Heli-Artist fuselage is TUFF!

[lrogers]

Sunday, I dumb-thumbed the Airwolf! It was a pretty cool looking crash. The main blades, flybar, spindle and main shaft were bent/destroyed. The fuselage got a slight chip in the paint on the upper dog house where the main shaft exits. That was it! I was VERY surprised, and pleased by this! That fuselage is tuff!!!!

[lohchief]

Sunday, I dumb-thumbed the Airwolf! It was a pretty cool looking crash. The main blades, flybar, spindle and main shaft were bent/destroyed. The fuselage got a slight chip in the paint on the upper dog house where the main shaft exits. That was it! I was VERY surprised, and pleased by this! That fuselage is tuff!!!!
LOL,sorry to hear about your crash,glad the fuse is a tuff one.I will be buying the unpainted 500D soon.Good to know it's quality.I still find it amazing how it takes sooo long for my brain to tell my thumbs,"don't do that".:arggg:
-lohchief

[Darthdrk]

Naw, you just didnt crash right. Ive crashed several models in my day. I fly the High Impact Styrene and PETG bodies and Ive had minor mishap take out a fuselage and I had what I thought was a major crash do little to no damage. I had a heli hit the ground cartwheel a couple times Head got destroyed, blades, flybar all totaled but the body only came out with a scratch. May I say, it sounded really horrific. Had a very hard bounce one time and basically totaled a fuselage. Once the blades come in contact with a fuselage its basically "All she wrote", dosent matter the material. Ive also come to find the less damage you will get if you are able to cut the throttle before impact. Believe it or not, I saved a body by cutting the throttle about 10 feet before impact. Had a heli one time throw a blade in flight and the imbalance just ate the heli to pieces. So you see, its all in how you crash.

[lrogers]

Well, I did chop the throttle just before impact and the blades hit the ground and shattered before they had the chance to hit the fuselage. Now the fly bar, THAT was interesting! It got bent in ways I never dreamed possible!