Do it yourself…
Thursday, April 12th, 2007:
Earlier this week, the wife & I bought a barbecue grill. What does this have to do with helis you ask? Well, you see, the grill was boxed with *a lot* of styrofoam packing. It just so happened that I was looking at this big pile of styrofoam, and a thought came to me… Why not make my own training skids out of this stuff. I was on a mission… I found two lengths of material that were the exact same size, and went about cutting them into identical sized “skids”. They looked more like floats, actually. 
Rather ugly if I do say so myself. Anyways, since I’m the only one who cares what it looks like at this point, I decided to attach them to the machine, making sure that the CG was still directly under the main shaft. I attached them using toothpicks, which I shoved into the styrofoam floats skids, and then (using duct-tape) attached the toothpicks to the skid struts… America’s ugliest helis, here I come!
