CLEAN CUT:

Hi Fellas,

Remember the other day when I had a lead weight come flying out and almost hit me. Well, I balanced a new set of blades, and the next day was out in the garage again practicing hovering and short forward and backward flight. Everything okay, so far.

About 8:30 PM, I noticed outside it was dead calm. Took my CP to the back 40, having a ball. Ten minutes or so into the flight, I was about 20 feet in the air and a puff (gust) of wind blew the CP. With my fingers moving as fast as they could go, I lost it and crashed into one of the uprights of my woodedn deck.. It sounded absolutely horrible, KAPOW, SMASH. I have lots of practice, throttle down and trim down immediately.. I think I can do it in 3/10ths of a second. I walked over to pick up, which looked like a total from 20 feet away. Low and behold nothing more than 1 broken blade. Boy, is this a tuff heli, not the easiest to fly but rugged.

See pic of a clean cut,

Dave / Choppersrule