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Well I just got my Blade MSR and was getting a bit cramped indoors so decided to take it outside into the football park. Decided to take it central of the park about 30-40m away from the tree/bushes that line the road. There was a bit of a wind about 5mph but a few gusts. Anyway I had a bit of a fly around and then a bit of a hard landing.
Tried to take off again and it started tilting into the grass. Looked at the swashplate and it wasn't level so decided to try and level it a bit. So attempted to level it up. Attempted to take off again but couldn't as it kept tilting. So I held it and throttled up and managed to get airborne from a thrown takeoff.
It was going around a bit and was about 5-6m off the ground. Next minute I know a gust of wind came along and I faced it towards me and put a bit of forward cyclic. No good the gust was too fierce and it started to head over the tree line and for the road. Otherside of the road is houses so I didn't want to land it there. So I just zero throttled it and hoped for the best even though I could hear cars coming along the road.
Went around and walked along the footpath and was wondering if it got caught in the trees which I thought to myself would be an impossibility to find. I kept on walking and looked at the road expecting to see a flattened mess. On the otherside of the road, sitting about 20cm from the edge of the road but still on it was the MSR. I'm not sure if it hit a car and ended up there or what but it was sitting there unscathed. I didn't see the blue light on so not sure what happened. Anyway I picked it up and took it home. Put the other battery on and it flashed away so it's still ok.
Will have to straighten out the linkages and level the swashplate but besides that it survived landing on a busy road
Tried to take off again and it started tilting into the grass. Looked at the swashplate and it wasn't level so decided to try and level it a bit. So attempted to level it up. Attempted to take off again but couldn't as it kept tilting. So I held it and throttled up and managed to get airborne from a thrown takeoff.
It was going around a bit and was about 5-6m off the ground. Next minute I know a gust of wind came along and I faced it towards me and put a bit of forward cyclic. No good the gust was too fierce and it started to head over the tree line and for the road. Otherside of the road is houses so I didn't want to land it there. So I just zero throttled it and hoped for the best even though I could hear cars coming along the road.
Went around and walked along the footpath and was wondering if it got caught in the trees which I thought to myself would be an impossibility to find. I kept on walking and looked at the road expecting to see a flattened mess. On the otherside of the road, sitting about 20cm from the edge of the road but still on it was the MSR. I'm not sure if it hit a car and ended up there or what but it was sitting there unscathed. I didn't see the blue light on so not sure what happened. Anyway I picked it up and took it home. Put the other battery on and it flashed away so it's still ok.
Will have to straighten out the linkages and level the swashplate but besides that it survived landing on a busy road
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