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RC Heli Resource Event Coverage – Dalton 2011 MD-900 NOTAR
RCHR Event coverage of the Souther Scale Challenge, Dalton GA Sept 15-18 2011. Sandy Jaffe from State College PA with his MD-900 NOTAR.
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Will the Hyperfly NOTAR Hover?
People say manufacturers stole my idea for ETRMS and this NOTAR. Listen, It was never stolen! I simply was messing with inventing and doing untried stuff back when RC was new. I never tried to sell the idea, just show them off, so I sent articles and pictures and vids to the magazines and manufacturers. I just wanted to show what I could do and they could print it, which they did. I know all the people who used the ideas, especially Aki Suzuki (owner of Kyosho) who paid me very well for 8 years for this Hyperfly Idea. Many people said it could not hover or even fly at all for that matter. Mode I Radios made it tough for USA pilots who can’t fly airplanes in Mode I either. Once Great Planes began selling them with a radio, I tried to not allow them to sell it with a Mode I radio,but it was out of my hands by then and Futaba had a ton of left over Mode 1 radios, and made the deal. I was disappointed in that. But it really sold well overseas, where they fly mode I. Because this machine was new, and unconventional, it was beyond most Mode II fliers flying capability who had no understanding of basic helicopter theory and aerodynamics. Here I show exactly what it could do. (And of course in the right hands), they were proven wrong, as I demonstrate the extremes in this video. (some people can’t drive you know, and if you dare to learn something new, with practice, you can master anything, as many of us could really fly the Hyperfly great. But most not, and it is still the same …
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