Giant Scale P-51D Mustang Crash

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bugmenot101
November 21, 2006

Watch as Heidi's brother complety re-kits his brand new fully-loaded FiberClassics P-51 because he forgot to do a proper flight control check after he had installed new aileron servos the week bef...

Watch as Heidi's brother complety re-kits his brand new fully-loaded FiberClassics P-51 because he forgot to do a proper flight control check after he had installed new aileron servos the week before in Alpnach, Switzerland. Both he and his helper did see that all of the controls were moving, just not in the proper direction. This beautiful 1/4 scale Mustang weighed approx. 20kgs, and was powered by a 3W-75cc engine swinging a 26 x 12 Menz propeller. Also installed were retracts,flaps,drop tanks, opening canopy, fully scale detailed cockpit and pilot. You will notice the bird start to roll to the right, so he corrects with left stick. This makes it roll even more to the right until it is on its back and left wing low. He then gives it some right stick input and it now does a nice roll to the left and auggers in. Listen to the delayed "Kerrr-splat!!!" sound that it makes. Sick. Too bad his crewchief didn't catch the error. A good TOC 3D pilot like Bill Hempel might have been able to roll his way up to altitude using elevator and rudder. Not me. Try it on your RC simulator sometime.*** A similar incident happened to a Lufthansa A320 in Frankfurt a few years back. The captains side-stick was replaced and due to some Airbus directives and missed wiring change mods at the blackbox connector, the left/right command also got reversed! Maintainance released the aircraft to service but missed the misstake. And as for the crew, the before takeoff checklist only verifies that each "side" (capts. side and copilots side) was working. The captain was doing the takeoff and just after liftoff the aircraft started to roll to the left, then more to the left until finally the co-pilot hit the command override button (also known as the panic button) on his sidestick controller and saved what would have been a disaster. The flight data recorder estimates showed that there was only about 50cm between the wing and the ground. "Nice recovery Herr Flieggermann!"

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chuckeieio (1 hour ago) Show Hide

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I think he got some doughnut on the controller!

keysersozay (2 days ago) Show Hide

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That pains me to see.

TomVu99 (2 days ago) Show Hide

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can you glue it back on?

MrAlicmansan (4 days ago) Show Hide

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I´ll give you a 10+ for being a Silence maker jojojojoojoojo

totalanimelover89 (5 days ago) Show Hide

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damn fiberclassic's are rare! and even rarer to have a filmed flight/crash.....

vipermansoor (1 week ago) Show Hide

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hhhhhhhhhhhhhh aoaoaoaoo sori

sonorin1 (1 week ago) Show Hide

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Get more hight then show off,To low to roll it

Pinesol23 (1 week ago) Show Hide

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the poor mouse in the cockpit, RIP

sandracer350 (1 week ago) Show Hide

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yeah right. that plane is big enough to put a cat in it.

fiscemeister (1 week ago) Show Hide

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FAIL

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