Re: S.A.D Open for Membership

nitroairplane Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:40 pm

What happened?
Glider was too much and the engine decided it wanted out ??? lol!

Kim Sat Dec 17, 2011 7:03 pm

nitroairplane wrote:What happened?
Glider was too much and the engine decided it wanted out ???

The classic "Stall/Spin" scenario! I had the Mud Dabber tightly circling with the pilot of the sailplane trying to attach it's trailing towline to a hand-launched sailplane. I'd boosted a lot of banners this way...circle tight with a long towline...once attached, oval out the circle, cut it hard back across the center at full power, and snap the banner into the sky.

This time, I was slow bringing up the power, AND had let the Dabber's nose get too high (watching the glider pilot and NOT my plane...see first story!). When the slack took up, the Mud Dabber stalled, snapped to it's left, and spun into the ground.

Good news is...the glider didn't get a scratch !

Ivanhoe Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:02 am

S.A.D Open for Membership - Page 3 Mud_da10

Yes, a definite S.A.D Open for Membership - Page 3 Thumb_15

I feel!

nitroairplane Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:31 am

Kim wrote:
nitroairplane wrote:What happened?
Glider was too much and the engine decided it wanted out ???

The classic "Stall/Spin" scenario! I had the Mud Dabber tightly circling with the pilot of the sailplane trying to attach it's trailing towline to a hand-launched sailplane. I'd boosted a lot of banners this way...circle tight with a long towline...once attached, oval out the circle, cut it hard back across the center at full power, and snap the banner into the sky.

This time, I was slow bringing up the power, AND had let the Dabber's nose get too high (watching the glider pilot and NOT my plane...see first story!). When the slack took up, the Mud Dabber stalled, snapped to it's left, and spun into the ground.

Good news is...the glider didn't get a scratch !
You sure do have some great stories eh Kim?

Kim Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:59 am

nitroairplane wrote:
Kim wrote:
nitroairplane wrote:What happened?
Glider was too much and the engine decided it wanted out ???

The classic "Stall/Spin" scenario! I had the Mud Dabber tightly circling with the pilot of the sailplane trying to attach it's trailing towline to a hand-launched sailplane. I'd boosted a lot of banners this way...circle tight with a long towline...once attached, oval out the circle, cut it hard back across the center at full power, and snap the banner into the sky.

This time, I was slow bringing up the power, AND had let the Dabber's nose get too high (watching the glider pilot and NOT my plane...see first story!). When the slack took up, the Mud Dabber stalled, snapped to it's left, and spun into the ground.

Good news is...the glider didn't get a scratch !
You sure do have some great stories eh Kim?

Yeah..hope they're not too much. I've had a ton of fun playing in my life...and even the disasters take a different light as time passes!
Another great thing about this forum is that everyone's pretty much got their egos in check, and can laugh, along with their peers, at their mistakes and catastrophes...while being proud that they took their shot regardless how it turned out!

A local phrase here: "It's the farmer in the field that breaks a plow."

nitroairplane Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:17 am

Yeah I think we are a pretty down to earth lot here.

Ivanhoe Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:07 am

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Yeah..hope they're not too much. I've had a ton of fun playing in my life...and even the disasters take a different light as time passes!
Another great thing about this forum is that everyone's pretty much got their egos in check, and can laugh, along with their peers, at their mistakes and catastrophes...while being proud that they took their shot regardless how it turned out!

A local phrase here: "It's the farmer in the field that breaks a plow."

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Crashes and disasters are an unavoidable part of flying models, and. as the old saying goes "If you didn't laugh you'd cry" I think that if you can't accept breaking models, you're in the wrong hobby. Many years ago I spend a long long time building a towline glider of 12' span, it was so big I used an "Action Man" (G.I Joe in the US?) as a pilot.
On the third tow launch something slipped, the huge thing stalled off the line and plummeted to earth. As I looked at the ruins I was REALLY p****d off, then a friend of mine ran up shouting "Quick, quick, get the pilot out! get the pilot out!" and everyone just burst out laughing, and I think the ability to do that is why we keep coming back for more!

