Ode to a hard time model....

[jboweruk]

She sat in the corner
All battered and bruised
That poor little skylift
Alone and unused

My heart it did break
So her Tranny I take
In go the Batt'ries
To fly her I'll make

I put on some blades
some flybars as well
and think to myself
this is gonna be hell

So off up she goes
with shudders and shakes
then into the wall
and new blades she breaks

while on the way
I cuss and I duck
as too near to my head
my eyeballs to pluck

I look and I curse
but I lovingly take
that poor battered skylift
and mend all that break

Once more I attach
the lipo to her
and power her up
so she takes to the air

Again she has lifted,
and after a bit
I get her to hover
and trim her a bit

She hangs in the air,
and I watch for the light
that tells me her time
is up for the night

I land at the end,
not a blade has she done
2 batt'ries later
and now having fun

as twice in the air
5 mins at a time
she sits in the hover
and lands oh so fine

At last having fun
with my Chinook as should
she's getting more stable
with each passing run...

The End.

[jboweruk]

BTW, the moral to this story is:

No matter how hopeless it seems, don't give up, don't EVER give up, it will come okay in the end. I've now run a total of 3 lipos through my Skylift: and for any new ppl here just ask Ron and the others what I've gone through with her, and no crashes. Yes that's 3 lipos, 15 minutes of flying time and all ended with soft landings. Yay.

[Bug]

nice poem

[Boggy]

why wouldn't jb's skylift fly
for clues he looked and looked
but now he knows the reason why
because its completley ****ed

[jboweruk]

Ah no, actually I think truth be told, I bought her too early, I wouldn't recommend it for a novice, which I was. Now I've more experience behind me and know more why she wouldn't straighten up and fly right. Had I waited till now to fly her she'd have cost me far less. Now I've got her sorted, btw that's fully 5 batteries through her now, I'll look at getting a new body and lights and put the Camera on her again.

[Boggy]

good man glad you took my poem the right way.
and as you say now you may get somewhere with your camera idea's