Furious Predator
Elite Veteran
Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
| hehe, there is more to the story.
3 flights after i had spent that $1000 getting my vigor going again. i was doing some backwards flight. and since i was using a JR gyro, the tail swung around on me unexpectidly...i lost orientation, dumb thumbed it. and went into the pavement for an all out chicken dance.
brand NEW MP2, blades, frames, everything, it was almsot an entire kit. the engine was screeming around once the red hot clutch exploded and blasted everywhere. the blades swung around (what was left of them) and slashed my chins, burned my ahnds on the pipe (what was left of it) trying to pull off the fuel lines.
it was so bad, that the steel piano wire thats in the RT blades, was wrapped tight around the rotor head, it had been pretty much pulled out of the blades. the flybar was the same, everything had to be cut off.
i'll see if i can find the pics i took of the aftermath. but that was another $1000 crash...the hobby shop couldn't have been happier.
$2000 in parts for one helicopter in one month...
that is my biggest turn off for JR helicopters (parts costs), and their gyros (not being able to hold the tail while going backwards), i lost all confidence in my abilities and my helicopter after that. i nearly quit the hobby with all the trouble i was having afterwards. then i got the predator/freestyle, and i couldn't be happier 
Shawn
Team Leisure-Tech |
Fly's good, tuff as nails, and cheap to fix. What more can you ask from a heli
