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I bought a arducopter kit fall 2012, have had a lot of fun. I allways try new things for fun, but it results in crashes :D

Thought i would share them. Some are silly, some you can learn from (you probably know them already.) #4 is the silliest.

#1

Second flight with a quad (no prior experience)

I was flying in my office, my colleague opened the window. He dared me to fly out, and land on the lot, so i tried.

touched the window on the way out, and off it went :)

damage: one broken leg, 2 props.

#2

1 prop came off mid air, about 30m of altitude.. It was carrying a gopro. 

damage: frame and props

3#

I was doing my second automated mission. Everything was doing fine, till the last action, "go home"

What i didn't know, was that "home" was set to gps 0, 0, 0. That's somewhere outside africa. I live in norway.

Off it went. Luckily there was an office building stopping it.

damage: arm, legs, props, 1 motor, 1 esc

4#

Wanted to try something fun: fly really high, cut the motors, let it freefall, throttle up and let it stabilize.

So I did. 

It worked :D

two times.

Third time, the props started spinning backwards. I think the ESCs weren't to happy with that, so they didn't bother turning the motors back on, just weird noice...

so, freefall from 50m onto the loan.

Damage: 1 leg. 1 esc won't arm, haven't fixed it yet..

Surprisingly little damage.

Share your silly crashes.

photos are coming