SCARY EVENT:

Hi Guys,

I was out in the garage tonight, practicing hovering and short forward and backward flight. After about 10 minutes, the heli acted totally weird. All in a split second, I heard a pop from the heli, saw something fly off, and hit the wall next to me no more that 2 feet away. I thottled down, trim down and hit kinda hard (broken skid, no big deal).

Here's the deal, I'm sure we all do these. After a blade hit and damaging the end of the blade, solution, black tape. Of course you have to add same amount to the other blade to keep them balanced.

I knew this but never gave it any thought, at the end of the blades, inbedded in balsa wood (flat blades) is a small piece of lead weight, a litter bigger in diameter than the lead in a pencil. This is what flew out of the end of the blade and almost hit me.

Guess, I may change blades more often.

The first picture looks like a normal set of blades, with black tape to fix repairs.... The second picture are the blades after I removed the monocote and removed some of the balsa wood. The blade in the background has the lead weight, the front on doesn't, that's what flew out at high speed and almost got me. Whew!!! Luck me, I didn't get hit.

Dave / Choppersrule