Crazy RC Crash, blooper, and stunt videos

[TX-EcoDragon]

Oh man. . .some crazy videos here. . .look at the Inferno buggy (Just like mine) that jumps the  2 story house. . .and then keep on driving!! The 165 lb B-25 crash. There are lots of others. . . that Jet Crashes videos, well you'd think these things fell from the sky like rain. . .sheesh. . just watch them:

http://www.monsterrccentral.com/rcvideos/

S!

TX-EcoDragon
Black 1
TX-Squadron XO

[TX-Kingsnake]

A few of these crashes had over 60 degrees of bank angle before the crash. I noticed a substantial loss of lift when I bank r.c. sail planes over 40 deg.  My glider has only rudder and elevator so that recovery from high banks requires a lot of altutude. This makes me nervous to fly at all, with no aielerons I could make my own crash video.TX-Kingsnake

[TX-CUDA]

...I checked out some of the planes on that page and the 102" wingspan 109's look very impressive. I need to get a trainer first though as that is a very impressive pricelist to go along with the plane!TX-CudaMinister of Information

[TX-EcoDragon]

Well, with regard to the loss of lift, it is the loss of the vertical component of lift that you must prevent to maintain altitude in a turn. This is done by ever increasing elevator backpressure as the bank angle increases. The idea is if that the vertical component of lift is always maintained in magnitude such that it is equal and opposite to the force of gravity ont he aircraft. As you do this you also generate a horizontal component of lift which is a large part of what produces the turn itself. It is for this reason that the pilot experiences an exponential increase in G load as bank angle increases and altitude is maintained. This a constant relationship. For example, as 45 degree bank while maintaining altitude you and the aircraft experience + 1.41G, at 60 degrees of bank you feel 2G, the numbers grow very rapidly after that as you move towards 90 degrees,  these forces are the result of the sumation of the horizontal and vertical components of lift.So what does it all mean to a elevator and rudder controlled aircraft? Pull lots a elevator pressure! Stall speed also goes up with bank angle in a level turn, thusly you need more speed in the turn to maintain flight than you do in level flight, this makes it possible to missjudge the energy required to make a turn, and this also can lead to a nice loss of altitude if you can not maintain the required vertical component of lift.  This is the same with aileron equipped aircraft, but the roll bak to wings level is cleaner and faster, which can be nice when low to the ground. . I am a four or more channel man myself.S!TX-EcoDragonBlack 1TX-Squadron XO