Everyone knows the normal dangers associated with Lipo's. Its a subject thats been discussed many times.


I want to share with you something which hasnt been discussed in detail.


The other day I was flying one of my favorite foamy's outdoors. It was powered by a 3 cell 1250mah lipo velcro'd to the fuselage.
Apparently I had been pulling to many G's as the lipo suddenly exited the plane after a snap roll. At first I thought it was a piece of depron. NOPE.
When the lipo hit the ground from 100 ft up, it promptly burst into flames in a fireball.
Ignoring my still airborne and now uncontrollable foamy (no battery means no control) I quickly ran over and started kicking dirt on the flames to put them out.

I was extremely glad that the lipo landed in the dirt and brush field, and not in my neighbors yard, roof, or in any other flammable area.


So I just offer this as a hopeful warning, that lipos should be FIRMLY attached to your airplane, and if your really pulling high G maneuvers, use a little extra velcro, or some other attachment to prevent the lipo from coming loose. This will help prevent a potential situation where you start a fire, and also prevent loss of your plane and your expensive lipo.
Imagine the havoc it would have cause if that lipo had fireballed on one of my neighbors roofs or in their backyard. Better safe than sorry.

I am building another plane to replace it, but I will be adding additional measures to prevent this kind of thing from happening again.

Be Safe.

Bryan out.