maybe caus it's interesting to dissect, and not all of us soaring folk are as anal or narrow-minded...
Let's see...setting aside the fact that it was a beautiful model--a work of art, really--that was destroyed, maybe we can consider this:
It was a model aircraft with a wing planform not that dissimilar from many of the ships we fly.
It was (possibly) a type of accident that any one of us could have experienced with a sailplane. Hell--many of us (NOT yours truly, of course!) may already have experienced similar behavior with one of our ships!
It is a useful, though tragic, discussion.
It is fortunate that it did not involve any loss of life.
(Well, the owner slitting his wrists afterwards may or may not count...)
Joe Parsons
Quoting Jerry Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> >Really guys,
> Who really cares, it crashed, too bad, it's got engines, it makes lots
> of noise, is oily when you are done flying it, this is a soaring forum,
> less soar again.
> Isn't that right Gordy? Can't believe you haven't jump-ed in here, even
> from England.
>
> Jerry
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> >Not sure how folks come to the conclusion that "wind" has some sort of
> >adverse
> >effect on an aircraft. This thing has eight engines, it reached flying
> speed,
> >took off, probably accelerated a little more...and thats it.
> >
> >So the pilot turned downwind, big deal, the aircraft does not know this.
> >It did
> >not stall, it did not bank too much, and yes it could probably knife edge
> >because it IS a model.
> >
> >If I were to guess (that's all it would be), flap retraction failed on one
> >side
> >or the other (probably the right).
> >
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