Wilf

Kim Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:37 am

AGREED....as much fun as the planes are, in my opinion, they're nothing without the camaraderie of fellow sufferers!

Years ago, a bunch of us would meet EVERY Sunday, rain or shine, wind or not, at the little airport close to my hometown in Illinois. If we absolutely couldn't fly, we'd duck into a hangar or the office and TALK about flying. There's a large dead-end ramp where a hangar was never built, and that was our runway (and still occasionally is). The airport manager was amused by our antics, and we were careful not to break his trust....meaning we kept our spectacular crashes to our end of the ramp.

If you arrived in the midst of our group to discover you'd left something at home, or if you broke a part at the field, you would be stormed by offers of parts, fuel, batteries (lots of dry cell radios back then), glue.....whatever it took to get your creation flying. Everybody wanted to see stuff fly.

We had fast planes, slow planes, straight planes and crooked planes (it's actually pretty impressive at just how far out of rig a plane can be and STILL made to fly!), and for me, the planes and their pilots are forever locked together in my memory. When I run into one of the old bunch today, and have trouble remembering them, a description of their plane gets me there instantly!

microflitedude Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:43 am

Kim wrote:AGREED....as much fun as the planes are, in my opinion, they're nothing without the camaraderie of fellow sufferers!

Years ago, a bunch of us would meet EVERY Sunday, rain or shine, wind or not, at the little airport close to my hometown in Illinois. If we absolutely couldn't fly, we'd duck into a hangar or the office and TALK about flying. There's a large dead-end ramp where a hangar was never built, and that was our runway (and still occasionally is). The airport manager was amused by our antics, and we were careful not to break his trust....meaning we kept our spectacular crashes to our end of the ramp.

If you arrived in the midst of our group to discover you'd left something at home, or if you broke a part at the field, you would be stormed by offers of parts, fuel, batteries (lots of dry cell radios back then), glue.....whatever it took to get your creation flying. Everybody wanted to see stuff fly.

We had fast planes, slow planes, straight planes and crooked planes (it's actually pretty impressive at just how far out of rig a plane can be and STILL made to fly!), and for me, the planes and their pilots are forever locked together in my memory. When I run into one of the old bunch today, and have trouble remembering them, a description of their plane gets me there instantly!

That is really neat Kim, you should have a "reunion". Smile

Kim Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:13 am

Yeah...that'd be great, and HILARIOUS ! The stories STILL give us literal seizures of laughter.

Some of us still stumble across each other once in a while, but most of the main players are scattered to the winds. One of my R/C students is all grown up, with a family, and the last I heard was flying Fed Ex jets around the country, and probably the world.
Got several great stories on him, and am convinced that you can predict the future success of someone based solely on their passion for crazy ideas, and the resulting machinery!

Found this photo from "The Great Ole Days" !

S.A.D Open for Membership - Page 3 Models10

S.A.D Open for Membership - Page 3 Models10

Jaspur_x Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:06 pm

You never did report on the status of that pilot??? Shocked

Ivanhoe Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:21 am

Jaspur_x wrote:You never did report on the status of that pilot???

Well, from the shape of him when he was removed from the wreckage we didn't hold out any great hopes!

John Goddard Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:23 am

John Goddard Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:26 am

Ivanhoe Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:40 am

John Goddard wrote:

Oh Yes, that's definitely a S.A.D Open for Membership - Page 3 Thumb_16

in fact, possibly two!

Due to the high standard of aircraft demolishing being put up here, I think we might start to award S.A.D Open for Membership - Page 3 Small_10

S.A.D Open for Membership - Page 3 Small_10

badges, the number depending on the completeness of the destruction

microflitedude Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:02 am

John Goddard wrote:

What happened?

John Goddard Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:16 am

There's more but I don't want to get too morose before Christmas..
Very Happy

As per earlier Dude It was fairly swift, coupled with very sunny day I stuck it into sun,
put foot into pot hole, fell over to massive applause from club mates..still had it
took eyes off for nano sec forgot which way up was and pulled back sadly whilst
inverted.

lol!

nitroairplane Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:19 am

There may be more to add here soon as I just got a UMX extra 300 and will be attempting 3D!!!!!!

