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X-Spec was inverted 20ft up & dumb thumbed it in. Bloody hell! Landed flat & throttle was stuck wide open.
MAJOR chicken dance. Was 50ft away & had to run for my life to 150ft away as spewed bits that far away everyhere.
Couldn't do anything about it & watched in awe as the blades ground away to nothing.
That's not the best thing yet. The rotorhead went into overdrive (hope the engine's ok) & the heli fell on its left side.
The damn thing then proceeded to propel itself backward like a bloody lawn edger in anticlockwise circles with the underneath of the skids facing the center.
It death spiralled to 10ft dia circles slicing a groove in the ground at approximately 20mph. Very scary & funny to watch at the same time.
Was about to throw my neck strap on hoping it would jam it up when cut out - spoilsport. There was nothing left of the NHP Razor blades, only confetti.
Not much to clean up at all. Luckily the blades were foam cored which saved the heli from major damage as wooden cored would never wear down to the Quick (UK.)
Never used wooden cored, only woodies years ago - again more damage that way. The battery & receiver had come off completely. All the connectors kindly unplugged themselves neatly.
Except for the battery's which was taped on. Had taped all the wires behind the connector with insulation tape to stop chafing in the front avionics entry point. This saved a lot of damage!
Will find a way of TYING on the battery & Rx to the front canopy stand offs to prevent this happening again! Damage is suprisingly light. Pod is totally fine. Just straighten skid feet, new windshield,
boom, blades, rotorhead parts etc. Say $150 to fix. Gonna have to retest everything though. Replacing twisted EX w/o arms with stock as compared them & realised they offer more cyclic throw.
The worst thing is someone filmed me & left just before the crash. DAMN! Woulda made an instant classic. Thank you for your time to read this. Hope you enjoyed it! ;-)
That's not fog, it's smoke
| Neck strap thrown on after as sign of defeat
| Blades are no where to be seen at all
| Heli didn't treat the ground nicely did it?
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Cuts in the grass from the spectacular chicken dance
| Now this is what I call a Cycircle - 'lawn edger' cut
| New name - Dances with Chickens
| Very handy grass catcher
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Battery & Rx smashed through windshield
| The guilty culprit of the mother hen of all chicken dances
| Twisty
| New 2 inch & 0 inch blades available now
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Beautiful end to a rather eventful day
| Bad boy, stay in your room! You're grounded
| The aforementioned blades
| Pulley worn down to shaft
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Hirobo's new flybarless rotorhead
| The aluminium spacers actually melted into the grips
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