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Night Flight: DIY LED Tipped Heli Blades

Discussion in 'Helicopters' started by w00d, Mar 27, 2012.

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    Along with LED's for the Main Blades the article also includes some idea's for LED's around the airframe
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    The Night Flight 550 Helicopter

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    Also have a look at his Tri-Cop FPV HD Video - In HD-3D, pretty COOL viewing but you will need your own 3D-Glasses [​IMG]
    LMAO, if NOT he will even show you how to make some ghetto DIY 3D-Glasses using Magic Markers and a CD-Case

    More from RCExplorer (home) on his Projects Page
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    Those home-made night blades look like five hours of work for $40 results.
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    I was thinking the blades wasn't finished, I thought he was going to finish off w/ some Shrink Wrap

    Needs to be recovered with some "white" shrink IMO and if and when I do this project I'm going to wrap in shrink

    Yeah as with any DIY project if we also calculated time into the costs we would never do them ...

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    I'm with GPS on the blades, but you have to admire the guy for making them.  :)  I went to his site to see what else he was doing and found this P-51 video.  I think the way he did the hands is SO cool.  This is a clever guy!

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqjepaX_j_4&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]

    ...Tiger
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    LOL, there night blades, don't think it matters much what they look like in the daylight

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    That thing looks easier to fly at night than a regular one in the day.
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    Even in daylight it can be hard to see the disk but with the LED Blades it does make seeing the rotor
    much easier. Yup I thought flying was easier with the LED's. Problem is these blades don't last long and they didn't
    if we're still crashing ... Still they was a good looking blade

    The MSHeli Mini PROTOS 450 w/ the Align 325 Carbon LED Blades

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