ChrisB Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Many years ago, a clubmate took off with his extra 300 and after doing some mild aerobatics he shouted that he'd lost it. The model started climbing in knife edge, the YS110 roaring away, fish-tailing as it went. It go to about 1000ft at which point the canopy came off and the plane started to descend and disappeared. About an hour later we found the model 3/4 of a mile away. Safe to say everything was destroyed including the engine. It turns out the receiver battery broke loose of its mount and disconnected itself from the receiver, leaving the engine YS 110 glow engine to carry on. Of course, in this instance the failsafe couldn't activate, as there was no power. The moral of the story is to secure your battery and use a lead lock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerOC Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 We have a club member who only flies gliders and his main desire is to "speck it". We have lost count of the number lost to date. Last year his son-in-law bought him a Heron for his birthday. We were flying near Dartmoor and he was doing his normal thing and unfortunately it disappeared into a cloud. At this point he put in up and left rudder and we all looked up in the direction in which it was last seen. After 10 minutes nobody had witnessed it come down but we knew it must have returned to earth and we had a rough idea where. The following day 2 members came out with quads with cameras. One was newly built and worth over £1000 with FPV and the other was a cheapish DIY build with a recording camera. Each pilot took a quadrant and set off to scan the area. 5 minutes in the pilot flying his expensive quad experienced a serious malfunction and it plummeted out of the sky from 300ft. The second quad continued while the rest of us went in search of the downed quad. The search for the quad proved fruitless in the gorse. The following day the location of the glider was identified from photographs and we picked up the remains. 6 of us searched for 4 hours for the quad and never found it. Net result £1000 quad lost for £140 foamy. Edited By TigerOC on 05/04/2018 22:43:22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich too Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Posted by ChrisB on 05/04/2018 20:21:49: Many years ago, a clubmate took off with his extra 300 and after doing some mild aerobatics he shouted that he'd lost it. The model started climbing in knife edge, the YS110 roaring away, fish-tailing as it went. It go to about 1000ft at which point the canopy came off and the plane started to descend and disappeared. About an hour later we found the model 3/4 of a mile away. Safe to say everything was destroyed including the engine. It turns out the receiver battery broke loose of its mount and disconnected itself from the receiver, leaving the engine YS 110 glow engine to carry on. Of course, in this instance the failsafe couldn't activate, as there was no power. The moral of the story is to secure your battery and use a lead lock. I always use two batteries (with larger models), why wouldn’t you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piers Bowlan Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 TigerOC, one of these might have helped locate your friends £1000 Quad amongst the gorse bushes (and the Heron glider too). Not much good if the battery has become detached, of course. (there used to be another one available with it's own integral battery called 'Screamy'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Davis Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 One evening last summer two of us were flying at the club's field. My colleague was flying a quad. I heard a startled cry and it was obvious that he had lost control of his quad and that it had crashed into the adjacent field sown to rape. At that time the crop was about a metre high. I landed and went to help him search for it. Half an hour later, and we were just about to give up, when something touched my knee. It was his quad! What are the chances of that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levanter Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Hi Devcon Some clues - It must have started from near a road as we definitely drove there. There was heather and gorse plus some big rocky outcrops on top of the hills. That should narrow it down a bit. No name and no address. As far as a reward is concerned, let's talk about that when we see what condition it is in but lets say a minimum of three gold stars! Levanter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.