Align 600 blades banned at my club!!!

[gazza]

Hi fellas.

So, my mate rings me today as he's just got to the club & there are written notices everywhere stating that under no circumstances are 600mm Align blades to be used there & the situation remains so until further notice.

He didn't know whether it meant the Carbon or glass or both as it made no mention of either but it did mention either 'A' series or 'B' series being affected...Sorry chaps I can't recall which
He was Jumping up & down about it as he has two pairs of Align Carbons for his Titan & no others...So he was in effect grounded.

Anyone heard anything about this elsewhere?
Must be serious for our club to ban anything

[Arky]

sounds like a club run by plankers

[Fixxxer]

I'd replace the 'Pl' with a 'W'

[gazza]

Haha yeah well as posh as Sheffield is it's prob now a Radix only club
I'll do some more digging, I just didn't have time to go down today myself...Seriously though It's a heli only club & a great one at that, No pwlankers that I know of (Except me)

[Gaza07]

This might be what they are worried about
http://runryder.com/helicopter/t367669p1/

[gazza]

Good work fella

[moyesboy]

Interesting, but reading the RR thread is an hour I wont get back...
I was a one time ready heli customer and got that email warning about the align 600 blades.

[raptorheli2]

my heli only club has also banned align baldes....good thing i would say. i have flown all align blades and they are bloody awful anyway in 600 guise.

cheers

[justin keaton]

LOL! thats funny, i have also used all the Align blades and they are just as good as any other top end blade, i attend alot of funflys and the majority of blades are align D blades, they track great never had a problem from them and they snap your heli like no other i have flown, i run them on my 700 and my N5 , i just wish they would start sending out some of the first align d blades the ones with just the carbon stripe and the root, those were the original d blades now ther calling them C blades, in my pinion they are the best 600 size blade made for my style of flying

[Gaza07]

The thread is 3 years old

[3DBish]

The thread is 3 years old

LMAO! i read a bit of the RR thread and happened to look at the date on the posts.. anyone know if the issue has been resolved? :P :cheers:

[waveydavey]

If they think Align blades are bad they should ban Torsions for ever. I've never had a problem with Align blades on my 600 and would rate them highly. No failures whatsoever.

[coolice]

Lol, the linked thread/topic has 2007 dates on the postings so i think it's safe to say the problems been fixed :-)

Got people jumpy for a minute though.
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[sacko]

If they think Align blades are bad they should ban Torsions for ever.

Agreed, someone at the field done a pair of the night blades and there was no resin on half the carbon when split open, was like pulling out horse hair.

[antsis]

A pilot at our club had a set of Align blades on his 600n. He was hovering it for the first time after a rebuild when one blade flew off and went between him and another pilot. When they found the blade, it had failed at the root. The brass insert was still on the bolt. I felt bad because I had given him the blades which had been on my MD500.

I did not realise there had been reported problems with them.