Tail Boom Support Failure - Very Early On.

[malc1]

Hi

I had my maiden voyage of my 600N today,ran just over under a gallon of fuel through my new YS50.
The engine with a CY MP50 ran perfectly right from being cranked over for the first time.
This Heli is superb just like my 600E but with loads of noise:)

Came to a bit of an abrupt end though when I noticed as the heli was close in to me that there was a problem with one of the boom supports.
Its seems that the metal had just sheared off mid flight.
It was just hovering with a little bit of ordinary flying thrown in as well just to try to that engine ran in.

Any else had this part fail without a crash or contact with the ground being involved?

[tec548]

I have had three of them fail in the same fashion. I replaced them with the older tyoe for the E (no locking pin) and none of those have failed.

Joel

[jet22b]

To me it look like you have a bad part. I had the same thing happen on one of my 600E. I was doing hovering and the right boom support just let go. Lucky for me the rod stay up so I could land the 600E safe.
I say, replace the part and go have more fun.

jet22b

[malc1]

Yeah I agree with that,I just ordered the replacement part and some more fuel and I can get to it again.
Glad some others have had the same thing happen through.

[captcasper7]

Those of you that have had this failure, are you all running with the ally tail fin brace?

[malc1]

Thats a good question - maybe it needs the plastic part to absorb some of the vibrations that the ali part can not.
I`d be interested on how many have failed with the upgrade brace as well.