When Disaster Strikes,,,aka Crash Report

[BladeMadMan]

I don't believe there is a tread on this, but I would like to start a section and possible have it stuck called When Disaster Strikes. I will be the first to post here.

After a great morning or mild to hard 3D I get the courage to move on to some more technical maneuvers. The maneuver I was trying to get down was a (what I call a rainbow)
Well long story short the result was contact with mother earth. Parts list; broken tail grip,lost tail fin, lost screws and a bent tail shaft.{ My only explenation is it must have happen due to the Dx6i recallJ/K total pilot error!}


I hope everyone would post there crash pic's here!

[enadj15]

I was looking for one like this the other day when I saw one in another forum. Great Idea.


Sorry for your crash though!

[schoep]

Start good End bad Crash
Sunday morning went so well lot’s of flips and rolls more of them than all last year. They still need a lot of work but at least it was still flying when I was done. Then I went to my buddy’s house to shoot some rockets at his plane. First I was going to fly a string over his barn so he could pull a rope over to work on a leak. This is when things went way south I lost site of heli and crashed at a going a good clip straight into driveway. The tallest remaining part was the Gorilla landing gear which the nose of the heli protected very nicely. I may have seen this kind of carnage before on this site but it hits a little harder in person.
After as many times as I’ve crashed this thing it’s the first time for a frame replacement. It took about 6 hr. but it sure looks better than all the hot glue and gussets. I also took my time on cleaning up the wiring mess.

Parts list: Main shaft, feather shaft, tail drive gear, mg 65servo gear case( gears fine),motor(snapped shaft), seesaw holder,flybar,tail shaft, tail blade, main blades,belt,boom, 1 dead cell on zippy, frame, canopy. I had the stuff to fix it in stock except for the servo case.
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[wparmer]

daaaaamn. I wouldn't have the slightest idea of what to do with that mess. yikes.

[Finless]

Blade man is asking this to be a STICKY.... do you all agree? If so I will stick it.

It's your guys forum so stickies are up to you all!

Bob

[KOBIJUST]

Originally Posted by Finless

Blade man is asking this to be a STICKY.... do you all agree? If so I will stick it.

It's your guys forum so stickies are up to you all!

Bob

[levelflight]

Was that from a THOUSAND feet??!!!

Originally Posted by schoep

Start good End bad Crash
Sunday morning went so well lot’s of flips and rolls more of them than all last year. They still need a lot of work but at least it was still flying when I was done. Then I went to my buddy’s house to shoot some rockets at his plane. First I was going to fly a string over his barn so he could pull a rope over to work on a leak. This is when things went way south I lost site of heli and crashed at a going a good clip straight into driveway. The tallest remaining part was the Gorilla landing gear which the nose of the heli protected very nicely. I may have seen this kind of carnage before on this site but it hits a little harder in person.
After as many times as I’ve crashed this thing it’s the first time for a frame replacement. It took about 6 hr. but it sure looks better than all the hot glue and gussets. I also took my time on cleaning up the wiring mess.

Parts list: Main shaft, feather shaft, tail drive gear, mg 65servo gear case( gears fine),motor(snapped shaft), seesaw holder,flybar,tail shaft, tail blade, main blades,belt,boom, 1 dead cell on zippy, frame, canopy. I had the stuff to fix it in stock except for the servo case.
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[Cailid]

Looks like the only thing that survived on that heli was the rubber ball on the tail fin.

[kevinl7778]

Well it finaly happend. the stock tail servo gave out on me and i went into a death spin 3-4 feet off the ground, I CRASHED for the first time with my B400. Almost a year of flight without a crash and a stock servo BEAT ME. I think the pot failed and the servo froze? The cncheli.com metal head seems to be ok .
1, striped main drive gear.
2, striped tail drive gear-cracked at the bottom.
3, 1 cf main blade and 1 cf tail blade.
4, bent main shaft.
5, most likely bent a feathering shaft.
6, tail servo.

just filled the shopping carts (cncheli & helidirect) $110.00

[EatMorePizza]

Originally Posted by schoep

Start good End bad Crash
Sunday morning went so well lot’s of flips and rolls more of them than all last year. They still need a lot of work but at least it was still flying when I was done. Then I went to my buddy’s house to shoot some rockets at his plane. First I was going to fly a string over his barn so he could pull a rope over to work on a leak. This is when things went way south I lost site of heli and crashed at a going a good clip straight into driveway. The tallest remaining part was the Gorilla landing gear which the nose of the heli protected very nicely. I may have seen this kind of carnage before on this site but it hits a little harder in person.
After as many times as I’ve crashed this thing it’s the first time for a frame replacement. It took about 6 hr. but it sure looks better than all the hot glue and gussets. I also took my time on cleaning up the wiring mess.

