Control line tragedy

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  • čas přidán 26. 08. 2016
  • First competitor flying at the scale and semi scale control line event at Hard2000, Siggenthal, Switzerland. He came all the way from England, the flight started off pretty well but ended in tragedy. Possible causes for the lack of engine power were the combination of higher altitude and temperature vs the UK where the model was set up and tuned.
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Komentáře • 33

  • @Thebuilderofthings1
    @Thebuilderofthings1 Před 7 lety +81

    "Shit" was the first word that came out of my mouth when it bit the dust. A real shame. My condolences.

  • @charlesg1150
    @charlesg1150 Před 7 lety +349

    I feel bad for the poor fellow really. Many hours spent on the fine points of scale modeling with a beautiful model.

  • @charlesg1150
    @charlesg1150 Před 7 lety +163

    With the desire to run the engine at that rich or low throttle setting in order to achieve more realism, the loop should have been started after a dive in order to gain more speed.

  • @JB73691
    @JB73691 Před 7 lety +137

    Never allow slack on the cables, as soon as you feel slack take a couple of steps back and pull in your arm to regain tension. on Another note he made the mistake of trying a wing over with the engine poorly tuned . Well that's u control in a nut shell.

  • @RustyKControl_Line
    @RustyKControl_Line Před 7 lety +91

    Oh, that's tough. All the hours of building and detailing you scale guys spend. That's what really hurts.

  • @SuperStuffo
    @SuperStuffo Před 7 lety +26

    Pity, such a nice build!

  • @miken87p
    @miken87p Před 7 lety +232

    I wouldnt even launch if the engine was running like that.. NO POWER to keep lift or string tension tight. And I havent flown a control line since I was about 8 years old...

  • @Deathbysnusnu125
    @Deathbysnusnu125 Před 7 lety +323

    I was hoping it was going to break of it's line and go on a rampage shooting at the people or something. fly free poor plane

  • @nomotiv4all
    @nomotiv4all Před 7 lety +281

    Not In Bad Spirit But Skip To 5:10

  • @wingnutzster
    @wingnutzster Před 7 lety +50

    In RC we typically fly by the rule that if something sounds or looks wrong you announce your intentions and land right away, models dont sort themselves out - that said horrible loss, enjoyed the flight before the incident

  • @TorqueAholic
    @TorqueAholic Před 7 lety +47

    Hard crash.. I'm surprised they did not try to lean out the engine a few clicks before takeoff.. The plane was flying "heavy" too or just under-powered from the overly rich engine. Sometimes the engine leans out in flight.. I guess it didn't that time. Any attempt at a loop was ill advised. I'm surprised he did not do a "test and tune" flight on site that day before competing.

  • @rlondon1958
    @rlondon1958 Před 7 lety +25

    he must be deaf, engine way to rich!

  • @homerodelgado8884
    @homerodelgado8884 Před 7 lety +8

    ni modo ,se te aflojaron las lineas por falta de velocidad, muy bonito avion.........

  • @gearheaddave9639
    @gearheaddave9639 Před 7 lety +182

    Looks like someone let out the internet experts...

  • @TheDemon190
    @TheDemon190 Před 7 lety +163

    shame it was a nice model looked like the engine was running too rich maybe

    • @pompeltube
      @pompeltube  Před 7 lety +42

      For sure not optimally. The weather and altitude were greatly different than where the plane was set up and adjusted. Makes a big difference in choice of fuel, glow plug, settings.

  • @robertsalser848
    @robertsalser848 Před 7 lety +14

    Ouch, a very nice plane.

  • @reefer2917
    @reefer2917 Před 7 lety +7

    Dagnabit! bad luck fella,

  • @machia-mw1lm
    @machia-mw1lm Před 7 lety +10

    Nice flight , beautiful model . Too bad she hit the deck like that . Were you able to rebuild her ?

  • @honeydew5022
    @honeydew5022 Před 7 lety +4

    Noo

  • @BobABooey.
    @BobABooey. Před 7 lety +14

    Too heavy and under powered for that kind of climb. Sad, looked like a nice plane.

  • @grycu5580
    @grycu5580 Před 7 lety +5

    Ohhh :(

  • @TheHereford21
    @TheHereford21 Před 7 lety +12

    It's his own fault, obviously was too rich, they are easy to tune and it should be done at every flight anyway.

  • @michaelslack5269
    @michaelslack5269 Před 7 lety +6

    Ooops

  • @cristianogiustozziarchitet9846

    I don't understand what really happened... 😳

  • @calescapee9642
    @calescapee9642 Před 7 lety +37

    too rich no power

  • @kevin_6217
    @kevin_6217 Před 7 lety +61

    You tune the engine every time you start it... There is no reason for this to have happened besides laziness!

  • @Amatronix999
    @Amatronix999 Před 7 lety +30

    Transmitter brownout?

    • @pompeltube
      @pompeltube  Před 7 lety +15

      Control line planes have no TX/RX. Just 2 )or 3 sometimes) steel wires between pilot and plane

  • @Aluminata
    @Aluminata Před 7 lety +20

    I was sure it was going to snap the line and hit that photographer in the head - up close and personal. It seems a slightly beezaare hobby when there are such sophisticated radio control systems...

  • @Raycefan
    @Raycefan Před 7 lety +23

    The video was boring til he crashed! LOL
    He openly admitted he was trying to do a loop when he crashed it. The crashed was caused by inexperienced pilot.

    • @JB73691
      @JB73691 Před 7 lety +7

      No way no how with the engine running too rich. May be if he had time to point the nose strait up the engine could have time to lean out and pick up the revs.

  • @bigvee401
    @bigvee401 Před 7 lety +4

    haha