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Old 04-26-2007, 05:15 PM
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Default RE: Truth is stranger than fiction in model airplanes

I have not read of a single helicopter story, and since that's what I fly the most, here it goes....

More than 10 years ago, I was flying my heli with a group of friends. There was a guy with the nicest heli I had seen in a long time. All shiny aluminum with a tuned pipe that went alomst 2/3 of the way down the tail boom. He was flying around real nice when all of the sudden the Upper "jesus" bolt sheared. For those of you that do not know what a "jesus" bolt is, I can tell you that it holds the rotor head to the main shaft. Kinda like the tube spar on the giant scale airplanes. the helicopter nosed down, and entered and vertical dive right into the ground, everything was smashed from the nose back to the main shaft. The incredible part of the story is that the rotor head kept flying until it came to rest in the rear of the field on some grass. Nothing was damaged on the rotor head.

Rafael