Parts list: Main shaft, feather shaft, tail drive gear, mg 65servo gear case( gears fine),motor(snapped shaft), seesaw holder,flybar,tail shaft, tail blade, main blades,belt,boom, 1 dead cell on zippy, frame, canopy. I had the stuff to fix it in stock except for the servo case.
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holly Sh#t, thats the worst crash ive seen! what was the cost for parts?

[dmbthmb]

To being a rainy day i decided i could just do some hovering in the house...plenty of room shouldn't be a problem....

Initial summary of destruction this time...

carbon mains
feathering shaft
main shaft
flybar
flybar paddles
tail blades
??? tail bearing

2x2 sheet of drywall
box of bandaids
box of skinbond

Great news is any question i had about having a bent main shaft were DEFINITELY answered when this happened...

even better news is everyone in the house should recover from the debris with just a couple of bandaids...

[1BADAIR]

well
It has been awhile but I crashed today
It looks like the tail hub broke in the air.
The tail jumped out a little then made a belt slipping noise
I pulled throttle hold about 25? feet or so up and the blades stopped FAST.
went full negative but the headspeed never really came up. Tried to flare but it just slowed alittle a bounced.
feathershaft, flybar and landing skids from the hard landing
when the hub broke it took out the stab fin, belt , and tail blade
I never saw the tail blade(hub) come off but it and the fin was a long way from where the heli hit

[jpg400]

If you are new to this look hard at these posts and learn, you can also see that almost no crash pics here show busted up training gear, I realize that these may be people with alot of time flying rc but the fact still remains use everything at your disposal to keep your baby in one piece.If you can go home with it in one piece you are on the right track.

[redwhite]

Well...it only took six batteries to make it happen. I was feeling pretty good about my stable hovers and I was working on controlling the heli tail in. It started to move a little fast going backwards so it started to bring the collective forward and ended up nosing in to the dirt. Initial inspection shows no major damage other than the blades and the training gear. I am sure the main and f-shaft are bent but I do not see any other damage to the head or tail.

The first one is out of the way and now I can relax some.

[dmbthmb]

Originally Posted by redwhite

Well...it only took six batteries to make it happen. I was feeling pretty good about my stable hovers and I was working on controlling the heli tail in. It started to move a little fast going backwards so it started to bring the collective forward and ended up nosing in to the dirt. Initial inspection shows no major damage other than the blades and the training gear. I am sure the main and f-shaft are bent but I do not see any other damage to the head or tail.

The first one is out of the way and now I can relax some.

Oh come on you can't really count that as the FIRST one...you gotta damage something that takes at least 15 minutes to repair. let's seem some blade 400 carnage!!!

[redwhite]

Originally Posted by dmbthmb

Oh come on you can't really count that as the FIRST one...you gotta damage something that takes at least 15 minutes to repair. let's seem some blade 400 carnage!!!

Your probably right. My first look was a little off base. It stripped all three servo's, bent the mail shaft, bent f-shaft, and a stripped main gear. The training gear probably saved me from a taco'd LiPo and maybe other frame damage.

I replaced the servo's with HXT900's which was kind of a pain since I had to clearence the frame and reroute wires to the RX since the leads are shorter on the HXT's. Swapped out the rest of the junked up gear while also replacing the o-rings in the blade grips. Squared the head up again and she is back in the air. On got a couple minute check out flight on it yet but it seems to be solid.


The count down to carnage begins again

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[xspare]

I pounded her into the pavement yesterday and only wrote off a set of Align 335 pro woods and the horizontal stabilizer!

[dmbthmb]

Originally Posted by redwhite

Your probably right. My first look was a little off base. It stripped all three servo's, bent the mail shaft, bent f-shaft, and a stripped main gear. The training gear probably saved me from a taco'd LiPo and maybe other frame damage.

I replaced the servo's with HXT900's which was kind of a pain since I had to clearence the frame and reroute wires to the RX since the leads are shorter on the HXT's. Swapped out the rest of the junked up gear while also replacing the o-rings in the blade grips. Squared the head up again and she is back in the air. On got a couple minute check out flight on it yet but it seems to be solid.


The count down to carnage begins again

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Ok that's much better...You can now claim victory over your crash potential.

[jreue]

Well I had my first crash ever today with my Blade 400.
I was practicing hovering in my back yard with training gear. It was about my 10th attempt when I attempted to lift off and thw heli rolled a tad left. The training gear caught the grass and over she went.

From the initial investigation, it looks like I got:
Bent feathering shaft
Bent flybar
Bent tail boom

Now I know why all parts come in 2's.

Well I'm actually happy that my first crash is over. I pissed though that it was from such a lame circumstance.

To the garage we go....

[FlyAndFix]

Watch for the cloud of dirt and the fact that it ended up on the skids. With all said and done. Feathering and Main shafts, Main gear, newly painted Canopy, Blade grip, Skid. At least it's on video for all to enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrOCBS6axBY