Most dangerous videos of helis of all time

[Tyrant Blaze]

Obviously they were in the shallow end of the gene pool :DOH

[oscarfeiby]

This is so Funny... are you guess serious? or just try too make a funny video?

[jones007]

This is so Funny... are you guess serious? or just try too make a funny video?

I have to agree - what can you do but laugh.

[kenn_palmer]

So much for the people in the last video not being einsteins... At least in name anyway...

[Griff1]

These are God's attempts at removing these idiots to protect the rest of us, he'll get em next time.

[Finless]

How about this one:

http://www.rcmovie.de/view_video.php?viewkey=9580f74cca14cc6e9746

I know what happened in this video. Seen it before. He had the pitch backwards. He throttled up, noticed the heli wasn't lifting off (it was going negative pitch as he increased throttle) and then he went to pull back on throttle to cut the motor and with pitch backwards it just jumped into the air!

The dude laying on the floor with a 50 on his stomach has to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Unbelievable.

Bob

[OpticalFlow]

I know what happened in this video. Seen it before. He had the pitch backwards. He throttled up, noticed the heli wasn't lifting off (it was going negative pitch as he increased throttle) and then he went to pull back on throttle to cut the motor and with pitch backwards it just jumped into the air!

The dude laying on the floor with a 50 on his stomach has to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Unbelievable.

Bob

Something along these lines. The German description of the video roughly translates into "that's what happens if you program a switch with full throttle and full pitch". So I guess he was trying to hit throttle hold ... seeing that it is a mini titan, which has the swash move downwards for positive pitch your guess about having the pitch backwards is probably spot on. A mistake of the type that some people might make ... only made so much worse by working in such a confined space.

[Bob O]

Some of the videos are comical, some are flat out stupid, and some just leave me speechless.

[Ampdraw]

This one is up with the best of them! :wow2::FThat
Thinking must be optional these days!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7HGWTLWuII&feature=player_embedded

Amp

[ChrisH]

Jeez, I don't think that tooth really was ready yet. That was quite a bit of blood.

[Bob O]

Jeez, I don't think that tooth really was ready yet. That was quite a bit of blood.I'd have pulled that tooth from a different angle at least, not straight from the side........sheesh! :shock:

[flybar-les]

good example for those kids :thumbdown:

[jones007]

Humm, here's someone trying to win the Darwin award without actually dying. I guess if you kill all your offspring, you technically don't have to die yourself to win. Not too different from national debt I suppose.

[stualoo]

The last one has got to be one of the worst. :shock: A parent even considering to do this to one of their children is unbelievable! :shock: Horrid... and like flybar-les said, a great example for the kids :thumbdown::arggg: SAFE!

I wonder what would have happened if the string got sucked up into the rotor and wound up around the head and where the heli would have gone... actually, I don't even want to. Maybe they kitted out the end of the blades with some razors like the other video just incase :lol:

[rdlohr]

This one is up with the best of them! :wow2::FThat
Thinking must be optional these days!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7HGWTLWuII&feature=player_embedded

Amp
INCREDIBLE! You win. We can all go home now. I can't even believe he thought that was a good idea. :arggg::arggg::arggg::arggg::arggg::arggg::arggg:: arggg::arggg::arggg::arggg::arggg::arggg::arggg::a rggg::arggg::arggg::arggg::arggg::arggg::arggg::ar ggg::arggg::arggg::arggg:

WOW!
Uncle...

Rick

[jewslox]

As unsafe as that was, that was awesome!

[6L6Amp]

The dude laying on the floor with a 50 on his stomach has to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Unbelievable.

Bob

Gotta agree. A little forward pitch and it would have shredded his face. Who volunteers to do that? A moron, that's who.

[matthewspokane]

You know, I posted elsewhere about a crash I had last night that is relevant to this conversation.
I was flying last night just doing a few stall turns, nothing fancy, not too fast. I came across the field left to right and heard a “pop”, then there was a little “lift” and then there was a very long arching path where my poor T500 spiraled to a dramatic stop some 50 meters from where the “pop” occurred.
The “pop” was the tail pitch slider bearings blowing out. The “lift” was when the blown-out bearing decapitated the tail blade grips and sent one of the blades, still attached to the grip, up and into the blade. You know the rest J. I walked a straight line back 50 meters from where the heli came to rest and found that tail blade – still attached to the grip.
There was no way to anticipate this mechanical failure. My T500 is relatively young, only 2 months in service and fewer than 30 flights, no crashes. The night before I had tightened, lubed, and rechecked the heli nose to tail. The night of I rechecked to make sure there was no play in the head or the tail (i.e. bearings) with no issues.
There was just no way to know this new bearing would blow out, let alone violently enough to sever the tail blade grips. Granted they were plastic (and this is a great excuse for an upgrade! J) but the last time I checked that plastic was tougher than my skin.
If that bearing blowout had happened on the majority of these videos someone would have missing body parts or worse.

[jones007]

Are you saying that you think the plastic pitch slider (H50030) came apart and took out a tail-blade? I'm not saying this is impossible, but a much more likely scenario is that you threw a tail blade, and on it's way it pulled the slider apart. I can't tell you how many times I've seen tail blades get thrown, usually either due to the bolt backing out or shearing off. People commonly tighten the tail (and feathering-shaft) bolts to the point where they do damage to the bolt, and under load it gives it up. On some of the cheaper helis, or ones that have had a rough life, I've occasionally seen a tail-rotor hub break. I think this was common on some of the older 450s and most of the clones.

Look at the damage carefully and see what's a better fit.

--Kevin

[jones007]

Check this story out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KDVbk2Sunk&feature=player_embedded#!

This will be the beginning of the end for parkflyers.

--Kevin

[matthewspokane]

Nope, I'm sure. The tail blade was still attached to the blade grip which was still attached to what was left of the slider :)

[Jasmine2501]

Check this story out:


This will be the beginning of the end for parkflyers.

--Kevin

It has happened before, and it will happen again. Irresponsible idiots will always exist and they are not unique to the RC helicopter hobby. It would have been good if they had stuck around.

[matthewspokane]

never, ever underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers!

[jones007]

Nope, I'm sure. The tail blade was still attached to the blade grip which was still attached to what was left of the slider :)

Were the blade grips still intact? If so how did it come off - did the bolt back out, break off, or did the hub come apart?

--Kevin

[Ecov]

Gotta give the old guy credit for really fast reflexes though. I wonder if he was just protecting himself with that hand and instinctively grabbed it when he saw the skids? I suspect he's maybe an old hand with RC but new to helis. What he did was very risky, but I've seen worse. Who knows, he might have been a tank loader in Korea or something a lot more treacherous.

+1 for his reflexes! They were cat-like lol :YeaBaby: