driftrider
Veteran
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA. (In my own little world)
| I balled her up pretty good...The crash was a straight-up dumb thumbs maneuver, but I do blame some of it on the slow roll rate of the beginner setup. Basically, I got nose-in in FF at low altitude in a left hand banked turn, and zigged when I should have zagged (left aileron instead of right to level it off). I immeadiately realized what I had done and fed in full right aileron, but it was too late. She went in nose down and on her left side pretty hard, which broke off the throttle pushrod. This caused the throttle to go to about 3/4 and the heli beat itself to death. The thing that added a bunch to the bill was that the boom supports ended up getting caught up in what was left of the blades and wrapped around the rotorhead, which busted up the head, washout and seesaw pretty good. And the $250 includes replacement Aerotech woodies, not the stock Hurricanes.
A short list of damage:
Blades, tail boom, boom supports, fin set, tail rotor hub, tail gears, both lower frames, landing gear struts, pushrod and ball link set, upper mainshaft bearing, main gear, clutch and liner, main shaft, flybar, spindle, washout assembly, seesaw assembly, flybar control arms, blade grips, gearset for Futaba 9252 servo.
It was pretty bad, but imagine what it would have cost to replace the above on a Fury or Vigor?
Mike |
:P. Replaced with carbon supports with machined ends and now no problems. My first crash I balled it up to the tune of $250, broke the tail boom in two places, but the torque tube survived unscathed.
