Hello - I just flew my Corona for the first time. It handles well and wasn't too hard to fly, but being new at it I naturally crashed it...a couple times.

Anyway, the tailboom took three good wacks from the rotor and bent it. The rotor's fine and I could bend the boom back as per the instructions.

This got me to thinking that maybe someone knows of some way to put a shield or something on the tailboom to deflect the rotor blades during a crash or hard landing.

Has anyone made a deflector or does anyone have any suggestions? I'm guessing this is probably common given how quickly it happened to me.

By the way, two battery packs on my new LMH and I'm totally hooked.

Brad M

I remember this being dicussed on this forum in the past, what some ppl have done is to wrap the tail boom with some sort of foam. I think they used something like copper water pipe insulation, you know the grey stuff with the sticky tape down the middle.

yes it has.. 2 things Ive heard but havent tried, fill the tail boom with water cap off the ends I'm guessing with rubber bands and plastic wrap? , place in freezer and bends and crimps should come out! again never tried it myself, and 2nd .wrap tail boom in foam 1/2" and then wrap that in coke bottle plastic and tape it down... Rog

Thank you much folks! I'll try out the foam and see how it goes. If it works well, I'll try out the ice fix as well.

Brad M

I put about 6" of pipe insulation foam around mine. duct tape on the foam keeps the rotor from tearing the foam.

I (and many guys on RCLIne.de, the most frequented German LMH forum) just use a piece of wood (pine, usually) held in place with two nyties. I have yet to see how it works, since my training struts have prevented the rotor from hitting the tailboom so far.

My local hobby store sold me plastic (probably PVC) tubes that you slide inside of the boom. Cut the tube into 3 sections to allow room for the plastic guides. I haven't had a boom strike since doing this, but the guys at the hobby store claim they haven't had to buy new booms in years.