Maiden Flight and Crash of the Minimoa Model

Dan Tandberg on his maiden flight of his Minimoa radio control glider. The flight occurred on Sunday, April 19, 2009 at Moriarty, NM. Buzz Averill hand-launched the 3.5 meter model. The crash occurs about 4:30 into the video.

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• rc
• radio control
• sailplane
• glider
• minimoa
• crash
• maiden
• tandberg
• moriarty

[creyes123]

Sure. Some shoe polish and the pilot'll be good to go.

[cemigh]

this model needs the CG way forward of the CG in the instruction book.

see the following l

then it flys great!

[beatbachmanndotcom]

WTF should that be?

A Minimoa with color stripes on the wings , the markings at completly wrong places and ..... headshot  ..... an electro engine ???!!

C'mon get an Multipley easy glider and get lost!

[rayrsa]

Hvordan syns du det gikk?

[24262748]

Jerks !

[miceli2008]

yuck

[MonacoBlast]

And I thought this would be easy.

[sterby1]

Just a friendly tip, fire the cameraman

[Revorob]

@RockinRobbins13 Very true. I think also the model had a lot of up trim on the elevator judging by the way it tried to climb immediately after launch. The end result was a stall. I suspect the ailerons were not trimmed correctly either. I would have done an unpowered launch first to check trim. Only after that would I have done a powered launch.

[Redpulsar2011]

Motor sound like it have a timing problem with the ESC. But crash is probably caused by CG.

[RockinRobbins13]

Naw, with brushless motors, lipo batteries and folding props engine powered sailplanes are just as capable as unpowered ones. If you need 30 grams to balance to proper CG what better way to do it than with power? This guy just didn't have sufficient airspeed to fly and with nose-high launch bad things happen. When somebody thinks they can launch it you should think they might not be able to. And the pilot issued no proper instructions on how to launch the plane. It wasn't the fault of the engine