Topic: Busting planes

Just curious, whats anybody's record for busting planes, with or without dumb thumbing it in any given time frame?

Mine sits at 3 in 3 weeks and not a single dumb thumb in sight, lots of dumbness but not in the thumbs , lol   Mind you, I wont claim to be flying one of them at the time  

I did 3 at the Binham fly-in.  Shot down in a mid air with the Rafalroo, Broke the cabanes on my 1/4 scale Christen Eagle (landed safe) and put my 1/4 scale pup in (reason unknown).

Niceone on the hat trick Steve  I cant claim anything like that myself (and long may it continue!) but we once had a guy down the field who flew into the same tree 3 times in one day 

Three in three consecutive take offs, at Dallachy. All got fixed.

I did 3 at the Binham fly-in. 

Really sorry to hear that NFG   Hope ya manaaged to recover at least one of them back to glory  

It would seem hatricks are quite popular 

I've managed 3 x 2m funtanas in about a total of 12 flights

your my kind of customer

Ah, forgot to say, these were all 50cc 88" planes 

2 in a few months 
Acrowot on sunday and a 1/4 scale cub a few months ago 

Worst I had was three in a weekend...

Sat morning I maidened a travel air with reversed ailerons 

Sat afternoon I slammed my pilatus PC9 in on a low pass 

Sun afternoon my acrowot did one of them unexplained acrowot flicks 

Maximum binnage

Other than that theres been a steady stream of carnage and cart remage thoughout my flying career.

CM

I did about 8 once,    a LONG time ago, i lost a fast glider, didnt know where it was,   soon found out,  went right through the pits, took about 9 out  i was only young, guys took it in good stead, all repaired, everyone happy--cept me

gawd,  thought i had forgotten that one

I did about 8 once,    a LONG time ago, i lost a fast glider, didnt know where it was,   soon found out,  went right through the pits, took about 9 out  i was only young, guys took it in good stead, all repaired, everyone happy--cept me

gawd,  thought i had forgotten that one

I reckon thats gotta be a record, contacted the guiness book yet 

Really sorry to hear that NFG   Hope ya manaaged to recover at least one of them back to glory  

Pup and Rafalroo were match sticks but the Christen Eagle will fly again, new cabanes have been made just need bolting on.  engine from the Pup (G38) has been resurrected thanks to Pupcam who gave me an old knackered engine, I was able to straighten that crank myself 

1972-1981 - 1 (servo failure write off)
               - 1 (experimental so you could say poor design! Write off)

PS, and that was including learning without a buddy system, of course.

2006 - 2009 -  1 minor Fus and wing damage, depth perception error at range
                  - 1 Battery fell out, minor nose damage (Oops!!)
                  - 1 Battery fell out, (Yes you'd think I'd learn!) wing fixing damaged, nose cowling holed
                  - 1 motor mount failed, speed delta flat out.


You might think I'm getting worse, but I'm flying a LOT LOT more now I'm retired, least, that's my excuse.................  

Heres all my planes and gliders that I've owned and what happened to them

1) ARC ready II                  Flew through a tree
2) Seagul Pilatus PC9          Low pass too low
3) Weston cougar 2000       Sold
4) Black horse travel air       Reversed ailerons
5) Black horse sukhoi 1        radio lockout
6) Acrowot                        Flicked in
7) ARC Jupiter                    Sold
8) Buggly Ugger                  Piled in
9) hanger 9 funtana 90        Sold
10) Robbe puma                 Sold
11) Black horse sukhoi 2       Flicked in
12) Seagul razzle 3D            Sold
13) Flair leo                        Deadstick damage
14) Sukiwot                        Sold
15) Falcon 30% pitts 12        Still flying
16) CMpro quest                  Flicked in
17) H9 Showtime                 Still flying
18) sebart sukhoi 50             Sold
19) YT Adrenaline 2m            crashed
20) MPX gemini                    Still flying
21) 30% yak                        Still flying
22) MPX blizzard                   Still flying
23) Seagull geebee               Crashed (1st flight)
24) 30% pitts python            Still flying
25) MPX parkmaster              Still flying

So I've binned 11 out of 25 power planes since gaining my A in sept 2003...

