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Old 06-04-2007, 12:38 AM
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Re: death of a raptor, WHY?

Hi mate,

Just tail control? or everything, if it was everthing could it have been a PCM lockout? if it was just the tail maybe something got caught in the tail pitch slider. Rudder linkage?, tail servo?. Another possibility... Thrust washers in the tail grips round the wrong way?

Just brainstorming here cos without doing a post mortem on the heli its really hard to tell.

Take care and sorry to hear about it. My Sceadu 30 went in yesterday too as a result of an unexplained blade flutter. Damage on that is bad too (not as bad as yours) but I think I witnessed an in flight boom strike cos the boom was cut clean off.

Cya... Azzy
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