Ron Gray Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Good mate Ian's crash (stall in high winds??) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jenkins Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Looks very like a high speed stall there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Stephenson Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Did he not think of throttling back when it looked unrecoverable or was that the sound of another model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Gray Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 My experience of these style of 'planes is that recovery from a spin usually means apply throttle, dive and pull out, the opposites of what you think about doing! Throttling back tends to make the spin tighten!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john davidson 1 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 difficult to say because of the distance, but it could be failure of control surface or servo. What type of model was it? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 hello Ron, looked and sounded like a Radjet to me......i've seen a couple go in for no reason......and i've seen them out of the box with poorly fixed servo's that come out in the air... ken anderson...ne..1..Radjet dept. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john davidson 1 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) with conventional aileron and split elevator failure of one surface does not drastically affect the flyability, however if a delta has a failure there is no hope. A spiral as in the video results. Edited February 24, 2022 by john davidson 1 second thoughts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Stephenson Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 6 hours ago, Ron Gray said: My experience of these style of 'planes is that recovery from a spin usually means apply throttle, dive and pull out, the opposites of what you think about doing! Throttling back tends to make the spin tighten!!! Throttling back and tightening the spin may have brought it down to a softer landing, it powered in hard and staight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J D 8 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 My experience of flying wing types is get them into a spin they tend to stay there. The aircraft in the video looks to me to go into more of a spiral dive than a spin. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyB Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 (edited) On 24/02/2022 at 16:31, john davidson 1 said: difficult to say because of the distance, but it could be failure of control surface or servo. What type of model was it? I am inclined to agree - it may have been stalled initially, but it shouldn't have been in that dive given the rate of spiral appeared fairly low (for a model of that type). If it was an HK Radjet I believe they have the dreaded foam hinges; fine at the start, but they always go eventually.... Edited February 25, 2022 by MattyB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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