How many planes have you crashed this year

[flyer88]

I would like to know if I'm the only RC pilot that totaled some airplanes this year.

SE5 x 2 GP (Pilot error)( bad ESC)
Edge 540 Eflite (Stuck Elev Servo )
Mini Ultra stick Eflite (Pilot error)
Super Cub ( Pilot error) Doesn't do inverted loops very well !
Beaver Eflite (not totaled) (pilot error...stall on takeoff)
Hobby Zone Cessna 172 (bad ESC)

Sorry I didnt know Bold was bad !??

[mrmugen]

In 2008 I wrecked a

Stinger 10

Eflite Jenny

Crashed lightly and repaired my USL120

Other than that is was happy landings for the most part. Been flying lots of nitro and gas planes lately and size really does matter.......they are much more stable in winds and just in general if built right.

Happy new year fella's.....hope your landings are soft,
Kevin

[Ellis]

Super Cub (pilot stupidity)


I think your keyboard is stuck on BOLD ;D

[graves]

Haven't totaled any planes, but have had quite a few mishaps...most with the cub

1. Hit a support wire for a telephone pole - ripped half of the left wing clean in half - Cub did a flat spin and landed on its wheels.

2. Clipped a wooden fence post and ripped the right wing clean off

3. Forgot to use retaining screws on the rear mount on my floats. After 1 touch and go in the water, the rear fell out and the front of the floats got chopped up by the prop. Super Cub nosed straight into the water.

4. Bad servo locked up my controls while flying over water...spun into the water

I've had twice as many crashes over water than land due to using the stock power system with the 7 cell batts. Way underpowered for good float flying. After switching to brushless and lipos - no more water incidents.

My Pawnee suffered two accidents. First was going too slow on final and spinning in...saved it at the last second but landing gear still ripped off. The 2nd I clipped the top of the tree which put the pawnee into a flat spin. The resulting landing also broke the the landing gear.

And had a very close call with the trojan today. The sun was just going down so my depth perception was a bit off. I was coming in to land and JUST clipped some branches of a leafless tree. The trojan wobbled a bit, the tree shook, but both came out just fine ;D. Hardly left a scratch.

The rest of the fleet hasn't suffered a scratch...well...maybe a nose over or two

[flydiver]

I had my handful.

I was flying my Minimag, up about 200 feet when it decided to go straight down. Nothing I could do about it but watch. The wing bounced 10 feet back up. My new A123 battery tried to mate with my Mega motor. Like mating octopuses they both died. Man, it that MM tough. It will fly again. A lesser plane would be rubble.
I think either the elevator came unglued or this was my first personal incidence of learning to not use too many servos on a 3S system, or in this case a 4S system as it overloads the BEC. I'm still not sure which issue it was. Postmortem on a crash that big is tough.

I have a Wasp, a Hobby People kind of Slow Stick knock off. The kit is a bit cheesy but if you fix the flaws it flies surprisingly nicely. A buddy gave me a balsa free-flight polyhedral wing for learning balsa repair awhile back. I fixed that and put it on the Wasp-it became a really nice floater and I was going to use it for training on my buddy box. But the wing turned out to be a bit delicate and one afternoon while flying it just busted in half with no stress at all-down on the nose from 100 feet, busted the fuse, etc.
I repaired it, put on the stock aileron wing and went flying with a few motors I had just rewound. This is a new endeavor and kind of exciting to fly motors you've wound yourself. On the 3rd motor change (Weee!) as I was taking off I thought I saw the motor shift. Naw, couldn't be. 2 minutes later it kinked over at 45 degrees and went right down. d**n! that repair didn't even get 15 minutes of fly time.

So-repaired again. Took off. Stupid pilot didn't do a good ground check and elevator was reversed. Down on the nose again. That poor plane sure saw some tough duty this year. It is flying again though.

I also took out my flat foamy bipe but that was sort of to be expected. I'm just learning 3D and that's really hard on planes. At first I went home with a 100% repair rate, that went down to 75%, then 50%, then 25%, but the odds were ultimately against me. By the end it had a lot of bamboo, carbon, and hot glue and was flying kind of skewed anyway.

My most embarrassing pilot error was while teaching my buddy to fly. He has a slow stick and was trying to learn to fly slow, low and close. He handed me the TX. I did a few low close passes, took it up a bit, did a knee level dive and loop right next to us, showing off of course. It got stuck on top of the loop at 15 feet and stalled. Oh Oh! My own SS has MUCH bigger control throws and would easily pull out. His was 'dumbed down' and could not. It did a nasty nose in right at our feet. I was humiliated and had to strip my own SS to get his flying again. So much for pilot arrogance.

I'm not even going to count ripping the wing and wing root off my Sig Rascal when I hit a garbage can while landing. Garbage can error-it shouldn't have been there.

[duck9191]

well... i killed: a simple stick, a f-117 foamie and my super cub was murdered in a car accident. other r/c's that wer killed or injured. hpi savage, sportwerks reaction.

[patmatgal]

Well, seeing how this is a Super Cub forum maybe I could just 'fess up to killing 3 Cubs.
The first one the ESC/receiver combo fried. That plane had been used and abused so much it was probably glad to give up the ghost, and when it did, what a smell!
The second one was also a stock SC that I "landed" in a tree. By the time I got it down the whole tail end was trashed, wing and nose could have been fixed but since it had been glitching at one of the places I like to fly I figured I would build one up.
And that was the third casualty. Brushless, Li Po and no radio interference! Well one day I was having too much fun and after a while didn't pay as much attention to the ground as I should. Full throttle, zigged when I should have zagged and plowed right into the ground. Wing was about all that was left of the airframe, nose tore off where dowel goes thru for the rubber bands, but when I put it back together the whole left side of the plane was concave.
So now I'm flying the 2nd build and loving it.
PS Didn't tell about the Trojan I put in the ocean parkzonet28club.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=118 but that salt water did a number on just about everything.

[Ellis]

LOL I was hoping you'd mention the ocean landing. I saw it on the T-28 forum, and living at the ocean myself, I thought about that scenario many times.

[cratermaker]

I have only crashed one plane this year,********eight times, and had to rebuild it each time! I'm ordering a second Cub so these number should double soon!

[patmatgal]

Thanks. The ocean wasn't one of my finer moments, but dang it was fun! ;D

[cratermaker]

I would really like to crash on the beach.
Wet sand should be very hard.
Maybe I could try the dry soft sand first,
then dig a crater in the surf.

[Ellis]

I can tell you a bit about crashing on the wet sand. ;D
It's hard but the plane and prop leave a nice impression to look at.

[zeta30]

Multiplex FunJet 2x both repairable
Stryker F27C Once, no damage
CopterX 450 Heli about 20 times. I probably spent about $1000 in repairs last year on the CX

[SCC]

Here is a vid I made last year which includes a few dumb thumb moments. ;D www.vimeo.com/1463770

[duck]

Totalled

1 Supercub

Crashed

The replacement SuperCub ( Tore a wing off this afternoon)
The Firebird Phantom ( everytime I take it out)
The Blade CP Pro Heli