R90 boom strike

[moonmanflyer]

Was avery lucky boy today, had a boom strike on my Raptor 90 SE but got away with just the following, and it carried on flying, only noticed the damage when i landed.
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So the Q is, what dampers are people running and do you run the 3d plastic blade grips or shall i swap too the metal se ones that i have, the plastics seem quite good in flight to be fair.
Also the cyclics on the aileron are a bit slow running 700 paddles, what are other people running to get some speed

[Geek]

James I am glad I stayed home.

Did it damage the blades?

[jamiem]

very lucky. A chap came to our club once about 2 years ago and demonstrated chaos on his raptor 90, doing the same thing. he then carried on and did it even faster, resulting in a total loss of the model....

[mark lane]

No blase damage and a lucky escape.... we did not even hear it but the heli was flying very well indeed.

Damper upgrade me thinks

[simm0]

hi james this is stefan

i use plastic blade grips...
innavation damper....
690 nhp blades.....

so run your damping hard and your blades kinda tight but ive never boom struck since i put innavation dampers in,

what dampers are you running ?

stefan

[Jamin_00]

Nevermind that, what blades you using that can withstand that???

[Tim Procter]

Was avery lucky boy today, had a boom strike on my Raptor 90 SE

I didnt know you had a Raptor 90 SE.

Have I missed you purchasing helis again.

[moonmanflyer]

Not a purchase Tim, a swap, my 600 for the rappy, going to run just 90 sizes, bar will keep my 450 for winter time
As for dampers Craig i haven't a clue what they are, but will see if i can track down some of them, cheers.
Not sure when it happened in the flight, didn't hear it as such, was doing a hamfisted chaos and some hard pitch stops from fast forward flight and might of happened on either.
And as for the blades, not even a mark on them at all, torsion 690's, rock hard

[moonmanflyer]

James I am glad I stayed home.

Did it damage the blades?

You missed the explodidng Wot4 as well mate, The one i got off ron and re-built, i stuffed it flat out nose down into the ground, it went home in carrier bags, it was destroyed

[mattie-lodge]

Hi James,

I boom struck my Raptor 90 running Infinavation dampers and like you I got away with it. The only difference from mine to Stefan's is I was running 710 SB's

I think I have a spare set of those dampers if you want to try them.