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Jburry -> RE: Best Aeromodelling Moments (5/5/2008 5:16:13 PM)
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The first time my buddy and I took my 25 size S-ray 3 channel trainer (heavily kit bashed) to the field to conduct engine and "taxi" tests. He had a bout 10 minutes of flying experience, and I had never flown anything. We taxi'd about for 3 or 4 minutes, when my buddy remarked "you seem to have the hang of that, put'er up and I'll land it for you!".
I'm a suggestible type, as it turns out, and I found the plane facing into the wind, with my thumb advancing the throttle. As soon as it left the ground, I knew we'd screwed up. "Just try to keep it straight and level until you get up there" admonished my friend. "I'm tryin'" I said. Was like trying to drive a car with the steering column broken clean thru... Somehow it achieved a hundred feet or so, and I tossed the radio at my friend. IN the time it took to do so, the plane went from "level" to doing a tail slide at full throttle. Barry struggled as I had, getting disorientated once, and pulling out of the dive about 6" below the top of the grass, and finally wrestled it around to a decent, if un gracefull landing. Engine out, but nothing worse.
CG was .75" behind the 30% mark. Oops, shoulda checked that!
Another was the first flight of my Herr Aquastar (Norvel .061) off water. 4" waves proved too much for the hull for an into-the-wind take-off (waves kept breaking over the bow and impacting the 21,000rpm prop), so I turned broadside to the waves. She hopped onto plane, and was off the water in 30'. What a beautiful sight!
Or the first 90mph low pass with my Dynaflyte fun scale 40 kit bashed mustang.... What a rush... 3 victory snaps on pullout, wow, that pilot's brains must be coming out his nose!
J
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