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Crashed? Discussion and Photos > List Your Best- Dumb Thumb/ or preventable Crash!
 
 
CShoemaker
Heliman
Location: Royersford, PA

I will Chime in on this one....

I have 2 that are just STUPID on my part

(1) Installed 1 blade backwards and could not figure out why it was hovering real bad, able to recover with not damage

(2) Was flying all day and forgot to keep checking on the rx charge...need I say more (only blade damage)
11-27-2002 Over year old.
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MJA
Key Veteran
Location: Cumbria-UK

11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Ijit
Heliman
Location: Kennewick, WA

Dumb stuff

Here's my best two;

Had just started working on nose in inverted hovering. Invited the wife out to see how well all the time and money invested was paying off. She shows up with a cup of coffee (for me) and a bad attitude (for me and my heli) which gets worse when I tell her I have to wait my turn to fly. 15 minutes later (it was cold out), I spool the Raptor 30 up, lift it into a hover. Then to make sure she sees my glorious new skill I holler "Hey Hon, watch this" and proceed to pull it over inverted at about 15 feet. You guessed it, I did a beautiful inverted auto all the way down. Her comment "Real friggin impressive". Idle up is necessary for inverted flight, lesson learned, got off with a bent flybar and was flying 3 minutes later.

Called in sick and had such a gorgeous day I had to take the Fury out for some low, slow inverted flight practice. Left to right inverted pass at about 4 feet, I flew past then started a turn away from myself. I got uncomfortable and decided to roll it upright. Hurried the aileron input and was too slow on the collective. Result- full roll at low altitude then input positive collective as it rolled to inverted again. (Couple of lessons here, I really was sick, don't practice new stuff down low when you're not at your best. And practice with the Raptor then do it with the nice bird.)
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Jim C
Veteran
Location: Indiana, PA

 hehehe that sucks..... i trashed one of my airplanes one time cuz i had a massive head cold..... may have been a little too windy but all was well untill idecided to land and the nose in thing jumped up and bit me in the a$$. topping off the misery of being sick i had flown a perfect plane into the ground.. i wanted to curl up in a corner and just die

jim
11-27-2002 Over year old.
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Malorie
Elite Veteran
Location: Paw squared, MI

True Death Spiral

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Wrong recovery.
Malorie

Life's a journey, NOT a destination.
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
FinnDave
Elite Veteran
Location: Kouvola, Finland

I remember seeing some guy turn up at the field where I fly all alone (damn) with a Voyager E and fly it, then after it had landed, prepare my, err, his, next model by changing the model memory on the Tx. Voyager suddenly bursts into life as the throttle is now reversed and a stopped electric WILL start up whereas the glow engines I, err he, usually flies will NOT. Result, new model in need of various head parts and a bad attitude towards electrics that I err, he, still has.

David S., Kouvola, Finland
11-27-2002 Over year old.
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Jim C
Veteran
Location: Indiana, PA

 that even looks horrible in letters malorie lol hope i never have to see it in real life



jim
11-27-2002 Over year old.
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KingHippo
Senior Heliman
Location: Borlänge, Sweden

I have done this not so very smart thing with a plank:
I was coming in to land. The idle was a bit high so I pulled the throttle trim down some. Then the plane stoped responding and went into the ground. I looked at the transmitter wondering what's wrong and found out quite quickly. I didn't move the throttle trim but the off-switch
Felt kinda stupid.
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Malorie
Elite Veteran
Location: Paw squared, MI

I hope you don't have to experiance that one either. It sure makes a mess out of a helicopter.

The funny thing with that one was, two days before at our fun fly I did the same thing only saved it inches from the ground. I started thinking to much as I watched it come down. DOH!

The other dumb one I did was with the heli with the purple and white checkerboard canopy that was in MHW. Finished painting it 2am the night before. Guess I should have been sleeping as my brain was foggy all day. I lost track during an inverted pass and WHAMO, the turf god claims another victim!

Malorie

Life's a journey, NOT a destination.
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Corey Stanchina
Senior Heliman
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan

Chalk one up for the trees

I USED to fly in a clearing (now full of houses) behind my house, with the perimeter of the clearing being 30-40 foot pine trees. Whelp, I came out of a loop and lost track of where I was in relation to the trees, and you guessed it, the trees didn't loose track of where I was. I planted it at the very top of a 40 footer. So on this moist evening, trying to climb a slippery tree in a poison ivy patch did not work. Luckily the neighbor was an experienced arborist and $20 later he shimmied up the tree and brought my heli down. Damage, 1 knicked blade, flybar, spindle, EGO.
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Overhead
Senior Heliman
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA

Dumb Dumb

A few years back I had crashed my Shuttle. So when I rebuilt it I upgraded as most guys do.

