corey11
Elite Veteran
Location: Bay Area, California
| ive got 2one of my crashes was because my first flight. the runway was open, no one on it. there was only 3 of us there,(it was 8am) the 3rd guy was getting his stuff out of his car. so i gassed up, and took the runway. it was my first flight of the day, probably 42 degrees out, took off into a hover, went into foward flight, did one turn and the engine died. so i had to auto from about 40 feet. it was a nice auto to, flared it right, and everything. just i didnt land on the runway, i landed on dirt. and this dirt was all messed up. it was all turned over by a plow. so it lands, slides a foot, and almost rolls over because of the clumps in the ground. but the blades tap the ground. but it was still right side up. so i went to pick it up, and the back of the blades were cracked. i glued it back together and it was fine. i flew an hour later.
My other crash was because i was showing off. i was at a different feild and was flipping it around. i had no idea why i was doing it. i knew i couldnt.  but i kept it up. so i went to do 2 back flips in a row. did the first nicely, second one wasnt so great. i was upside down, still flipping 15 feet off the ground. i was scared ****less so it flipped over, ALMOST right side up, smacked the ground on its side, hit the tail rotor on the ground, went back into a hover!!! Then a guy who was watching says" Hey! you got it, your not going to crash" and i thought, "Yes, im happy i didnt" then at that moment, i see the tail swing around REALLY fast! spins toward the ground and SMACK! the worst part about it was the wires of the battery cought the ball links in the rotor head......then, i saw the battery get THROWN out.. hits the fence and explodes! so now the helis sitting at half throttle digging holes it starts spinning on its side and smacks the fence, puts a nice ding in the boom. there was no way in hell i was going out and stopping the heli, and killing the engine. it was only a 160 dollar heli(guess witch one it was ) so it finnaly hits the fence.....again and stops. i jump over the fence and pull the fuel line out....and jump back over it dies, and i pick it up. looks like hell hit it. wires in the main rotor, canopy in half(dont ask how) skids in peices, blades........everywere on the feild. I wish i got it on film. it looks like it just EXPLODED when it hit the ground. it seemed like i landed in a mine feild. Blade peices were stuck in the fence, flybar was a V shape, paddle missind, found one with hallf the flybar hooked up to it! it was a great crash! id do it again......if i didnt have to pay for it. I was laughing the whole time. i wish someone i knew saw it.
Then after that crash, a guy says" hey, could you fly my heli"!!!! i was like......ummmmmmm nooo. didnt want to crash that one to. |
now i got a new rec. for it (WOW) P.S. it was all right !!!
oh well!!!!!!!! live and learn!
