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Old 03-06-2003 | 08:39 AM
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Default Worst crashes mishaps

Man, I don't think anything will compare to that one!

Here's my worse mishaps...

Hovering my heli at my in law's back yard, it was a little windy that day, the wind picked me up to about 15 feet or so and drifted me left, right where the big tree was, it came like a foot from one of the branches, I let off the throttle and it came down pretty fast, I had my stock Fusion at the time and I full throttled it to try and stop it and it was headed right for a 10 gallon propane tank, I cut the throttle right before it hit and it was loud, I for sure thought I was out of commission, come to find out, the only damage was a broken tail fin a lost m/r z link and a chip in each of the blades.

My second worse was the other day at my Mom's, hovering it in her front patio, caught a bit of wind which pulled me into the wall in front of me, I skimmed the wall, I thought I was done for sure (very loud). Gave some back cyclic and gave a little more throttle and almost regained control but caught more wind from the side and I lost control and had to let off the throttle and went down on it's side into the shoe shelf and ground. Absolutely no damage at all, just had to retighten the boom mount a bit. Set it back down, continue hovering. That was until my g/f and daughter came out which were awaken from their nap. I got the evil eye. That's the only weak spot of my Corona. I was done for the day at that point.