Buzzin Brian
Elite Veteran
Location: College Station, Texas
| I have seen the results from a TV tail slide with MS blades first hand. I was at a field with Mark Keiner watching him do some real killer stuff. And between flights we started talking about blades and their performance. And that is when the topic came up about MS blades. He abruptly told me not to try a TV tail slide with a set no matter what. I asked him why, and he pulled a Futura Nova out of the back of his RV that was wadded up in a ball. I mean it was DESTROYED! He explained to me that he was doing a demo with the ship and was atempting a TV tail slide when BAM the thing went into the ground tail first, full speed. He said that after the incident he was wondering what happened. After some disscution with a few guys at the field he was at he found a guy there that had the accident on tape. When viewed in slow motion you could see one blade come severly out of track when he pulled back on the cyclic to pull out of the tail slide. The blade broke off at the root, and all the rest is history. Now these were not night blades, but I wouldn't try it with either one. Shortly after this incident MS started putting warnings in their blade packaging stateing that they were not recomended for this type of manuver. I know that every pair I have bought have had this warning. So if you are wanting to do this stuff I would look into night V blades. But that may be just me.
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