...3D manuever you've ever put your plane into?

Just thought I'd bring this about...mine would have to be an inverted flat spin that was nearly sitting still in the sky, I'm talking losing 5f/t of altitude per every 30-45 seconds, (hardly dropping at all), with a goldberg ex-treme 330s/OS .46 AX.

Let's hear 'em!

Fully stalled figure 9.(in this case, an unfinished waterfall)

I used to be able to get a climbing flat-spin going on my Magic/OS-50FSR combo. It would climb gradually during a full throttle "violent" flat spin...

Takes a VERY AFT CG and some serious throws and HP

Good times!

With H9 Edge, threw it into k/e spin into a blender, after that into inverted harrier, engine overheats and boggs, rudder hits ground and kicks up a dirt clod in the middle of a dust cloud, engine comes back, pop it into a hover.

Pic below is a freeze frame from the video right after power came back. LOL

Brandon

... most spectacular crash. I still have a club awarded trophy for it. Don't exactly know what manuevers I did, I was too busy trying to swat a wasp that was stinging me.[]

Safe Flying!

Brandon, That pic is great.

3D seems to be evolving still. Sean McMurtry does a trick that he learned on a foamy that transfered to his big Yak. I would describe it as a knife edge waterfall. The plane starts in a hover. Then spins on it's axis sideways. It ends up back in a hover with no loss of ALT. Maybe a cartwheel would be a better name for it.

I have a Funtana .40 that does some great 3-D. The trick the guys want to see the most is the easiest one to do. It is an inverted elevator. The plane drops straight down inverted with the nose slightly higher than the tail.


David

I have landed my 37% BME Ultimate in an INVERTED Elevator. Thats right, came out of a hover overheated, throttled up and it bogged. I was about 10' high and I knew I couldnt pull out. Leveled the wings inverted, gave full down elevator and chopped the throttle just before it sat down in the grass. Broke the tip of the prop and cracked the top(bottom at the time) wing at the tube slightly. Took about 1 hour to repair the small crack and replace the prop. I was back in the air the next day. 100% truth.

That's called a pinwheel.

Thanks, I didn't know what the correct term was. Pinwheel makes sense.



David

I saw a delta fly once, it would go up and start pinwheeling so fast you couldn't see it.

My dads delta wings does the flatest and fasted flat spins ive ever seen.

I watched a video the other day of a guy who mounted two motors on his ParkZone F-27 Stryker and hooked up their throttles to be differentially adjustable via the rudder channel. So they'd accelerate together on throttle-up, then if he moved the rudder, one would start going much faster than the other.

Flat spins like you wouldn't believe, practically hovering in place. It was wild to watch.

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Matt B.