Re: Hot Gossip On R66 Production
Great pic flingwing,
I would imagine that the mast fairing on the R66 would have to be at least 15ft tall with no less than 250 dash 6 pan head screws to hold it in place, 16 drive belts, another 2 or 4 bearings in the tail rotor gearbox output shaft and a cooling fan the size of a tractor tyre. And as a standard it will come with a torque wrench that weighs 50kg's and two steroid pumping mexicans to obtain the required 750ft/lb tq for the fan nut. Not to mention some great new rodends and bushes to be replaced at regular intervals at substantial cost and a tail rotor guard that I'm sure will eventually look like one of those wriggly straws you got when you were a kid.
Should be a great machine!
The R22 is an abselutely sensational machine and that's where he should have stopped.