Wow
06-29-2014, 06:21 PM
#1
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06-29-2014, 11:39 PM
#2
I hope they get it airworthy again soon.
It's mind-boggling just how slowly it flies. That's one of those things that's almost impossible to match with our models.
It's mind-boggling just how slowly it flies. That's one of those things that's almost impossible to match with our models.
Last edited by abufletcher; 06-30-2014 at 09:53 AM.
07-01-2014, 05:32 PM
#3
Dang he almost had it.
We had a modeler actually about to crash on takeoff here, and he hit one wheel just like that on the top of a fence post and it leveled him out and he flew away !
We had a modeler actually about to crash on takeoff here, and he hit one wheel just like that on the top of a fence post and it leveled him out and he flew away !
07-02-2014, 06:41 PM
#5
I think he was trying to avoid the crosswind just like we do. Approach speed ideally in a full scale is 1.2 times stall. He is going pretty slow, so hitting the fence knocked off the flying speed margin. We say "coming over the fence" when landing, but the fence should be 100+ feet away.
07-02-2014, 08:23 PM
#6
It just seems incomprehensible to me that someone flying one of the Shuttleworth aircraft (let along the ONLY existing original Tripe) could misjudge the height of a fence...or even be that close to one on a landing.
07-03-2014, 06:14 AM
#7
They must have been trying to get the show on. Probably the pilot had been ok on a few other flights that day in different airplanes. I would bet there will be some new rules written. You get away with it a hundred times and you start to think it cant happen. Rhinebeck does not fly much of their WW1 stuff much because of botching the show. Not intentionally.
