Hi All,
I'm finishing off a 1:72 Airfix AH-1T Sea Cobra and decided I wanted to do the FOD and the tie downs that are evident in a lot of the photos I've found on the web.
I know there are some Cobra specialists around so though I'd ask a couple of quick questions:
1 - what is used to tie the rotor rigging to the tips of the rotor? The front always seems to use an inverted Y of rigging connecting the tips of the skids to the tip of the rotor - but I can't find anything that shows detail of how the rigging is tied to the tip. Is it a sleeve, a clip, hook and eye?
2 - The rear blade is sometimes shown with almost the same inverted Y with the rigging attached at the tip of the blade but with the legs of the Y wrapped around the tail, at other times it looks like a flat belt has been figure of 8'd around the boom and rotor. Is there some significance to the differences, or is it just a case of using whatever is handy or supplied for the task?
Finally (and this is probably such a basic question I feel embarrassed asking)The tie-downs from the body of Cobra - what do they attach to on the hardtop? Fixed permanant holding points? Temporary/movable spikes? Drag anchors? (They're always out of shot on the photos I've seen!)
Thanks for listening,
K.