700 tail failure!

[3DBish]

Had a wonderful day at the field yesterday... NOT

Managed to come back home with a completely totalled trex 700.

Had a normal flight with it, didn’t necessarily put it through any more torture than it does every flight, got about ¾ of the way through the tank and decided to land because the fingers were getting a bit chilly so brought it into the hover about 10 (ish) foot off the ground ready to land. Then all of a sudden the model started shaking like mad and chewed its self up in the air and plummeted into the deck. Of course I was in shock and had no idea what happened, when we went to retrieve the wreckage we couldn’t find the tail rotor around anywhere close. Started searching the field and fount the rotor and blade holder in tact about 35 feet away with a sheared bolt.

Oh and did i mention i managed to total a vibe 50 about half an hour before?

[Jamin_00]

Holy crap.

2 totalled helis in one session.

I feel for you man.

I got spares if you need as I no longer got a 700.

[Nick B]

Shit!....not good,had TT snap the other day so know how you feel

[moonmanflyer]

Feel for ya man, though the 700 doesn't look to bad, but to bin the vibe as well, not good.
The worst bit of them is the loss of the blades, not good

[Jamin_00]

Thats why I keep so many blades cos thatys the one thing that ****es me off when I crash,blades.

So i keep loads of pairs.

[jamiem]

I stuffed the N9 on sunday, not a bad one though, but still around £150 in bits - not good a week before xmas!

[Steve]

Which bolt broke on the 700 tail?

[bish]

Please save some sympathy for me guys dad's £350 poorer today

[Jamin_00]

Bit of a bad weekend it seems.

What with 2 at PMHC on Sunday,Gareth and the Srimok and now you guys not good

[3DBish]

yeahh the blades are always the worst.

saying that though the vibe had that beautiful orange canopy on it, managed to get away with just a tiny chip on that though.. oh no wait on the journey home the dynatron starter fell on it and did twice the fking damage!

[barney]

Throwing the tail hubs on the 700 seems to be a recurring thing. Done it once myself and know of at least a couple others. Whether it is fatigue or issue after a repair where the bolts have become stressed I'm not sure. I opted to fit a QUK tailhub.
Brian

[acwman]

sorry to hear that.. Doesn't look a pretty site

Mechanical failures are always not nice.. My 450 belt snapped on me today about 25ft up inverted.. Fearing the worse, but turned out the only damage was a bent flybar which I managed to bend back.. A new belt for me and I'll be away again..

[bish]

Which bolt broke on the 700 tail?

The one through the holder and bearings into the hub we only discovered what happened when we got home and carried out an inquest

[waveydavey]

Theres a vid of the tail rotor coming off when Jack Kessock was flying a 700

Click Here, the tail coming off is at the end.

[bish]

One thing we had noticed the last couple of weeks was slight foaming in the tank i think we checked every thing bar the tail blades the more i think the more i think that was the start of it.