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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