Vintage RC Helicopters - Schlüter Long Ranger III

Schlüter Long Ranger III    Dieter Schlüter

Box art photo    1984 Catalogue     1992 Catalogue

Scale model designed to take Champion mechanics.

 Decal sheet.

Kevin B (RunRyder 2011)

I put an SK360 into a 25 year old Schlüter Champion Long Ranger. Fly's great! I was even able to convert the stock rotor head to FBL by literally just removing the flybar and rotating the flybar carrier block 180 degrees.

- SK360 FBL electronics
- using a JR 450 rate gyro for the tail rotor since it is only a wire drive tail and likely wouldn't take the loads a heading hold system would produce.

( Could have also used a Vbar with the tail tuned to the rate gyro preset.......but I had the SK360 and all my other heli's were 3D and could better use the Vbar )

Very good looking scale model and shows what can be done with modern radio equipment so that those of us not possessed with abilities and reactions of the gods can manage.  Note the comment about the wire drive....  This drive system has quite a bit of 'wind up' and because they were slightly 'under' engineered, when fitted with a heading hold (HH) gyro can fail.  A rate gyro is 'softer' and and its operation does not require the constant load fluctuations of the HH gyro and thus the drive is not damaged.

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