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Post by betty.k »

.....drop an rc heli in their yard! :lol:

it was dead still out, wind was barely a knot.

man i was soaring that sucker good, i had it a good 200 ft high above my yard. it was all under control, nice tail in hover, had my corrections in check.

i was doing so well i failed to notice it was gradually getting alot higher but at the same relative angle.

by the time i noticed that the motors were barely audible it was a good 300 ft up, but about 2 houses over! the wind had picked up slightly, just faster than my heli's wind speed! she was gone and going and all i could do was watch!! :sad:

until i ran outta radio range and she fell like a brick, somewhere that way!

so long story short, met a few neighbours, got a tour of their yards.
*knock knock*
"um, this is gonna sound strange but...." :-D

so 3 yards and 2 funny looks later i hit paydirt, blipped the throttle, heard the whine of the motors then a thud as it fell out of a tree! 10 ft from a swimming pool! :eek:

the aerial wire was completly wrapped around the rotors, broke the boom (again) and busted a skid.
amazingly that's it! even the rotor blades are completely unharmed!

as you can tell by the parts bound with enamelled copper wire & superglue the damage is nothing i can't fix, i'm just amazed that;

a) i found it again! and
b) after dropping from 300 ft that's all that happened. :-o
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Post by honda_s2000 »

I qoute from my other post when I said something like
Looks like a tough heli you got' there betty
:lol:

Cool story, The swimming pool bit shit me up, let alone you ! :lol:
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Post by Clint »

Wow thats hardly any damage, especially considering the altitude! :eek:

Did you hug that tree? I would have dry humped it till my nuts were raw.
:lol:


man, watching your heli fall out of the sky has got to be the worst
feeling. :-( I've dropped the BCP from about 25 feet. broken skid 2$, a
bent main shaft 5$ and a broken paddle 2$. main blades were OK.
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Post by beanoman »

Yet, when my xrb was going, just an encounter with the washing machine would get the set of blades along with the boom and skids :?, but...

i have a story too!!!111

A 20 ounce speed 400 plane+weak balsa tail boom for testing+powerline on one of the huge metal structures, about 80 feet up....

and the wings/fuselage just glided right down with the tail end floating down by itself about 50 feet away :-D luckily the tail was so light that the weight balance was unaffected enough for the wing to still be balanced, rather than flipping around a few times and going straight down :shock:
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Post by hue35 »

Great story... tough little bastard. How big is that Heli?
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hue35 wrote:How big is that Heli?
main rotor diameter is 13 inches
with the canopy on it's 14 inches long
motors are 130 size :-)
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