Inflight Entertainment => There I was... => Topic started by: Oddball on December 23, 2007, 12:35:11 AM
Title: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Oddball on December 23, 2007, 12:35:11 AM
you should never do a mass take off with more than ten planes then do a mass loop with a rough running engine you might be the one that goes "dead stick" near near the appex of the loop. or never do a mass take off wi more than ten planes then shout dead stick when you have half a dozen planes behind yours just as they are airborne with now where else to go but straight ahead
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: BrianGMFS on December 23, 2007, 07:27:02 PM
Hmmmmm, Sounds like the result was a big pile of shredded balsa, monocote and radio components ::rofl:: ::rofl::
Brian
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Baradium on December 23, 2007, 09:42:04 PM
'fraid not mike just one shaken up model pilot lol
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Oddball on December 24, 2007, 02:19:51 AM
told this one in the chat room on here: in a galaxy far far away when i was learning to do circuits i got mixed up wi a mass loop i was flying a high wing trainer called a junior sixty made by flair very slow but stable (still have it after all the escapades its been thru) just as the first six where on the way down i was crossing underneath them all i could do was put the sticks to the corners and do a sharp spiral dive barly managed to get away with it
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: ecophil on December 31, 2007, 03:23:47 PM
The secretary of my club has gone two or three times in emergency to the nearest hospital because he has (once again) forgotten that the engine was already running when he attempts to remove the glow-plug alimentation from the front of the airplane.
Yep a running engine with a grey airscrew is a dead trap for fingers on a noisy airfield.
This may happen a bit less now since he now uses Robbe red airscrew instead of Graupner grey ones.
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Oddball on December 31, 2007, 06:35:44 PM
done that a few times, had a prop go into my right knee leaving three deep scars, three months ago my dad sliced the tops of all his fingers on his left hand, nicked the top of my dad's left hand when we did not talk to each other, i was holding the torque motor an dmy dad was holding back the plane he went to put his finger on the carb to choke the engine and i spun the prop needless to say he got red stuff on my white pilatus turbo porter never spoke to him for a week for that ::sulk:: lol
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Oddball on January 20, 2008, 02:45:29 PM
here's a little incident that happened one sunday morning a few months ago, there was four of us down beside the grass runway me, my dad (who was acting as spotter), the club chairman called harry and one other called mike (no not this mike), they where doing their usual thing which is mini reno air races and i was getting back into the grove of aerobatics by doing a few stall turns when next thing i hear is "i have a great idea lets change boxes" so mike and harry changed boxes so they are flying diffrent models it was going well until mike says "opps i think i have flicked a switch harry" this distracts harry he loses sight and control of mikes plane it end up crasheng into a tree just a few feet away from the pits area and almost hits mikes dad who was just setting up his own plane at the time luckily there was no injuries but the plane was a wreck, mike jsut got the model back from repair after another crash the week before.
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: airtac on January 23, 2008, 04:26:44 PM
Sounds like "let's switch boxes and OOPS!" can lead to what some folks call a "Chinese fire drill" ::silly::
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Oddball on February 23, 2008, 10:51:47 PM
one day This flash bloke who own(ed) a local hotel took out this two grands worth of heli and started to hover it all of a sudden it started to act up and it hit the ground pretty hard broke the tail boom and other serious damage, basicly it was a bin job we done all the usual post mortem stuff eventually we found out he did not charge up his reciver battery the night before he had a battery checker on the heli and never looked at it when he swiched it on to do his pre flights the red light was on meaning low power or no power in it, but what was worse he never told his wife that he had shelled out all this money on the heli lol give me a plane any day. must remember to loook out some of the pics of my planes and post them on here
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Jupeli on April 16, 2008, 01:16:30 PM
There are things you should never do and then there are things you should always do. One thing comes to my mind... Always add a plenty of glue to the high stress areas of any Chinese ARF plane you build. What is it with the Chinese and glue? ::loony:: China Model Productions' (CMPro) ARF's are lightweight and I think I know why... ::) Two weeks ago, I was taking my new bird, a CMPro Giles 202 (http://picasaweb.google.com/LauriPit/Misc/photo#5189829093762547010), flying for the first time. First flight was a complete success, amazing roll rate and tracks great. Very nice flyer. But then came the second flight and, especially, the second landing. It looks kinda weird when a plane rolls down the runway and suddenly the landing gear just collapses. Upon closer inspection, it turned out there was practically no glue holding the landing gear fixing plywood plate to the bottom of the fuselage. Luckily I only lost the wheel pants for good.
A new plane with a new engine... Oh well, there really are some things NOT to do. The Giles had a new OS .55 AX glow engine running on full power and OF COURSE I had to introduce the prop to my fingers. ::banghead:: Now that's not a nice feeling... ::knockedout:: Here's a pic of my finger after a brief visit to the health center: http://picasaweb.google.com/LauriPit/Misc/photo#5189829089467579698
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: airtac on April 16, 2008, 04:22:19 PM
OUCH!!!! Looks like you violated the aviation rule that says; "NEVER place any appendage within the arc of a spinning propeller" ::eek::
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Jupeli on April 17, 2008, 06:09:37 AM
OUCH!!!! Looks like you violated the aviation rule that says; "NEVER place any appendage within the arc of a spinning propeller" ::eek::
Kinda... These grey APC props are good but invisible. I was fortunate enough the prop only cut a couple of slices. It is capable of much more. Oh well... At least that really teaches to treat these engines with respect.
