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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Derek Barry on February 19, 2013, 10:23:50 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fvXvioTVVA0
Derek
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Oh my god that's hilarious!!! LL~ H^^
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That's one way to learn to fly.
It could be a perfect frame for a commercial -- those leaves coming down after the heli disappears tell a whole story on their own.
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That's just too good. LL~
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I need that guy to do my apple trees, after he learns to hover with the rotor in the leaves.
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I don't know about that. I tried the RC helis and found it be a very expensive habit. After one really "complete" rebuild, I managed to get the servo reversed for the throttle. I tested it beside my house and was surprised when it would not spool up. It is an electric motor and the throttle has to moved to full off to activate. Out of frustration, I moved the throttle full travel and boy did it spool up. Full closed was now full throttle and full throttle was now closed. Yep...I figured that out after it hit the corner of my house and fell inside my empty trash can and thrashed around for awhile.
And that's why I fly CLPA ;D
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That is funny. Just like any form of model plane flying, get help from an experienced person. But, I didn't have a person when I learned to keep a CL plane from bruising the grass.
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Thanx for the comic relief Derek.Most weedwhackers come woth a handle LL~ LL~
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Just think what that thing would have done to him if it had hit him? Wouldn't be so funny then. At those rotor speeds, decapitation is a very real possibility. This current generation of electric R/C copters gives some people the false belief that they are some how easier to fly. The electric motors and high power Lipo batteries make incredible power, and the carbon fiber rotor blades are incredibly unforgiving. I have seen young guys do a 3-D routine within a few feet of a crowd with all the wild gyrations and such, and I went to hide behind a car. This guy was even too nonchalant about picking up the wreckage until he was sure it was disabled. What if it would have come back to life while he was picking it up? Would be a very hard lesson to learn.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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This guy should be in the running for a Darwin Award. LL~
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Yeah. Guys think that a model plane hobby is easy. After all, they do come ready to fly!
So, after spending a lot of money on some RTF, the project ends up in a pile of sticks and they take up something easier, like golf.
Floyd
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Think this guy might run for president? ~^
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Think this guy might run for president? ~^
I just about bet that He's a college professor or a lawyer...or both! LL~ LL~ n~
Believe me I know from whence I speak!
Randy Cuberly
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I have a hard enough time flying the simulator in the grand canyon...cant imagine taking off from the middle of the jungle! LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~
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His next move will be a trip to the local hobby shop and complain they sold him a defective machine.
He is positive it was defective since he completely read the instructions and has a degree in engineering from Texas Tech.
To further argue his case he has video of himself flying a 7 ounce coaxial rotor heli from WalMart in his living room so his expertise and experience should not be questioned. After leaving the hobby shop his next move will be calling American Express to report the fraudulent transaction the hobby shop dumped on him. Please don't ask how I know all this!
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. . . Please don't ask how I know all this!
"Orange Blossom memories", perhaps?
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I'm still laughing LL~ LL~
James
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I watched a guy get hit in the head by a .90 size electric helicopter. He left in an ambulance. They do major damage.
The guy in the video is an inexperienced flier so I would not expect him to know the dangers of approaching an armed heli crashed or otherwise. This video is quite funny! Thanks for posting. ;D
Mike
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I don't find this video in the least bit funny. Tragic yes, and I'm left with feeling pitiful about the viewing. Lots of money, dreams and hopes shattered. The only redeeming part is that nobody was seriously injured.
Joe
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Nah, it's still funny. I'm not even sure from the clip that the model was all that badly damaged. (As Dan says, though, it's a bit scary.)
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Hey Joe;
You may be surprised at how crash worthy a helicopter can be. Depends on the situaton, but yoiu will always break some parts, and with today's materials, they sometimes just bend. The main fuselage is a tight little bundle and pretty sturdy.Lots of time is spent dis-assembling, then replacing parts, then reassembly and trimming. Lots of time involved but sometimes not much money for parts. A typical "crash kit" for a .30 size heli is still under $100 I think. When talking to people at the hobby shop I have worked part time at for the last 30 some odd years, I tell them learning to fly helicopters is a lot like being married, a big commitment of time and money. I used to spend as much time talking people out of buying a helicopter as I did trying to sell one. The big thing, especially today is the safety aspect of it. Play the video again and listen to the sound of the rotors as the tips break the sound barrier. Imagine that carbon fiber blade hitting you at that speed? If you ar flying an I/C combustion engine, you may stall the engine and it will quit. May not happen with today electric motors. The pilot is standing in front of the heli, and that may or may not tell of his experience level, but I was always taught to stand behind it so as to help stay oriented to the controls, and if it alls go bad in some way, push the cyclic stick forward to get it away from you. I had a .40 size Schlueter Mini-Boy get away from me once in my driveway. It put a wood rotor blade through a hard wood garage door panel. That scared the crap out of me, I repaired it, trimmed it out and sold it soon there after.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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This clip is typical of today's "Buy-and-Fly" folks with no modeling experience. They fail to get reliable advice, and in general are accidents waiting to happen. They're dangerous (either helo' OR fixed wing)...and will only give the hobby a bad name.
