Unfortunately just the one flight, but thankfully, the heli is undamaged!
Near the end of the flight, I was noticing the tail behaving strangelt, so came in to a hover. The heli was shaking, similar to low head speed with hard head dampers. Switched to normal mode and the vibes went away, but the tail was wagging. Landed, stopped the engine and could hear a motor spinning type of noise. Moving the cyclic controls, they were all fine, moved the tail and it was not moving smoothly.
Result... One stuffed tail servo! :(
One flight of eight 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.