got the 1st crash of 2003 out of the way!!!
01-02-2003, 08:25 AM
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got the 1st crash of 2003 out of the way!!!
Today was a little rough. I knew it had to happen sooner or later.
I started flying heli's in June of 2002 I have gotten pretty good this is the second crash in a heli. First one was a siezed engine and a very unplanned auto hit hard.
I got to the field today my wife and 3 buddies of mine were there. I did a very quick look over my rappy and decided the weather was great for flying. I fired the beast up picked it up into a hover flipped my flight mode switch into V mode and started around the field in the flight pattern. I performed a very nice tumble at one end of the field came back across and started into a loop at the very top something went very very wrong as the nose just kind of fell straight down and I had no more elevator control. The heli went staight in from about 100 ft.
After we found all the parts we started to look the heli over for a mechanical failure ( I refused to belive it was my dumb thumbs ) to my relief we found a pin missing in in the upper end.
anybody want a very slightly used highly modified raptor 30???? :bananahea
I guess it is time to break out the XCELL Pro II
I started flying heli's in June of 2002 I have gotten pretty good this is the second crash in a heli. First one was a siezed engine and a very unplanned auto hit hard.
I got to the field today my wife and 3 buddies of mine were there. I did a very quick look over my rappy and decided the weather was great for flying. I fired the beast up picked it up into a hover flipped my flight mode switch into V mode and started around the field in the flight pattern. I performed a very nice tumble at one end of the field came back across and started into a loop at the very top something went very very wrong as the nose just kind of fell straight down and I had no more elevator control. The heli went staight in from about 100 ft.
After we found all the parts we started to look the heli over for a mechanical failure ( I refused to belive it was my dumb thumbs ) to my relief we found a pin missing in in the upper end.
anybody want a very slightly used highly modified raptor 30???? :bananahea
I guess it is time to break out the XCELL Pro II
01-02-2003, 08:30 AM
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sorry to hear about your crash .. I had a binding / mechanical failure a couple of weeks ago that took my .60 out .. I feel your pain !
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got the 1st crash of 2003 out of the way!!!
Thanks I am still trying to figure out how the pin came out there are no cracks or splits in the parts
01-02-2003, 08:41 AM
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the pin is just pressed in maybe it vibrated loose and the cold weather probably didn't help.
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Ouch! I've never had that happened to me 
I was going to say that your servo has stripped, but this? wow! oh and BTW I'll take the corpses of your hands if you still want to get rid of it 
I was going to say that your servo has stripped, but this? wow! oh and BTW I'll take the corpses of your hands if you still want to get rid of it
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I believe new servo's are in order the heli hit so hard look what it did to the aileron servo,
I think I may rebuild it or just buy a new kit and salvage parts
I think I may rebuild it or just buy a new kit and salvage parts
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I envy you for your fast progress. Some people who fly for 10 years don't fly as well as you sound. I just set up a v- curve, but I have not used it.
Good luck repairing it. the raptor is a tuff bird.
Good luck repairing it. the raptor is a tuff bird.
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wow you really tore that heli up 
sounds bad. I only have a Nitro car right now im wanting to get into airplanes then to helis but wow after i see this lol im scared !!! .
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sounds bad. I only have a Nitro car right now im wanting to get into airplanes then to helis but wow after i see this lol im scared !!! . }{unter
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well it turns out it was a little worse looking than i really is it will cost under $100 to fix so I should have it in the air agian soon
I have a few spare parts laying around so all I need to buy is the main frame, servo frame, mainshaft, spinle shaft, pitch arm, and a few servo cases
I have a few spare parts laying around so all I need to buy is the main frame, servo frame, mainshaft, spinle shaft, pitch arm, and a few servo cases
