1/6 Scale Vultee A-35B Vengeance

Test flight following repairs after the model was shot down. Despite tests on the ground, once in the air, the gear wouldn't come back down and a belly landing was needed. It turned out to be mobile phone interference with the transmitter. It is known that mobiles in close proximity to transmitters can re-program computer transmitters, and on this occasion, it changed the travel on the retract servo. The gear was fine on the ground and the servo travelled fully to retract the gear, but when down was selected, the servo no longer travelled fully and not enough to cycle the retract air valve. The model and prop survived completely undamaged.

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[DEADMANRIDING1]

Truly an awesome work of art & some darn fine flying-well done sir!

[vultee35]

@DEADMANRIDING1 Thanks

[scifyjunkie]

beautiful model, was it a kit? or did you build from plans? that was an intense belly landing...have a great weekend.

[vultee35]

@scifyjunkie The model was scratch built from my own drawings. Built in four months. A lovely model to fly, and a very different look in the air.

[whizbang47]

Glad to see that fine landing of your much less usual model. I hadn't heard of this problem in the U.S.A. in recent years. I gather both your cell phones and your RC transmitters are on different frequency ranges than the ones we use. 2-way radios used by heavy construction equipment operations give us problems on 72mHz.

[sx976]

Great !

My Dad flew Vengeance MkIV's with 667 Sqn at RAF Gosport in 1945. Back in the 80's I built a round-the-pole electric model of his favourite Vengeance U4-P, but always chickened out building a bigger one (the more you scale them up, the bigger the fuselage gets and the smaller the wings !)