Has anyone ever gotten cut from the blades of your drone?

Ever gotten cut by a Drone Blade?

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 27.3%

  • No

    Votes: 8 72.7%
  • Total voters
    11
Wouldn't think a miniquad would draw blood but I clipped my elbow and sure enough, it did.

I set a two switch arming method early on.

 
Ow!

In all those year flying glo motor powered airplanes, I never got hurt with the prop. I have lots of scars and marks from other things.
 
Saw my finger bone once. Was trying to saw a lath to make an airplane about age 12, and the saw hopped out of the kerf and cut my finger. Mom pushed the skin back together and wrapped it with a bandaid (sticky plaster). Was surprised to see dark gray inside my finger.
 
I was surprised to find out that even 3" props will turn your fingers into hamburger meat. Sorry, I have no pics
 
Cut my leg & hands, but my goggles stopped the last one. Yes I actually hit my own head & snapped the antenna off my gigs. Lucky no blood.
 
My first quad was a tiny Estes ProtoX years ago. Sounded like a mosquito in flight. I had it hovering a bit off the floor and the dog went to investigate. He carefully sniffed closer and closer, "Careful, Shadow. It bites the nose." YIPE! Didn't draw blood or anything.
 
Tentoes said:
Saw my finger bone once. Was trying to saw a lath to make an airplane about age 12, and the saw hopped out of the kerf and cut my finger. Mom pushed the skin back together and wrapped it with a bandaid (sticky plaster). Was surprised to see dark gray inside my finger.
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Geeees! I can't imagine seeing my finger's bone.
 
mozquito1 said:
Did he weld machetes onto the prop shaft or something.
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Naw, 10" CF blades. He land his bird, didn't disarm it and when he bent to pick it up(with TX hanging around his neck) jammed the throttle full bore..............
 
So might as well have been machetes ;) joking aside that is pretty awful. I've been lucky to not have been hit by any blades going at speed yet. I am pretty cautious about it though just running the numbers it sounds dangerous to me (15V * 2600kv motor = 39,000 RPMs) which is basically a little faster than my dremel (probably way faster since it's a knock off) and I don't mess with putting my fingers on that thing either.

I had to punch my quad out of the sky once when I let my dad try and take the controls and he had no idea what he was doing (bad idea on my part but he wanted to try). Basically 5 seconds after I hand over the controls he has it flying straight at us so I just punched it and got lucky hit the frame instead of the blades.
 
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wafflejock said:
I just punched it and got lucky hit the frame instead of the blades.
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Yep, very lucky.........And like you said.........with those kinda RPMs it only takes a split second..............and there's blood everywhere...........
 
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