lower bearing mount; sizing to mast

4th servo actuation with the changes. Small adjustments here and there. Lower mast bearing mount changed from doubling as the upper motor mount to now being the lower motor mount/lower mast bearing. Couplings are too long for a drive train to spur. Going back to pinion direct to reduction gear, but motor will be about 4 mm lower tha original configuration.
Dave

Upper Mast bearing and reduction drive

Upper mast bearing mounted; a few small changes need to be made; not using a power train from the motor to the reduction gear because the couplings are too long.

Dave

Dave

Rotor Hub

Given the fact that my airframe is a mechanical morphing airframe, I've had some concerns about using a teetering hub due to mast bumoping. I may use an articulated hub with  flapping and lead/lag hinges. More to follow. Godspeed.

Dave

Say it ain't So

Once again, thanx to my peers at Stingray's, I've heard through the back channels a tid bit of info that has not been verified. I've inquired with a member at the Vertical Lift Consortium (VLC), but no statements as of yet. What's floating around is that Sikorsky's X-2 was canned this month, but I've yet to see any official announcements for it, so I will not compound the rumor. I had thought that the purpose of the VLC was for the respective helicopter industries to band together because the DOD was tired of wasted money and prototypes that never get fielded, like the Commanche. Let us hope that this does not continue. All of us in the milirary deserve better than what the industry has been putting out lately.

Dave

Self-less Service

Most in any industry seem focused only on their "end numbers" with regard to profits. That is the goal of business in general, but now they're out for "self" rather than our nation and economy. There is a vast difference between  who we are in the military and those in the coporate world and how they conduct business.
Imagine if every business only implemented just a little "self-less" service. I'm certain even just a small amount would have prevented all of the "out-sourcing", employee layoffs, and down sizing. Nice going all you folks in the upper echelons of coporate business.............keep cheating us. Now it's starting to back fire on you a bit. You needed the government to bail you out because you thought that out sourcing your manufacturing would turn more profit. Now you have to pay to have your products sent back to the states and since the parts were made overseas, the crafstmanship went belly up. Like Maytag............not many want to purchase their products. Their parts repair service is substabdard and at times the parts are so poorly made, they do not even fucntion with the model it was originally designed for. Way to go. Levi Strauss is right up there with the rest of them.

Lower mast bearing mount upper motor mount

Got the new motor mounted on the lower mast bearing frame/mount. Still working on the shot drive train from the motor to the reduction drive spur gear.

Dave