Die schöne GeeBee. Da das Video von 2012 ist kann ich freudig vermelden das sie wieder fliegt. Die Musik am Anfang kommt , wer hätte das gedacht, vom weißen Hai. "Jaws Theme" von Amc Orchestra.
Because there were only a handful made, and they were very successful, meaning they were employed in the extremely dangerous realm of low-altitude air racing until the eventually were crashed or damaged to badly to fix. And of course people like to focus on the negative; it;s like how people still only talk about the F-104 as a "dangerous aircraft", and never talk about all the F-104s that DIDN'T crash, which were the majority. Same idea though, big engine + small plane, sacrifices were made for the sake of performance, and a pilot could wreck one by not paying close enough attention. The planes rarely crashed themselves.
justforever96 hard to say it was a good plane when literally all low/single wing GeeBees crashed. The only ones that survived were 2 of the biplanes they built that were a completely different design. It’s a shit plane but cool I guess.
Oh, it’s none of those things. It’s the fact that the airfield is on a higher level, and when he came down, he was behind the hill. He ran into the hill right before the landing strip. Wow that’s a shame that was a beautiful aircraft will build another one. Will see you shortly with a new one.
I remember reading about mothers telling their pilot soldiers to “fly low and slow son” as they went off to war. You can certainly forget that with the GeeBee.
My father watched these at the Cleveland Air Races in the 1930's. IIRC, he built 2 models, a red + white and a blue + yellow. The plane looks and sounds great, unfortunate that it imitated the real ones so well. Hope it got rebuilt. After I was born, he took me to the postwar Cleveland races, they told me that at around 4 years old, I was examining the engines close up while they were running. Guess I was hooked then.
I have two GeeBees radio control R2 models . You have to trim them for landing .That is nose high so that they fly safely above stall speed with no elevator input and with the throttle controlling sink rate . Fly a full circuit and then reduce throttle on down wind to be nice and slow and low enough to drag her in on throttle alone without any elevator input . Aim for n three pointer and when inches above runway reduce throttle slowly and round out elevator to allow her to settle .Close throttle pull back on stick and be wake up with rudder because they love to groundloop ! If she bounces hold nose up never stick forward hooe for tte best .If bounce is too high feed in throttle ,go around and try again. You must be hapoy with approach before the landing .If in doubt go around .I have done 6 approaches and more before finally landing ! Such a satisfying achievement to properly land a GeeBee . I love them !!!
Yeah, they really should have left the wings off. 99% of all airplane crashes could have been avoided if they had just not installed those damn wings on them!
Sad! The GeeBee model Z is the best of the racing series. I had a successful 18" w/s Free Flight model of it in 1976 that flew on a TeeDee .010. Flew O.O.S. overhead and then came back in sight, fast after the engine quit. Landed in crash in high grass, didn't hurt it because it was so light!
As soon as i started watching this ,i said im not a fan of these type of aircraft, but she preformed well,sounded great just new she was going to crash, sorry for ya loss mate ,heart breaking 🤙
I looked at the landing 3 times and we must remember airspeed is everything..... The plane had a very heavy engine upfront whereby increasing the wing loading.... practice to fly your planes in and you will never have this issue. I see this thing happening too many times on my field also .... we all tend to land these high wing loading planes too slow.... they simply fall out of the sky and slam on the landing strip
I thought they meant the 1932 Lowell Baile crash. I had it on a VCR tape but my player finally quit. He was trying for a speed record and the one wing folded up.
I see many that can fly these very good but when it comes down to landing them, that seems to always be the real challenge. Sorry to see this happen. Was a beautiful plane.
The real life aircraft was notoriously dangerous and difficult to fly. Only three were built, and two of them claimed the lives of their pilots; only Jimmy Doolittle flew the Gee Bee and lived to tell about it.
Sad end to a beautiful model...This looks amazingly similar to Delmar Benjamin's landing mishap in his R2, in Michelstadt, Germany back in 2001. Fortunately, that incident only resulted in damage to the wheel fairing, most likely due to the amazing piloting skill of Delmar...
She looks pretty repairable from here gentlemen. But obviously looks can be deceiving ! This is a very difficult plane to fly to be sure ! A gorgeous plane ! Would be interested to know if you have her repaired, and back in the air yet ?
Hi, this plane is notdifficult to fly! The pilot have no problems with it. Only the place is not his homebase. The place is uphill and so he came down to early. Geebee is already airborn! And flyes and flyes..... Sorry for my bad English :-)
@@da_rene2307 Good to know fellas ! Glad repairs are made, and back in the air ! Not to worry about your English, it is my native language, and I still struggle with it ! Beyond that, I am only able to speak English, and American English at that ! I struggled to attempt to learn Spanish years ago, and failed miserably ! Thanks for the update gentlemen ! Happy flying !
I often have this issue, which with this large model is compounded, depth perception when the background is too uniform. It is sometimes difficult to tell the planes true position.
