MiniTitan tail, bah!

November 30, 2007 Filed under: General Heli Stuff — andymc @ 5:48 pm

Well, it was dry this morning, and I was off work.

So A quick hover practice with my Mini Titan was called for :)

Previously, I have landed with the tail down a bit too much and  stripped the gears of the tail drive shaft :(

I have also incurred a broken vertical stabilser fin, a crack near the bottom of the tail boom..So I CA’d that together.

Well today, I landed fine, but the tail fin twisted to the right - I guess the grass was a bit bump and it jarred the fin a bit.. The tail rotors promptly ate the fin, chopped themselves and stripped the gears of my tail drive shaft and the main tail shaft.

Curses upon those bumps on grass.

A valuable lesson - don’t fly with a cracked tail fin :p

Chucking it down now, so its lama time before the kids wake up :)

Andy

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