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Old 04-20-2006 | 02:23 AM
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Default RE: Concorde Crash...

Hello Guys.

I was the supervisor on this project and all I can say is that we are really pissed. My friend Michael Dines from Copenhagen has spent a lot of time and money on this project and had been looking forward to flying his Concorde at the recent Jetmetting in Sønderborg/Denmark. The instructions stated a CG that obviously wasn't correct. Michael even spoke directly with mr. Michel af last weeks fair in Dortmund/Germany, where mr. Michel confirmed that the CG was correct between 80-120 mm ahead of the main gear. Michael set his CG at 90 mm. As you can see from the video, that thing was tail heavy as h e l l. Michael had no chance to rescue the plane from total disaster.

See the [link=http://www.tvsyd.dk/page/13?article_id=16157#]VIDEO[/link] in this article.

See the intire build tread [link=http://www.rc-unionen.dk/nytforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10594]HERE[/link] It's in Danish, but there are a lot of pictures of the build.


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