RC Grippen crash...nice fireball

[aloft]

[yt]ENcIZVx-o9c[/yt]

 

[surreal1221]

Looks like something flew off. . . ooh . . . nevermind, it slows down and shows you something falling off.

(started typing this before it was done).

 

[SRA_kbad]

I'd say about... 10,000 bucks down the tubes!!! :banghead:

 

[PGT]

maybe it was a bee-strike

 

[Milesar]

maybe it was a bee-strike

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

 

[bLizZuE]

sucks.

 

[NickH]

Looks to me like it was an issue with the high speed pass. Maybe flutter causing the control surfaces to break off...

 

[X-Forces]

Oops!!

Thats a lot of money up in smoke.

 

[I_Money]

Yeah it was flutter that caused it to break up - you can actually see it happen.

 

[VSTMusic]

ouch! These guys have got lots of money and it can get trashed really easily and quickly!

 

[aloft]

Yeah it was flutter that caused it to break up - you can actually see it happen.

Don't quit your day job, Iain.

While you can in fact see the flight control flutter, what caused it to break up was impact with the trees.

 

[X-Forces]

Don't quit your day job, Iain.

While you can in fact see the flight control flutter, what caused it to break up was impact with the trees.

:rotfl: :rotfl:

 

[aviatorrbt]

I once saw a 1/3 scale Extra crash because of radio interference. A guy at the field bought the plane from the R/C scale champion for $25,000. Right after that, he let one of his buddies fly it... he was the one that crashed it...

first flight under new ownership.... last flight for anyone.