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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: badbill on November 22, 2015, 09:17:43 AM

Title: Brodak Wildcat Almost the last flight!
Post by: badbill on November 22, 2015, 09:17:43 AM
Me flying my buddy Dave Fountain's little TD .049 powered Brodak Wildcat yesterday, wringing it out. Almost wrecked it near the end of the video when the motor sputtered while I was overhead with it- didn't even have time to run backwards, I reached out and grabbed the up line and pulled . When I did, the motor caught and it came right out. Pure luck!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVZ2YntX_1U

Title: Re: Brodak Wildcat Almost the last flight!
Post by: Dane Martin on November 22, 2015, 09:49:54 AM
Great save. It got pretty wiggly there! Here's my third flight on my brand new RM95 ( video from last year). Engine shut off quickly from a bad run, right at a bad time... Lol

https://youtu.be/wDnnmAFzxJU

Flying the 95
Title: Re: Brodak Wildcat Almost the last flight!
Post by: wwwarbird on November 22, 2015, 12:03:14 PM
Quote from: badbill on November 22, 2015, 09:17:43 AM
I reached out and grabbed the up line and pulled .


 Nice save, but a bad reflex/instinct to develop. If that was a bigger plane with steel lines you'd likely have ended up with some sliced fingers. n1

 Thanks for the video, looks like a fun little plane. ;D
Title: Re: Brodak Wildcat Almost the last flight!
Post by: badbill on November 22, 2015, 12:28:04 PM
Quote from: wwwarbird on November 22, 2015, 12:03:14 PM
Nice save, but a bad reflex/instinct to develop. If that was a bigger plane with steel lines you'd likely have ended up with some sliced fingers. n1

 Thanks for the video, looks like a fun little plane. ;D

It was steel lines  :'(
Title: Re: Brodak Wildcat Almost the last flight!
Post by: Brett Buck on November 22, 2015, 01:21:36 PM
Quote from: wwwarbird on November 22, 2015, 12:03:14 PM
Nice save, but a bad reflex/instinct to develop. If that was a bigger plane with steel lines you'd likely have ended up with some sliced fingers. n1

    Indeed. The two ugliest accidents I have seen or heard of were not from prop cuts, but from the lines. If they slide across your skin with any sort of force, you are going to get sliced. One incident was essentially as described here, except with the infamous Skyray 35.

    Brett
Title: Re: Brodak Wildcat Almost the last flight!
Post by: john e. holliday on November 22, 2015, 09:16:50 PM
Yes, even 1/2A's can make for a trip to the emergency room if you grab the lines at a bad time.   The plane looks very capable for doing the pattern.
Title: Re: Brodak Wildcat Almost the last flight!
Post by: wwwarbird on November 22, 2015, 09:20:10 PM
Quote from: badbill on November 22, 2015, 12:28:04 PM
It was steel lines  :'(

 Consider yourself lucky then. :)
Title: Re: Brodak Wildcat Almost the last flight!
Post by: badbill on November 23, 2015, 07:11:13 AM
Buncha Killjoys! BUT, ya'll are right, I'll stop and think next time. BTW, that plane just flies awesome, the TD is on bladder pressure with a red cap and is quite the screamer.