Maiden Flight and Crash of the Minimoa Model

[cemigh]

this model needs the CG way forward of the CG in the instruction book.

see the following l

then it flys great!

[beatbachmanndotcom]

WTF should that be?

A Minimoa with color stripes on the wings , the markings at completly wrong places and ..... headshot ..... an electro engine ???!!

C'mon get an Multipley easy glider and get lost!

[rayrsa]

Hvordan syns du det gikk?



[24262748]

Jerks !

[miceli2008]

yuck

[MonacoBlast]

And I thought this would be easy.

[sterby1]

Just a friendly tip, fire the cameraman

[Redpulsar2011]

Motor sound like it have a timing problem with the ESC. But crash is probably caused by CG.

[RockinRobbins13]

Naw, with brushless motors, lipo batteries and folding props engine powered sailplanes are just as capable as unpowered ones. If you need 30 grams to balance to proper CG what better way to do it than with power? This guy just didn't have sufficient airspeed to fly and with nose-high launch bad things happen. When somebody thinks they can launch it you should think they might not be able to. And the pilot issued no proper instructions on how to launch the plane. It wasn't the fault of the engine

[Revorob]

@RockinRobbins13 Very true. I think also the model had a lot of up trim on the elevator judging by the way it tried to climb immediately after launch. The end result was a stall. I suspect the ailerons were not trimmed correctly either. I would have done an unpowered launch first to check trim. Only after that would I have done a powered launch.

[voltoman]

I thought you were never going to launch it. Zzzzzz

[pemersunn]

Dan,

Ouch.

Paul

[elvedin555]

hahahaahah toally lost guy doesnt know what is going on hahaha

[ZeroTopGun]

only 6 seconds are interesting

[matthewisstrange]

its a real shame to see a motor in the front of a scale glider, especially a minimoa!! call me old fashioned but you just can't beat a pure glider, if you haven't got a ridge to fly off of then aerotow it or winch launch it, any damn way if it means not putting a stupid motor in it!! PS the cg is too far back!

[elvedin555]

@matthewisstrange

thats it mate, i ordered mine and im pullig out the motor and speed controller .. will glue in the spinner at front and go cliff gliding should be fun :)

[LukeTugboat]

also sounded like their was an esc problem....

[LukeTugboat]

how come everyone is hiding beach balls unders their shirts? Are they at the beach?...

[kingofthecrowns]

tell my uncle dan this is exactly why I'm waiting to find the perfect spot to fly the FJ - 64. - Forrest

[3onyx]

That´s why it is a sin to put an engine into a scale sailplane...

[rolfjunior]

Lauch was perfect!

Something was very wrong with the CG.

And what is that motor noise?

[tinorkertesz]

!!!! could you make a minimoa almost without gull wing!!!, also the minimoa didn´t have that yellow, and blue strips in the wing!!!!!!!

the minimoa got way more gull wing shape!!!!

[ejoe350]

Possibilities are as follows:

1 Battery pack is not secured firmly (shifted upon launching).

2 CG is too far back.

3 Elevator control linkage has too much play (better to mount servo in the tail plane).

Also need to have a sufficient washout angle at the wing tip.

Good luck and try again.

[SurferEddie]

Maybe you should think about getting into remote control cars!

[creyes123]

Sure. Some shoe polish and the pilot'll be good to go.

[rockyabq]

Ouch!

Looks like it'll buff right out though!