I don't mean "catastrophic" as in somethig really bad happened, but rather in the complete and total way that they failed.

Here is the scoop. I have been ruunning an LED flybar for some time on my newer CX2. It had the red paddles. Many of you have seem pix and video of this setup. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to get a new set with a blue LED instead of red and installed that on my older CX2.

On Monday, I was flying my older CX2, when I crashed. I broke off a main blade and busted the LED flybar. The thing that got me was that the failure point wasn't the flybar link. Rather it was the central hub of the flybar that rests inside the cap on the upper head. Strange place for it to fail, thought I.

So last nigt, I am flying my newer CX2, again with the LED flybar, and it takes a VERY soft landing on the couch. I go over to retrieve it and ***?!!? [:@] The flybar is broken is exacly the same place as the other one?

The way these both failed suggests fatigue fracture.

Anyhoo, I am now looking for a new way to mount my LED paddles. I have been reading a bit about some of you that have decided to create a flybar rod out of CF tube. Please tell me more about how you are doing this.

Here's a couple of pix of the damage.