ORIGINAL: r/cheliman
Dammm How did that happen. You hit the ground sidways or something.I hit the ground at about fourty dergrees and bent the tail boom slightly but did not break anything else. Looks like you destroyed the whole rotor head and completely messed up the tail boom. Good luck fixing that one.
Yeah, By the time it hit the ground she was basically nose in, she came down diagonaly on her left, boom first. It toasted the boom, flybar, Main Head shaft/post, slide block, a blade grip, both main blades (brand new from that day), and seperated the bearing collars in the swash. Probably bent the main shaft and feathering spindle too, haven't really gone through the effort yet to check. also nicked the paddles too.
I already had a boom, paddles, head post, grips, main motor shaft, and spare feathering spindle ready, but no block or flybar... and I had a swash on order so I was basically set. The LHS noted that they've been going through SIXES of almost every Axe CP head-part on a bi-weekly basis. I asked them how many Axe's they've sold since I bought mine about 2-3 months ago, and they said a couple dozen or so!!! They just got the RealFlight Sim station in for demo, I bet people are going to stop buying parts soon and just buy that and play for a while...