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March 10th, 2007, 01:44
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Inside your OODA loop
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|  RC Grippen crash...nice fireball
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March 10th, 2007, 02:37
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Alpha Tango Lima
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Looks like something flew off. . . ooh . . . nevermind, it slows down and shows you something falling off. (started typing this before it was done). |
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March 10th, 2007, 08:59
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Commuting
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I'd say about... 10,000 bucks down the tubes!!! 
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March 10th, 2007, 14:15
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: IA & MN
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| Re: RC Grippen crash...nice fireball
maybe it was a bee-strike 
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March 10th, 2007, 23:25
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March 11th, 2007, 12:06
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| Re: RC Grippen crash...nice fireball
Looks to me like it was an issue with the high speed pass. Maybe flutter causing the control surfaces to break off...
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March 15th, 2007, 07:46
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: 3.5 mi North of the world's busiest GA airport
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| Re: RC Grippen crash...nice fireball
Oops!! Thats a lot of money up in smoke.  |
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March 17th, 2007, 10:01
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| Re: RC Grippen crash...nice fireball
Yeah it was flutter that caused it to break up - you can actually see it happen.
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March 18th, 2007, 04:35
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Prescott
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| Re: RC Grippen crash...nice fireball
ouch! These guys have got lots of money and it can get trashed really easily and quickly!
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March 18th, 2007, 14:54
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| Old Skool Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Inside your OODA loop
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| Re: RC Grippen crash...nice fireball Quote:
While you can in fact see the flight control flutter, what caused it to break up was impact with the trees.
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March 18th, 2007, 15:49
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March 18th, 2007, 16:46
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| Re: RC Grippen crash...nice fireball
I once saw a 1/3 scale Extra crash because of radio interference. A guy at the field bought the plane from the R/C scale champion for $25,000. Right after that, he let one of his buddies fly it... he was the one that crashed it... first flight under new ownership.... last flight for anyone. |
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