Downtime

I was hovering about 6 inches off the ground the other day and ended up catching a rotor blade, which resulted in an upsettingly spectacular crash and an explosion of parts.  Given that I've crashed into trees and fallen from much greater heights previously, the list of broken components is surprisingly extensive, and expensive.  I've had to replace the following:  a cyclic servo (£20), a seriously bent main shaft (£2.50), the tail boom (£1.99), the horizontal stabiliser mount (£1.99), the main blades (£9.99), the flybar (£0.99), one of the boom supports (£1.99), and one of the boom support ends (£0.50). I also broke the receiver aerial, but this can be fixed with a twist of the wires and some tape. 

Those blades must have some energy in them - the tail boom was absolutely fucked - it was bent nearly 90 degrees and had pulled the tail servo about an inch along the boom!  Ouch.

I wonder if I'll ever get to 3D flight....