Well, truth be told, I was messing with stuff I should not have been messing with at too low an altitude. 2 factors. I was trying to do rainbows too close to the deck.
At my skill level, that was, um, not very wise.
So basically when I had the heli disc facing down, I dumbthumbed it and planted it into the grass below disk first.
I have no idea how the heck the blade impaled the heli, maybe the blade struck the ground and broke, and the fragment was near vertical as the heli subsequently impaled itself upon it... Lucky it wasn't through the canopy and into the lipo.
Anyhow so the damage so far:
1. 4S motor (2 leads got cut)
2. pair SAB 350's
3. Bent spindle - visbly
4. Bent main shaft - subtle
5. Slightly bent pitch linkages.
6. Slight nick in the frame where the blade actually impaled it - just a tiny under 1 mm crack, CA'ed over it. Don't think it will affect structural intergrity (see pic).
Otherwise canopy lipo, servos, ESC, v-bar appear to have survived.
Expensive lesson. Ah well, live and learn.
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