flyntruk

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So... Did you crash today ? A youg man lost his @ $1000 dollar 3-D plane today . Componet faliure was the cause . Heart break afterwards . How about you ?

RCKen

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No crash here. Been raining all day. Normally getting rained out of a flying day is something to be sad about, but this time I'm excited about it. The last measurable rain we've had was back in like April or May. We are in a severe drought condition, so a long pouring rain is a good thing here.

guver

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Too bad about that expensive planes. [] I've been lucky to never have any equipment failure yet. I've only had some loose servo screws and one propsaver broken o-ring. Not too bad, but I crash land a lot. I'm a terrible lander. I also need a good runway.

I wasn't going to tell anybody[] , but yes I did crash my biggest plane today. It really should be my easiest plane to fly , but I am intimidated by it's size and speed still. Yesterday I made 3 nervous passes before I brought it in. Today I used poor judgement and decided to land straight into the wind , but that puts me crosswise on my runway. It's only 60' wide and it was going to hit the fence at the end so I put the nose into the ground.

Just got done bending the nose gear and trimming some foam away from the prop spinner from the crash. Tomorrow I will give it another go and hope the wind is west this time.

MJensenn

It was a 3DHS 72" Extra.

flyntruk

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And today ... Another heartbreak .... Parkzone Corsair .... VSa 51 " AJSlick in midair ... TOTALwreck on both sides ... Slick only had 4 flights ... Some guys can't catch a break (no pun intended )

collector1231

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I flipped my crawler over a couple times, got dirt in the fan, burnt out the fan and broke a steering rod. Easy screwdriver fix. Is that crashing?

MJensenn

Did you find what the sound was in your Alpha?

sheograth

Didn't crash today, but I lost a Hanger 9 Sundowner last month due to my right aileron falling off Electronics were salvaged but airframe was toast.

chunkyplunker

No not today, but yesterday I flew my Raptor 30, all the way to the ground.[:@]

flyntruk

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So ... A strong attraction to gravity perhaps ? .. Un controlled flight into the ground is not good .

rmenke

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Guys:

After years of flying, you may get as good at it as I am. Have not dinged anything for over 6 months. Come to think about it, I have not flown anything for more than 6 months. ENJOY

skyblue

What really hurts is when you take your brand new model up for it's maiden flight only to total it a few minutes later.I have done this many times.

flyntruk

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  Yeah... crashing bad on a maiden really sucks ... I've done it before , but the plane it happened to did'nt break my heart

jknox

Imade it to my fifth plane without a crash - Then I tip stalled my Yak with a new Saito 125 on the firewall. Engine (with 3 flights) was destroyed as was a $300 airframe. I salvaged the receiver and4 servos. I'm almost relieved to have that first bad one under my belt, and I learned a number of lessons - What not to do when your plane tip stalls, and an overpowered airplane may have unwanted flight characteristics.

flyntruk

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   Wow ! That sucks ! And when you lose a motor to boot !    Arghhhhh! [:@]

378

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Last RC crash I had was when I sent my on-road into a wild spin on accident. I was trying to powerslide going too fast, it turned 270 degrees, then caught the grass at the edge of my driveway. Flipped six times and landed on it's door against my house.


No damage though, I just gave it a nudge and burped the throttle. Off it went.

guver

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I've had bad experience with some maiden flights lately. It's been windy/rainy so I got 4 planes ready to go. I maidened 3 of them and 2 out of 3 were not set up very well by me. 1 little one was so fast that I was too slow to react. I have since flew it successfully though , it still needs some work. 1 medium one rolled right back into the beans and broke the rear stab or tail. The one that I did successful was tail heavy and I flew it for about 10 minutes getting used to it. I later got the COG further forward , changed the TX and tried it out again. I didn't give enough throttle and crashed it into the beans breaking the rear stab. Now I have to order 2 rear stabs for different planes.

I have gotten 3 more ready to maiden and have learned to set them up as perfect as I can and take my time better when setting them up.

Pilotsmoe

I crashed my stick today. Went to pull a loop at low altitude, but was on low rates and flew it right into the ground. Whoops![]

guver

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I have a new radio 9x and it forces one to power up on High rates. I am debating whether this is good or not. I think that it is except perhaps with new planes? I have considerd flipping all the DR switches up-side down.

378

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That is a bit odd, but the rate switch on my DX5e is so easy to get to that I wouldn't consider it to be an issue.

WaffleMan

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Same thing happened to my electrifly yak once

cutaway

I'm flying mostly my own scratch built original designs. When I splatter one, that's usually what motivates me to build version n+1 with the alterations I've been wanting to make but never got around to retrofitting on the previous generation prototype I just planted. So for me, crashes are a way to kickstart my building/designing motivation again.