Blah-dee-dah kinda day...

Today was a flying bust, and a heli nightmare, but getting to see CJ and David Latil's family at least made it a good day at the field. Too windy for the Alpha and the Cornell.

The ERazor, which flew so well a couple of days ago, was simply possessed by demons. From shearing off her top Jesus bolt on first flight, to being weirdly responsive to controls, to spinning herself up on the bench (transmitter on, throttle hold on, transmitter on the table getting ready to test fly her, chatting with Jim (Devin's Grandfather) when she went unglued like the reciever released but kept running. I picked up the TX and it was on, throttle hold still on. She kept going until Jim reached under and unplugged her while I moved the other helis. Usually when the receiver releases like that the heli will shut down after a moment...), to getting a mind of her own flying off so that CJ finally had to give her a smackdown. She had demons. We finally crashed her to save her from going off the res. Sheared her solid mainshaft clean in half! She is getting a strip down, different servos, having her ESC reprogrammed, and getting a bath in Holy water before fly her again. Just plain wacky... That ate up a couple of hours.

Started tuning up the HDX500, learning she has some issues that ate up time and more time. Solving one problem lead to the discovery of anther, until we got to a point I just need to buy some parts and replace a servo. That ate up another couple of hours...

Tried Frankenheli only to discover her tail boom rotated  under flight pressure (darn thing is sliding depsite being very tight), and her ESC lost the throttle limits, so we benched her for the day without her skids leaving the ground. Jim noticed that the tail rotor had also come loose on its spindle which was making the tail bind, and not giving full tail rotor power.

So, after about 6 hours of standing over a bench and not flying anything, I was getting kinda cranky and decided to go home and squish the Lukey (world's best hugger!).

I decided to finish the refab work on the Cubby, so she is now ready to fly. She looks pretty good. I worked on Franky and she is flight ready. Tomorrow I plan on bringing the Alpha, the Cornell, Cubby and Franky to BMF and spend time flying. I only hope the wind allows.