• This guy can fly!

    From Angus McLeod@VERT/ANJO to All on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 01:03:00
    This:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9BcUpIa9A

    is probably the most amazing piece of piloting I've ever seen on a model airstrip. The action takes place between 0:30 and 1:30 -- after that it's just the guys screwing around after that, but that's 60 seconds of
    incredible flying!


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  • From Sniper@VERT/KIA to Angus McLeod on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 18:08:00
    Angus McLeod wrote to All <=-

    This:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9BcUpIa9A

    is probably the most amazing piece of piloting I've ever seen on a
    model airstrip. The action takes place between 0:30 and 1:30 -- after that it's just the guys screwing around after that, but that's 60
    seconds of incredible flying!


    Impressive flying with only one wing, and landing the thing. Damn good
    job of saving the plane!



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  • From Angus McLeod@VERT/ANJO to Sniper on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 22:06:00
    Re: Re: This guy can fly!
    By: Sniper to Angus McLeod on Tue Jan 23 2007 18:08:00

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9BcUpIa9A

    is probably the most amazing piece of piloting I've ever seen on a model airstrip.

    Impressive flying with only one wing, and landing the thing. Damn good
    job of saving the plane!

    Incredible. Knife-edged flight OK, but a complete circuit with only one
    wing? Completely incredible.

    But I suppose if the alternative is the loss of a 33% Extra, you dig deep!


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  • From Sniper@VERT/KIA to Angus McLeod on Thursday, January 25, 2007 01:00:00
    Angus McLeod wrote to Sniper <=-

    Re: Re: This guy can fly!
    By: Sniper to Angus McLeod on Tue Jan 23 2007 18:08:00

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9BcUpIa9A

    is probably the most amazing piece of piloting I've ever seen on a model airstrip.

    Impressive flying with only one wing, and landing the thing. Damn good
    job of saving the plane!

    Incredible. Knife-edged flight OK, but a complete circuit with only
    one wing? Completely incredible.

    But I suppose if the alternative is the loss of a 33% Extra, you dig
    deep!

    You know, after watching a few hundered of the other posted RC flights,
    I noticed alot of people pulling their planes into a stall type manuver,
    and hovering, and that got me to thinking. That guy basically did the
    same thing... He should have gotten someone to catch it like I saw in
    another one... would have saved the landing gear... But then again,
    when your in that situation, you ain't thinking, your just reacting. :)



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  • From Angus McLeod@VERT/ANJO to Sniper on Thursday, January 25, 2007 21:37:00
    Re: Re: This guy can fly!
    By: Sniper to Angus McLeod on Thu Jan 25 2007 01:00:00

    You know, after watching a few hundered of the other posted RC flights,
    I noticed alot of people pulling their planes into a stall type manuver,
    and hovering, and that got me to thinking. That guy basically did the
    same thing...

    That's true enough, but I'm just amazed that he retained enough control to
    be able to do *anything* with the model. When I lost half a wing on my Seabee, the difference in lift on the two sides of the aircraft threw it
    into an uncontrollable corkscrew death-dive. I guess with a
    zero-incidence, zero-dihedral model with a fully symmetrical airfoil, in
    the knife edge position, he was able to avoid uncontrollable rotation.
    He's lucky he was able to get there. Or maybe it was pure skill.

    He should have gotten someone to catch it like I saw in another one... would have saved the landing gear... But then again, when your in that situation, you ain't thinking, your just reacting. :)

    That is also true, but let me say this: The guy who walks out and takes
    down a model doing a prop-hang or torque-roll has to have COMPLETE faith
    in the pilot. I don't know if I'd want to walk out there and grab a badly injured aircraft while the pilot uses partially missing control surfaces
    to prevent the prop from cutting my head off!


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  • From Pistolgrip@VERT/WASTELND to Angus McLeod on Monday, January 29, 2007 19:36:00
    Re: This guy can fly!
    By: Angus McLeod to All on Tue Jan 23 2007 01:03 am

    This:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9BcUpIa9A

    is probably the most amazing piece of piloting I've ever seen on a model airstrip. The action takes place between 0:30 and 1:30 -- after that it's just the guys screwing around after that, but that's 60 seconds of incredible flying!

    Pretty cool. Kinda girly plane and idea, but this guy can fly as well.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gulv_bvZS94

    PG

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  • From Angus McLeod@VERT/ANJO to Pistolgrip on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 02:09:00
    Re: This guy can fly!
    By: Pistolgrip to Angus McLeod on Mon Jan 29 2007 19:36:00

    Pretty cool. Kinda girly plane and idea, but this guy can fly as well.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gulv_bvZS94

    Yep, I've seen that, and the guy is good. I think those indoor electrics
    are fun, and one of these days I'm gonna get me one!]


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