I was flying my final battery and having fun. I attempted a loop followed by a stall turn, when I shouldn't have. I came in too low and slow, with a slight bank angle, at the base of the loop. On the exit of the loop I was again too low and slow to execute a good stall turn and exited it at a weird bank angle and still too low. I pulled up to get away from the ground and lost forward momentum, then lost orientation for a split second! When I tried to correct, I banked the wrong way into the ground! It went in with a hefty thud! I was able to shut the motor off right before it hit the ground.
The aftermath!
Looking over the damage on my pit table.
Upon the 1st inspection the damaged parts include:
-main blades
-tail blades
-blade grip arms
-cyclic servo gears (all 3 of them!)
-left main frame plate (cracked may be able to repair)
-main shaft
-tail boom
-tail push rod
-canopy (small cracks, but ok)
The repair cost is about $180 so far, not including a new canopy. If I had the Vbar Neo rescue feature, maybe I could have saved it? I plan to upgrade to it now, if I can move the push switch on my DX8 to a better location.
For now I need to order the parts and get this bird back in the air before I let it sit too long.
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