Crashed plane pic's!!

[Spencer J]

Hey all!

Since there is a thread about Parkflyer pic's, why don't we have a thread with crashed planes in it!!!

Yes-crashing a plane can be very heart breaking. I've been through that sevreal times.

[CADman]

OK, I'll bite. Note to self: the Gee Bee has a lousy dead stick glide :(

[Spencer J]

OK, I'll bite. Note to self: the Gee Bee has a lousy dead stick glide :(

:eek:

Be thankful the prop wasn't your neck!! ;)

[steve ypsi mi]

doe's this qualify, my friend doc, he repaired this and flew 2 days later, gws Corsair

[kesmith]

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41009&page=1&pp=15

[turbojoe]

Mountain Models FlashBack. Complete loss of control and it throttled up even though I chopped the throttle. Just like someone else had turned on their transmitter. :rolleyes: Landed square on the nose from about 150 feet up. Damage is far worse than it looks in the picture. The nose area pretty much turned to balsa dust. :(


Joe

[Spencer J]

doe's this qualify, my friend doc, he repaired this and flew 2 days later, gws Corsair

Was that you? You look purtty pissed off. ;)

[guapoman2000]

Old Yeller Crash Pic....the photographer was at the right time and place to witness this! :D

Is this what you all wanted? :D

[guapoman2000]

Before picture....Gerry had this evil look in his eye! :eek:

Performed some fantastic inverted flight and then he continued coming closer and closer to mother Earth....and well you see what happened. :rolleyes:

[guapoman2000]

Here's my GWS P-51D after one of many crashes! :D

[Lewist]

Ouch.

I don't know why i look in these crash threads.. i am new to planes and am on the verge of flying me new plane for the first time.. will also be my maiden flight.. and pictures like that make me want to put it back in the box! :)

[guapoman2000]

Ouch.

I don't know why i look in these crash threads.. i am new to planes and am on the verge of flying me new plane for the first time.. will also be my maiden flight.. and pictures like that make me want to put it back in the box! :)

Don't dispair...you looked because you were curious :D

They are easy to repair! Just take a look!

My "SUE" (Tuskeegee) crashed because of a failed pico servo! :mad: It was repaired that same night.

Carlos :cool:

[Ben_E]

The result of inverted flight 8 feet above the ground.... and the epoxy doctor cured the illness quite effectively :D

Ben_E

[Spencer J]

I'm suprised no one feels bad about this-or at least it appers.

[PoudreDerf]

Next time I crash, I'm gonna take out the photographer who said, "Make a pass right in front of me." I came close, he didn't take the picture, and I paid Mr. Epoxy a couple of bucks to get back up in the air. Hence, no picture from me. Yet.

[Spencer J]

Old Yeller Crash Pic....the photographer was at the right time and place to witness this! :D

Is this what you all wanted? :D

That's what I call a pice of art!!

[Inverted_Fly]

spencer, You pay anywhere from 139 to 500 dollars to put a (relatively) small aircraft into the air. Your putting your faith in your piloting abilities, your depth perception, and the air that flows and blows around you. You put your faith into your radio, your battery, your reciever, your planes structural integrity, motor, speed control, and servos, all of which could crap out, Break, glitch, or otherwise screw up.

So crashing comes with the territory. you should expect to crash alot when you are new, and keep crashing some (although hopefully less often) even when your not so new at flying R/c.

Crashing is part of the hobby. Its not uncommon to be very upset when an airplane you are really fond of breaks, Especially if you put alot of money and work into it.

its an unfortunate event that lets us try out our building skills, or when an aircraft is completely destroyed, transfer all the equipment into a new plane, having learnt from the previous crash.

I hope your crashes are few, and your good times Many!
and dont let em get you down, ok? :D

[Ben_E]

I'm suprised no one feels bad about this-or at least it appers.

Why? -it happens to everybody - with no exceptions :D Here is the evidence (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.ashley/teambananaracing/gallery.htm) (I feel sorry for these guys!)

Ben_E

[Trikster]

Why? -it happens to everybody - with no exceptions :D Here is the evidence (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.ashley/teambananaracing/gallery.htm) (I feel sorry for these guys!)

Ben_ENo kidding... That B-52 was beautiful beyond words...

Here is my contribution: Who said flying wings were indestructable?

(This is actually a red-tailed hawk attack, they look similar to my wing in a dive, I think this is why my wing was attacked)

[james1787]

Here's mine. Lost my orientation flying low in the late afternoon sun. No biggie, it was back in one piece a few hours later. It's since been crashed and rebuilt 2 other times and still flies like a champ!

[uglyplane]

I'm suprised no one feels bad about this-or at least it appers.
You either laugh :D or you cry :( . Been there, done that, got the balsa dust..

Isn't there a crash pic forum?

