One for the Kids bedroom perhaps?
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From: Sydney
Wooden helos
I actually met an elderly gent who had flown a Bell 47 with wooden blades back in the 1950s. He told me you had to be careful of if the machine was left out overnight if there was a dew. Actually the problem wasn't the dew it was if one blade got the morning sun before the other. The shaded balde held more mositure producing a very bad vibration.
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From: Teetering Towers - somewhere in the Shires
I'm only slightly too young to have flown the Sycamore, which had wonderful wooden blades.
Hand-finished (so very like a Morgan) and they had washout, taper and varying cross-section, a fantastic achievement before GRP......
Hand-finished (so very like a Morgan) and they had washout, taper and varying cross-section, a fantastic achievement before GRP......





