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  • unlucky crash damage, well i think it was!:)

    After looking out of the window all day at the gusting up to 30mph winds, at 6 today the wind finally dropped off, so took my little boy Jake who is 3 and a half with me to have a go with the 130x.
    I have a good little spot in the park where I fly it, the tree line seems to shelter the patch from the wind quite a bit. So first lipo with him stood behind me as intructed and being very good, although non stop "flip it daddy" "loop! crash in the grass daddy, what?! he wanted me to kamikaze it into the heaps of cut grass which there were plenty of, no Jake I said it will break it son.

    THEN on about my fourth continuous funnel as it came towards me Jake was jabbering on about going "faster" and "higher" I got too low to the deck and THUMP! The heli had thumped right into one of the 2 feet high pyramids on grass, I wasnt expecting and damage tbh I hit hold bang on impact. WRONG! the ball from the blade grip had snapped clean off and the blade was flapping loose, great!! this all happened literally 30 sec into my first lipo, I had 4 lipos with me, so back home with my tail between my legs after 30 secs of flying, gutted!

    Jake was over the moon at all the grass flying up in the air and thought Id did the crash on purpose And he wasnt too bothered about the lack of flying as he fed the ducks at the pond warburtons best on the way home.


    Just looked , £8.50 for the blade grips is a bit steep, suppose thats eflight spares price for you!
    Sab Goblin 500

  • #2
    The good thing about it is you buy a pair of grips but only use one,you have a spare for next time.
    Cheers Dave M.

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    • #3
      They where £10 from Fl for sh*ty bits of eflight plastic yuk!!
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      • #4
        Damn that was unlucky! Soon be fixed up though!
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        • #5
          My three year old is the same, gets board when it is flying, laughs his head of when it crash's so I only fly the mSRX when he is around
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          • #6
            I had the same when I 'lost' a tail grip,

            then yesterday hving put the rakonheli slider on, go out and test, 15 seconds into the first lipo, it throws one of the tiny pins out, so I had to go home too
            Kev




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            • #7
              This happen to my stock tail grip, so upgraded to MH. Crashed with MH grips and no damage to the grips but bent the tail shaft. Cheaper to fix, but would not recommend MH as they do not fit on the stock tail shaft. Ended up selling the MH ones and replaced with rakon.

              I think upgrade tail parts are a cheaper option to stock in the long run.
              Paz

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