How would he get it stopped even if he managed a good landing? I would've partially throttled back the good engine so that it used less fuel than the stuck throttle engine. Then I'd fly it until the bad engine ran out of gas. That way I'd still have a throttable good engine running to make it back to the field and land.
It would've been better to run it until fuel-out if there was no built in kill switch for each engine... Although, it would take around 6 hours on the full-size / original one, if I recall correctly... not sure the size of the tanks on this one though.,
Gordon Freeman And the Cri Cri met its demise last weekend. The wings folded during a high speed aggressive turn away from the flight line. Great shame.
Seems like they could have a few options as apposed to resorting to this crash landing. Kill switch once lined up with the runway and low enough. Or a way to shut off the fuel line to each engine. or run the fuel down on the bad engine. I've had a similar problem in a sailboat the outboard wouldn't turn off.
you should've put a little more into the construction.... you would've had a real one then.... although judging by the "landing"..... maybe not.... (-:
No problem buddy. It is an awful video. After the take off I wasn't intending to do any more filming of the flight...but then it got into difficulty so I started filming again. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
OMG. Many years is posssible to buy and equip any RC model by RC switch to switch off engine by transmitter. This is first thing. Second is that pilot is looser. He have many time to solve it. He can fly until he have fuel. Or he can try to landing and if it looks bad he can try it next time, manytimes. But when someone buy or build any model and not know fly with it, including landing, he don´t may go fly to any show where is amny peoples around. This is fact.
OK, I didn't see the right engine dead! and I can see that the nose wheel all the way to the left. trying to compensate for the lost engine. but if the pilot knew that he should have killed the remaining engine!!! and to say that the right engine is out of fuel after less that 3 minutes of flight time. I would have to say that there was a poor engine setup, the builder has screwed up in some way to create this problem. so, do you see that there is only one correct answer, PILOT/BUILDER ERROR so in classic VERISON STYLE, "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW"!!!
A go-around after that failed attempt would've been the way to go, you are right... Also, he should've tried stalling the engine as it wouldn't turn off.
It's not great buddy. I only left it on here because it was a unique situation that led to the crash. As said, this was 2 years ago. I've done a lot more video work since then and generally do better job on each video project. Thanks for the feedback though. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Every time I youtube "cri cri aircraft" this video titled "CRI CRI CRASH!!!" comes up. Cri cri is awesome manned airplane there is no need for video titles CRASH coming up...
