HELI TALK

Making Custom Pushrods Modified helicopters like Mike Trueblood's “stretched” Synergy E5 often require special length pushrods, but once you learn how to thread music wire you can make your own. This is both cheaper and safer than trying to splice lengths together, and you'll never again be grounded by a bent pitch link. I sometimes find myself needing to make custom-length pushrods, whether for tail rotor control or main rotor pitch links. Most helicopter fliers...