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Heliman
Location: Puteaux - France
| I have about 70 flights on my BEAM E4 and I am very happy with the bird.
Last night adjusting some pitch curves and iddle up settings I had a tremendous surprise.
I took off (I was in my 3rd flight of the day) turned the bird in all senses while hovering and started a fast forward flight in iddle up. I was at about 7 meters high and out of a sudden I felt a strong blockage in the head speed to a point that the bird literally fell to the ground (fortunately very soft grass area). When it impacted against earth, the headspeed was almost to none.
I just realized what had occured minutes later as also the canopy was taken apart and so one connection of my DEAN lipo.
In fact, I had lost one screw holding one of the arms close to the seesaw.
Before anybody says anything, every screw was indeed threaded locked but still I had the problem.
Moral : Check out often these screws as this can be very dangerous and costly. Fortunately the heli did not fall on anybody's head or property and due to the fact that it ended in a very soft grass area, the only damage I had was some scratches in the canopy, one servo arm that broke with a lost link. That was all. The BEAM was incredibly rock solid !
See photo that points to the loose screw.
I thought it would be worthwhile sharing with you.
Eduardo
T-REX 450S GF / T-REX 500 GF / BEAM E4 |
