Black hawk Folded Rotor Blades

Naval versions have a modified rotor head (hinges and motors) and blades (angled root ends) that allow automatic blade folding, just flip a switch in the cockpit.

For Army Black Hawks with a standard rotor head, the blades can be manually folded by removing a couple bolts and adding a spacer that secures the blade in the folded position.

Thanks HeavyArty! Glad to have someone who knows a lot about black hawks. Looking on the rotor and blades of my Academy MH-60L DAP kit, looks like a lot of work. But thanks for the photo you've provided, It gave me a good lead where to cut and modify.

One more thing I've decided to make a folded rotor blade is because of space also hehe. My room is not large enough to accommodate birds (yeah, I don't even have airplanes). But I really love helicopters. Sad news though is I can only keep 2 bladed helicopters (I really love the UH-1D. I have one but haven't built it yet) so I really need to create this folded rotor blades mod. Thanks again. : )

Dolly, just so you know, while Heavy posted a great pic of the link, all the links are not identical...

You would also need to scratch the 4 support struts, if you want to take it that far...:

Fantastic! Thanks mate! I actually missed those support struts. I'm already starting to wonder how I can make the blades well glued / cemented / attached to the main rotor because for sure, the blades might start to "sag" sooner or later. Now that's solved already. Many many thanks for this suggestion. Cheers! ^___^