LegoHeli presents: LHI-1 Whisk Co-Axial CONTROLLABLE Helicopter!

[legoheli]

After hours of development and fine tuning, after many kerbal lives lost, after many, many lost prototypes, I present to you all:

The Kamov-inspired helicopter, LHI-1 Whisk!

The Whisk is a single-seater coaxial helicopter, which means it has two rotors on top of each other rotating opposite ways. In other words, this is flying death deluxe for anyone who dares to challenge it.

Flight time before running out of fuel is approximately 5 minutes and 10 seconds, and the Whisk will autorotate to a soft landing...or a landing, anyhow. Because of the nature of girders in the game, the helicopter's pilot will most likely survive!

The start-up procedure is as follows:

Raise all landing gears (G key).

Throttle to maximum.

Hit action group 1 through 6 in succession, with about a 1 second break between each.

Throttle down to 20%.

Activate RCS.

Hit spacebar to release the helicopter and activate a stabilizing thuster.

Your helicopter should now be airborne! Trim the stabilizing thruster using the throttle until the heading is stable. Once this is acheived, the helicopter can indeed be pitched, rolled and yawed as you want it to, but precision landings may pose a problem!

Should an emergency arise and you wish to jettison the rotors (because why the hell not?), simply raise the landing gears again, freeing the rotors from their prisons! Parachutes not included.

Download:

http://www./download/26ie9122fevqfbi/LHI-1_Whisk.zip

[Giggleplex777]

The name 'Whisk' is kinda misleading. I was thinking of an eggbeater.

Edited July 19, 2013 by Giggleplex777

[astropapi1]

-snip-

You're proud of 'em, aren't you?

I never got a helicopter to work.

EDIT: In 0.21 you're gonna have helipads to land them on!

Edited July 19, 2013 by astropapi1

[legoheli]

The name 'Whisk' is kinda misleading. I was think of an eggbeater.

That is excactly my point x)

[Mulbin]

... Kerbal omelette... Seriously though, nice craft!

[catmando]

yeah.. i like that .. the eggbeater of death, (hopefully not for the pilot)