danhampson
Member
Just got my 130x back up and running after replacing the main gear so thought that i would take her out for a flight all was going well tail in, left side in, right side in, all good or so i thought.
i changed the battery used that doing so FF landed and change the battery again, back to doing some more FF about half way through the pack i thought that id try a loop (like ive tryed on the sim loads of times), so i gained some altitude and forward speed flipped into IU gave it max collective and pulled back on the elevator as the nose was pointing straight up the tail blew out making it piro out of control, i regained control and landed the bird.
i inspected the tail gears front and back (no teeth missing and mesh looks fine), so decided to give it another go. i took off got myself ready and again as the nose was pointing to the sky the tail blew out again, this time i wasnt so lucky i couldnt regain control so at about 10' i hit throttle hold to try and minimise the damage.
I ended up with a broken main shaft and broken bevel gear (just ordered the parts)
Does anyone have any idea why the tail might be blowing out during a hard collective maneuver?
i changed the battery used that doing so FF landed and change the battery again, back to doing some more FF about half way through the pack i thought that id try a loop (like ive tryed on the sim loads of times), so i gained some altitude and forward speed flipped into IU gave it max collective and pulled back on the elevator as the nose was pointing straight up the tail blew out making it piro out of control, i regained control and landed the bird.
i inspected the tail gears front and back (no teeth missing and mesh looks fine), so decided to give it another go. i took off got myself ready and again as the nose was pointing to the sky the tail blew out again, this time i wasnt so lucky i couldnt regain control so at about 10' i hit throttle hold to try and minimise the damage.
I ended up with a broken main shaft and broken bevel gear (just ordered the parts)
Does anyone have any idea why the tail might be blowing out during a hard collective maneuver?