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LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/4/2008 5:09:12 AM   
wings 540



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From: , WA, USA
Status: offline 		Just yesterday I crashed my blade cp, and I thought it would be fun to put a post on rcu about crash storys. I will get it started with one of mine. Starting with yesterdays experience, OK so there was a mild breeze that day, and I was doing my usuall flying (circles, fig 8s, hovers...) sooo I tryed to see how fast I could go in an olval without crashing (mistake #1) eventually I got going 10-15 + mph and when the heli started to go toooo fast I pulled up and got maybe 45 feet in the air.(mistake#2) at that point the heli was almost direcly over me. after that I lost my orentation and I didn't feel like having the heli come crashing down on me so I did my best to pull out of the death dive but ended up crashing into a big HUGE bush 4-5 feet tall, and it was not fun fishing it out. luckly there was minimal damage, broken skids, craked canopy, balance got messed up, and a broken TX antenna.



anyway, feel free to post YOUR crash story!
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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/4/2008 6:26:32 AM   
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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/4/2008 8:08:07 AM   
Robby



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Not the last one,, but the one just before that one...

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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/4/2008 5:08:04 PM   
seemefly_1



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Status: offline 		or the one before that and before that and before that...

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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/8/2008 4:03:51 AM   
sowega flyer



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ORIGINAL: Robby

SWGa,,
Not the last one,, but the one just before that one...



Thats the one that happened right after the one that happened before that one, but not the one that happened before the one that happened before that one, right?





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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/8/2008 2:06:34 PM   
TJR1



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From: Mobile, AL, USA
Status: offline 		Not a crash story, but an unbelieveable save story. I was flying my (ex) Father-in-Law's un-modified Kadet Senior and was about two mistakes high when I saw a big white sheet fall off and it immediately began to turn hard right. If I held full left rudder it would fly straight and level and if I let it go, it would turn right. I eased off on the throttle and started a descending right turn. I made a beautiful mains first landing on the runway. It turns out he had done a very pretty two-tone color scheme with a green leading edge back to the spar and draping back at the wingtips, and white aft to the trailing edge. The problem was, he put the white on after the green and the edge caught the air and ripped it off! I only had green covering on about the last six inches of the right wing tip!

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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/10/2008 12:11:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		"luckly there was minimal damage, broken skids, craked canopy, balance got messed up, and a broken TX antenna. "

Idk if anyone else got a laugh about this.. but........and a broken TX antenna!?
ahahhahahaha how did that happen when the heli crashed?

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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/10/2008 11:21:33 PM   
racer-RCU


 

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Status: offline 		started running toward the crashed heli and forgot about the extended antenna...........(just guessing i mean this has NEVER happened to me......)

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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/10/2008 11:28:32 PM   
racer-RCU


 

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Status: offline 		ahh since I'm here i should tell mine.....96" ikon beaver first giant scale plane, 17lbs, g-26 engine. i was on downwind starting to make a hard turn to final.....no power in the turn mistake #1, it stalled out and started spinning i recovered from the spin added full power and leveled out.....but it was to late momentarily after it leveled out it plowed into a nest of trees making the most horific sound i have ever heard. When we arrived at the crash scene the plane had come to rest in a tree which we then had to climb to get it out. the plane didnt suffer tooo much damage and was rebuilt and flying the next weekend. what a way to learn a lesson here is the thread for it crash thread

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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/11/2008 2:04:10 AM   
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Status: online 		My plane came in too hot to land, so I firewalled it, but the engine sputtered and the plane wallowed into a drainage ditch off the end of the runway. I collapsed the antenna and took the long walk to pick up what I figured would be the remains. Upon arrival at the cat tail lined ditch full of water, my plane rose out of the weeds on its' own free will and took off! I couldn't get my antenna back up soon enough!