[LcJ]

Mountain Model kits are great, but they just don't hold up against a brick wall. But they can be easily rebuilt....

[Mickey]

Rolls are nice, but not when you fly directly across the sun :D
(please excuse the quality of the pics, taken with a cell phone camera)
Mickey

[kscbob1]

No Pics but I had an interesting event yesturday while flying. Plane was a GWS F4U Corsair with A/E/T, park 370-4100 brushless, 5.33 GWS gearbox, APC 9x6E, CC P-10 controller, Hitec Eclipse 7 Tx, GWS R6N receiver, 2 Hitec HS-55s, and 3S1P Kokam 1500. The crystal was held in the receiver with a piece of electricians tape. Now I have flown this plane about 10 months at the same field without problems.

I was at about 100' altitude and I performed a right roll. Once straight and level I then performed a left roll and the plane continued to roll even after I tried to bring it back to straight and level. Cut throttle and the plane continued to roll with no effect on motor speed. It performed two more rolls in a large arch impacting the ground at full throttle. I have quite a supply of little blue pieces of foam right now. Interestingly the only thing I couldn't find was the crystal and the tape holding it in the Rx. Does this sound like what would happen if a Rx were to lose it's crystal?

Anyone mount their crystals in a more secure or permenant fashion? I'm wondering if a spot of glue would help.

This is going to be an interesting rebuild since the front section of the fuselage suffered from severe compression. I have a second F4U (slope version) about 2/3s built that I was planning on glassing so I may just shelve this one for a while and finish the new one.

Bob

[eBird]

Looks like a good thread for the new "crash discussion" forum

:)

[guapoman2000]

No Pics but I had an interesting event yesturday while flying. Plane was a GWS F4U Corsair with A/E/T, park 370-4100 brushless, 5.33 GWS gearbox, APC 9x6E, CC P-10 controller, Hitec Eclipse 7 Tx, GWS R6N receiver, 2 Hitec HS-55s, and 3S1P Kokam 1500. The crystal was held in the receiver with a piece of electricians tape. Now I have flown this plane about 10 months at the same field without problems.

I was at about 100' altitude and I performed a right roll. Once straight and level I then performed a left roll and the plane continued to roll even after I tried to bring it back to straight and level. Cut throttle and the plane continued to roll with no effect on motor speed. It performed two more rolls in a large arch impacting the ground at full throttle. I have quite a supply of little blue pieces of foam right now. Interestingly the only thing I couldn't find was the crystal and the tape holding it in the Rx. Does this sound like what would happen if a Rx were to lose it's crystal?

Anyone mount their crystals in a more secure or permenant fashion? I'm wondering if a spot of glue would help.

This is going to be an interesting rebuild since the front section of the fuselage suffered from severe compression. I have a second F4U (slope version) about 2/3s built that I was planning on glassing so I may just shelve this one for a while and finish the new one.

Bob

Bob,

Sorry to learn of your wonderful looking model! :mad:

That is really strange since if you lose the cystral then, you are open loop and the software on the RX should have shut down at least the motor being that it lost signal from TX? :confused: Unless of course that's how GWS RX's work and continue to input the last known signal right before the cystral was ejected out from the RX?

Interesting test next time you are up to it, I mean ground testing! :D

Hope you can put her back together again.

Carlos :cool:

[kscbob1]

It will fly again Carlos, I'm going to put the 350 brushed back in it and give it to my son as his first low wing warbird. I'll move the brushless stuff to the new F4U ( I was looking for an excuse anyway, the darn thing just flew too well even after all it's crashes).

Steve: Didn't realize there was a Crash forum, but I do now. :)

Bob

[Spencer J]

Looks like a good thread for the new "crash discussion" forum

:)

I really think there should be a section in each fourm about crashing.

LOL, my "best crash was when my Stryker flew into a bird-or shall we say, the bird flew into it5.

There was a small sworm of birds around it about 10 feet away. One went right for it and hit the leading edge and bounced off, and keep flying. For the aircraft, it spriled and I recovered and it just landed flat hard. The only thing happened was the prop coming off.

[Spencer J]

You either laugh :D or you cry :( . Been there, done that, got the balsa dust..

Isn't there a crash pic forum?

Does any one know what this model is? This is a areil photo from a nother plane takeing a pic of that plane as it is rashing. (HINT: It has jets.)

http://area51specialprojects.com/XB-70-spin2-1.html

[kscbob1]

Spencer J:

That was one of two XB-70 prototypes, the other is now at the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB. One of it's chase planes got too close and hit it. The Discovery Wings Channel showed the film from the camera planes on this midair. It occurred sometime in the late sixties or early seventies. I know that by 1974 the second prototype was already collecting rust at Wright-Patterson as it was one of the planes they kept outside. I spent a day at the museum back in the summer of '74.

