Century Swift - DISASTER!!!!.wmv

Man, this was stupid. I had tried two different maiden flights, both with bad spool ups and spool downs breaking the tail rotor on both tries. So, I thought that this would be a great idea, OHHHHHH was I wrong.
Don't ever try this - you could get seriously injured!
If I was in that room behind the camera, the carbon fiber blades would have hit me in the head putting me in the hospital or the morg!!!!

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[CreekDevil]

Watching as you spooled up, the heli developed a headshake that was similar to the one it developed as it disintegrated. It's likely the heli wouldn't have blown up as it did if it hadn't been clamped down. The oscillations in the head weren't dissipated as they would be normally and this stress caused the head to come apart. Vibrations from improper set-up to include imbalance in the head are amplified through the helicopter when it is not allowed to "shake them off."

Glad you're ok!!

[PC9JEFF]

@CreekDevil hey, thanks! The head and blades were properly balanced and found out later that the guy that had it before me dumped it several times due to inexperience and the head had a crack in it! Yes, strapping it down contributed signifigantly to this blowup. As a result of this, I don't strap helis down anymore but if someone has to do this, take the main blades off first and use the turntable to check the gyro only LOL!

Thanks for watching,

J

[djjake29]

such a disaster, that will get 1 million views...

how come i only see 392?

[PC9JEFF]

@djjake29 Oh, no worse than your epic fail video that you STOLE to hopefully get 1 million views.

Before you bash someone else, you might want to look into your own first Ha!

[razeyoshi]

Forget the Jesus Bolt & Nut? Always be sure to use loctite on anything that screws in metal to metal... You also have a nice plane in the background, I'm sure you can find some heli flyers to help you out...

[PC9JEFF]

@razeyoshi No, didn't forget that - What happened is that there was a hairling crack in the head due to the previous owner dumping the bird then telling me that he never flew it. The head broke during the oscillation and thus this disaster. I have new parts for the heli now, just need to put it back together.

J

[wcwickedclown]

what you did wrong is you had pitch on the blades you didn't want load on the head then the vibration just helped pull off the head

[KevinMillard68]

wow that sucked ,

[YupHio]

sounds like you have some seriously bad luck with this bird

[oysterlicker]

Ground resonance. As you spool up, heli approaches frequency of what it's strapped on... If you've lifted off, won't happen. The vibration from resonance backed up to the heli and caused the links to fail and poof.

[NitroExplosion88]

it couldnt lift so the blade assembly gave out and it poped!!!!

[NitroExplosion88]

Well i might be wrong but i think i know what caused this to fail, Everybody knows that when you have a nitro car (Nitro Engine) you might here some people say, dont pick up the car and full throttle it cause your engine will quickly top out max rpm causing the crank shaft and piston assembly to break or get destroyed, cause the engine needs a load on it, now the same thing with this heli, the blades had tremendise forced on the air that the heli wanted to lift up, but like it was held down....

[djjake29]

@PC9JEFF i know. i didn't "steal" it i was sent it, so i put on youtube cos i didn't know that it was already on the net ? :L