One very dumb mistake later... Funtana dies!!!!
04-19-2004, 01:55 PM
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One very dumb mistake later... Funtana dies!!!!
Well... I finally did it... I killed my Funtana... and I can't blame anyone but me.
Saturday afternoon was gorgeous weather - little windy, but nothing I couldn't handle. I decided to take my Funtana out for a flight or two. Fired her up, taxiid her out and up she went with the normal fervor that this baby shows.
After some higher altitude stuff I decided to bring her back over the field to mess with some stuff at a lower altitude. On the way back I was thinking to myself that this plane is really not designed for straight and level flight and a roll would look good. The plane's flying toward me so some left aileron and she rolls and too little up down elevator and she's pitching toward the ground...[X(]
OOOOOOPPPPPS.. more down elevator, but too late and she's heading straight in from slightly lower than the tree-tops and all that's left to do is limit the damage. Kill the engine, pull her up, and in she goes... THWAAACKKKKK!!![&:]
So now I have succeeded in converting my Funtana ARF to a kit. It can probably be fixed, but it would probably be quicker to buy a new ARF and rebuild. So tomorrow (because the hobby store is closed today) I head to the hobby store for a new ARF.[&o]
Hopefully I'll have the new one flying by the weekend. This time I'll try and stop myself showing off...
regards,
Bruce.
Saturday afternoon was gorgeous weather - little windy, but nothing I couldn't handle. I decided to take my Funtana out for a flight or two. Fired her up, taxiid her out and up she went with the normal fervor that this baby shows.
After some higher altitude stuff I decided to bring her back over the field to mess with some stuff at a lower altitude. On the way back I was thinking to myself that this plane is really not designed for straight and level flight and a roll would look good. The plane's flying toward me so some left aileron and she rolls and too little up down elevator and she's pitching toward the ground...[X(]
OOOOOOPPPPPS.. more down elevator, but too late and she's heading straight in from slightly lower than the tree-tops and all that's left to do is limit the damage. Kill the engine, pull her up, and in she goes... THWAAACKKKKK!!![&:]
So now I have succeeded in converting my Funtana ARF to a kit. It can probably be fixed, but it would probably be quicker to buy a new ARF and rebuild. So tomorrow (because the hobby store is closed today) I head to the hobby store for a new ARF.[&o]
Hopefully I'll have the new one flying by the weekend. This time I'll try and stop myself showing off...
regards,
Bruce.
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RE: One very dumb mistake later... Funtana dies!!!!
No, actually it was all ugly. Had dad on the buddy box - told him to go around before he drifted into the fence and took it back too late - did a neat vertical roll to miss fence only to find that the little aeleron tabs at the end of the wing didn't work well at slow speeds. It then rolled over and flew nose first into the runway. Geez, I thought it would handle like my Funtana I guess. I charged everyone at the field 5$ for the show though - to try to recoup dad's loss. Now its just space junk I guess.
Oh, dad learned from it. He learned that when I say go around if he doesn't it could cost about 120.00 per violation - cost of new Space Walker. Personally, I think that's a great way to train student pilots. Tell them what to do and if they don't crash their plane instantly. Boy do they get the feeling that you are serious. It also keeps them from getting addicted to flying like I am.
I'm actually not this strange in real life.
Oh, dad learned from it. He learned that when I say go around if he doesn't it could cost about 120.00 per violation - cost of new Space Walker. Personally, I think that's a great way to train student pilots. Tell them what to do and if they don't crash their plane instantly. Boy do they get the feeling that you are serious. It also keeps them from getting addicted to flying like I am.
I'm actually not this strange in real life.
