DISASTER ! BIG RC Super Puma suffers Engine Failure ! SCALE HELICOPTER CRASH | ProWing 2023 

Who knew that landscape was so easy to do?

This gave me hope immediately upon clicking the video

Damn he was so unlucky it happend as hestarted turning and not in astraight forward flight with more speed.

Look at the tail closely:/

I wonder if this size model could auto-rotate enough to help landing, or could any size model do it?

@@mikemurphy7711 You can autorotate almost everything but the smallest helis, he made a mistake by pulling up and keeping positive pitch for a fraction of a second (to try to turn away to avoid people?), don't know how this one was set up or how heavy it was but I have seen some pretty big rc helis autorotate perfectly time after time. Also from that height it's more like using rotor inertia than autorotating. I almost always switch of my motor before landing and you would be surprised how far a heli can glide before touching the grass and sliding it out.

There was a boom strike alright, it struck the ground when it folded.

What I did learn from this video: Dont call your first Heli "Search & Rescue"

they all crash eventually, rebuilding them is 1/2 the fun

@@KrustyKlown That's what separates the real modelers from the admirers. Real modelers love rebuilding. People who don't love rebuilding (like myself) don't stay in the hobby. It's simply too heartbreaking for us.

@@darioinfini Or you put your model on the Shelf for display, afraid that flying it is too dangerous. (Me, lol)

@@KrustyKlown I have an RC sailboat on my mantle. It's very pretty but I got tired of uncommanded sail-aways so she's permanently dry-docked LOL.

oh that broke.

lmao!

I know..😁

The little ambulance came soon after and took him to the big doll house for some surgery by Dr Barbi!

I was thinking maybe he gave + collative that caused the decreased rotor speed

Thank you very much!

@@EssentialRC cheers

V I S U A L L Y intact............ = you are guessing a lot my dear Chris ! !

I lost a Hanger 9 P51 due to a rudder servo malfunction. You hope for the best and plan for the worst.

And you woud have?????????? Knowing and doeing are different

​@@peterhauser3316 I could of saved it, he was still in positive pitch when the motor died 😂

@@peterhauser3316 Everyone does mistakes, but that does not mean that nobody can say what the pilot SHOULD have done!

It's all very well saying "he could have done this he could have done that" He had 2 seconds notice and by the time he realised he was loosing it, it had already started falling at low altitude! Quite frankly I'm surprised he saved it to the extent he did! If it had come down in that bank angle it would have done far more damage!

@@gavinrichardson3918 Nobody says its easy to do the right thing in a situation like that. But there is NO reason to act like an asshole just because someone states a fact!

It sounded like an electric motor to me.

@@trevorcook4078 Turbine

@@warbuzzard7167 Are you sure it sounds like electric to me?

Definitely electric then, not turbine?! My mistake 🙄

☠BLACK BARON☠ The outer temperatures seemed to be moderate if folks were wearing winter like jackets. I would exclude temperatures around or slightly under +50°C. One not well balanced cell can already cause lots of trouble. Software issue? But, definitely, it's the ESC switching off ... soft cutoff. Thomas, rebuild it and make an even better one. That's the challenge. Better use over-powered ESCs than under-powered ESCs. Use slightly over-powered cool running motors. Not more (A)mps, less (A)mps is the challenge.

Yup. The turn was fatal but was fairly low anyway.

Yeah a autorotation is what they call it. keep the speed up so the blades keep tunring and close to the ground use the remaining rotor speed to land it. Real pilots practice this a lot. I thinki he was unlucky it happend just as he wanted to turn in.

If you cared to read the title you would know it was an engine failure,if you cared to watch it all you can see in the slowmo that the tail rotor speed drops then the main rotor stalls ,engine/gearbox failure.

​@@yuk-erkmckirk9277 thankyou cared for your caring words,take care now😅

Full scale, please. They are all real, just some are scaled differently!

Yes mate, they have the ability to auto rotate, what should of happened is the Heli should have been corrected to level flight and then he could have autorotated. The banked turn would have killed his head speed making it impossible to recover. This is easier said than done as most RC pilots panic and forget how to auto rotate hence why it needs to be practiced heavily until its second nature. He was also very low to the ground so he may not have even had enough height to auto rotate

@@ConnorCain25 Thank you!!

@@ConnorCain25 I agree! He bled off what energy he had pitching up and rolling left. The only reason to do this if he had spectators in-line and as you say not practicing it. Real helicopter pilots practice and practice so it’s second nature. As a fix wing pilot I think those that fly helicopters are crazy. There are just too many parts that fail will cause a meeting with Jesus!

@@judd_s5643 indeed, especially the bolt holding the entire rotor head onto the main shaft. Aptley names the Jesus bolt 😂

agreed 100%. drop the colective ,nose down,try to keep the forward momentum, then flare few meter above the ground.

I would sasy he had more luck than skills. The motor was off, he pulls the nose up, trys to perform a turn to come back. Better: Nose down, pitch to a fast but moderate sinking, gaining speed, make a flare to gain rpms and touch down more smothe than this. I had a similar problem with my airwolf once! I had only some cracks in the painting, because I landed without gears out. For a 600 size helicopter, 4,8 kg is not verry light and a rotor-speed of 1200 rpm is not much, so I had no reserves and it works. A well trained pilot knows everytime how to performe an autorotation! This wasn't one

Yeah the pitch up and bank after engine failure seemed like a bold move LOL.

I guess he just wanted to turn as next move and then it happend. You need some training and or reflexes to decide in that situation quick enough.

How much was that rc helicopter worth?

there was a very good chance of auto at that altitude. He had forward speed as well. In any case pilot does only thing that would damage the heli more, he pulls up to stall rotor as soon as possible :))

He threw away any chance he had of a successful auto by pulling up and banking into a turn.

​@@markdavis7397 Right 😂

@@markdavis7397 well that ain't good.

The opposite unfortunately, the more height you have in that situation the more time you have to get the helicopter stable into an auto rotation and land safely

@@ConnorCain25 exactly. It happed right in the dead man's curve.

@@BigDuke6ixx yep, people forget to treat helicopters like fixed wings aircraft and use forward flight to gain transitional lift.

@@ConnorCain25 yeah, my instinctive reaction would be to dump the collective, cancel the roll and drop the nose.

@@BigDuke6ixx exactly, I would do the same

He pitched up and banked, causing the blades to stall! He should have "immediately" gone into 30% negative pitch. Continue forward momentum, maintaining head speed during decent and then positive pitch for a near soft landing. Height was not an issue. Bigger the heli the easier to Auto land. Unnecessary carnage.

Thanks 👍 I've had 20 years of practice

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Robert Cornelius - The Grassy knoll ?

@@winstonsmith7801 , I believe so. Those 50 cal. are murder on helicopters. Lol