Actually, that's a good question. Not sure if the wing fold was a design flaw or if it was poorly built (or both!). Paul (RIP) told me he was holding some "up" elevator on the stick the whole time. When he finally had a chance to reach for the trim lever, he naturally had to release the stick. That's why it nosed over. He reached back for the stick and quickly applied some up elevator which overloaded the wings.
2:52 love that laugh as everyone acknowledges how goofy and difficult this type of radio is to operate and not just totally crash. Very cool buddy boxed reed emulation unit. would love to try one of these and see if I could have flown successfully in this reed era. thanks for posting
They didn’t name the U2 The Dragon Lady for nothing. Hard to tame, that’s for sure. RC airplanes are like owning a car chasing dog. You don’t want to get too attached to them.
More fibre glass my ass! Flying in open toed sandals is the problem. I ain't never seen no pikters of Humph. Bogart or Kirk Douglas flyin in opn toed sandals. Lovely looking plane though fella. I fly in wellies, I get similar results!
Ouch... And this is why I don't fly balsa wood planes. It takes the fun out of flying when you can't take any risks because a single crash is complete destruction.
Try a smaller build next time, that way you can work out the bugs without loosing the bank! Also try to pick a model that was meant to be flown bank and yank, because he wasn't flying the fragile U2 carefully enough!😲😤😝💯
Sorry for your loss! It appears to have received a momentary "down" command...Do you mind sharing what brand of radio you were using? I'm asking because I've lost 3 airplanes using the same transmitter (with 3 different receivers) to a similar anomaly, and I know I'm not the only guy in the club that's had the problem with that brand of transmitter. I won't name the brand, but they useD to make eXtremely good stuff. Their most recent radio equipment I refuse to fly.
