astroflyer
Senior Heliman
Location: Milford, Nova Scotia, Canada
| Thanks for the prompt response guys.
not being much of a heli expert I presume that clamp working with the wasout base must be some kind of improvement. should I expect to see much difference in flying the V2 due to this?
I already have the steel shaft in my V1 and looking at the v2 it sure looks like it's steel, nothing like the old aluminum one I have.
and yes, the weather finally took a turn for the better this week. beautiful today! lots of flying!
but last Thursday the hot weather bit me and my shogun. I was using a sombra labs receiver and was aware of the cold problem with it, but unaware of it having problems with heat also. In a hover, the heli suddenly nosed down slightly and flew off 30 feet or so to a small crash....no damage. felt just like a mushy battery.
thinking I had a bad battery I checked things over and installed a fresh battery, hovered for a minute or so to see that things were ok, then some forward flight for a couple of minutes, then back into another hover. that's when the shogun again went into a shallow dive to the ground 30-40 feet away. this time broken boom, bent flybar, spindle etc.
then I remembered the time two weeks ago, also on a rare hot day, when it flew into the ground when I was coming in for a landing. I thought that was me...might have been, but I wonder...
after some internet searching I found the sambra shadow discussions and sure enough, when I placed the receiver under a 60 watt bulb for 30 seconds or so everything quits. sombra is going to fix the receiver and I've gotta fix the heli.
cheers
Papa Sharptooth
Bouncing about the living room, my then three year old grandson declared himself "a kangaroo".
"If you're a Kangaroo, what is Grampie", I ask.
His reply: "you a dinosaur" |
