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 Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:44 am Post subject: OT - can a plane fly and land with 1 wing redux - WARNING - |
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Bill Mauledriver Watson wrote:
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I'm pretty sure the video of that plane losing a wing during some acro
and landing successfully was passed around here. In any case, it was a
fraud; apparently some footage of an RC model plane losing a wing was
doctored together with some full scale footage to come up with fraud.
Fraud? Like 'magic' is fraud? The spliced footage (artfully done) led
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you to believe that a real airplane with living pilot survived a loss of
wing.
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I ran across this which I also assumed to be a fraud - perhaps related
to the above one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFH7u93_W18
(it's 6 mins long and the wing event happens at the very end, but the
preamble is relevant)
Same category, but not with any attempt to lead you down a 'magical' path.
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However, my RC flying brother tells me, straight faced, that it is not
a fraud. It shows a freestyle type RC model losing a wing after quite a
bit of extreme flying, and then, well, landing normally after some
knife-edge flight.
There's enough visual noise in this video to support a fraud theory but
I'm now convinced it's the real deal.
It is.
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I had to talk this through with my brother who does fly RC pattern (not
freestyle) competitively, and came to the following understanding:
- these large RC models are very light and very high powered with
control systems to match
- they are no longer "flying on the wing" but "flying on the prop"
- control surfaces are big and they have extreme deflections
- the kid flying this thing trains on a simulator (there's an
interesting blurb on the video alluding to this)
You nailed it! These large models can hang on the prop and do verticals
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that real aerobatic pilots only dream of!
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Then I did a YouTube search on "Tucson 2009 shootout" to look at similar
videos of freestyle flying. I get it now. I mean I've seen this stuff,
but the wing coming off and the subsequent landing gave me an excuse to
get in to it a bit. Stuff sure has evolved since I played around with it.
On a related but somewhat sad note, a noted RC pattern competitor, Chip
Hyde, apparently burned down his house while charging some Lithuim
batteries a few days ago. With all the electric flight excitement going
around, isn't it ironic that explosions and fire are still the main
dangers in these petrol-free aircraft?
Yeah, dangers abound in any hobby. The other problem modelers with jets
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have is they get a large oxygen bottle to fill a smaller bottle that
they take to the field ..... and you know how Oxygen loves to turn
combustibles into roaring fires. Been there, done that, got the shirt!
Amazing how quickly us humans learn!!!
Linn
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Bill Watson
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