Mosquito Fly in and Factory Tour Trenton Florida

this burning started so I can apply in my names for each other and come comfort I get to be the air boss for the event today but in a class and we're going to start with some introductions white Duncan will stand up right here [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so this is an example of the NZ 202 engine it's our smallest engine and you see it here featured on a mosquito air 2 cylinder two-stroke engine oil needs to be mixed in the fuel this is the carbureted engine that is also air-cooled and it provides in the condition seen here roughly 55 horsepower at 6 feet or 6,000 rpm we use this on the mosquito air the same engine same configuration is used on the mosquito xee and mosquito XEL with an upgraded exhaust it can make roughly 10% more horsepower but we find that it's an exceptionally strong power plant for the weight and size that it is one of the reasons we use it on the ultralight is we there is no engine available that we are aware of that can provide that kind of power with a torque curve the way that we need it behind the engine for our ultralight on when you see an accessory that is it's not conventional on our machines here this is a secondary PTO we are pulling an extra alternator off of the off of the drive shaft it's not a conventional use the the 202 can be used with the standard exhaust it can also be included with an upgrade exhaust which gives about 10 percent more horsepower at 6,000 rpm and the engine consumes approximately five and a half gallons per hour and on our XE l + XE models that's depending on flight conditions that is roughly two hours this is an example of an XE 285 engine is in for service so this engine has some some miles on it what you see is an 800 CC fuel injected oil injected electronic ignition water-cooled engine that conventionally can be good for over a hundred 40 horsepower and we modified the engine here and it only makes about 85 horsepower at the PTO at 6000 rpm we've had exceptional success with using the engine in its detuned manner it has exceptional torque and very good fuel consumption it consumes about six and a half gallon of fuel per hour depending on flight conditions which means that you've got over 90 minutes in the conventional 12 gallon tank and well over two hours with an axillary tank on the machine it uses CDI ignition with redundancy and there's proven to be a great workhorse for us we've since this machine was outfitted we've probably done another 40 machines like yet what you see here is our flagship machine that features a solar t-62 to a one turbine engine the engine is a radial info' spins at roughly 60,000 rpm is deer reduced in a set of planetaries to of ten to one so it comes out of the clutch assembly right here at 6,000 rpm and from there we reduce it in our own transmissions to work it makes about 95 shaft horsepower it is the strongest engine that we have on our XE models the XE T using this engine consumes more fuel than the piston engines can conventional flying is roughly 10 and a half or 11 gallons per hour consumption which is about an hour without the extended fuel tank in the machine our conventional tank is 12 gallons this machine happens to be outfitted with auxiliary tank of an additional eight gallon shop at composite effects we produce many of the components that get assembled on to the helicopters as well as modify the engines once they're in the house what you see on the bench here are one two three four five different copies of the solar t-62 2 2 a1 engines that are getting ready for builds and the many components that we fabricate in order to assemble onto the engine and one of the which I'm holding here this is a mains I mean base plate it is what is sitting right here on the assembly 90 degree gearbox comes up through it and this plate holds on the alternator it holds on the fuel pump the clutch assembly it effectively integrates all the conventional helicopter components to the to the engine mount got many different examples of pieces that we make here whether it be well ovens for radiator assemblies engine brackets or any number of different components can be made on our Haas CNC lathe so composite effects makes our airframe out of vinyl ester matrix and eagle ass and when most people think of fiberglass they think of mat like this outs and a half mat that I'm holding this is really a great minority of what we're building the machine out of we use a glass engineered glass and here I have several examples of what that glass looks like they are small glass strands that are woven like textiles and woven and different configurations that yield different strengths so this pattern perhaps you can see this happens to be pattern this is used in our upper air box mount for rigidity as opposed to a material like this which is woven very finely and this makes other components and finally something that comprises the outer skin of our fuselage a different type of weave so between the three of these we get great rigidity good stiffness or great torsional strength and so we use different materials or different weaves of a glass in different parts of the machine so that we have different characteristics whether it be light and stiff or a little heavier and stronger these food tools fall together eventually once they're filled with three laminates that comprise the outers in of the bird we have two sets of tools another one behind us that we'll be looking at here shortly so between these two components as they're laid up and come together there's 37 different portions of the helicopter that formed the main fuselage so these two being the first two components and you'll see the next bunch coming up so what you see here is the second set of tools that I was talking about it has the two components laminated together and bonded as well as 35 other components that create the appeal box or the crushed zones or stiffening foot backbone and when we pop these two outer shells off you'll see them that it would be the beginnings of our fuselage this will then go to our air frame shop where it gets fitted with an upper gear box mount and a gas tank those two components are made upstairs they're laid out by hand and they don't necessarily come out of the fuselage mold what you see here is the beginnings of a fuel tank so I have my hand inside our 12 gallon fuel tank right now this will get popped out of the tool and in the air frame shop be affixed to the fuselage this is a 12 gallon container it will