On this page you will find pictures and information about some of the helis that you could see flying at the hall on any given flying night.
At present, clicking on the heli's photo will take you to the full-size picture.
In the future I plan to change this so that clicking on the picture will take you to a gallery of pictures of that particular aircraft.
Nearly two years old now, and by far the most flown of the helis listed here, Andrew's Hornet is still looking and flying as great as ever. You can read more about this machine on Andrew's "Harry's Hornet" web site.
Base Machine: MS-Composit Hornet
Mods: JohnKs Tail slider. Walt's one-way bearing mod. Rotor head limiter spring.
Entered Service: Dec 2001
Retired (due to theft): Mid 2004.
Ben purchased Sean's electric conversion of the Light Machines 110 Heli in mid-2004.
Base Machine: LMH 110
Mods: Mega Brushless
Phoenix10 ESC
Entered Service:
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One of our new arrivals for 2003 was Ben's GWS Dragonfly. Currently the machine is pretty stock. This machine is also getting a bit of a reputation for consuming other helis' tail motors at an alarming rate :).
Base Machine: GWS Dragonfly
Mods: Ikarus Eco Piccolo tail motor (at the moment :) ).
Deane's smart looking Ikarus PRO Piccolo was purchased this year as a replacement for his CP ECO Piccolo.
Base Machine: Ikarus PRO Piccolo
Mods: Astro Heli brushless motor with CC Phoenix ESC. MAH Carbon Fibre blades. Alloy swash and pitch slider.
Deane has re-entered the "Two Micro" class with the addition of another PRO Piccolo.
Deane is still working out the configurations across the two machines, but it's looking like one will end up pretty much stock, except for a brushless, and the other will have all the mods and run seperates.
Base Machine: Ikarus PRO Piccolo
Mods: TBA
Entered Service: 23/02/04
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Greg's Hybrid. I'm not sure what's in this one, but I think there's some AeroHawk mixed with a little Piccolo plus some after market stuff too!
Base Machine: AeroHawk/Piccolo
Mods: Many and Varied!
Entered Service:
Another new arrival for 2003 was Jason's fixed pitch Piccolo. The machine is stock except for some mods to the undercarriage.
Base Machine: Ikarus ECO Piccolo
Mods: Home modded undercarriage.
Our first new machine for 2004! Picture supplied 14/02/2004.
This is John M's brand spanking new MS Composit Hornet II. We managed to grab this snap before John has even flown it. If it flys anywhere near as good as it looks, John will be a happy man.
Base Machine: MS Composit Hornet II
Mods: None
And in turn, the Huey didn't stay standard for long! Soon after completing the Huey below, Jon started hacking it into this VIetnam Era Huey gunship.
Base Machine: Ikarus FUN Piccolo with Ikarus Huey Body
Mods: Just about everything! Very little left stock on this machine....
Entered Service: September 2004
Well the FUN Piccolo didn't last long. But it did donate its heart to Jon's new Ikarus Bell UH-1 Huey.
Initially the Huey has been built completely stock (as pictured), but the rumour mill is grinding out hints of major mods and a complete personality change for this mild-mannered civil version of the Huey. Stay tuned for updates.
Base Machine: Ikarus FUN Piccolo
Mods: None!
Entered Service: 23/02/04
Retired: Mar 2004
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The machine that was never meant to be! Purchased purely as a cheap spare parts supply only, Jon weakened and decided that every Heli Kit has the right to built and flown at least once. This machine was built completly bone stock (nylon bushes and all) and made it's debut in Feb 2004. Rumour has it that it will soon be rendered back into a spares supply, but until it does, it is on the flying roster.
Base Machine: Ikarus FUN Piccolo
Mods: None!
Entered Service: 16/02/04 Retired: 22/02/04
Jon finally bit the bullet and purchased another heli. Deciding to try a different brand for a change, he purchased a new Hornet II. So far Jon is very happy with his new machine, but that hasn't stopped him slipping a few mods on board! You can read a review of this machine on the MicroHelis NZ Hornet II review page.
