the net I could have gotten some real info seems
to have been deleted (mini500.com)

Anybody?

jim

"Jim Anglin" wrote in message
link.net...
I have an opportunity to bring home a Mini 500 kit for no money or at the
least a couple thousand dollars.

Don't.



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dennis fetters:

Dear Jim,

I am the most qualified person to answer your question. If you believe
the bad things wrote by people here or not, makes absolutely no
deference. The Mini-500 no longer has factory support. Any kit-built
helicopter that has no factory support has no business flying, ever.
Don't take it even if it's free and try to fly it. There is nowhere to
buy parts, but more importantly, your "experts" here about the Mini-500
are totaly lacking in the matter.


That's the same polite and helpful answer that you gave to yourself when
you were sock-puppeting as "planeman"


- planeman NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.235.147.233
- Jul 21 2005 http://tinyurl.com/y3j3qw

"I see Mini-500 helicopters selling on eBay, but much less these days.
Is there someone in the marketplace that can sell me parts if I was
compelled to buy the incomplete one selling now?"


- Dennis Fetters NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.235.147.233
- Jul 22 2005 http://tinyurl.com/vasno

"As for the guy that originally asked the question about places to buy
Mini-500 parts, no, there is nowhere to purchase parts."


- planeman NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.235.147.233
- Jul 22 2005 http://tinyurl.com/y6ev5r

"THANK YOU!!!
That is all I wanted to know!
I wish everyone else could have been as polite and helpful."

dennis fetters:

Mini-500 Accident Analysis
1995-1998
....

Wow, that accident analysis is overwhelming in completeness. Just like when
you posted it to the rotorcraft group, then came back as sock-puppet
"planeman" to praise it.


- Dennis Fetters NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.235.147.233
- Jul 22 2005 http://tinyurl.com/yjjyue

Mini-500 Accident Analysis
1995-1998 ...


- planeman NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.235.147.233
- Jul 26 2005 http://tinyurl.com/wp9d5

I just read the complete Mini-500 accident report and found it to be
overwhelming in completeness. I can't recall any kit manufacturer that
has made such a complete report as these people did.

("Methyst" wrote that Dennis Fetters, as planeman, wrote)
Mini-500 Accident Analysis
1995-1998

- planeman NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.235.147.233
- Jul 26 2005 http://tinyurl.com/wp9d5

I just read the complete Mini-500 accident report and found it to be
overwhelming in completeness. I can't recall any kit manufacturer that
has made such a complete report as these people did.


....and 1998-2006?

Curious


Montblack

A quick check on the NTSB site shows eight more accidents between 1/1/1998
and present date. Three of them were fatal. Four in 1998, two in 2000, two
in 2002, and _nothing_ since then, thank goodness.

"Montblack" wrote in message
...
("Methyst" wrote that Dennis Fetters, as planeman, wrote)
Mini-500 Accident Analysis
1995-1998

- planeman NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.235.147.233
- Jul 26 2005 http://tinyurl.com/wp9d5

I just read the complete Mini-500 accident report and found it to be
overwhelming in completeness. I can't recall any kit manufacturer that
has made such a complete report as these people did.


...and 1998-2006?

Curious


Montblack




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Juan Jimenez wrote:
A quick check on the NTSB site shows eight more accidents between 1/1/1998
and present date. Three of them were fatal. Four in 1998, two in 2000, two
in 2002, and _nothing_ since then, thank goodness.

Probably because they're all either crashed or abandoned by now.

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:45:48 -0400, "Juan Jimenez" wrote:

A quick check on the NTSB site shows eight more accidents between 1/1/1998
and present date. Three of them were fatal. Four in 1998, two in 2000, two
in 2002, and _nothing_ since then, thank goodness.

A more detailed check shows 16 Mini-500 accidents between 1/1/1998 and
12/31/2000. Same period saw 28 Rotorway accidents.

Between 2002 and 2005, four Mini-500s, 29 Rotorways.

Ron Wanttaja

Ron Wanttaja wrote:

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:45:48 -0400, "Juan Jimenez" wrote:


A quick check on the NTSB site shows eight more accidents between 1/1/1998
and present date. Three of them were fatal. Four in 1998, two in 2000, two
in 2002, and _nothing_ since then, thank goodness.


A more detailed check shows 16 Mini-500 accidents between 1/1/1998 and
12/31/2000. Same period saw 28 Rotorway accidents.

Between 2002 and 2005, four Mini-500s, 29 Rotorways.

Ron Wanttaja

I'd almost credit those numbers to the difference in rotor inertia.

The Rotorway has a very light (relatively) rotor system with
correspondingly lower rotor inertia.

Big difference between 1-2 seconds to dump the collective vs 4-5.


Maintain thy rotor RPM lest the Earth rise up and smite thee...

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
m...
Juan Jimenez wrote:
A quick check on the NTSB site shows eight more accidents between
1/1/1998 and present date. Three of them were fatal. Four in 1998, two in
2000, two in 2002, and _nothing_ since then, thank goodness.

Probably because they're all either crashed or abandoned by now.

I would certainly hope that is the case.



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