Slightly OT- Model B52 Crashes

For those of you who were following the posts about the model B52 a
few months back-

http://www.stukastudios.se/b52.htm

That's a real shame. Do they know what happened?


"Howard Eisenhauer" wrote in message
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For those of you who were following the posts about the model B52 a
few months back-

http://www.stukastudios.se/b52.htm

I have no idea peter, just got the link off the Willys Tech mailing
list of all places.

She was in a pretty tight turn just before the dive, accelerated stall
maybe??

Anyhow, it was a beautiful machine, gotta make you cry doesn't it?

H.


On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 01:33:35 GMT, "Peter Gottlieb"
wrote:

That's a real shame. Do they know what happened?


"Howard Eisenhauer" wrote in message
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For those of you who were following the posts about the model B52 a
few months back-

http://www.stukastudios.se/b52.htm

In article , Howard Eisenhauer wrote:
I have no idea peter, just got the link off the Willys Tech mailing
list of all places.

She was in a pretty tight turn just before the dive, accelerated stall
maybe??

What about loss of radio contact (perhaps a transmitter or receiver
failure)? I've seen that happen. It looked like perhaps it was entering
a turn at the time, but carried on rolling until the nose fell through
as if some spoileron/aileron input had been added but never taken out.


--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

That plane had redundant systems to avoid that sort of problem. I agree about the 'downwind' turn. Did you hear the wind
blowing in the microphone? The weather did not look good...

"Dylan Smith" wrote in message ...
In article , Howard Eisenhauer wrote:
I have no idea peter, just got the link off the Willys Tech mailing
list of all places.

She was in a pretty tight turn just before the dive, accelerated stall
maybe??

What about loss of radio contact (perhaps a transmitter or receiver
failure)? I've seen that happen. It looked like perhaps it was entering
a turn at the time, but carried on rolling until the nose fell through
as if some spoileron/aileron input had been added but never taken out.


--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

It was the dreaded downwind turn. Too low, too slow. Google foe vids.


That's a real shame. Do they know what happened?


"Howard Eisenhauer" wrote in message
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For those of you who were following the posts about the model B52 a
few months back-

http://www.stukastudios.se/b52.htm

You joke right?

ABLE1 wrote:
It was the dreaded downwind turn. Too low, too slow. Google foe vids.



That's a real shame. Do they know what happened?



"Howard Eisenhauer" wrote in message
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For those of you who were following the posts about the model B52 a
few months back-

http://www.stukastudios.se/b52.htm

Since R/C flyers depend on visual cues, they do suffer from the downwind
turn syndrome, where the model's groundspeed looks OK, but the airspeed when
flying (or turning) downwind, isn't adequate. I've seen more than a few
crunched R/C aircraft because of this. Remember, it is a visual cue thing,
not an aerodynamic issue...

KB



"Jerry Springer" wrote in message
hlink.net...
You joke right?

ABLE1 wrote:
It was the dreaded downwind turn. Too low, too slow. Google foe vids.



That's a real shame. Do they know what happened?



"Howard Eisenhauer" wrote in message
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For those of you who were following the posts about the model B52 a
few months back-

http://www.stukastudios.se/b52.htm

No not a joke. Have you ever flown an RC plane?????


You joke right?

ABLE1 wrote:
It was the dreaded downwind turn. Too low, too slow. Google foe vids.



That's a real shame. Do they know what happened?



"Howard Eisenhauer" wrote in message
. ..

For those of you who were following the posts about the model B52 a
few months back-

http://www.stukastudios.se/b52.htm

Yes sir, I have many years and hours of experience flying RC's, I was an RC
instructor for our club also. If you look at the video it had already made the
downwind turn and flew quite a while before the crash.

Jerry



ABLE1 wrote:

No not a joke. Have you ever flown an RC plane?????



You joke right?

ABLE1 wrote:

It was the dreaded downwind turn. Too low, too slow. Google foe vids.




That's a real shame. Do they know what happened?



"Howard Eisenhauer" wrote in message
m...


For those of you who were following the posts about the model B52 a
few months back-

http://www.stukastudios.se/b52.htm