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Old 07-30-2012 | 03:50 AM
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Default What a save !!! (dead stick landing)

Hello guys,

Here is a cool video from 2 days ago (Saturday) where Tal Levi was flying his T-45 at Dimona, Israel - and suddenly had an engine cut (due to tygon tube inside the fuel tank falling off the brass nipple) - he threw the Tx in the hands of my friend Eli Gil and Eli pulled off one of the best saves i have ever seen in a harsh dead stick condition such as this !

Jet was in the middle of down wind, low and fast, and Tal started a hard bank into short base leg before throwing Eli the controls. looking back, the quick hard bank (while opening the gear BTW) was a mistake. Eli was limited to a large radius turns as this model does not like hard elevator pulls (it tip stalls easily if elevator is pulled hard).

Eli calmly and professionally brought it down, and Here is the result in HD:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qcmS0akrOc[/youtube]

Enjoy