Life of Brian

The instructions for Drone #3 were not only in English that was correctly translated, but they included something that the ones for Drone #2 did not, instructions on how to properly change out damaged blades. Turns out there are two different kinds of blades and they sort of go in certain spots!

While poorly flying Drone #2 around I did have to change out a couple of damaged blades, but because the quadracopter continued to fly after each swap, I must have gotten lucky twice. Little did I know, that when it was doing the one sided hop, if I moved two blades around correctly, it would have flown. What I did do, was swap one blade out, which caused the drone to just lazily spin while still totally earthbound. This is the point where I was allowed to buy Drone #3.

By the time I read the instructions for the correct blade replacement procedure I didn’t have enough of the proper type propellers to get Drone #2 airworthy again. But I did have the 4 back-up blades from Drone #3. Yeah, Drone #2 flies again! But not well, it makes a loud ticking noise and drifts hard right. One set of the blades are hitting each other. I guess the slightly larger drone must use slightly longer props…maybe next time I order something from Amazon, I’ll tack on a few bucks for some new blades for the smaller Cheerson CX-10.

The other day when I broke my 2nd quadcopter in as many years after about a total of 2 hrs of “flying” both of them, I figured I would never get my Drone Driving License. I was moping around the house with a big ol’ sad face on when my wife took pity on me and said, “Oh, all right, go ahead and buy another one.” “But this is it,” she said, “three strikes and you’re out.”

I headed back to Amazon to go shopping. Last week when I bought a passel of K-Cups from them, they offered me a 30 free trial of Prime, I took them up on the offer. I was kind of surprised by this, because they did the same thing back in August when I bought the Kindle and I used it for 29 days then cancelled. I’ll do the same thing again, but first this will solve my having to wait a week or so for my next magnificent flying machine. All I needed to do is look for a little check mark under an item signifying that it was Prime Ready and two days later it would be here.

Started out looking to get another one identical to the recently my deceased drone, but couldn’t find it for the same low price and get it before Christmas too. Then I stumbled on a different model that already came with a built in propeller guard, something that should be very helpful with my spastic flying skills, for a little more than what the Cheerson CX-10’s were going for, the BangK CX-13.

The new one looks about the same size, i.e. real small, until you place them side by side. The CX-13 measures 1-7/16″ between motor shafts making the old broke CX-10 at only 1-1/4″, about 25% smaller. I’ve had it a couple days now, flown it quite a bit, crashed it quite a bit too, and I haven’t bent a single prop. Tomorrow I may venture outside where I have more room so I don’t have to panic and kill the throttle after drifting only a couple feet of course.