Slobberdog
Well-Known Member
Well as you can see from the title I have had an eventful flight, started with a few passes, then I was liking the way the heli felt as I had lowered my expo quite a bit, so thought I would have a bit of fun,
First I successfully flipped to inverted and held it there for a few seconds then flipped it back, whoa the heart rate went up a bit there, a bit more flying around took it a bit higher and at the end of the pass I decided to do a flip, that worked ok but lost to much altitude as did not quite time the neg pitch well.
So the last thing I tried was a loop, I used far to much altitude up cos of the amount of pitch I still had at top loop so as I was coming out of the bottom, I had a bit to much back elevator and stalled the blades, this is where the oops came in,
After the stall I regained control but I did not have the altitude left, so caught the tail in the grass and it stopped the little thing dead,
So now the repair list,
Tail torque tube gear stripped,
Tail fin mounting bracket broken
Front torque tube drive gear, ok
Think I got off light, have the gear here but need the fin mount,
Oh forgot to mention it was the 130x
First I successfully flipped to inverted and held it there for a few seconds then flipped it back, whoa the heart rate went up a bit there, a bit more flying around took it a bit higher and at the end of the pass I decided to do a flip, that worked ok but lost to much altitude as did not quite time the neg pitch well.
So the last thing I tried was a loop, I used far to much altitude up cos of the amount of pitch I still had at top loop so as I was coming out of the bottom, I had a bit to much back elevator and stalled the blades, this is where the oops came in,
After the stall I regained control but I did not have the altitude left, so caught the tail in the grass and it stopped the little thing dead,
So now the repair list,
Tail torque tube gear stripped,
Tail fin mounting bracket broken
Front torque tube drive gear, ok
Think I got off light, have the gear here but need the fin mount,
Oh forgot to mention it was the 130x
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