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Oddball on April 17, 2008, 06:55:38 AM
always file the sharp edges off my props, had a few grey curved ones even priming the engine they left nicks in your fingers
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Jupeli on April 17, 2008, 03:01:48 PM
always file the sharp edges off my props, had a few grey curved ones even priming the engine they left nicks in your fingers
I don't. :D I am VERY glad I didn't file the edges as the prop made nice and smooth cuts, which have healed pretty nicely. Had it been a Master Airscrew or some other less sharp prop, things may have gone ugly.
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Oddball on April 17, 2008, 03:32:19 PM
had one like yours some years ago but the plane went into my right knee, left three nasty scars. was starting up a plane to do tune it up at home but did not put on the wings. the plane ran forward as i was throttleing back and a pair of trousers got ruined as well as the air turning a bit blue. thing is if the wing was on it would of been stopped by the pitt box.
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Oddball on July 16, 2008, 12:24:50 AM
Was looking through my latest copy of Flypast magazine and saw the new range of models by Airfix (now run by Hornby) and it reminded me of a time when i was building a plastic Tuplov Bear Tu 95 kit that i had bought from the local airshow a few years back. I ended up with two port wings but no starboard wing so I looked up the address and found out it was in East Germany. Wrote two letters one in my very bad high school German and one in English, about a month later i got a parcel from East Germany with a letter of apology and the missing right wing and the associated parts to go with it. a year later went to the same airshow and this time bought a BAe Hawk once again there where parts missing again wrote a letter but this time to some where in Englandshire never heard back about the missing part.
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Oddball on August 04, 2008, 06:40:02 PM
Managed to crash a model yesterday morning first time in a long time and it was a good model as well, all i did was a few rolls and then it went out of control either due to a dud battery cell for the Rx or switched it self off but who knows maybe it was just my turn. just glad it was heading away from the pitts area. it crashed in a wheat field behind some trees so it was not totally written off but some work needs to be done on it.
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Jupeli on August 24, 2008, 11:00:33 PM
Well... I was flying my rc-planes at Hämeenkyrö airfield last Saturday and everything went great for seemingly the first time in a loooong time. This summer has been nothing but troubles it seems.
At the beginning of the summer I was participating in a pattern competition in Kuopio with my 50-sized electric conversion. Of course, the thing had to quit working just then and I didn't manage to practice at all. The competition was to be on the next day so during the night I spent my time well. A friend of mine happened to have brought a well used .40 cu.in. engine for spare parts. It was missing half of the screws and the rear bearing! :D We didn't let that stop us so we found some random screws and bolts and managed to rebuild the engine and even mount it on the firewall of my plane. Of course I wasn't prepared to fly a glow powered plane so I didn't have, for example, a fuel tank so I built a tank out of a plastic bottle with a lot of epoxy. :) A spare servo and fuel tube was fond and there I was, set to compete the next day! The engine ran, but quit on two rounds out of three and the plane was way underpowered but it flew! 8)
http://www.f3a.fi/photos/kuopio2008/IMG_4568.JPG/ Here I am with my glorious plane. :D
After a couple of weeks there was a weekend dedicated for pattern practice in Turku so there I was with a different plane, a 50-sized Giles 202. My engine was giving me some trouble (The same that cut my finger, by the way.) It just wouldn't run reliably and I made a bit of a hard landing and broke the landing gear on Friday. I decided that I just had to fix it but the plywood it was attached to was broken into many pieces. Luckily I had brought a piece of plywood for a friend of mine to make a couple of firewalls of it so I took a saw blade and started slowly sawing a new landing gear fixing plate out of it. I did make it and flew a couple of flights but as the engine didn't like to work I didn't manage to fly very much.
On the beginning of July I was participating in a pylon racing event at Jämi airfield and I managed to have one good flight before the glow plug on my engine broke and the glow element was right there between the piston and cylinder head, jamming the whole thing and scratching the insides of the engine to a point of being almost useless... I managed to clean the engine and running it again but it the loss of performance was too much so the competition didn't go too well for me...
And I participated on one more contest this summer. It was pattern aerobatics and was held at Ahmosuo airfield in Oulu. Everything started fine, I managed to take a practice flight on Friday evening and I thought I'd start early on Saturday so I could take a couple more flights before the competition starts. Well... It didn't quite go as planned as I was landing the plane and overshoot, I pushed the throttle and pulled the elevator to take another try but the engine didn't agree with me. So the plane tip-stalled into the ground. Not much pattern flying done by me on that weekend...
Well I hope my luck is turning now as the indoor flying season is getting closer and closer. ;)
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Oddball on August 24, 2008, 11:29:05 PM
aye for some reason im having some trouble with my glow plugs just now as well, last time i had toruble like this was on a engine made by SC in china turned out there was still a bit of metal swarf on the piston head and it was blowing the plugs.
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Jupeli on August 25, 2008, 04:28:05 AM
aye for some reason im having some trouble with my glow plugs just now as well, last time i had toruble like this was on a engine made by SC in china turned out there was still a bit of metal swarf on the piston head and it was blowing the plugs.
Oh yeah... Mine was a Super Custom, too. An SC .40A :D That's what we use for Q500 pylon here with a 9x6 APC prop. I now have a new engine in my GP Viper. Luckily the only cost ~50€
Title: Re: Things you should never do with a R/C model
Post by: Oddball on August 16, 2009, 09:28:58 PM
Resurection time: had a slight accident a week last friday when my trainer went dead stick..........it flew into a tree. tried to get it by going home and getting my climbing ropes out. could not get it but when my dad went out last sunday found out it had vanished. Some scumbag must of got it and stolen it. what hurts is I learnt to fly on that plane and have had it for over twenty years. Hope something bad happens to the barstools ::complaining: ::rambo:: ::rambo::