**RknRusty** Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:56 pm

Man, sounds like y'all had lots of fun with your flying buddies. Somehow I never met anyone who cared about it. A few friends liked going out to watch me fly, but never wanted to try it. In fact I've never seen anyone else but my son who's just graduating from the PT-19 at age 27, and one other friend just this Summer fly a plane. He flew the PT too. I did let my nieces destroy my Stuntman23 this Summer. That was actually fun, I knew they would bust it. And it's on my channel.

That's partly why I am so retarded about some things I should have realized long ago. I've learned more since I joined RCG in 2010 and now this great forum, than I learned since I was 10. I asked my Mom just last week to help pinpoint in time when I started this. She said 1966 when I was 10.

Anyhoo, My SAD crash entry is uploading to Youtube now. Not disastrous enough to take the cake, but hopefully entertaining.

Cheers dudes... and unfortunately no dude-ettes.

**RknRusty** Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:55 pm

Here's my entry. Amateur at best, I need to learn to crash a lot harder if I'm going to be in this club.

https://youtu.be/zI49sB5AZi4?hd=1

microflitedude Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:19 pm

RknRusty wrote:Here's my entry. Amateur at best, I need to learn to crash a lot harder if I'm going to be in this club.

https://youtu.be/zI49sB5AZi4?hd=1

Last second brain glitch.

Been there, done that! Very Happy

**RknRusty** Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:31 pm

microflitedude wrote:
RknRusty wrote:Here's my entry. Amateur at best, I need to learn to crash a lot harder if I'm going to be in this club.

https://youtu.be/zI49sB5AZi4?hd=1

Last second brain glitch.

Been there, done that!

I don't think that was me spazzing out. I seem to be stepping backward to keep it tight, but watch; it's on a perfect path and just turns nose down. Some strange wind current??? I don't know. I had a steady hand and I fly inverted enough not to get confused. Maybe I'm in denial. But I know one thing, I was too low to start that loop in the first place. Whether it was my glitch or not, that decision made the difference.

Since that day, I've shortened the nose by 3/8" so next time it should do much smaller loops. That makes for more fun flying. I'm dying to try it out again, but this weekend is going to be crummy weather.

Anyway I hope I'm earning my official SAD emblem! I might have to take the picture to Staples or Kinkos and get it printed on some glossy sticky-back paper.

Jaspur_x Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:42 pm

RknRusty wrote:Here's my entry. Amateur at best, I need to learn to crash a lot harder if I'm going to be in this club.

https://youtu.be/zI49sB5AZi4?hd=1

Maybe crashing harder has a key element: less glue during construction Beer Cheers

Ivanhoe Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:08 am

RknRusty wrote:
microflitedude wrote:
RknRusty wrote:Here's my entry. Amateur at best, I need to learn to crash a lot harder if I'm going to be in this club.

https://youtu.be/zI49sB5AZi4?hd=1

Last second brain glitch.

Been there, done that!
I don't think that was me spazzing out. I seem to be stepping backward to keep it tight, but watch; it's on a perfect path and just turns nose down. Some strange wind current??? I don't know. I had a steady hand and I fly inverted enough not to get confused. Maybe I'm in denial. But I know one thing, I was too low to start that loop in the first place. Whether it was my glitch or not, that decision made the difference.

Since that day, I've shortened the nose by 3/8" so next time it should do much smaller loops. That makes for more fun flying. I'm dying to try it out again, but this weekend is going to be crummy weather.

Anyway I hope I'm earning my official SAD emblem! I might have to take the picture to Staples or Kinkos and get it printed on some glossy sticky-back paper.

Well of course it WAS a crash, but no fountain of bits into the air, it sort of bounced, but I suppose it qualifies for a S.A.D Open for Membership - Page 3 Small_11

S.A.D Open for Membership - Page 3 Small_11

and provisional membership, but remember, Total Destruction is our aim!

Wilf

nitroairplane Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:08 am

I found a pic of the Yak that was completely demolished!

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