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Old 09-20-2006 | 10:02 PM
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shag555
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Default RE: Prop Bitten

I had a 40 sized conversion take off on me as soon as I turned on the transmitter. Luckily it was in the garage and my kids were not around. I hadn't flown the plane in months, thus, the procedure of start up wasn't even spit polished. I had the wrong plane, and it full throttled on me. It didn't hit me... Went under my truck and caught the tail on the axle - tore the tail off.

Someone mentioned removing the prop... I know when adjusting my heli, I just pull the motor wires from the esc... Couldn't you do that with a plane too (provided you can get to it), or even build in a manually operated 2nd switch from the esc to the motor??? Even one wire would do the trick on these brushless motors.

I don't fly electric planes anymore, but I'm in to electric helis now... This has me thinking it would be a good idea to put this 2nd arming manual switch in there somewhere... Is this possible???

MPB