Mayday! Protos Down

[Island Breeze]

Can someone say big Bee...I flew my plane and went thru 2 flights on my heli with no problems on the third flight just before hitting TH to land, low and behold in my face he showed up and freaked the living "you know" out of me and my bird ended on its side. this little Bee cost me my edge blades, main shaft, feather shaft, 1 blade grip and my beautiful canopy. Aww the pain!

 

[Westy]

Bummer dude .... sorry to hear your run in with nature.... the Bee was just showing you his close quarters hovering skills!!

hope you get her in the air soon!

 

[Stambo]

Bee was probably trying to tell you off, you were flying in his airspace.

 

[Graham Lawrie]

Sorry to hear that Anthony. Flew one today. I love Protos. Good luck with the rebuild

 

[Island Breeze]

LMAO! it kept coming... he sure can hover, lucky I have two PROTOS. heading to the field today for Fathers Day fun fly. Whoo! Hoo! and yes I will be looking out for that Bee. Going to send the "GOBLIN" after him.

 

[callsign4223]

Next time chase the bee off with the protos.

 

[Tony]

You first Matt. Get that 450 out here and start chasing wasps lol.

 

[Lee]

Sorry to see that dude. I'm sure you killed some of his mates with those edge blades and he was just getting you back.

 

[callsign4223]

Last time I flew the 450 the whole leading edge of the blades was stained red from the gnats.

 

[Tony]

You should have come down this weekend, we would have put both heli's in the air. Hell who knows, I might have put the 600 in the air just to test the mechanics... lol.

 

[Island Breeze]

All good fellas! Flew the other Protos today. its been awhile since I flew it and for some reason it does not have the same punch as the other one.

 

[Island Breeze]

Protos down again...I got her all fixed up and ready for the weekend. Did my after crash check of everything and all was good, so I thought. first batt was warmup with FF circles and fig 8's. on my second batt did my first barrel roll and "pop" the linkage arm broke off right where it meets the plastic for the ball, you can see the blade just flapping around in the air. it was so loud everyone in the field thought the blade was going to come off. SL did not help me here lol. Heli flew into some tall grass which basically saved me some money. Extent of damage will be replace main/feather shaft, 2xblade grip, all linkage(to be sure), bearings, tail boom, belt, frame(small crack) and two servo's. my lesson learned..is to inspect all links no matter what.

 

[Graham Lawrie]

Unlucky I love this bird

 

[Island Breeze]

Unlucky I love this bird

Me too..ordering parts today. Grrr! the agony

 

[Tony]

Wow, you broke the metal linkage and the plastic is still in one piece? Talk about odd. These are the crashes that I hate (mechanical failure) but also know are hard to catch. Good luck on the build.

 

[Island Breeze]

Wow, you broke the metal linkage and the plastic is still in one piece? Talk about odd. These are the crashes that I hate (mechanical failure) but also know are hard to catch. Good luck on the build.

they are, I hate the fact that I had extra and didn't replace any.

 

[Tony]

No need to beat yourself up over that one. Who checks something that is made of solid steel? lol. No one would think to look for a micro crack in those, I know I never have.