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miataguy
Veteran
Location: Santa Barbara, CA

Yay! I didn't crash last month. How about you? How many times did you crash in April?

Official RunRyder Googlewhacker!

05-01-2003 Over year old.

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Lift
Elite Veteran
Location: Houston, TX

Peter,
None, I got it in Feb and April!

05-01-2003 Over year old.

Airman98
Key Veteran
Location: Southern Illinois

I feel for the two guys that went in 3 times in a month.
Tim

05-02-2003 Over year old.

440GTX
Veteran
Location: Calgary, Canada

CRASH

When you ask how many crashes. Is that any where
for a set of blades to a New Kit. ??

Count me in on a set of blades. I found out the hard way helis cannot knife edge at slow speeds

Fred..

05-02-2003 Over year old.

Richard
Veteran
Location: Scottish Borders, U.K.

I crashed two times in one afternoon. I had just swapped my woodies for a new set of glass blades in my Raptor and flew for about 20 seconds when I got the woofs. I landed hard and snapped the front skid and bent the spindle.
I went home and returned to the site and repaired the parts. Checked averything else possible on the heli and then started hovering around to make sure everything was O.K. After a couple of minutes I started a gentle circuit when I got the Woofs again and landed quite far away from myself. Just as I touched down, the heli flipped onto it side and thrashed its self to bits destroyong my new blades, tail boom, drive belt, boom supports, tail blades, spindle and tail shaft.
I'm not sure if the cause was due to landing on uneven ground or the tracking going wildly out just I touched down. Anyway, An expensive day for less than one tank of fuel.

Richard

05-02-2003 Over year old.

mrNoodles
rrProfessor
Location: Borlänge, Sweden

None

/Fredrik
'Hm now I just have to find out where to connect the GV1 sensor to the Jazz80 ESC.

05-03-2003 Over year old.

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TipSpeed
Senior Heliman
Location: Glenside / Telford PA

None

-so I called up twenty mike-mike and I rolled in for the pass

05-05-2003 Over year old.

rockier
Key Veteran
Location: Las Vegas

None in April and May is looking good.

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05-07-2003 Over year old.

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Lift
Elite Veteran
Location: Houston, TX

Update!

Just crashed yesterday at lunch break. Doh!

Damn piro-flips are killin me. Can't get my timing right and recovering from a piroetting flip is kinda hard.

05-07-2003 Over year old.

Dazzler
Elite Veteran
Location: Ohio

Ok Lift, which one did you crash?

05-07-2003 Over year old.

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miataguy
Veteran
Location: Santa Barbara, CA

Got to fly yesterday after work. I'm still falling out of my piroflips occasionally. Until I really master them, I'm practicing at least 100 feet up. Sorry for your close encounter Payton. Was it the Raven?

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05-07-2003 Over year old.

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Ken B
Elite Veteran
Location: Phoenix, AZ

Does it matter if I crashed on purpose?

Ken B

05-07-2003 Over year old.

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inventory
Senior Heliman
Location: CA

lucky number zero, burned out a clutch liner and pinion bearing though.

Hey Vokul, is that vid up yet? Been away for a few days, but I'd love to see it...

05-08-2003 Over year old.

Jagboy69
Key Veteran
Location: Lake Mary, Florida (20 mins East of Orlando)

Video is up... small version is found on my website... Augusto has it also under crashes... Ken is out of town for a couple of weeks... I will be posting the large video to my site also to help out with the bandwidth issue..
Jason

Jason /// Sceadu50/9chp WWW.Jagboy69.com

05-08-2003 Over year old.

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Lift
Elite Veteran
Location: Houston, TX

Daz & Miataguy,
It was the Raven. I was about 75' and it was my 7th or 8th attempt at it. I cut the manuever in half(piro-flip to inverted, hold, piro-flip to upright, hold, repeat....) and I think I was not warmed up and trying to much to fast this time. I did ALOT of stuff in that first 1/2 tank.

Although, I got to comparing if it was my P-Max that went in instead:
http://runryder.com/helicopter/t46392p1/

Ken,

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Does it matter if I crashed on purpose?

How funny!

I am DLing the infamous video now....

05-08-2003 Over year old.

its-a-trick
Senior Heliman
Location: Cymru

Its been 3months since my last one but havent flown much

05-11-2003 Over year old.

rcheliflyer
Key Veteran
Location: calif., usa

No crashes !!
I've been pretty lucky during April especially since I flew a lot harder
than I usually do learning and practicing new stuff

March was not as good 2 crashes on the same heli, one too low to
recover from a botched flip and the second right after fixing that same heli,missed checking a loose screw on the aileron lever, which may have contributed to the first crash

05-12-2003 Over year old.

Wayne Ennett
Heliman
Location: Jacksonville, NC

Crashed

I crashed My Nexus 30 Eater Sunday.

05-13-2003 Over year old.

d-n-jensen
Veteran
Location: Bellevue WA

If you don't crash - You are not trying hard enough

05-13-2003 Over year old.

edee61
Heliman
Location: Sparta,TN

Lost it in sun, got disorented tried rolling out of it instead dumped it. You`ve got to try though

05-27-2003 Over year old.

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