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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/11/2008 3:57:52 AM   
chevypower1930


 

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ORIGINAL: combatpigg

My plane came in too hot to land, so I firewalled it, but the engine sputtered and the plane wallowed into a drainage ditch off the end of the runway. I collapsed the antenna and took the long walk to pick up the remains. Upon arrival at the cat tail lined ditch full of water, my plane rose out of the weeds on its' on free will and I couldn't get that antenna back up soon enough!

I have no idea what your saying here haha... please rephrase or somebody else try to rephrase this

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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/11/2008 3:58:54 AM   
chevypower1930


 

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Status: offline 		OHHHH I got it.... so the plane was fine and you couldn't wait to fly it again haha gotcha

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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/11/2008 5:04:37 AM   
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Anyway, today I flew answering the challenge of a Tai Ji 40 (discontinued world models plane, retracts, lightweight .40 pattern plane) flier using a new Dub Jett .50?....against my Zen50 Picco 60 pipe powered-retract-pseudo-pattern plane (just a bit heavy to be a bona fide pattern plane, so experts tell me). He was holding back since his engine was fresh, so he was on the rich side, my Picco has seasons on it and appears to be bullet proof, (new in box only $129 with muffler from robair81 on the worlds largest auction site.) so I peaked it at 16,500 on the ground with a 11X.7.5 prop on 10% nitro. On take off the retract landing gear (cheap mechanical type, ARF stock) collapsed just as I was coming off the runway (asphalt road in an abandoned development called the compound) and chipped up the tips of the prop. So, how do you land with one wheel left and the other just flopping in the breeze? I used the grassy shoulder. Not too bad, just lost the prop and and the out of balance flight shook loose two engine mount bolts! Close one, minor dining room table chores tonight got it back into shape fast. Sounded great on the pipe. Everyone that was leaving, stayed, hoping to see a crash landing, just as you read this far yourself. Don't you love it when that happens?

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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/11/2008 9:45:58 PM   
mjfrederick


 

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Status: offline 		Back when I was flying retracts on my pattern planes, anytime I forgot to bend the gear back after a rough landing, and one hung up, I just kept the gear up and brought it in on its belly. Thank God for fixed gear on pattern planes now, although I do miss the sleek look of the retracts from time to time. I would tell a crash story, but I don't really have em. The 2 that were total losses are too boring to get into (dead receiver battery on final and a failed elevator clevis at the top of a loop).

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RE: LETS HEAR YOUR CRASH STORY! - 1/12/2008 1:52:48 PM   
Krener


 

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From: AS, AUSTRALIA
Status: offline 		Sorry to hear about your crashes guys, but it is inevitable.

Mine isn't the best, but it was my first.

Decided one afternoon to go out for a fly.
Hadn't been in a while, to many working hours, and thought 'Maybe my lil' brother might wanna sus out what it's like'
Quick phone call and whipped round to his place to pick him up.

Well, the wind was nice when I got to his place, but around the same time his missus decided she had to go to the shops.
1 hour later she returns, winds picked up a bit, but we still went.

An hour after that I'm flying past the pits at a decent rate of knots, inverted, lil' brother is drooling, and then I heard it

Where I live the hot dry winds come hard, fast, and during summer in a 'mini twister' style fashion we call Willy Willies. Excellent for soaring, not for flying.
So I heard it coming through the trees to my left, by the time I got the plane through a half rotation towards level the 'twister' was sharing the same air space and grabbed my plane.
In a split second the nose was sucked straight up, I stupidly reacted and applied down elevator while still trying to level out just as it passed through the 'twister' which proceeded to grab the tail and pitch her down HARD.
Full throttle, full down elevator, and 1 mistake of height =

Complete loss of the airframe (duh!), 46AX engine sucked in ALOT of dirt but has since been rebuilt with new bearings and resides in my new H9 Pulse, and everything else was salvageable, but the AR7000 had a little bit of case damage but has been flying my Pulse without a glitch ever since (gotta LOVE foam wrapping!!!)
It's amazing how much balsa you can squeeze into a 1 foot square