jelkins Senior Heliman Location: Ada, OK - USA
| Thanks guys... actually there was no damage on each one... other than the bent flybar. At the end of the day I change the flybar and spindle just to be safe. I will also pull the main shaft and look it over, as well as the belt and tail assembly.
The main blades where as tight as I could get them to keep them from folding and cutting something. I have a belt drive tail as well, wouldn't try these with a tourqe tube drive as it would probably strip a gear.
The first one in the video was an actual flip to right side up. the one before that were the camera wasn't on I did an inverted auto and came down to low and poped neg to keep it from hitting the ground and bled off to much head speed to flip, my choices where to flip off throttle hold and fly away or just land... and you can guess what I chose. Then the guys at the field are like, "wow, thats cool do it again and we can get it on video!" so that is how it started (Peer presure, gets you every time.)
James |