Scott Urschel BO-105 “N105” Project

     The wife and I had the great pleasure of meeting Scott Urschel and his beautiful wife Gina during our travels to the Tuscon area. I had wanted to build the 1/4 scale Heli-Factory BO-105 after watching Steffen Richter doing aerobatics with his while visiting the Scale Challenge. Bernd Bremer ( one of the owners of Heli-Factory ) and I made arrangments to get one on order. I wanted to build an aerobatic version but seems everyone was building the “Red Bull” and you know me I like to be different, lol. Nothing against Red Bull as I have admired them for years. I did an internet search and up popped a video by Pylon Aviation with Scott’s 105 upside down AND it was Red, White and Blue, I WAS SOLD, lol. I thought I would send Scott an email and introduce myself and tell him of what I wanted to do and to my great surprise he was one hundred percent onboard, gave me his phone number and the rest is history. He invited us to visit him at his hanger and take all the pictures I needed and ask all the questions I wanted. Come to find Scott has a very long history of flying aerobatics in both helicopters and airplanes. He is also the North American distributor for Airbus. We had a wonderful time on that visit and him and Gina were the best of hosts. Now to the build:

     I contacted Bernd at Heli-Factory and encountered the first problem that could have been a “deal breaker” as Scott’s 105 is a CBS version and the Heli-Factory version is the CB ( the shorter one ). With Bernd being the great guy that he is ( being a great friend certainly helped as well ), he assured me he would have a CBS version at my shop ( basement ) by the end of February.

     Next I contacted Stefan Radau at SCALE PRINT and Bernd had already talked with him and he agreed to take my pictures and make the necessary modifications and print an instrument panel and cockpit to match Scott’s 105. The SCALE PRINT package arrived a few weeks later and I have been very busy working on the instrument panel and center console as you can see in the pictures below. I will be including pictures of the build as I progress along with pictures of Scotts 105 “ N105 “.

Another area that required a little attention were the cyclic grips. The ones from SCALE-PRINT were the standard grips but Scott had a more modern grip which included other accessories. Using plastic and aluminum tubing I was able to modify the grips to give a more scale appearance.