This week on What the Heck Wednesday we have a sad brutal crash on a nice looking RC Boeing 787. It had a ton of power based on the first fly by and looked to be flying great. It sounds awesome too with the twin EDF's pushing a ton of air through the nacelles. After a few minutes, the plane enters a fairly high banked right hand turn, over rotates and heads back to mother earth in a hurry. It looks like a classic stall to me and with not enough altitude to level off and start flying again. The pilot seemed unsure at first at how it happened. So what do you guys think went wrong on this one?
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BRUTAL CRASH, The last flight of my new RC Boeing 787 (12 min 31 sec) |
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I saw this too.. much's the pity
REmy is a class RC guy I do believe the firs assessment at the site is the correct one... too much angle on those wings negates Lift... and then the spiral of death.... |
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Wonder if there have been some prior experiences of RF issues due to those nearby hi-voltage lines? Check the esc logging...did she go into failsafe? I see control surfaces still moving at the end, but perhaps those are just the gyros responding. Did the motors cut-out for a sec before gunning-it with the draggy flaps? I'll admit the timing is curious...
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Last edited by FNFAL; Nov 18, 2020 at 07:32 PM.
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Looks exactly like this famous b-52 crash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_F...the%20aircraft. Quote:
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And yet there are thousands of safe flights with Spektrum (the correct spelling) radio equipment all the time. There is absolutely no proof that the crash was caused by a radio failure, thus, you, cmulder are speculating based on facts not in evidence.
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Last edited by SteveT.; Nov 18, 2020 at 10:56 PM.
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Not only that, lack of power to get out of the wing tip stall!
It might take hundreds or even thousands of hours to build models of this caliber, but more importantly, it take thousands of hours to master flying them to avoid disasters like in the video above, which speaks for itself. |
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Like he said at the start to much expo meant pulling the stick back more which resulted in a tighter turn... Rammy knows this but an airplane can stall at any airspeed, in any pitch attitude and this cost him to lose his 787
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