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Post by pjw4118 on Feb 16, 2015 13:52:51 GMT 12
Sunday morning at Hobsonville in front of hundreds of horrified witnesses an unmanned bi plane plummeted to the ground. No causualties have been reported.  |
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 16, 2015 14:20:13 GMT 12
Ah, that would be a Cessna...
They do that.
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Post by jonesy on Feb 16, 2015 18:58:10 GMT 12
I'd be horrified if that was my plane...Whenever I watch an RC plane hit the deck I despair for the owner, who's put hundreds of hours of love into that plane only to have it smash into countless bits!
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Post by scrooge on Feb 16, 2015 21:10:47 GMT 12
Must have been just after we left, it was in pieces then too, only in the correct condition to be put together.
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Post by pjw4118 on Feb 17, 2015 9:01:50 GMT 12
You are onto it Kevin , hardly a day goes by without my mother saying ..BEWARE the 172.
The "pilot " also had a Thunderbolt and 486 sq marked Tempest ready to go , perhaps the 172 was going to be the target.
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Post by machpants on Feb 17, 2015 15:46:48 GMT 12
It is good to see the chap on the right giving it the last rites
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Post by planecrazy on Feb 17, 2015 18:54:44 GMT 12
Part of the game you play, when I first started flying RC this old very capable rc pilot
told me they are all doomed! I walked away thinking that was not very encouraging
however after a few years I have learnt he was pretty much on the mark, you will
crash and from that you learn. The problem is the better you get the more risks
you take, crashed just the other day flying my little Carbon Cub, stooging around
to low and slow inverted, my dumb thumbs managed to land her in a tree.
There's an old saying two mistakes high, I have an old airforce friend who has a
great saying, "altitude above you is not use what so ever!"
As jonsy said above it is always sad when one goes in but is part of the game!
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Post by thebrads on Feb 17, 2015 19:34:51 GMT 12
^Indeed, i haven't counted in a while, but i must be at over 50 RC aircraft i've had. I can recall selling about 5, giving away a couple, and there is maybe a dozen in the shed now. So the rest...?
Does start getting a little daunting when you think about the costs and effort, (i only take out the bigger stuff when "the planets align"), but (a) goes with the territory, and (b) don't many recreational pastimes have a similar cost/benefit ratio?
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Post by harrysone on Feb 19, 2015 9:05:11 GMT 12
...Going by the title of this post, I thought it was referring to another phantom drone coming to grief in awkward circumstances  Actually the media would probably still call the biplane a drone these days, its about the height of their mentality! Having flown R/C for a number of years I do tend to find the models that survive the longest can be a bit like 'grand dads axe' |
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Post by ZacYates on Feb 19, 2015 11:09:48 GMT 12
Unmanned? Then it's a drone, surely?
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Post by Brett on Feb 19, 2015 11:21:45 GMT 12
Definitely a drone, followed by a thud, followed by a short silence, and concluded with some colourful language.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 19, 2015 14:34:49 GMT 12
Please don't use this juvenile hash tag crap on the forum. I consider it in breach of Rule 7. |
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Post by ErrolC on Feb 19, 2015 15:02:33 GMT 12
I don't understand why it hashtags are juvenile? There is nothing juvenile about using #eqnz or #PaxEx on Twitter, for instance.
This is a separate matter from whether using them here is useful or good.
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Post by ZacYates on Feb 19, 2015 15:07:14 GMT 12
Sorry Dave, I didn't mean to use the hashtags seriously, rather as a p*ss-take.
Removed.
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