Cox Skycopter Free Flight Helicopter

The Cox Skycopter  was my fav Cox flying model. It worked and it worked too well. I lost many of them. I had probably around 10 of them and I now have one relatively new in the box. A very powerful flying heli which usually flew far too high and in these parts your not getting it back. It suffered a few issues such as the blades warping and the rotating portion would tend to give way on hard landings due to it's weight above the pivot. It's been in my garage for years and I've been meaning to dig it out. Ken

@batjac wrote:Mauricio,  there are a few 1/2A free flight helicopters over on Outerzone that you can build:

This one is what actually first brought me to the CEF years ago: https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=3476


And others:
https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=5723
https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=6713
https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=6625
https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=3476

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Hello, thanks for sharing this information, it is very useful when checking what can be done. I'll take those plans into account the moment I decide to do something ... thank you, friend!

@Ken Cook wrote:The Cox Skycopter  was my fav Cox flying model. It worked and it worked too well. I lost many of them. I had probably around 10 of them and I now have one relatively new in the box. A very powerful flying heli which usually flew far too high and in these parts your not getting it back. It suffered a few issues such as the blades warping and the rotating portion would tend to give way on hard landings due to it's weight above the pivot. It's been in my garage for years and I've been meaning to dig it out. Ken

10 of them? .. wow! ...
Have any chance to take the trouble to photograph yours and tell me please the measures:
Total Length of Fuselage
Location of the rotor from the tail (measured)
Length and width of the blades.
Diameter of the blades.
Total weight of the model.
Maybe for a future project that information would suit me ... it is not necessary now, only when it is convenient to do so.
Thank you!

Hi Mauricio, I never had a Cox helicopter.. but I can provide some photos to help see the models' design and angle of the rotor-blades.

Cox Sky Copter;






Cox also made .049 powered examples..

Cox Sky Jumper;





Cox Sky Ranger;






Cox Attack Cobra video; (FUNNY KID!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_WNlBNYG7U

Obviously the blades must flip flop from a positive attitude to a negative attitude once the engine cuts out so it can autorotate. Just can't quite get my head around how that happens.

Rod, I tried to photograph the business end of a blade that
would make sense, but no good. Anyway, the blade rocks
back and forth on the mount wire. There is also a weight
on the blade end to help maintain the proper pitch in climb.
I'll try to photograph again tomorrow, in daylight.
Bob

@dckrsn wrote:Rod, I tried to photograph the business end of a blade that
would make sense, but no good. Anyway, the blade rocks
back and forth on the mount wire. There is also a weight
on the blade end to help maintain the proper pitch in climb.
I'll try to photograph again tomorrow, in daylight.
Bob

Thanks Bob. I'd sort of figured out that the blade must rock once the engine cuts out to give it the opposite attitude to when climbing. Otherwise it would need to change direction of rotation to auto-rotate for the decent. Without one in front of me, I just can't figure out how the counter-weight makes it swing from one angle to the other.

Mauricio, here is a design that was just posted on Outerzone:



https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=9590


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@batjac wrote:Mauricio, here is a design that was just posted on Outerzone
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Thank you very much for providing this new information, I am still grouping information.
Thanks again!

@MauricioB wrote:

Friends, is my perception wrong or do the big shovels spin with a negative step ??????

If you look close at the beginning he is using a starter spring and when rotors start turning they are going in the same direction / as the body does too when turned loose .

And another one just went up...

https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=9709



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