GForce Upgrade – Aurora Metal Tail Grips
The other weekend I had one of the plastic tail grips fail on my Avant Aurora, which is essentially the first flight failure I’ve had with the Aurora. The arm on the tail blade grip which holds the ball fatigued, cracked and the ball pulled out. Fortunately I was able to get the heli down with minimal damage.
(broken plastic tail grip)
Needless to say I’m now looking for a metal tail grip solution to replace the stock Avant plastic ones (which perform fine… they are just not durable enough IMHO). After digging around it turns out GForce maybe able to offer a solution if there is enough demand for an initial run of replacement grips. Hence a show of hand is required to get and indication of how many people would be seriously interested in a set. (yes I know Avant have some in the pipe line, but there is no indication of when that will be)
If you are interested in a set of quality metal tail grips specifically designed for the Avant Aurora please contact Garf at GForce to express your interest, his email can be found in the following thread on RunRyder: http://rc.runryder.com/helicopter/t579394p1/
I have emailed Garf about this today. Rather than a failure I have quite a lot of slop in the grip halves now so would like to get a set of metal grips. The only thing that bothers me though is that I heard a rumour, I forget where from, that the prototypes were snapping boom supports due to the ferocity of the tail with metal grips??
I heard that too…with modern gyros you should be able to put a bit of deceleration on to soften the stops, which should eliminate that problem. And even during the early stages of flight testing just put a brace between the boom supports which is good practice anyway.
@alchemist
The closest I have gotten to a brace that fits is the K&S offering. Do you know any others that fit? The frames are so thin its hard to find one that will fit.