What a disaster by the launch team… 🤦♂️ the two guys holding the wings both pushed up at the back of the wing as they released. There was never enough forward speed either. I reckon it was saveable, but the pilot lost sight and stalled it. More wind, better launch and it would have been ok. Real shame that, looked a lovely scale model.
I guess one of them should have held it longer, run faster. The guy with the fuselage was holding it too far behind the centre of gravity causing it to pitch nose down. The theory behind it not flying correctly after it hit the ground was that the elevator connection got knocked away...
Looks like low airspeed and the pilot panicked seeing the glider drop below his line of sight behind the cliff and stalled it. Didnt look like that hard of a hit to break a linkage, and it did fly straight for a bit.
Ja, diese Leute haben wohl echt viel zu viel Geld, wenn sie eine bestimmt ordentliche vier- oder gar fünfstellige Summe für so ein Modell ausgeben und es dann so leichtfertig zerstören.😢 Da haben sich bei den ersten Flugversuchen im 19. Jahrhundert viele weniger dämlich angestellt.
+henry dumber Yes it looks gorgeous. I have forgotten where it was, I will ask the lady who took the pictures. Someone climbed down to get the bits on the side but the wings floated away :-(
+henry dumber Apparently it was a "Bring and Buy" Meeting and someone called Bob Pertington was involved. It was over 15 years ago before strong servos and linkages, on the Southern tip of the LLyn Peninsula, South of Abersoch, North Wales.
