Giant Scale P-51D Mustang Crash

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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• P-51
• Mustang
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• crasher
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• Giant
• Scale

[HCR0512]

Textbook landing

[xrayracer1]

As we say at our aero club : "if only the ground was 5 feet lower i could of pulled out of it".

[JBofBrisbane]

Hey, it can happen on a full-sized aircraft - Google "Avro Ashton".

[Budd2407]

Same thing happened to me with a scale 182 on maiden. The ailerons and everything else worked, just the ailerons worked in the wrong direction. Sent my bird into power lines. I didn't have time to correct in my head.

Bummer!

[savior3of5a7tempel]

hahahahahahahahahahaha



[Daedgemaster]

@Blueberry954

Prob reversed ailerons or radio interference

[Curicua]

Time for a pre-flight check to same some money..

[DAMIENloh1970]

Oh well,....let's eat, I'm starving...

[GeneticallySuperior1]

Reversed ailerons

[mitch6250]

FUCKING IDIOT!!!

[gmanalready]

this is why you check your control surfaces before EVERY FLIGHT, stand behind it and whichever direction you move the stick that aileron is UP :P. FAIL

[68muzzy68]

bit of gaffer tape be like new again