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I am with Joe on this one. I don't find this funny...stupid maybe...but not funny. We had a guy in my old RC club here that didn't know what he was doing either and he took the thing off and it hit him in the chest and did some major damage to him. A little higher and it would have taken his head off. I put some distance between me and whoever is flying one of these.. they can be lethal and things can turn ugly real quick.
Mike
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Think this guy might run for president? ~^
Naahhhh, he's overqualified!
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Guys,
It is funny because he did not get hurt, it is obvious that he could have been seriously injured. I found it funny because I had a similar incident with a RC electric plane. I had gone to a swap meet and purchased a small electric Edge RC plane, about the size of a 1/2A plane. When I finally got home with it I could not wait to fly it so I immediately charged the battery and got everything setup to fly....or so I thought. I plugged the battery in and turned on my transmitter. Beep Beep full throttle across my yard into the side of my truck. The throttle was reversed and I did not know it, being new to electric and not thinking to restrain the plane it took off before I could react. The plane was completely destroyed and I got a nice new dent in my truck. It was entirely my fault but it changed my mind about electric. They can be a silent killer, unlike IC that you know when it is running.
The guy in the video probably had some experience with RC helicopters but this one was obviously above his skill level.
And what happend to Fitton's comment?
Derek
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Because I had built 100s of planes my brother had me build his first RC plane. I did a really nice job it looked great. I had never flown RC. We took it to the field and he let me be first up. Never having flown RC but will tons of control line hrs behind me I thought how hard can this be? It taxied and took off into the wind. It was a sight just beautiful. Until I tried to turn it around and bring it back to us. The Minuit I touched the controls it went into violent convulsions, cart wheels snap rolls and end over end. If I had been tyring to do that it would have been spectacular. Needless to say it lasted all of 20 seconds before hitting the ground and destroying all the work I had in it. First and last RC experience. I have no interest in it.
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I am with Joe Just on this, I see nothing funny about it at all.
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Like everything else, funny is in the eye of the beholder. Personally I laughed my butt off at that video!
And if that dude in the video has the true calling to become an RC helo pilot, nothing will stop him from being successful. I think the fact he posted the video means he is ok with that incident and will move forward.
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I just watched it again for like the 10th time and it gets more funny every time! LL~
Derek
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Les is mostly on the beam! From my hobby shop years I found the worst to be the full scale pilots. "I fly the big ones. I can certainly fly this toy."
Then comes the part where you sold him a defective product. Despite giving him a map and inviting him to your club for training.
One of my favorites was the guy who bought a semi kit and brought it back an all sticky and gooey mess. "This epoxy is no good! I need my money back for all this stuff I bought from you".
(He actully bought one of those "injector" epoxys from the hardware store next door because our epoxy was too expensive). Oh yea, he never mixed it! %^@
Ward-O
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That'll buff out.
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It,s funny and reminds me of how well I got to know the UPS man when learnig to fly a Baron 50 back in the 80,s. Nick
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I like how he looks up just before picking it up... like something may still be coming down! One of my favorite movie quotes came to mind from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" "we can fix it, my dad has a rad toolbox!"
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Allways wear a helmet when your model (heli) controls and flys you.
I have seen falling combat models from the sky hiting the circle center.
Thats why combat pilots wear helmets.
Funny video but very close to major injuries ???.
Just another way to scalp yourself !!!.
"Amen" to the Pilot which by luck survived.
rgds Peter
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....Beep Beep full throttle across my yard into the side of my truck. The throttle was reversed and I did not know it, being new to electric and not thinking to restrain the plane it took off before I could react. The plane was completely destroyed and I got a nice new dent in my truck.....
Derek
I can see this whole thing right now!!
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHA
That is AWESOME!!!! This exactly something I would do!!! In fact it sounds very similar to my first RC experience minus the dent in the truck. But we did get my truck stuck in the mud trying to retrieve the model and had to get a tow truck to get it out. Add $50.00 to the damage total that day.