RC Helicopter Crash - Straight In!

A Miniature Aircraft Fury RC heli finds the ground in a most unusual straight down crash. The yelling by the pilot tells the story - there's no response from the RC helicopter to his controls.

The pilot was Henry Caldwell, who was helping to set up Mike Domingo's RC heli when it unfortunately experienced some sort of electronics failure.

More unfortunately, Mike has since passed away. At the beginning of the video, he is the one standing on the right.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• rc
• helicopter
• crashes
• straight
• down
• heli
• 321heli
• heliware
• Fury
• electronics
• failure
• r/c
• miniature
• aircraft

[cod4madass]

its dumb thumbs. if it would have locked out that badly on either 2.4/72mhz the throttle would have closed on the failsafe, sorry he panicked. bad piloting skills.

[321RCHeli]

@cod4madass With no exaggeration, this pilot has demonstrated he can do an inverted autorotation with a 90-size helicopter through an EZ-Up tent, flip and land on a table. He's also one of the pioneers of piro-flying at its most radical. It is safe to this was not a dumb-thumb. This dude does not freeze. You raise a good point about throttle so we can be pretty sure that lockout is also not the culprit that caused the crash.

[cod4madass]

@321RCHeli so your saying people dont make mistakes? nobody is perfect.

[321RCHeli]

@cod4madass When you have as many hours flying helis as I do, you can spot the difference between a mistake and a mechanical failure when it's another experienced pilot. That guy is 3 times the pilot that I am, YET there is no way in hell I would make a mistake like that.  Not a freeze up from that high for that long. That's how I know with certainty that it was mechanical failure. Plus those that were there could hear him clearly shouting out that he didn't have it.

[heinvw]

looks more like finger trouble to be not a glitch

[321RCHeli]

@heinvw Let's make no mistake, Henry is one of the best pilot EVER to have flown an RC helicopter and this crash was certainly not a dumb thumb!

[buridekkk]

thank GOD the landing skid is okay..LOL^^

[TheBradleytv1]

Man, if that was mine I would put my head between my legs and kiss my ass goodbye

[wristp1n]

i agree that it was equipment failure. even if he tried he couldnt get it to go that straight into the ground!

[justinRkeaton]

OPP LOL

[FactoryWorld]

Omg

[zapster2412111]

that was an earth shattering KABOOM !!!!

[miceli2008]

I think his shorts were to tight! lol gross