Hangar-9 P47 150 crash lands

"Disaster Strikes............AGAIN!!!!!! What a day. After last weeks successful flights at the annual Warbird Invitational in Abernathy Texas I come out the following Saturday to fly again. As you'll see on take off the left gear collapses causing the wing to dip. When the wing dips the control horn on the aileron scapes the surface of the runway, filing the horn down past the 2nd hole where the clevis attaches from the servo. Guess what? Now I have a collapsed left landing gear and no control of the left aileron, this is going to be a fun flight. The aileron flutter is pretty severe as I think you can see and hear in the video. I take it around a few times, coming up with an emergency landing strategy. I have a good notion to go 1/2 flaps, throttle back and try to bring it in for a belly landing in the tall grass. Good plan and it almost works except for slowing down too much and a stall is always the result of too little airspeed. All in all the damage wasn't too awfully severe.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• RC warbird crash
• Robart
• landing
• gear
• fails
• on
• take
• off
• Hangar-9
• P47
• thunderbolt
• 150

[klmelj]

I know this is late, but I just looked at this video. You have probably learned more now over the past 2 years, but next time something like this happens and you know you have to do a belly landing. Kill the engine and do a dead stick landing and bring it in like you would under a normal landing noise down then flare a little right before touching the grass. With all the runway and grass you have I would not even used the flaps. My H9 P-47 150 lands good with no flaps and even better with flaps

[flyboywagner]

@klmelj Howdy!.. Thanks for the comment. I don't have a remotely activated kill switch on this plane. Just a switch on the side of the fuse just ahead of the cockpit on the left side.

[Bugalooob]

Top Flite makes a better P-47 then hangar 9..

[flyboywagner]

One of the guys in our club has the top flite F4U Corsair 84 1/2" span. He upgraded the retracts and made several other alterations to his stock kit. I'm not real familiar with top flight stuff. I know they make a P47 but then alot of companies do. Have you had a H-9 P47 or is there a guy inyour club that has one?

[ridepate]

Stall.....................

[flyboywagner]

.............hi ridepate, is there more to come on your comment or are you thinking about it?

[SVTRMODDED]

NICE VIDEO. i would have try to slide it on the grass. nice plane

[MrJp990]

Crash landing at 5:01 .........

[eclipser2004]

Hard to know what to do. Sometimes if you make a change, like adding flaps, to a plane that is damaged but still flyable you always run the risk of making it unflyable. Sometimes you have time to undo any changes that can result - sometimes you don't !!

[freediverga]

@klmelj could have also returned to the basics and used your rudder and elevator to bring you in. just like a three channel RC and really work that throttle!

[arizvela]

you know what to do kill the engine and belly land but in the moment behind the control you freak out and forget everything it's ok happends to us all......

[4545gonza]

what



[klmelj]

@flyboywagner

You do not have to have one just lower your throttle trim tab down that will cut the engine. Good flight though!

[eclipser2004]

The jug always did have a reputation for getting the pilots home despite damage!!