Funny story with a video along with it!

I finished a short video today about the story below and just thought I'd share it here on RCU...

A few weeks ago I ran into a problem with my AW Edge 540. The muffler started to come loose in flight, which leaned the engine out...and also making the idle way too high. The edge doesn't have a way to kill the engine from the transmitter so we were stuck in the air. The pilot decided it needed to come down, and we didn't want the whole muffler to come off. It had to land. After multiple tries, it touched ground at a very high speed and we couldn't get it to stop rolling...we then proceeded to chase it around the runway with the all the club members at the field that day watching. In the end, everybody starts to clap and I heard a "Yee Haw" from somebody watching in the background. The greatest part is, it was all caught on tape! It was hilarious to be there, even through the movie it doesn't justify the whole chase, but at least some of it was caught.
You can find the short video [link=http://www.rcsites.net/aerorc]here [/link] . The video on my site is "When Good Engines Go Bad"
Enjoy!

Nice video, tunes, production..glad the plane and you came out OK!

Awesome vids and great music. Now I gotta go and do that, geesh. Will the madness ever end!!!! [sm=bananahead.gif]

great vid, thanks for sharing I have been there dont that chasing planes that wont stop, hehe

this vids gonna take a while so i'll entertain with my good engine gone bad.
My Leo 37SF has been the best cheap engine i've ever had, as good as any Irvine at 50% more cost. a couple of weeks ago it started making weird noises and blowing plugs, the bearings had finialy gone. i sent it off, and the reply was, it's screwed. i brought a new one ( discounted ) plus got the old one back. the rear bearing has completly lost the cage, some if it had gone up through the ports, some was making a new home in the bottom of the engine, my bearing now conisted of loose balls between the rings! wedged up in the top of a port was also a bit of the head fins!!! i knew it fell off a few months ago, maybe 7-8 months. i thought it went in the grass, but it had worked it's way through the carb and nesseled in the port to live the rest of it's life watching the piston bounce up and down 13,000 times a minute just outside it's window.

During all this the engine still ran, all be it a bit hot and noisey!

you can stall any engie=ne in flight. set the throttle stick to low and the trim to high. then ajust the servo so this is idle. then loosen the idle stop on the carb so that when the trim is pulled down and the stick is pulled down. your engine will stall very quickly.
cheap as chips

Why chase the plane around. Isn’t that what the high grass around the field is for, to stop airplanes?



Rclooney when talking about aviation remember wings stall, engines quit.

im used to cars and boats. im new to planes. i appoligise i dont use the right terminology.

Ashley

You did a great job with video and all...

This is a good video to pass along when someone questions the merit of an onboard engine kill function or device.

Thanks for sharing.

The guy that says "You gonna catch it?" sounds just like the chucklehead in Realflight that makes doofus remarks. Not that that guy in your video is a doofus, they just have the same voice.
Too funny

rclooney, thanks for the tip! I wish I knew that when that was happening.

Hah, your right, there is some similarity

Thx for all the good comments [sm=thumbup.gif]

I've had that happen a few times on my Quadra 52. Running it into the high grass always resulted in instant retracts and a broken prop. Now I safety wire the bolts if possible or the entire muffler.

rclooney, a gas engine carb is a little different than glow but this can happen with both. Once the muffler comes off it changes the back pressure and usually the mixture goes lean and RPMs go up. Gas engines are not always stopped by cloosing the carb all the way in this state.

Don't take this the wrong way, but I've been chided for doing something like that at one RC airfield. Even though I didn't exactly appreciate the lecture at the time and thought I was just trying to help, I have to agree it's a safety no-no. Even if you have a $85 carbon prop, it's not worth sending somebody to the emergency room. Taxi it onto tall grass or nose it into the ground would have been the prudent thing to do.

Otherwise, great vid production.

did i watch the wrong video? it was hardly the 3 stooges fiasco i was expecting, one guy runs out and catches the plane right away.. i thought loads of people would be chasing it everywhere.

That happened to me once on the first flight of a rather expensive plane (Damn YS's are too reliable!) I just flew up high till the engine quit, and glided it in.