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01-13-2008, 09:37 AM
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Drakien is my hero
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Frederick, Maryland
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Heli not seen every day
One of our club members pulled this thing out of a trash bin somewhere.
Woot. Any identification out there?
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01-13-2008, 10:01 AM
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Blimp Captain
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Midlothian, Virginia
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Re: Heli not seen every day
It may be an early Kalt Baron Alpha 30. I think it was called the Excaliber in the US.
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01-13-2008, 10:15 AM
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Never content...
 Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collierville, TN
Age: 37
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Re: Heli not seen every day
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_3175289/tm.htm
These guys seem to think it's a Helibaby. It sure brings back some of my early dreams of getting into RC. Take care... Andy |
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01-13-2008, 10:40 AM
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Circle Flyin' Puts me to Sleep
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Hernando, MS
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Re: Heli not seen every day
Maybe a GMP Criket?
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01-13-2008, 10:56 AM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Louisville,KY
Age: 53
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Re: Heli not seen every day
Man, I gotta do more dumpster diving !!
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01-13-2008, 10:58 AM
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Never content...
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collierville, TN
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Re: Heli not seen every day
Oops, I see some differences now from the Helibaby. Definitely from the same manufacturer though. Cricket sounds like a winner.
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01-13-2008, 10:59 AM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Age: 39
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Re: Heli not seen every day
Yep... Thats a Gorham Model Products CRICKET ! its a 20 sized fixed pitch machine. That was the first heli I ever saw actually fly forward instead of just trying to hover. I actually was amazed when the guy flying it actually did a loop with it.
The Schluter line back than was pretty much the company of choice back then. There were alot of blossoming companies coming out with helis. They almost all looked the same with aluminum frames, and belt/cone starts. I kind of like the retro heli, It reminds me of my RC infantdom. Very cool. Some info HERE
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01-13-2008, 11:08 AM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brampton On. Canada
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Re: Heli not seen every day
Definity a cricket, if you need parts let me know and you will!!My friend Gary learned to fly with a cricket and I used a American mantis both fixed pitch, no gyro's. The cricket was the raptor 30 of it's day. Less maint. than my (mantis
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01-17-2008, 10:12 AM
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Smoke on!
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Oak Ridge, NC
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Re: Heli not seen every day
Man that could be a museum piece, I wonder how good the availablity for parts is?
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01-17-2008, 02:01 PM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Oswego, IL
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Re: Heli not seen every day
Looks like a Cricket to me. I had one but never flew it. Ended up gutting it and tossing it in the trash a few years ago.
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01-17-2008, 02:06 PM
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Drakien is my hero
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Frederick, Maryland
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Re: Heli not seen every day
I did suggest he may want to see if the AMA museum might be interested in it. He is going to clean it up and make it where the canopy will stay on it. After that, I guess it is finders keepers. It was nearly history lost though. I am glad someone got it that will preserve it a little while longer.
I hope it brougt back some fond memories for some of you.
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04-18-2008, 06:44 PM
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Flyin' Around
 Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: Heli not seen every day
Its definitely a GMP Cricket. I worked at the factory for a while and set up many of them from a hobby store I worked in back in the early 1980's.
The flew really well, for a fixed pitch machine. I have enough parts to make one. |
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04-18-2008, 09:27 PM
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Freak Nasty Aerobatics!!!!!!!!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Goldsboro, North Carolina
Age: 31
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Re: Heli not seen every day
MY buddy has a flying one,, we have only hovered it,, ORIGINAL engine, I couldn't tell you what kind but it has the mechanical gyro deal,, what ever you call it,,
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03-19-2009, 07:20 PM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: United States, OH, Crestline
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Re: Heli not seen every day
ive just recently received a gmp rebel any one familuar with this model any help with it can e-mail me at dsf_freel3308@verizon.net thanks justin
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