This is the exact model my dad used to fly when I was very young. The sound of it brings back so I many memories of going to the park to watch him fly his. Good times. 😄
This heli was the best trainer of its day, being more robust than the fragile Hirobo 707. When I tipped mine over all I needed to do was wipe the mud off the blade tips. Friends with the 707 needed a hundred pounds worth of bits after a tip over, a lot of money in 1980. I did my first tentative circuits with mine over forty years ago.
Thanks for posting this, I helped my cousin build one of these in early 80s pre gyro. Came with stabilizing skid accessory to help you learn. Never did manage to fly it without crash landing. My cousin Nick did and went on to fly Enstrom F28 as a PPL with me as occasional passenger.
I have test flown my friends Kalt Baron .60 in very strong winds, and must say that they are still very nice helicopters to have and fly. Nice video Thank you for sharing. 5*
this was hiller only, no bell mixing. the collective was a work of genius. i had one around 1980, it flew great,,,,,,,,,,,,no gyro and a standard FW motor. the U/C had rubber cushes. A shame Kalt are no more.
It has Bell mixing. Direct links from swash to one end of the mixing arms at the top of the head. One end to the flybar, other end direct to the swash, middle to the blade pitch arm.
Thanks for posting the video, it brought back memories. It was the Kalt Baron RC Helicopter that was my first attempt at flying a RC heli. At the time though we didn't have gyros yet. So flying typically resulted in crashing it. I must have repaired that heli a 100 times trying to fly it. Your heli flew really great too.
Still flies well. I used to have a Kavan Bell Jet Ranger. It wasn't started with a belt by the side, but under the fuselage with the tip of the starter (exactly like yours but yellow). This belt starting method was used for boat engines only, not for helicopters because if you accidentally forgot to toggle down the acceleration stick on the transmitter, or it is left to mid or high position, there is no way of stopping the engine that engaged the clutch and spin the blades out of control, cutting and injuring your legs. Starting an engine with the starter tip pressed on the engine shaft cone while holding the rotor head at the same time, if the acceleration stick is accidentally touched or forgot to set it back to off and the engine fires on high speed, at least you can hold the rotor head to stop it from spinning out of control and take immediate action, check the stick or pull out the fuel tube from the engine to cut it out. Starting an engine with a belt as shown in this video, if the engine fires at high speed, you're history. Fuel engines in my helicopters of my days always had a pull-out fuel tube next to the carburetor. Without fuel, the engine stops. In those days, helicopters were quite fun to fly but they were also quite risky too.
Thanks for the detailed explanations - it always great to see how r/c technology has developed since my childhood in the late 70s and early 80s! But, as far as I remember, rotor blades were made from plastics even in the 80s!
I got very lucky and found this kalt 50 for sale here in Ohio yesterday..160$ with an OS 50 in it! :) no hangar rash even... I’m doubting it was ever flown.. hovered.. maybe
+Andre Karpov For me, Ebay has been very good with respect to finding parts for many older heli's which are no longer manufactured. Even found parts for my ancient GMP Cricket
InTheFleshInc I just picked one of these up in perfect working order with an OS.61 in it. No idea how to fly it as all my helis are electric haha. I have nitro planes and gas planes but all the helis I have ever built and flown are electric
I have almost same aged schluter german mechanical, futaba radio, same big gyro mechanical, i bit newer model than your one only flown two to three times , only