Bob

[Tlide]

Does any one know what this model is? This is a areil photo from a nother plane takeing a pic of that plane as it is rashing. (HINT: It has jets.)

http://area51specialprojects.com/XB-70-spin2-1.html

I think that is a picture of the XB 70 after it was cliped by another jet during a photo shoot. Killed the pilot in the chase plane that hit it and some of the crew of the illfated XB 70.

Tracy

[Tram]

Hmm.. Crashed plane pics..

Let's see what we can dig up..

Let's see..

#1 - Aerolock Model's Pitts Model 12 - Pushed when I should have pulled..
#2 - 3DConcepts Ragged Edge - Just "plane" abusive.. Flew this one hard.
#3 - Radical R/C Verti-Go 3D - Ahh yes, being silly and "doink."

Gotta love it when your thumbs go stupid.. I very rarely get radio hits, I just love planting balsa seeds!

[Suntzu]

Nasty CG problem ....

..flying again 2 days later!

[Spencer J]

Spencer J:

That was one of two XB-70 prototypes, the other is now at the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB. One of it's chase planes got too close and hit it. The Discovery Wings Channel showed the film from the camera planes on this midair. It occurred sometime in the late sixties or early seventies. I know that by 1974 the second prototype was already collecting rust at Wright-Patterson as it was one of the planes they kept outside. I spent a day at the museum back in the summer of '74.

Bob

I was hoping someone would fall for that stpuid joke. :rolleyes:

My favorite plane.

[wfmdpw]

here are a couple of pics of my plane after over two months lost in a farmers soy bean field. And I put it back together. All worked on it except the battery was shot.

[MeBluEyz99]

im trying to find my superstar ep crash maiden flight total disaster but i can't find it, well just use your imagination 100 feet up in the air with the antenna down and boom astroturf dart no lie it like disintegrated on contact some pieces were like 15 feet away. I may be exagerating a little....... :)

[catcher]

I hope that none of my planes look like those.

[Spencer J]

I hope that none of my planes look like those.

Don't worry, you won't.

This is exsperinced crashers. ;)

[theKM]

Accidents are just a fact of the hobby. It actually is very character forming for the young ones in the hobby. Being able to accept loss and move on is one of the great lessons one should learn.

I don't have a photo, but my first fully scratch built plane when I was about 16 was a .40 sized Dalotel. It came out so nice. Hand building everything including the cowling. On maiden flight she was flying great, but then she lost radio contact due to bad switch harness, and I had to stand and watch it do three large loops before the bottom of a loop was below the ground. Very hard to come to terms with at the time.

But anyways... live and learn. There's too many planes to build to be stopped by a set-back :)

[Spencer J]

Accidents are just a fact of the hobby. It actually is very character forming for the young ones in the hobby. Being able to accept loss and move on is one of the great lessons one should learn.

I don't have a photo, but my first fully scratch built plane when I was about 16 was a .40 sized Dalotel. It came out so nice. Hand building everything including the cowling. On maiden flight she was flying great, but then she lost radio contact due to bad switch harness, and I had to stand and watch it do three large loops before the bottom of a loop was below the ground. Very hard to come to terms with at the time.

But anyways... live and learn. There's too many planes to build to be stopped by a set-back :)
A A-10 in a million pices? Give me a break. The worst I've seen is crashing on top of baseball backstops and get stuck.

Don't discorage people.

[Hank Scorpio]

Maybe this should be moved to the CRASH forum?

[Usta Bee]

I've crashed my T-IFO into bushes, straight into a tree trunk, four times into tree limbs, once straight into a rock wall, and twice had it fall from the tree limbs it hit and land on it's nose from 15 feet up. I don't have any carnage photos to show because these stupid things don't break, not even a busted prop or bent prop shaft !. :confused: I feel so left out now, I hate this danged plane. :mad:

[Hank Scorpio]

Don't discorage people.


He's not doscouraging anybody. Crashing is a FACT in this hobby. You will build, you WILL crash and destroy, you will rebuild or give up the hobby. If the worst you've seen is a plane getting stuck on a backstop, then count your blessings so far because you WILL be picking up scrap pieces of foam sooner or later. :D

[thunder1]

Stalled her 20 feet straight down onto asphalt. Repaired and flow three days later;-)

[P-40]

Stevensaero Groove into the pavement going very fast.

[Spencer J]

He's not doscouraging anybody. Crashing is a FACT in this hobby. You will build, you WILL crash and destroy, you will rebuild or give up the hobby. If the worst you've seen is a plane getting stuck on a backstop, then count your blessings so far because you WILL be picking up scrap pieces of foam sooner or later. :D

:rolleyes:

[captain riso]

oh yeah !!!!!!!!! hard landings !!!!!!!!!!!!!! eheeh h

[james1787]

P-40.. in a word, OUCH!

