Sar
Elite Veteran
Location: Kingston, NY
| My first real crash, not some piddly tail rotor getting dorked 
All I can say about this one is that I am glad that no one was hurt, the crash itself doesn't bother me it just plastic and metal. Flesh and bone is more difficult to repair.
I was on my 3rd flight of the day, had strapped the GPS to the tailboom and had originally planned to just do some lazy flying to get a track going in the GPS. Well then, out of pure genius I decided why not throw a roll in? So I go for it. Of course, being in normal mode really didn't help matters. As I flew left to right, fairly far out from the flightline I went for the roll, realized what I had done when it was upside-down, falling with a very low headspeed, it hit the ground pretty hard from about 80 feet up about 50 feet from where 3 or 4 people were under tents. I am very thankful to any diety/scientific law/luck that it went away from people.
Damage cost tabulation comming.. SO FAR, but more details once I rip it apart it works out like this.
Tail boom (have one spare)
Torque Tube(Have one spare)
Entire tail rotor assembly( the gears are fine though  )
CF vertical tail fin
Tail boom support
TT CF Blades
Flybar
Canopy/Canopy clips
Landing gear struts
Landing gear aluminum tubes
All lower plastic frame pieces are broken
The head was in surprisingly good shape considering it landed upside down, I will more than likely have to add mainshaft and feathering shaft into that as well. I have not looked deeper for more specific damage.
I'm going to take this completely apart (back to kit form) and rebuild it, too hard of a landing just to replace the broken parts and fly again.
Rock on! 
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Jon |
Wasn't expecting that, main shaft and feathering shaft are shot as well. Pinion bearing shot also, dry bearing, probably not related.
