Slo-Mo Crash Landing! Jim's 120cc Giant-Scale RC F4U Corsair - RC Airplane - Golden Eagles RC Club
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2024
- Jim's Corsair Crash Landing.
Kingman Golden Eagles RC Club, Inc., Kingman, Arizona member, Jim Simo finally gets his Giant-Scale Corsair running right and he makes a flight but has a hard landing!
Club President Eric Reinhart shot the video clips and edited the video together. He also wrote the script and created the voice of "Madison" using Play.HT and Speechelo AI Text-to-Voice software.
The music is copyright-free UA-cam Library
Arp Bounce - Geographer Royalty Free Music
Lucky to have saved it as much as he did.
Just from the takeoff we know this guy shouldn’t be flying that thing 💀
The old stall spin on landing! Classic!
It was a great save, but 800 for the landing gear, wow, good too see no one got hurt.
Nice to see it flying at scale speed... of a Starfighter.
It's funny how Life can be sometimes. In 1971 my dad got tired of renting a Cessna 150 and bought a Cessna 170A for $4250. Times have changed. We kept it tied down at home, we had 30 acres in SoCal and our dirt strip was 10' wide and 1300' long with electric wires/poles about 150' from the beginning of the runway. I was 5yo back then, couldn't see out the windshield, nonetheless, flying lessons had started. By the time I was 12yo i was capable of landing at our local airport... on an asphalt runway with dad sitting next to me. I could read a sectional in my sleep and navigate across the Mojave Desert up to Reno using VOR's and the old coffee grinder radio mounted in front of me.
One day I was jntroduced to rafio controlled airplanes and I was hooked. How hard can it be of you're already flying a GA aircraft? My first airplane ended up broken 20 seconds into its maiden flight. Some glue and a hot iron fixed it and on its second flight it was demolished within 25 seconds. My parents told me a second airplane was out of the question unless I sought help from the local club. How humiliating I thought. I built a Q-Tee, powered by a TeeDee .051 with rudder and elevater controls only. Once I soloed that plane, I stepped into a Falcon 56. It was much easier to fly. The Q-Tee was retrofitted with a Cox .09, no throttle. My need for speed had begun. Eventially I got involved in 1/2A and Quickie 500 racing. By then I had joined the club and what made it so awful was that there was 5 of us kids in our early teens under the watchful eye of 40 or so old guys. We'd follow the rules, usually, but nonetheless they still resented us flying WOT down the runway, inverted, 3' off the deck. Hey, we were young, sharp, we had excellent vision and fast reflexes. The "old guys" built some beautiful airplanes, then eventually would pile 'em into the ground.
Fast forward to today. I watched this video and I noticed the man flying had a white beard, had a beautiful airplane, but he made a simple mistake and fortunately he was lucky. I cannot criticize him because i make simple mistakes now and then too. LOL, I'm slowly becoming one of those "old guys" that prefer to fly a scale aircraft at a scale speed. Out of the 5 Quickie 500's I built, only #5 is still here with its 72 Mhz radio and K&B 6.5cc motor. Ya, no, it's a display piece these days. I prefer the relaxing traits of my J-3 Cub with its 82" wingspan. For excitement I fly a Decathlon with an 86" wing. The bigger aircraft are easier to fly but more importantly, they're easier to see! Out of us 5 young kids with our sharp minds and fast reflexes, two of us put those traits to good use. Myself and one other kid joined the military after college. He joined the Navy and flew F-14's during Desert Storm. I joined the Marine Corps and flew the AV-8B Harrier. Funny thing is neither one of us knew the other was there until we bumped into one another years later at our local hobby shop, both of us still involved in rc aircraft for the past 45+ years.
My point is... ah Hell, I forgot. Alzheimer's is creeping up on me. This was just a trip down memory lane.
Beautiful Corsair! Fortunately it'll fly again!
Really enjoyed your post , I found a lot of what you said about flying full size and then trying RC echoes what we at my club discussed ! Not as easy as they may think.. As far as the sad Corsair crash, yep typical wing stall I have been guilty of this several times..
Happy flying I'm looking forward to getting plenty of air time after a horrible wet five months...yep five months..
What went wrong? I'm an actual pilot and that was essentially an approach stall. The craft was unstabalized and the nose dropped, he applied up elevator and stalled the right wing causing the craft to roll. With more altitude, it would have been the beginning of the classic stall / spin.
RIP to a beautiful bird!
Why was he not using the landing flaps ? Perhaps 🤔 the plane did not have them, but a Corsair really does require them, otherwise the dreaded wingtip stall can easily happen.
I drive truck and visit Kingman quite often I love to fly and would like to visit your field
You are welcome to visit! Rt 66 Airport stoplight, mile 61. Turn west at the light, not east into the airport complex. Follow the signs to the field, about 3/4 mile of dirt road.
Nice save. I got a Top Flite Corsair 60 done it in the same colors. Crashed too and repaired😅
High altitude, tail wind ,and too much elevator. All added up to the stall.
It is airspeed not tail wind that is the critical factor.
Tail heavy
Dreadful commentary
And that is being generous.
Like A Glove!
If the Right Gear had not Seperated things could have been Tragic. The Right Wing Dragging on the Ground Slowed the Big F-4U down Sufficantly enough to Shorten it's Ground Roll.
wow
In French Navy livery...
Looks still 'reparable'.
Wait till the FAA/NTSB sees this They'll Recomend Remeaidal Flight Instruction As they do For FULL SCALE pilots that F-Up.
Annoying unnecessary click bait title. I blocking this channel
Anyone know if this is a Meister design?
Yes... I believe that Jim said he built it from Meister plans.
Basic stall...
Just love the AI voice 😂😂😂😂😂😂😆
Sorry but you see all over UA-cam blokes who clearly struggle to fly something like this let alone an advanced trainer. They are going to destroy the hobby. So close to hitting those other people
He under controlled then over controlled. I notice countless flyers especially more mature ones lose the plot as soon as the ground comes up after barely controlling the plame and usually at full throttle.
Right rudder hold when the Corsair stopped suggests the neurons aren't what they used to be. A lot of more mature people's fine motor control diminishes as well as slowing reflexes. They simply cannot manage operating something like a model aeroplane safely any more
Unfortunately many of their flying buddies are no better so support them, cheer on woeful control as if they're a top gun
It's embarrassing and to the detriment of maintaining a safe hobby for all.
The 120cc motor alone is enough to rip someone's skull off.
Pure arrogance and a failure to accept the skills base is insufficient for the task and clubs fail to pull these guys aside and issue them with an ultimatum. Sort out your deficiencies under supervision or no more flying planes.
It's great to see someone make such a nice plane but that doesn't entitle them to put everyone else at risk of harm and expect concerned people to shit their mouths about their dangerous incompetence
Says one who has never crashed, if so should that be never flown?
I couldn't finish this due to the trashy commentary. Another channel blocked.
Pilot . .. back to flight lessons . . . or find another hobby . . . maybe trains . .
Terrible flying, but not as bad as the commentary.
Just love the AI voice 😂😂😂😂😂😂😆