MauleDriver(at)nc.rr.com
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 Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:31 am Post subject: OT - can a plane fly and land with 1 wing redux - WARNING - |
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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.
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)
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.
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)
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?
Bill Watson
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