Base Machine: MS Composit Hornet II
Mods: ChrisR swashball, Astro 10 Heli brushless and Phoenix 10 controller.
Entered Service: 15/12/03
Well the plan was to take the Bitsa mechanics, couple it with the AH-1S plans and prints that he'd recently brought from Rob, and create a nice tidy AH-1S. The reality was that 'gluey hands' got in the way of a good job, and this mess was the result :).
Base Machine: Own Design Hybrid mounted in a Modeltek "Cardboard Cobra" frame.
By the way, if you want to see how good one of these models can look, then go have a look at Modeltek's Card Cobra page.
Mods: Everything! Still basically the same spec as the OH-58 Kiowa listed below.
Entered Service:Nov 2003 Retired: Dec 2003
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The untimely demise of Jon's OH-58A left him in a bit of a bind. The solution was this typical parts-box hack. It's basically the Kiowa frame, electronics and mechanics, connected with an over-length c/f tail boom and covered with the original Piccornet Canopy. Pretty it isn't, but functional it is....
Base Machine: Own Design Hybrid
Mods: Everything! See the OH-58 entry below for major details..
Entered Service: Oct 2003
It's hard to believe that this started as a FP Piccolo 18 months ago. This machine has been hacked, modded and re-designed to the the point that the only genuine, un-modified Ikarus part on it is the tail rotor assembly.
Base Machine: Own Design Hybrid
Mods: Everything! See the OH-58A page at Jon's EHelis for full specifications and more photos
Entered Service: 25/06/2003 Retired: 22/10/2003 The Kiowa was retired due to massive structural damage incurred from a glitch induced crash.
Jon's second semi-scale machine, the CP Piccolo OH-13 is based on an OH-13 that served with the 1/9 Cav in Vietnam.
Base Machine: Ikarus ECO Piccolo with Ikarus Collective Pitch Kit
Mods: Hacker B20-31S brushless motor, CC Phoenix 10 brushless ESC and many more! See the OH-13 page on Jon's Ehelis for full details and more photos.
Entered Service: 10/07/2003
This is Keith's Kyoshso Hughes 300. As I haven't actually seen this machine yet, the details are pretty sparse. By all accounts all that have seen it have been impressed. I'll supply some more detail once I they come to hand.
Base Machine: Kyoshso Hughes 300
Mods: Training Gear
This is Mike's CP Hornet. Not completed yet as he want's to get through the learning-to-fly stage before putting a nice finish on that pristine canopy :). The crossed sticks arrangement with balls on the end attached to the undercarriage is standard training gear. It enables the novice pilot to learn to hover without risking an expensive tip-over.
Base Machine: MS-Composit CP Hornet
Mods: Training Gear
Although it was off to a most inauspicicious start, Reg's Honey Bee actually flies quite nicely now the servos are sorted!
Base Machine: E-Sky Honey Bee
Mods: A couple of decent servos! :)..
Entered Service: 11/10/2004
This is Rob's FP Ikarus Piccolo, sporting a bright yellow home-moulded canopy!
Base Machine: Ikarus ECO Piccolo
Mods: Astro 16t Brushless motor with CC Phoenix ESC. Pierre Swash Plate. Home moulded canopy. Home made modified flybar control arms. Home made alloy landing skids.
This is Rob's FP Ikarus Piccolo Bell 47-G3 in the markings of NZ3711,a Royal New Zealand Air Force machine that served with No 3 Squadron RNZAF. Model features working navigation lights and anti-collision beacon.
Base Machine: Ikarus ECO Piccolo
Mods:
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Shannon's hybrid is so heavily modified that there is very little of the original machine left!
Base Machine: Coleco
Mods: Home made brushless main and tail motors, Phoenix 10 COntrollers, Home made main and tail blades, modified head.
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Sean returned to the Christchurch Micro Heli Scene in Jan 2004 with his modified Ikarus PRO Piccolo.
Base Machine: Ikarus PRO Piccolo
Mods: Hacker B20 31t
Phoenix10 ESC
GY-240 HH gyro
3 cell Li-Poly.
GWS ics50 t/r ESC
Busted set of Carbon Blades :)
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