First breakage...sob sob

[Chinook]

I guess that's the first one out of the way then...only a minor shunt though, got too cocky and tried to do a nose in 360*, lost my orientation completely, panicked and shut the throttle. The Chinook hit the floor hard and snapped the o/s/rear undercarriage leg.. ..1/2" of alloy tube and a drop of superglue and five minutes later, job done.


Lesson learned though...


Rich

[Birdie4x4]

A bit cocky after you venture out doors perhaps.

[Chinook]

Yep, reckon you'm right...good thing there was nobody to see it and take the micky...


Rich

[Mart61]

Oh well, chalk it up to experience and learn from it.

[Chinook]

Yep, it wasn't a great problem...all fixed and just tried it out, all is well. Serves me right for trying to be too bloody clever!!!



Rich

[tiddler]

Hey Rich,
I've seen somebody who is a half decent 3D pilot bust up a coax while demonstrating it.

It happens m8, No big deal, and it looks like you've done a good repair job on it

[Chinook]

Ouch..now there's a man who crept out under the door instead of opening it!

I've done worse....managed to lose a sub in 20' of muddy river on it's maiden voyage! Never did get that one back....

The first day I had my new sweeper at work, went up on the landfill site to tip, fell in a hole and ended up with me looking at the sky with the sweeper's ass down in the hole. Did nearly forty grand's worth of damage in less than two minutes....

I've done worse....


Rich

[spunkmyer]

Got away lightly I think. Today my raptor se titan went in on its first flight. ,Broken blade, bent paddle shaft, feather shaft, broken links etc. Its how you learn

[Chinook]

Oh man, that hurts just reading about it. But, as you rightly say, it's the way you learn...my commiserations.


Rich

[Nick B]

Yep, reckon you'm right...good thing there was nobody to see it and take the micky...

So you sit behind your PC and tell the world

Unluck dude,glad you have fixed it....wish my heli's were as easy to get back in the sky after an 'incedent'

[Chinook]

So you sit behind your PC and tell the world

Yer...didn't fink of that, did I?

Unluck dude,glad you have fixed it....wish my heli's were as easy to get back in the sky after an 'incedent'

Only problem is, having started off with just a slight bump, I still have the big one to come....


Rich

[Nick B]

Think yourself lucky,my brother has a chinhook,he got cocky with it on the patio in the summer,hit the house and hit the floor,damage was all 4 wheels scattered about and a huge dent in his pride!

I didnt know wether to laugh or cry,so i did both,cried with laughter

[moonmanflyer]

If thats the worst you have had happen count yourself very lucky mate.
I remember a year and a half ago standing on the flight line as i was watching my synergy n9 caios itself into the ground completly out of control as the battery wire had come apart, a complete write off, i nearly cried

[Nick B]

Till you replaced it with????????...then you were happy again

[Chinook]

Oh man, you fellas are giving me indigestion reading about your prangs..

I guess I have been lucky, back when I had my Hughes 300, the worst thing that ever happened to that was a burst float. The Shuttle never even got scratched in it's career...so yes, I guess Lady Luck took a shine to me in my heli flying. Shame she ignored the works vehicles...one VERY bent sweeper, God knows how much damage to a street in Polperro during my long distance trucking career, and then there was that incident on the IOW ferry...

Guess Lady Luck prefers things that go round and round....


Rich