FlyZone Nieuport Repair Re-Model FAILURE - Shock end to model

The Nieuport Micro Flyer by FlyZone
Don’t think of this as a sad story….it was fun learning stuff…
2013 The story starts. We flew the Nieuport Micro Flyer and immediately had problems with the gear box slipping. Of course the model should not have a sloppy gearbox and so the option was return it to the Model Shop and then to Hobbico for repair or whatever? or cut a hole in the fuselage slip a little tube on the shaft of the gear box with some super glue and then pushing the pipe forward to mesh the gears tighter, cure the gear box. We opted to fix the model as it’s easy.
It was still noisy and so we used the GREEN SLIME/ this really is the best thing since the ‘slicing of the loaf’. So with gears not slipping, not making a racket it took to the indoor skies.
SMASH….. It was run through by a Trojan UMX and it splattered it. On its 2nd or 3rd flight. So the parts were cast in the bits box. 2015 a friend is in need of a gear box and I salvaged the gear box and motor from my Nieuport so that its ‘death by Trojan’ had not been wasted.

Then with parts on the desk had a wacky idea. Lighten the model. Fly it on one of the Spare Ember or Vapor Motor Gear Box’s I had. It took a day to repair. You know how jobs seem quick and easy and then they don’t finish quickly. Somethings end up taking the time they take.

Soon I found myself at St Helens indoor. Failed ROG’s meant a hand launch. It would just about fly, but would not turn right and so was landed to re trim. It floated over the flying area and into the walkway where models pit on tables and move about freely. One modeller was taking his ‘stuff’ to a table further up the hall and didn’t see the tiny, quiet model land in front of him and he ran over it with his Trolley. Amazingly the Trolley was unharmed.

Now squashed and flattened the model was given one more go at repairs. The glue down the back end put the C of G back and so a small amount of Blutac was added ay the nose. It put the weight up by a few grams. It was still slightly tail heavy, but now the Ember Motor and gear box ran for 25 minutes on a 120 ma battery. Unfortunately the power for flight was too low. It was thought it needed to be re cut and re modelled. Forget that! It’s back in the Flyzone Scrapper Box waiting to have parts robbed and be made into something once again.

The moral of the story is, if the Trojans don’t get you, the trolley’s that carry them will.

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