[NSRCA-discussion] Nice flying day.

[jivey61 at bellsouth.net]

Matt
 .You didn't say what kind of servos.If you are using JR digital servos with the metric screws holding the servo arm on,you need to use locktight (blue) on the screw and tighten it good.I had one come off the aileron and it cost me a plane.
Jim Ivey
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: R. LIPRIE 
  To: MATTS NSRCA 
  Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 6:50 PM
  Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Nice flying day.


  Hello all,

  Finally had some good weather to go flying, today.
  Blue Skies, wind calm.

  Had a malfunction that almost costed me my $3000 dollar plane.  Okay I was in the middle of the Intermediate pattern.  And suddenly I noticed that it was rolling extremely slower than it was when I started the pattern.
  So I told Uncle Mike,that I was gonna go ahead and bring it on in.  So turned around came in for a approach and got a little slow and the that one aileron really wasn't working well going that slow.  So I chopped the throttle and set her down in the grass. And so the mud caught it and made the nose dig into the mud.  (Globs of it were on the plane)..  RAN there to see what the problem was.  To find that my screw came off of the left control rod on the left aileron and absolutely detached the rod from the servo leaving the aileron just dangling in the wind....  Brought it in cleaned it up got a new screw and tightened it as tight as I could get it.   And went ahead and flew one more time.  No problem.

  Like I said it was better to get mud all over the airplane than to have it in pieces.  So I saved the day.  Very happy.
  /
  If anyone has any thoughts about controlling the vibrations on the rod please tell me your secrets. thanks

  Matthew Liprie


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