Wasn't lack of airspeed, basically he flew it into the ground. i took a close look at the landing and right before impact, no elevator movement up to flare. I have flown RC for 25 years. The take off was an indication that this plane didn't have that high of a wing loading. Radio failure, linkage failure or dumb thumb. I did watch another video of him landing this plane, he definitely doesn't do the greatest landings.
You don't flare Gee Bee's especially the R1/R2 descent is throttle controlled, with rudder correction judging air speed at that distance is pretty dicey. Most GB touchdowns occur pretty close to the pilot if not pass the pilot you got to see the airspeed. The wing loading and pitch sensitivity is just crazy.
@@jeffs7915 Descent is throttle controlled, watch Delmar Benjamin landing a full size GeeBee Z. There is a distinctive flare before touch down, then elevator is relaxed and down elevator fed in on the rollout as speed is bled off, but we are talking about a model here and poor throttle, elevator management and basically flying it into the ground. Very few people i've seen flying RC planes are good at flying them especially landings and takeoffs.
Said the same thing no Flare just what seems like a left aileron bank but no elevator went up. Air speed was alive, that was just piloting error. He flew that directly into the ground with down elevator even 5% flare could’ve saved the aircraft.
@@tonywright8294 But these models are just Scaled down versions of the same flight characteristics and principles, aviation and flight elevator, rudder, ailerons you can see flaps Ect Ect on certain fully scaled RC models, but the basic flight characteristic same when flying these models.
I'm pretty sure the original GBee had a 9 cylinder PW it has been a great engine first designed in 1920's now still being used in cropdusting. I flew behind them for 2700 hrs before moving up to PW pt6 turbines. Sorry about model
Das Modell ist eine Eigenkonstruktion des Piloten. ER beherscht es perfekt. Leider ist es nicht sein Heimatflughafen. Und bergan ist man schneller unten als gedacht. Und dann noch ne Kannte an der Bahn.
Take it easy on the Gee Bee designs! They were highly strung RACE planes. By definition, they were pushing the limits of technology. Besides, all the crashes were attributable to mechanical failure, human error, modifications not performed by the builder, or just plain bad luck. As far as this crash goes, there may have been an issue of depth perception. But what really set the accident up was trying to land on the end of the runway. Trying to plant it "on the numbers" means you land short of the runway if you misjudge the approach. You've got a decent sized field. Aim for touchdown 1/4 to 1/3 of the way down the runway. Land short, and you're still on the runway. Land long, and you go around. If you can't go around, you can always ground loop it. Pretty airplane, though. And that engine sounds pretty good too. Regards
I model fly myself. Taking off is not nearly as hard as landing. Especially with a heavy plane such as a Gee Bee. I have a P-47, which is also heavy and hard to land. You need to come in “Hot.” I Broke the landing gear on my first landing attempt.
I assume that you are a skilled model plane pilot, but that comment doesn't match with the experience of a lot of us that have been flying RC for decades.
Added to which there's no pilot's eye view as an RC operator --you are landing almost blind. This remote factor contributes to the incidents in the air where the op pulls excessive G but can't feel it building up because they are stood in a field holding a transmitter. Result- disintegration. I still think RC choppers and RC fixed wing shouldn't be airborne simultaneously on an event day. We've seen what happens.
Oh oh, da war wohl eine Kante nicht zu erkennen. Hast gedacht, du bist über der Wiese, aber war wohl verschätzt. War die nicht sowieso zu langsam. Ich hätte die Bahn angeflogen, vorne aufgesetzt und mit Heck in der Höhe dann ohne Gas natürlich ausrollen lassen. Na ja, ist schon lange her. Lohnt wohl nicht darüber zu sinnieren. Gut Flug weiterhin, Günthi.
Way too short of the runway! This could have been avoided if the pilot had flown more responsibly and taken greater care in his landing approach! The plane was way under its required speed for the wing loading! What a shame!!!
What a shame, anyway you'd built a beautiful model and except for the accident it's obvious that you knew how to fly it, I could see that from some of your maneuvers. Hope you try again!
Bei meiner GeeBee lande ich mit Tempo bei waagerechtem Anflug. Trotzdem hüpft sie . Sie muß lange glatt ausrollen können, dann klappt es nur. Hier zog der Pilot einmal zu früh am Höhenruder, er war noch zu hoch, dadurch sackte sie ab und der Winkel wurde zu steil. Das Fahrwerk ist steif und hat keine Federung, leider.
Hi, Bobby O - I'm sure you're right about the landing technique, but the big problem here is the airstrip. The camera compresses the view; there's a really horrible dip and rise at the far end of the mown section that simply doesn't show up against the background. It spells doom for any plane that needs to come in long, flat and fast. The terrain's very deceptive. I think most of the pilots at this site aim to touch down a good 150 yards farther along the field, purely to avoid the 'wall'. Sadly, the model has remarkably similar handling demands to the full-sized racer and clearly needs a long strip for safety. ("Concrete pigs with wings," is how a pilot-friend of mine once fondly described the full-sized jobs!) Sigh. There's a lot to be said for a plane where you can get away with 50° of flap, a 40° glide-slope, and still have a soft mushy stall... ;-)