be fitted with an epoxy layer that will guard it from ethanol fuels and and other solvents that the fiberglass doesn't like and you'll see that the the main backbone of the fuselage fits through this part as well as there's other locations where we put our fittings in for fuel fills or for fuel drink what you see here is the first gel coat is down in our tail bone fixture this will now take make a half laminate for our tail bone and between the two the two halves once they're popped we put bearing mounts for bearing mounts through it as well as put the try the the split gearbox mount and the tail boom mount in the back so what you see here are some examples of some tools that we have these are some frame for framing both clamps that are here this is a dashboard tool covered for our main rotor sensor as well as some tail bone tail bone accessories and small tools like this is how we make the small pieces that eventually help afix other components to the fuselage is a Finnish painted deucey Lodge it's masked off but you can't see the final paint on that however what we just said is painted the inside of the airframe and after this yours will be ready to put this into final assembly put it up on the skins and start assembling so at composite effects we also have welding and fabrication what you see here is an example of weldment that we use for our turbine exhaust several other components are also weldments whether they be engine mounts or the sockets that hold our landing gear together or any number of small components whether they be aluminum steel stainless 4130 or specialty metals that we use so what you see here is an example of the airframe that comes out of the fuselage that comes out of the tool that we spoke of earlier it is now sitting on our airframe fixture where we will outfit it with the mask assembly the mask tube our reduction or upper reduction mount and our fuel tank this model itself is going to be a UAV and so you see there's no seat assembly in it the floor on this machine is different than what you might conventionally find now we also build to specification sheets once we have a sail we produce a build sheet and go through all the specifics at this stage of production certain parts of the fuselage of the airframe need to be customized for different accessories so the fuselage that comes out of the tool is now on this fixture we're putting the upper gearbox mount the fuel tank on inside this fuel tank you'll see two different features one a new feature that we're putting a panel and inspection panel on our fuel tank now and on the inside of the pan of the fuel tank you can see our epoxy coating which is meant to any effects that ethanol fuel might have in the machine so we've built about 10 machines so far with these o-rings portals inspection portals in the fuel tanks where the happy that we finally have those integrated from here the tail boom will be tooled on we're going to make a special shim that goes on the back of this so that if you ever have a tail boom issue we can send you one straight out of the factory and it'll bolt on so what you see here at composite effects we also build our only shields and our doors and in doing so we heat up and form the acrylic the Tampines that on our windshields and we have to use pressure on the doors and in here you can see we've got piece of glass in the fixture for what it will ends up being a right hand door and the doors get Benton is oven that we make otherwise that that fixture right there builds the or heats up the windshields and then finally when we put a bunch of vacuum to it when it's hot it back conforms the windshields into their shape so what you see here are some doors that are in process on two different tools some tail bones that are ready to be shipped five fuselages that are about going to container and shipped internationally if you end up buying your kit and we ship it to you one of the Great's that you're going to gather something like this this has the engine the finished kit in it the fuselage it will come with a second crate with your tail bone and other accessories in it but just it might be a familiar familiar sight pulling up to your garage so you can assemble the kit at home he passed away and I always wanted to have my own helicopter so what I did is start building it I noticed nobody names their ships anymore and so I decided I'd name it I named it after my mom because all the like World War One World War two guys they put their girlfriend's name or something on them so I named it after hope it makes we'll see that's the problem I was living in in Denver when I decided to build it well outside of Denver and so I would come here build it for a while and go back home so I made five trips to Denver my last trip I stayed here a month to finish it off and then had his trucked to Denver when it was done in September it took me ten months five trips [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] put a GPS into it there's an auto-tune system helps me to on a full map most guys don't the radios end or transponders in all the time I just wanted it to where I could pretty much go anywhere so that's why I have the strokes and what-have-you so if I need to fly into an airport I have everything I need [Music] well on and off I've had this love with flying and it starts with the balsa models and then our C models and then I got my pilot's license in 77 and the company I work for about a helicopter's gazelle and I was blown away by it and ended up getting a little bit of stick time in the gazelle then another friend of mine flew in Alouette and I got a little big-time an apple that ran into a guy that had a huge 500c and he gave me a little bit of Stig time there and I said well I got to buy some stick time because I couldn't log any of it and so I got did some instruction in Bell 47 like on mash and then I kind of let it go because I was living in Hawaii at the time and I was hang gliding so I did that but finally I herniated the disc in my back putting down a hardwood floor and once I quit doing that I still need to fly so I said I'm gonna buy a helicopter one day so when we moved back to the mainland okay it's time to buy a helicopter I bought it that's enough times a little more instruction since I've got it but I would come down here to fly in for work you have enough instruction if you did this [Music]

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Length: 25min 39sec (1539 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 08 2018