Well guys, bottom line is this.

A really beautiful bird, that took more time and money than 99.9% of us would ever consider throwing at a project like this, turned into tooth pics one day. Pilot admitted error. The basic fact is that we have all been bitten by the GOTTA GO BUG, dang thing bites hard sometimes.

I would like to think of my self as a good pilot and have been told by many others that I fly well. I build very sound planes and fly them with quality hardware. There is no way on god's green earth I would have tried the sticks of a bird like that.

And after watching the video I would have to agree that the wind had a great deal to do with the crash. There have been several good explanations in these posts regarding stall speed and such when turning in the wind and it doesn't really fit to go over it again. Many R/C flyer's have lost their planes in a similar fashion and never realized that their air speed was not enough and their angle of bank was high enough to stall the wing. In fact I saw a full scale STINSON RELIANT almost go in while flying at our club field at the local airport. My friend and I watched him roll out and lift off. We both fly full scale and we both said it at the same time C$%P HE IS GOIN IN. It was an amazing thing to watch a plane try to fly and not be able to do it. I would bet the pilot didn't even know how close he was to going in as he did not lower the nose or reduce the angle of bank. As soon as he approached 90* to the wind the plane just started slipping out of the sky. Luckily he got around and started building airspeed before the wing stalled. It was close and he kept that nose up.

Anyway, it happens and we gotta remember the GO BUG. Sometimes it just takes all our common sense out of our heads.

I also have to wonder if maybe he had a turbine not coming up to full power??? The plane looked marginal for power. The problem with the video is that you do not get real and full effect of what is happening. The take off looked very scale, if you ever had seen a 52 take off, it looks like it going 10mph and will take forever to get up. I think if the fellow had more room and or less wind things may have been different.

Thank God he didn't pile it up in the crowd or and adjacent home.

Have fun, happy flying