Gig Giacona
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 1416
Location: El Dorado Arkansas USA
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 Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: Perfect Example of Over Control Leading to Failure |
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A friend of mine is a Boy Scout pack leader (or what ever they call the adults that run the group). This weekend they had a camp out at a near buy airport with several activities that will allow the boys to get their aviation merit badge.
Among the events the local R/C aircraft guys brought out their models and let the kids fly them with a pretty neat dual control rig that allowed dual controls.
While one of the kids was flying he brought the model into a climb and the guy teaching him told him to add full power. Instead of pushing the throttle stick forward the scout pushed the elevator full forward very quickly. If you are playing along at home you can probably guess what happened next. The wings folded up then departed the aircraft.
What really amazed me was the metal spar that was a rod that ran the entire span of both wings. Play with the litter that had a few minutes before been a nice model I tried to bend the rod back into shape. I couldn't do it. I grab my friend and both of us working to gather had a real hard time bending it.
The moral of the story... excess G's and over control are a bad thing.
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