CompuFoil
03-24-2008, 10:57 AM
Man, what a depressing Easter :(.
My TRex450 is waiting on parts after having the tail brake loose and spinning into a tree, (same cause as from what I did with the 200 below). So I too my only other two flyable birds out.
I took my 200 out to the field and was doing some simple flips. I stopped inverted and held it for a few seconds, the nosed forward/upright again. I was a little slow on collective and is swooped down a bit, (I was doing this up around 60'), but when I gave her up collective, the tail broke loose and it spun into the ground.
Next fatality was my beloved 550. I'm still not positive what went wrong here. I was doing some simple circuits, a few flips, then came back in around 4:30 and was hovering 8' in the air getting ready for a gentle touchdown. Suddenly, it quickly went a bit sideways, and what looks like either lost cyclic, or went a bit negative.
I lost the boom, vertical fin, tail blades, carbon mains, main gear, main shaft, feathering shaft, canopy, landing gear, and one set of servo gears.
The only thing I could find wrong was one ball was out on the plastic seesaw (all metal head except this). Could losing the control arm from the see saw to the flybar have caused this, or is this more of a result of the crash?
I'm running the AR6200 receiver, and have never seen any glitches, etc.
Eric
My TRex450 is waiting on parts after having the tail brake loose and spinning into a tree, (same cause as from what I did with the 200 below). So I too my only other two flyable birds out.
I took my 200 out to the field and was doing some simple flips. I stopped inverted and held it for a few seconds, the nosed forward/upright again. I was a little slow on collective and is swooped down a bit, (I was doing this up around 60'), but when I gave her up collective, the tail broke loose and it spun into the ground.
Next fatality was my beloved 550. I'm still not positive what went wrong here. I was doing some simple circuits, a few flips, then came back in around 4:30 and was hovering 8' in the air getting ready for a gentle touchdown. Suddenly, it quickly went a bit sideways, and what looks like either lost cyclic, or went a bit negative.
I lost the boom, vertical fin, tail blades, carbon mains, main gear, main shaft, feathering shaft, canopy, landing gear, and one set of servo gears.
The only thing I could find wrong was one ball was out on the plastic seesaw (all metal head except this). Could losing the control arm from the see saw to the flybar have caused this, or is this more of a result of the crash?
I'm running the AR6200 receiver, and have never seen any glitches, etc.
Eric