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Old 10-24-2007 | 08:43 PM
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Default Eflite CNC Lower Hub

I must be charmed or I'm onto something here! As some of you may have read I flew my heli into my arm last night fighting wind. It was enough of a hit that it broke one of my lower blades and dusted my tailboom. However that's not the real story. I was flying tonight and my controls were all over the place, aileron right or left would produce forward flight....very very strange things. Upon further investigation my lower hub was twisted....yes twisted. The lower hub extensions that keep the swash linkage to the lower blades straight were on a severe angle. I can literally twist the linkage in either direction, it is snug however it still moves. I straightened it out and flew for one whole bat no problems didn't move under normal flight conditions. So just for fun I purposely did a blade strike! Yeah I know...come on guys this is me....I've done dumber things with this bird Didn't break a blade but did twist the lower hub. Straightened her back out...flew no problems through normal flight. So what have I stumbled across here? Are they supposed to do this or did I have two bad lower hubs? Wish I had another new one to test out. Anyone else have this occur?