History of Rc Model

Although experiments with rotary winged aircraft mayto move it at the required speed. All problems were
be traced back to Leonardo da Vinci, successful flightseventually overcome and the fully controllable R/C
were not achieved until the 1930s, and it was not untilmodel helicopter had arrived.
1941 that the first practical, full size helicopter was built    There were, however,
by lgor Sikorsky. Model enthusiasts are notably quickno short cuts in its development: engines, drive gears,
to emulate full-size aviation achievements, but wererotor blades, control methods, etc all had to follow a
not as successful with rotary wing aircraft, and it wassimilar design to full-size helicopter and be built to the
not until 1968 that the first fully controllable R/C modelsame exacting standards or perhaps closer to the
helicopter appeared, built by Dr. Dieter Schluter ofmechanism design of the full-size helicopter.
West Germany.So how difficult is the model helicopter to control in
Bigger engines require more fuel and more weight!fight? Well, it has been described as similar to balancing
Increasing the angle of the rotor blades in the airflowa steel ball on a knife edge whale riding a bicycle! more
produces more lift, up to a point but this also increaseson that when you visit Model Aeronautics for Dodos
the drag of the blade, which now requires more powerby following the link in my resource box.