HINTS AND TIPS

The Buttons below will take you through the different hints and tips that I feel will make your helicopter safer and more reliable.

   
         
These pictures are of my installation of the bushings in the bolt mounting holes for the vertical Stabilizer.
 
These are the bushings that I ordered from Aircraft Spruce to insert through the spar for the bolt through holes.
 
The bushing next to properly reamed hole so that bushing has a snug fit. I first undersized drilled the hole and then used a reamer to increase it slightly for the bushing.
 
Here is the bushing installed in the hole through the internal spar.
 
The Last step, I epoxied some stainless washers to the outside of the skin and to the bushing to add some additional surface area for the fasteners.
 
Thank you Clark for another great description of a much needed Mod to our Rotorway Helicopters.