Crazed Scout Pilot
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What did you crash today
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Karjalainen
New member
Nice model to start with and such a sad fate.
Piotrsko
Master member
If you aint crashing, must be not flying muchWith that name one of use would believe it anyway? We would just naturally figure it to be your 'evil twin', The-One-Who-Always-Crashes, and enjoy the pictures knowing it really wasn't you at all.
JD
Foamforce
Elite member
Somebody posted the plastic attachment that goes on the front side of that carbon rod. I’m talking about the piece that slides around the end of the rod that the “nut” holds onto. You could probably cut a couple inches off that rod, add the new printed end piece, and fly. Having a shorter tail probably won’t help with the pitchiness of the Drift, but maybe it will compensate because it will make it less tail heavy too?
ZOHD Drift Tail Boom Collar by bgsteveg
Replacement collar for the tail boom on the ZOHD drift RC plane.Mine came with the tail out of alignment so had to remove the old one and fit this in the correct position
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quorneng
Master member
My latest crash. From this. A Swiss DH Venom
To this
All my own fault. Strong sun. I realised it was about to pass in front of the sun so I made a sharp turn but too late, blinded by the sun . At 80 degree bank any plane will end up diving with no control input. I would have done better to have just left it flying straight and level. When I did get sight again it was diving almost vertically to the ground. In panic full up elevator = wing failure!
In fact the damage is more severe than visible. The impact was so severe that the EDF broke free and demolished some of the printed duct inside the fuselage.
I shall have to think hard about how or indeed if that can be practically fixed as the fuselage was built up around the duct.
The rest of the Depron airframe is fixable if rather time consuming to do.
Oh well, never mind.
To this
All my own fault. Strong sun. I realised it was about to pass in front of the sun so I made a sharp turn but too late, blinded by the sun . At 80 degree bank any plane will end up diving with no control input. I would have done better to have just left it flying straight and level. When I did get sight again it was diving almost vertically to the ground. In panic full up elevator = wing failure!
In fact the damage is more severe than visible. The impact was so severe that the EDF broke free and demolished some of the printed duct inside the fuselage.
I shall have to think hard about how or indeed if that can be practically fixed as the fuselage was built up around the duct.
The rest of the Depron airframe is fixable if rather time consuming to do.
Oh well, never mind.
I've considered a few repair options. For now, I am waiting on the replacement tail. if this becomes problematic, I may look for a firmer rod. Seems like it was unreasonably flimsy to have broken under the "landing" conditions.Somebody posted the plastic attachment that goes on the front side of that carbon rod. I’m talking about the piece that slides around the end of the rod that the “nut” holds onto. You could probably cut a couple inches off that rod, add the new printed end piece, and fly. Having a shorter tail probably won’t help with the pitchiness of the Drift, but maybe it will compensate because it will make it less tail heavy too?
ZOHD Drift Tail Boom Collar by bgsteveg
Replacement collar for the tail boom on the ZOHD drift RC plane.Mine came with the tail out of alignment so had to remove the old one and fit this in the correct position
EDIT: interesting, there are guides inside the tube for the elevator rod to keep it from flexing.... Tube thickness is only .4mm.
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CrshNBrn
Elite member
Sorry- it was a beautiful airplane.
L Edge
Master member
Another solution to that problem is to continue on and close one eye before going thru the sun's bright position and when you exit it, open that eye. Of course, the open eye does not look at sun bright area, look below .
Bricks
Master member
Mr NCT
VP of SPAM cooking
Ouch - down in flames!
CrshNBrn
Elite member
That looks...smelly. Sorry.
FlyerInStyle
Elite member
Sorry for your plane, but better than it could have been. This is what happenned to my boomin' flerken after a fire at FF (also esc fire) yours should be rebuildable, right?
I probably could have rebuilt, but I decided to build another. The old one was getting pretty beat up. It was starting to fly wonky.
I resemble that myself. I took a few wonky planes to FF24 this year. Didn't destroy as many as I would have liked. Guess I need to get to Edgewater this year.