I changed the roll servo from a JR507 to a Futaba9202. Thinking I am going to have much better response on the roll I am excited to try it out. Started the engine, check the controls, they are moving, good lets go.

I lift off and she starts to drift to the left so I input right cyclic. It still going left so more right until it just tip over to the left and crashes.
That was the shortest flight I ever seen, and most definitly the shortest beween crashes. Total flight time 5 SECONDS.

Turns out JR and Futaba servos do not rotate in the same directions. Yes the controls moved but the roll was the wrong way

Dumb!!
11-27-2002 Over year old.
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Safe_Cracker
Key Veteran
Location: Chicago, IL

Ya trees ae funny like that...

As long as you don't hit the trunk they are pretty forgiving.A buddy of mine did the same but just before it hit he killed the engine and started running for the tree I couldn't figure out why but soon was amazed.When the bird hit the fir tree you heard a loud WHAP then it started to fall, he then caught the son of a gun but caught a blade across the forehead (6 stitches) but kept any other damage from ocurring.He knicked a blade and bent the flybar, that was it.
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
vulpi
Senior Heliman
Location: PARIS

Used straight throttle curve for 1st loops ,

1st one was ok but really close to ground , after landing and checking stuff 2nd loop was right in the dirt , pooor rap30.

Hornet was flying close to ceilling but when i decided to get it closer , the heli got suck up to ceilling and felt like a rock lol.
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
kirk
Veteran
Location: Thornton, Colorado

Wrong Model

Without doing a preflight servo movement check I tried to fly my brothers Raptor 30, with the Fury's program. Took out a set of blades and a spindle on take off. Mechanical mixing does not work too well when the servos are moving in CCPM mode... lesson learned
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
rob_jones
Key Veteran
Location: Oglethorpe, GA

Okay, so I'm not perfect!

This was at the Hodge's Hobbies Heli Fly-In last month. It happened after Kam left on Sunday. I was buzzing around with my Shuttle Plus bragging about how great it flew with the new Hirobo 36 engine. Then the tail rotor belt snapped.

It was preventable because I knew the belt had a bad spot on it, but flew it anyway. I've been flying Shuttles for something like 10 years and have never ever seen a belt break in flight. So I figured it was okay. Well, I figured wrong. I actually saw the belt exit the tail boom and knew right away what had happened when the wild pirouettes started. I tried to do an auto to save it. I actually did a decent job of it and the damage was pretty light. The most expensive part to replace was the belt!

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Team MRC Hirobo
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
guy2000
Heliman
Location:

My preventable crash

Happened when i first learned how to roll in FF.
I was doing some rolls and in one of them, my gyro connector disconnected in the middle of the roll, while it was inverted.
My rappy started pirouetting and i couldn't control it. It went pretty hard into the ground inverted.
$80 damage to the heli, and the engine broke when it hit.
I should have secured this connector better, now I use security clips.
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
meltr
Senior Heliman
Location: London, UK

ok it's not really a heli crash but many years ago when I
were just a lad I was setting up the engine on a plank,
wings off, radio off, just manually handling the throttle
servo. For some reason I unconsciously let go of it
'that's odd' I thought as it pulled away, followed by 'aw
sh*t' as it raced off across the field into the distance.

Mel.
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
banshee rider
Heliman
Location: n.e. illinois

Dumbest of many

Doing low large loops I dragged the vertical fin hard in the grass it didnt crash but i was so dumb founded i froze just starring at it it hit at about a 45 inverted the second time not pretty

ageing is manditory maturity is optional
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
jwooten
Senior Heliman
Location: Cedar Bluff MS

Not too long ago, I switch from hovering at half stick to hovering at ¾ stick. I was in forward flight and was trying to go to a hover. For some reason the heli hovered all the way to the ground. New blades and tail boom time.

Jimmy
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
noxam
Senior Heliman
Location: Lancaster, PA

Almost a Damn Dude!

I had a Sceadu 50 and just removed the blue aluminum push/pull links to revert to the stock bellcranks. I rechecked all the stock linkages, adjusted cyclic pitch and all was well. Or.... I let my budy take it up the first time to fly it and I had forgotten to check the servo direction! He lifted off and all cyclic inputs were backwards. The servos were reversed on the cyclic inputs!! He set it down fast with no mishap but was shaking at the knees for a couple minutes! Almost did it in for the count but he is an excellent, top of the line, Scott Gray like heli pilot and saved it! Wheew!

Alive and Tocking!
11-28-2002 Over year old.
 
 
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