by james reben
Looked nice at first. Seemed smoothly moving and good quality, light and strong. I installed and used red loc-tite on the threads of the ball links, after degreasing, of course. After some decent flying and swoops the V913 started to act crazy, then it went out of control and smashed into large trees. After a day getting the chopper from the trees, I examined to see what happened mid-flight. The upper and lower parts of the assembly had separated during normal flight. This caused all sorts of havoc in the head, bent and broken connectors, etc. broken flybar, canopy, one servo died, too. So, a week later, I get the bird all patched up, and degreased the swashplate, and attached the two halves with red loc-tite. It held for two flights and released again, causing another crash. Tried again, using CA. It lasted one flight, until mid flight one of the upper ball links came flying off, and another crash. Contacted Miracle-Mart/Heli-Factor with detailed account of events, and first requested