Were you able to rebuild that or was it the final flight for that bird?

[P-40]

James,

That was it for that bird. I kept the tail to hang on my shop wall as it was completely undamaged. I did build a second Groove though, which is doing well I might add.

[jgmtens]

Hobby-Lobby Alfa P-47. Wings folded due to a faulty spar glue joint. The full story is here:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=278783

Jon

[Spencer J]

Hobby-Lobby Alfa P-47. Wings folded due to a faulty spar glue joint. The full story is here:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=278783

Jon

:eek: :(

[thunder1]

No fixing that one P-40;-(

I flew my repaired Groove today. If I ever total this one (again) and can't repair it, I'm going to get a Stella. A little more managable around the house with only 36" WS. I find myself walking around like a crab when I move it.

[Trogdor]

here are a couple of pics of my plane after over two months lost in a farmers soy bean field. And I put it back together. All worked on it except the battery was shot.

Wow, wfmdpw the Firebat lives! :)

[Spencer J]

Biggner flight log:

0:00 Takeoff

00:15 1 lap around the field

00:22 Battery

00:23 Sprial

00:23.5 Maday

00:24 People scream

00:24.25 Crash

00:45 "Where's the prop?"

All in less then 45 seconds. Can you beleave that?

[Fred Bronk]

Think I will move this to the crash forum. :D

FB

[gwong]

RIP GWS E-Starter From Dec 03 to Oct 04

"She was a good ship"

Had a nice morning of flying and aerobatics except when I pulled up too hard from too fast of a dive and the wings split in half....I thought about rebuilding it but the structure is too weak from many past crashes...It's time to say goodbye and goodluck in plane heaven. Good NEWS is the electronics survived and will be used in my new Formosa :D

www.ariestechnologies.com/estartercrash1.jpg
www.ariestechnologies.com/estartercrash2.jpg
www.ariestechnologies.com/estartercrash3.jpg
www.ariestechnologies.com/estartercrash4.jpg
www.ariestechnologies.com/estartercrash5.jpg
www.ariestechnologies.com/estartercrash6.jpg
www.ariestechnologies.com/estartercrash7.jpg
www.ariestechnologies.com/estartercrash8.jpg
www.ariestechnologies.com/estartercrash9.jpg

Gord.

[Spencer J]

Think I will move this to the crash forum. :D

FB

I never knew therte was a crash forum. Ahhhhh......am I losing it? :confused:

[Bako]

I have launched it by hand the wing got grass. then it hit the engine on the rgound. the nose is now hang on the sticky tape :)

[Spencer J]

Yuck!!!!


http://www.hobby-lobby.com/wingo_fishing.htm

[Trikster]

LOL!!! That is funny.

[Spencer J]

LOL!!! That is funny.

ya think!!??

Ahhhhhh! I think I'm going to puk!!!!!!!!!!!!


:eek:

:eek:

:eek:




:( I don't feel so good.

[MeBluEyz99]

holy sugar honey ice tea that gws e starter is pretty macked up man, there is not enough epoxy on earth to put it back together....lol

[Spencer J]

What the heck is this??? What plane? Bad crash. Hope it wasn't a gas airplane.

http://www.wcflyers.com/images/member_plane_pics/crash_pics/des_crash.jpg

[Ceslen]

im a hard headed guy i guess. i purchased the firebird freedom to
jump into rc flight. had a foam plane for about a week before this
one. (45 bucks 2 channel 2 prop no control surfaces) which recieved
much tape. became decent at flying that and purchased the
firebird. MUCH PRAISE to this plane. i tried flying it for the
first time in a field about the size of a baseball field. oops, yea
that was WAYYY too small of a field. needless to say i clipped a
tree limb with its wing. no real damage, little tape and was up to
try again. still not realizing that the field was just too *&%$@!
small i put it up again. this time the crash was much worse.
getting the plane in the air, easy. tryig to land in that small
field, priceless :) and hard too. so hard in fact that it didnt
happen. i circled a few times enough to had the battery die on me.
plane kills motor and all i have left is the control surfaces. i
try to bring the plane down in some kind of non destructive way but
lose sight of it behind some trees near my mothers house... which
coincidently is made of brick. i could see it but i heard it from
about 150 feet away. crunch. i walk to find the pile of rubble that
is my plane and to my surprise it has survived!!! the rubber/foam
nose cone had absorbed most of the shock (some creasing the the
plastic fuselage not major though. some wing creasing and some
tail creasing but overall for hitting a brick wall (lol) at about 20
to 25 mph (coming in downwind) it fared excellent. ill be getting a
replacment wing ($14) and tail (?) but the damage is so light ill
only use them if necessary. anyway congrats to hobbyzone for such
an incredibly durable aircraft!

[Ceslen]

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