Thursday, January 14, 2010

They call it, "re-kitting", "augering in" and "digging a hole"...


...whatever it is, it's the big reason I never considered R/C aircraft before. Even though the one I was given was a freebie, I'd probably still sob like a school girl when it hit the ground...



From the video notes:

Watch as Heidi's brother completely re-kits his brand new fully-loaded FiberClassics P-51 because he forgot to do a proper flight control check after he had installed new aileron servos the week before in Alpnach, Switzerland. Both he and his helper did see that all of the controls were moving, just not in the proper direction. This beautiful 1/4 scale Mustang weighed approx. 20kgs, and was powered by a 3W-75cc engine swinging a 26 x 12 Menz propeller. Also installed were retracts, flaps, drop tanks, opening canopy, fully scale detailed cockpit and pilot. You will notice the bird start to roll to the right, so he corrects with left stick. This makes it roll even more to the right until it is on its back and left wing low. He then gives it some right stick input and it now does a nice roll to the left and augers in. Listen to the delayed "Kerrr-splat!!!" sound that it makes.

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