1/2 scale Zero maiden

[Davi]

make sure you watch right to the end....


www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9w00A6e478

[tr7v8]

Oh dear, classic poor piloting, looked under powered but should've have let the speed build before starting a turn. And he lead with ailerons when he should have lead with rudder, so it tip stalled in. Shame as obviously a massive amount of work.

[apache]

I'm not surprised it crashed, there was no one driving!

[Davi]

I reckon he might have had the ailerons crossed - look at the wings closely as it rolls, going by the windsock my natural instinct on take off would have been to bank right rather than left, its' as though he tried to do this, correct the roll with incorrect input then the side wind put it past the point of return- either that or he just dumb thumbed it definitely underpowered though

[gopher]

I would not have liked to have been that person at the end of the airfield!! imagine if that thing hit you. I saw a beautiful eurofighter jet model crash and burn last year, it was gut wrenching for me and I didn't even know the bloke, I don't know how he must have felt.

Mind you with the jets (and, thinking about it all rc aircraft)I think it's the sort of hobby you don't take up unless you can afford to lose waht you put into it.

[davi]

gopher said:

I would not have liked to have been that person at the end of the airfield!! imagine if that thing hit you. I saw a beautiful eurofighter jet model crash and burn last year, it was gut wrenching for me and I didn't even know the bloke, I don't know how he must have felt. Mind you with the jets (and, thinking about it all rc aircraft)I think it's the sort of hobby you don't take up unless you can afford to lose waht you put into it.

dunno about that, I know a lot of us work on the head-in-the-sand-pray-it-doesn't-crash approach

3 of my heli's are still sitting awaiting repairs as they are financially a bit iffy at the mo

One thing I've always said though, i'll never go into turbine models unless I build it all myself. I can financially cope with loosing 100 man hours, as I enjoy the tinker time, but I couldnt with stuffing £20,000 into the floor. One chap that used to fly at our field put his turbine in on the maiden, not dis-similar to the zero vid. Gutted doesn't even begin to describe it

Still the most devastating crash for me was one caused when I was forced to ditch a just-built heli into the floor because some stupid idiot thought it was OK to let their toddler run into the path of it


>> Edited by davi on Friday 26th May 22:44

>> Edited by davi on Friday 26th May 22:44

[4WD]

If it's about fun you don't need to spend mega bucks. Tiny "1/2A" size are great as you can put them in a small car boot, they hardly use any fuel, cost way less to make, can be flown most anywhere, then bounce back when you crash them