So found out the reason for the sudden flip during NAPA flight #1. Noticed on NAPA flight #4 the grip tape was slipping & managed to save her to see the grip tape completely loose on the ground. Unfortunately an attempt to reinforce it with duct tape failed & she crashed hard on NAPA flight #5 with the propellers having slipped forward & with the pilot assuming they were slipped aft, ramming Her into the ground at full power.
Fortunately the new camera mount had enough give to break before the
camera.
The grip tape binding round CF rods to the fuselage loosened in warm
weather & the only warm weather we flew in was NAPA. There was no way
to detect this problem without already knowing temperature could be a
factor. So grip tape is no good. There's a lot of torque on those CF
rods. Double sided mounting tape is the only thing that works, as
stretchy as it is.
ABOVE NAPA
Before the crash, finally snagged the flight which ended in failure previously.
Need another trip for video.
Some final mane shots before it's cut off. If Major Marcy was just a stranger, we weren't similar ages, & saying we look damn old didn't evoke eternal damnation, fire & brimstone for all time so help us God because of the negativity over Her age, we would say we look damn old, but we didn't say that.
The camera was shooting video this time & got some of the breakup. Unfortunately a few frames were still in the cache when the power was cut. She missed a water tank by only a few feet.
On to what must be her 10th fuselage.
3 batteries of hover testing.
This golf course is under Air Force control.
Made a 1st attempt at photographing Marcy 1 in flight. Best results
were using F: 2.8 shutter speed: 1s ISO: 400 Flash: 1/16 Focus: 3m
Air Force logo doesn't come out very well.
There is a way to smile, but it requires looking at something which
makes you fall in love.
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Man, sorry but... I always think about it: "Why he don't put an square tube on L and R motors, to eliminate the 'GRIP TAPE TERRORISM'? Why? Why? ... "<--- There is an echo here for dramatic purposes."
May I ask why you don't make a stronger frame?
Try some APC e props they may last longer. I have bags of broken GWS props.