Just the one flight today as the dark clouds were making it hard to see the heli.
A very enjoyable flight with flips, rolls, inverted rainbows, figure of eights and just general zooming around the sky!
When cleaning the heli up, I noticed one of the tail blades was "swinging in the breeze" as a screw holding the blade grip to the tail slider had fallen out. A quick looko around the starting table and I found both the screw and the brass bush. Phew!
As I continued to wipe down the heli, we discovered another missing screw that holds the engine mount in place.
Just as well I stopped it at one flight!
One flight of 8 minutes
Nigel has been involved in the IT industry for over 35 years, during this time, he has been involved in most facets of the industry. These include, Software engineering and Analysis, networking, software development, PC and server assembly, Systems Engineering.
Outside of his career, his main hobby is Radio Controlled vehicles. Starting in 2002 with his first Nitro car - A Traxxas Nitro Rustler, progressing to 4wd off-road buggies, Helicopters, boats, planes, gliders and most recently, quad copters. He was one of the founding "resurrectors" of the Radio Controlled Off-road track in Morphett Vale, South Australia where he raced for seeral years.
Currently (besides flying planes, gliders and helicopters), he is building a 77" PT17 Stearman based of plans drawn by Nick Ziroli.