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cerberus
So, at the weekend I finally got round to fixing my large helicopter. I crashed it at the local park while flying about a year ago. It was soaring up at about 50ft above the ground, then a gust of wind caught it and sent it out of range and it began plummeting to the ground, only it didn’t go straight down, the wind caused it to go down and horizontally, it picked up quite a bit of speed then went behind a tree and there was a loud snap noise when it hit the ground.
Went over and found that the damage wasn’t actually that bad. The cab had split in half, which is just a peice of flimsy plastic peice of plastic anyway. The rear shaft bit (don’t know what its called) had broken off at the join to the body. Also, the radio equipment box had broken off its mounts. I tried fixing it with some glue about 6 months ago but that didn’t hold it strong enough. However, I managed to get it fixed with some peices of metal (I think it was paper clip) which were cable tied to the body and the rear shaft. Then I stuck a load of hot glue on it all to hold it in place. You can see what I mean in the pics.
This fix seems to work and it didn’t break on the first flight. I’ll just have to be careful with it on landings.
Awesome I love these! I got a £20 for Xmas - only 2 channel so not very controllable but it lasts for 10-15 mins! amazing! Flying round the garden is great! My little bro has a 4 channel electric one - now that is fun!
I’m having a hard time adjusting to my 3 channel apache! 4 channels would probably melt my mind, 