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- MS HORNET 2, micro heli! -

What a Cool Little Heli! "Rock Solid" Flight Performance and Great Looks!

Disclaimer: Your more then welcome to use the DXF and change as needed. I have tried my best to make sure he file is as accurate as possible. Please remember, if you use it, the product is NOT to be sold for profit in anyway! I have placed my work here for sharing only.

Looking for my HORNET 1 setup and mods? CLICK HERE

*QUICK OVERVIEW OF MY HORNET 2*
Motor	Hacker B22-20S Brushless
Radio	JR 8103 FM w/ GWS 6 Channel Receiver (case removed)
Servos	Hitec HS-55s on cyclic and HS-50 on tail
Gyro	Futaba GY240 (case intact)
Battery	E-tech 1200 mAh 11.1V 3S pack
Blades	Symmetrical Fiberglass (hornet1), Carbon Fiber (hornet2) or homemade
ESC	Castle Creation Phoenix 10
Charger	Alpha Smart Li-Poly
Antenna	Micro Heli
Power	12V 13 Amp Supply

LIKES

-Love the new canopy and stickers, very nice.	- Smooth running heli with TLC
-Glad they got rid of the landing gear and went to a one piece design	- Newer paddles screw on to flybar
-Lower carbon frame is very nice	- Carbon boom supports, not sure how much they help
-Longer tail boom	-Glad to see they added screws for boom mount and tail case mount
-Beautiful carbon main blades....but....

DISLIKES

-Expensive to fly, constant TLC to keep it working.	-For a tiny heli, many of the parts are ridiculously overpriced
-Landing gear is very flexible, easy to bottom out and hit motor	-Tail, tail and more tail, but much better on the H2 version
-Carbon Main Blades, while very nice, are way over priced at $50+	-Carbon blades are pitchy and twitchy :)

Here are the first pictures of my new Hornet 2! 3-20-04	I went for the simplest approach on the tail servo. I used the 2mm carbon drive shaft from hornet 1 as the pushrod with drilled out clevises. I measured for 30mm between tail blades and stuck the servo down using Trinty RC Car double-side tape.	A picture of the underside. I have further separated the gyro and ESC to reduce any noise between the two. The heli is very glitch free! 3-22-04
A picture of the 2mm carbon tail pushrod and general tail setup.	CARBON SERVO MOUNT CUT YOUR OWN Cut your own; CLICK HERE for .dxf file Note, file is for the one in front without holes.	FIRST FLIGHT March 23, 04 Incredible, rock solid! WOW The Hornet can work! It really can!
Unbelievable in size and huge in performance! Here you can see the size of the Hornet 2 compared to my JR 8103. For the canopy, I painted it yellow and put on the stock stickers.	Here is how I mounted the canopy. I first glued a small piece of rubber band around the landing gear legs to act as a cushion and noise reducer. 3-28-04	I than added 2 small pieces of Velcro, one to the servo and the other to the canopy. Very strong and very quite. 3-28-04
FIRST CRASH I finally dinged it! I slammed it into a wall going rather fast on its side. Damage, surprisingly very little! The main blades cracked and the landing gear skids broke lose. That's it! Flybar wasn't even touched, go figure. 3-30-04	Here is the Hornet after the little accident, good as new. I find the carbon blades more difficult to fly. Happy April fools! 4-1-04	GEAR PULLER I finally made a dedicated gear puller for the Hacker. Want to see more? CLICK HERE
SMASHED AGAIN!! Doh! Tuper-ware wins over graphite main blades! Man, if this continues I am really going to be broke! 4-6-04	HORNET 2 SOLD I really had a blast with the little guy but it has gone to a better home :) It was pretty rock solid but just to expensive and need to much TLC to keep flying. I am glad to move on. No more "glued" helis for me. 6-10-04	WHAT'S NEXT YOU ASK?? I bought a Protech Shogun 400! Check it out here!

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