Sucks To Be This Guy

AustinSN

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Oh man that blows.

I have a buddy who is pretty big into that stuff, he has an F4U that he has been building for the last year or so and he is about $30,000 into it. I can't imagine what that guy put into that thing.
 

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Dude looks like he lost a relative in that wreck. Sucks.
 

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That does suck bad. I flew RC Helis for years and just a small crash was a minor fortune.

Yep...I fly them too, but have lost the desire lately. I had just upgraded the swash plate, mainshaft and was on shakedown flight when the Heli experienced a tail-rotor failure, boom....
 

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The plane just got overheated is all.

That really sucks. I can't imagine how much money and time he spent building that plane and all the time spent building up to the point of being able to fly it.
 

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It doesn't make sense it just disintegrated. Did he bank to hard? Or did it explode? I didn't see fire...
 

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It doesn't make sense it just disintegrated. Did he bank to hard? Or did it explode? I didn't see fire...

I am betting rudder hard over, past the load limits resulting in the tail disintegrating. 1:2 scale airplane is well...an airplane, this thing was ****ing huge. I wonder what kind of structural testing was done if any on this design.
 

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