Well, I hadn't had a crash in over three months so I guess I was due, but crud...
Last week, flying my E5, showing some co-workers my flying for the first time. I was doing a bunch of fast rolls, too close to the ground and dumb-thumbed it right in. Damage is not too bad, main rotor blades, tail boom, torque tube shaft, and landing struts.
A couple days later I was hovering my N5c in my driveway, just hovering to run the engine and burn up the last of some fuel in the tank. Apparently, having not learned from my burnt E7 ESC and motor fiasco, I hadn't used Shoe Goo on the connectors into the SK540 yet. As it's hovering, the power glitches enough to reset the SK540. The heli goes into the concrete and destroys my brand new Rail main rotor and tail blades. Luckily, that's the extent of the damage.
Saturday, I'm flying my E7. I had been chasing a problem with the tail not holding and also "pausing" during piros during FFF. I found that the tail pitch slider bushing had a groove worn in it and the tail pitch slider was wobbling badly. Anyway, first flight out after replacing that bushing and while doing some rolls the heli just stops rolling while it's at about a 30 degree angle and I can't get it to roll at all. So... I stand there and watch it just go in. It ended up with almost the same exact damage the E5 did, plus taking some huge chunks of the gel coat off of my Sick Canopy
. It looks like the servo horn screw on one of the cyclic servos worked its way loose and when the servo reached its maximum travel, it just stuck there. I can't find the E7 TT in stock anywhere so at least I don't have to worry about crashing it again for a while. Oh, and on top of the crash, I was still having the problem where the tail would only rotate about 30 to 40 degrees while doing a right piro during FFF and then when the heli slowed down enough it would whip around.
Just had to vent...
