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- From: r36110m@kaira.hut.fi (Mika Matti Jalava)
- Subject: Re: R/C Glider crashing!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.085016.7975@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Jul16.134358.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> <19213@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:50:16 GMT
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- Well, I haven't had more than one "real" crash that caused more damage
- than could be repaired in five minutes yet (my flying experience is so
- short that repairing the plane took much more time, about three hours,
- than i've spent in the air).
-
- It was last winter and my wife had just landed the Blue Phoenix (a
- Swedish 2-m trainer) upside down. The only damage was that the
- covering on the left wing was slightly ripped and I decided we could
- just tape it and continue.
-
- Of course the wing wasn't too rigid and it wasn't in it's right shape,
- so next time we towed it up it became totally uncontrollable (for me,
- that is). The wind was too strong for me and the plane started looping
- around and finally started to dive upside down at about 30 degrees
- angle. I tried everything I could, but nothing seemed to have any
- effect. It hit the frozen ground (of course there would have been snow
- everywhere else but it just decided to aim at a tractor track) left
- wing first.
-
- I would never have believed that so light thing made of balsa and
- plastic film could make such a bang. The crash was really loud and I
- thought nothing could be saved. To my great surprise the left wing was
- the only thing that was really damaged. Or actually destroyed, the
- balsta sticks were too short to be used as toothpicks. The fuselage,
- tail, rest of the wing and the receiver and servos were intact.
- Beginner's luck, I would say!
-
- Mika
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