mrjdstewart
Legendary member
my oldest and most trusted plane tried to take my finger today!
one of the first planes i bought when i started this madness was my 2M radian. it has always been rock solid. even got lost for over a month in a cotton field and still flew perfect afterward.
today i went to spin it up on launch and it threw a blade, this caused the motor to go out of balance and rip the entire nose off the pane and whack my finger in process. it did not cut it but hit it hard enough i could not feel the tip for almost 30 mins.
i was able to find all the parts and have glued back together but mostly glad i have my fingers.
pre flight is important, and we should all make sure we look at stuff, but sometime things just fail catastrophically and not much can be done. watch those fingers.
laters,
me
one of the first planes i bought when i started this madness was my 2M radian. it has always been rock solid. even got lost for over a month in a cotton field and still flew perfect afterward.
today i went to spin it up on launch and it threw a blade, this caused the motor to go out of balance and rip the entire nose off the pane and whack my finger in process. it did not cut it but hit it hard enough i could not feel the tip for almost 30 mins.
i was able to find all the parts and have glued back together but mostly glad i have my fingers.
pre flight is important, and we should all make sure we look at stuff, but sometime things just fail catastrophically and not much can be done. watch those fingers.
laters,
me