1/4 Scale Cub Crash

1/4 Scale Piper Cub crash

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[ricksteffey123]

Resembled a reversed aileron take off and crash....are you sure the ailerons where setup correctly during your pre-flight? These Cubs are hard to stall, the take off didn't look that steep, and the wing loading on that model is not much at all. Not to insult you, but it was a dumb-thumb or reversed ailerons from my experience.

[Tomasreabe]

@ricksteffey123 We did check the ailerons both before and after flight, They were good, I also did look at the controls of the pilot just after the crash, he had full right ailerons but no rudder, this cub was under powered compared to most RC planes. The pilot pulled the plane into a stall at takeoff and the tryed to correct the roll with aileron, this caused the left wing to stall and start a spin. The spin could not fully develop in that the ground got in the way.

[therealstory1]

People know they need training for work. Then they assume this takes no education. College degrees are training not intelligence.

Anyone can contact me for theory of aerodynamics.

32 years experience and theory.

[Tomasreabe]

For a quick background, I have been in avation all my life. My family does crop dusting and I learned to fly in a PA-18 Cub, and flew solo at 16. I have been flying RC planes since age 14. Or crashing might be a better way of wording it. I passed the controles over to a more experienced RC pilot. But what caused this was an under powered plane, and a pilot that did not know how to fly a plane like that. The plane was too slow at take off and he just pointed it noise high, it stalled and spun.

[Alexvideoclip]

This is typical to the Piper cub (full scale also !)

It fly and land easy and nice, but take off are pain in a butt. I crashed mine (1985 !) few weeks ago, exactly the same way !

[Tomasreabe]

Have you ever flown a Full scale Cub? This was a spin just after take off. A Cub is a great plane to advoid a spin in and has the rudder needed to correct it if the Pilot knew what he was doing. And what do you mean crashed yours, RC or Full Scale? Thanks

[Ruffpuppys]

it didnt stall the alerons were reversed..and it was under powered

[TejasRCpilot]

unless you have a high thrust to weight ratio you cant horse a Cub off the ground..

[caffeine69x]

I think the CG was off. Without knowing anything else, I would say that this plane was tail heavy. The flight was doomed from the start. Hope you got it fixed!

[shagy2shagy]

Sounded like it was missing its tail wheel

[g6rcteam]

@ricksteffey123 hard to stall !they stall and spin as a result of poor c.g. the tale never came of the ground probly the giant lipo pack sitting in the back seat but im no expert just restore and fly fullscales oh and also build and fly in r.c. topgun comp i didnt look to see if ail were reversed but they probly were to a cub needs to be a little nose heavy or they bite!

[Kekelala1976]

yeap. too underpowered!

[1lilwyte]

wat u get for it being electric

[kenx53]

I crashed mine the same way because I didn't use enough throttle the first two times . When I forced myself to use full throttle I did fine. I was used to the hobbyzone Champ which will fly with next to nothing for throttle.

[thechoosendude]

Bravo!

Way underpowered though... next time you'll check static thrust before takeoff.

[nicobec]

@Tomasreabe

Was he on the right Model when he took off?

[freercsimulators]

I've seen SO many cubs crash like that!

[nighthawk0077]

next time try taking off INTO the wind