New Vblades on Ion

[DrScoles]

I tried Vic's newest blade design on the Ion today, big difference over the gammas I was using. With gammas, it feels kinda mushy, particularly around center in hover, and transitioning through post to neg or vice versa... Everything felt alot sharper with these blades. I have only tried the gammas, nothing else, but the V's were a noticeable improvement.

Rob and Russ, I'll let you try them out next week at brooks....

Mike

[Helirob]

Mike,

Sounds like good news to us. We are looking forward to seeing you at Brooks and checking out Vic's new blades. Is the cord thinner than the old blades? Do they taper from the root to the center like the MAH generation 2 blades?

Rob

[DrScoles]

Rob,

Chord is thinner, no taper...airfoil is thinner overall.... I should have extra sets of 690 and 710 for you guys to try ....

Later, Mike