Salto H101 Elevator Servo Failure

The starboard elevator servo strips while attempting an inverted loop. I roll away from the slope and pull up, the model zooms to the stall, I realise that I have lost most of the control from the tail. I feed in all down trim and full down elevator in an attempt to keep the nose down. I experiment with the airbrakes and lose enough height and attempt a slope side landing, fortunately only damaging one aileron horn and mounting. The elevator is damaged from flapping about.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Hard landing
• Servo failure
• Lucky escape.

[j0nStiles]

I'm pleased you have sorted the speed issue out.

I had one hell of a game trying to get the brakes to work on my Salto, they are still not right.

I'm a big fan of crow brakes, I have them on my F3F glider, it makes landings so nice.

I'm getting pretty good at repairing my Salto now!

All the best.

[Fuzzpeg2007]

Well I was sweating just watcing it. Well done. Mine would probably have been in pieces.

By the way I found the problem with my salto being sluggish. the spoilers on top of the wings kept lifting up and causing a lot of drag. So for the moment I dont connect them and have taped them down and use crow brakes for landing.

Had about three hours of really good flying the other week on Dartmoor. I now like my Salto again ha ha.