Maxed

CM

Shot down in a mid air with the Rafalroo

 

Gremlin 1: Rafalroo 0

Here's my list of dead 'uns since coming back into the hobby in 1993

Flair Attilla - airframe given away after moderate crash damage
DeHavilland DHC-1 Chipmunk - totalled by instructor taking off crosswind on a very windy day
MAF Searching 400 - totalled by son, after attack of the monster horse fly
Global Kits Birdie 10 - spun in and lost forever in the River Mersey. Gutted.
Protech Ultimate - jumped on after breaking it's back for the nth time, on almost every landing
Kyosho F16 Ducted Fan - totalled due to being flown too slow and flicking in
RCM&E Hawk - totalled by son due to pilot error
E machine Twin - totalled - probably switched rx off on handlaunch

These are  airframes currently up on blocks for various repairs, some quite minor

Balsacraft Hurricane - rebuilt and recovered, needs repainting - disorientation and spiral of death, lots of damage
Peterborough Models Gnatty - needs a new wing after landing out, deadstick, in sewage works.
Kyosho T-33 Shooting Star - fan unit blew up, needs replacing
Jamara PT19 - wing mounting plate whipped off in lousy aborted take off
Priory Models Silhouette - wingseat repair needed after lousy landing out
Esprit Models Supra-E - wings need recovering after losing all film from one wing in the air
Model Shack Cricket - tailplane needs repairing after cartwheel (not me this time!)
Chris Foss Wot-4 - tailplane needs replacing after cartwheel on landing
Jamara Clipped Wing Cub - new motor mount needed, killed on hand launch
Beeline Models Easy Bee - wing repair needed as victim of club limbo comp (not me)
Zagi 400 Electric - Pod needs reattaching due to UV degradation of fibre tape elevons need rehinging -flutter
Balsacraft Blenheim - new nose and wing repair needed after terrible take off

Think the most bad ones in a day has been two, can't recall ever having killed three in one day.

After all these years I've finally figured the root causes of all my crashes.

They always seem to coincide with the start of a new project, so then I have the awful dilemma of the single-task man of making the repairs and postponing the new project, or carrying on with the new project whilst the wreckage of the last crash glares balefully at me.................

tim

Wow, seeing all this makes me realise just how lucky I am to have only had 3 go in  Even some people in my own club seem to have bad spells and lose plane after plane at points, though usually through pilot error and not through something giving out, 

So can anyone beat 9 in one go 

To all those that lost some in a short space of time, did the run of bad luck stop after that and things return to normal? 

Well I have the new wing tube and regs for one of those planes now, so that should be one airworthy at the weekend. One was a total write off and the other, I think thats just a complicated U/C repair and should be airworthy again in a few weeks 

Of course this is all a great excuse to "upgrade" (upgrade meaning great excuse to treat myself to some new stuff, lol  )

After all these years I've finally figured the root causes of all my crashes.

They always seem to coincide with the start of a new project, so then I have the awful dilemma of the single-task man of making the repairs and postponing the new project, or carrying on with the new project whilst the wreckage of the last crash glares balefully at me.................

tim

And yet another example of Sod's Law. 

And why is it the bits that break are always the most inconvenient to get to then  

A bit like crashing into the only tree around for miles. 

So I've binned 11 out of 25 power planes since gaining my A in sept 2003...

how many did you bin before the A ?

None 

Its only when they let me loose on my own that the carnage stroll forth

CM

Alan Laurie once broke five F3D pylon racers, all through radio problems, in the course of a single practice day for a Europa Cup meeting in Melnk (Czech Republic). This was quite a feat given that he'd only brought three models with him - the other two were borrowed from Les Knott, and it was only after the sedcond of these went in that Les discovered Alan had used the Rx from the first crashed model in both of Les's models ("I tested it on the ground and I worked fine!").

Les was grumpy for the rest of the weekend. Some people have no sense of humour...

PDR

Hmmm - This years YT fly -in...

26cc Cub - -smashed to bits........

YT Bonanza - engine cut on take off - composite fus snapped in several places.......

H9 Showtime - duff rx battery resulted in crash on take off....

3 flights...3 crashes....

I packed up and went home at that point!!

Jez

The word jonah ! Comes to mind Jez ! Ha ha mickey , and it beat mine of two in two on the same day both pilot error both showing off too close to the ground oops ! Ground 2 Balsa 0 . Ha ha mickey

Alan Laurie once broke five F3D pylon racers, all through radio problems, in the course of a single practice day for a Europa Cup meeting in Melnk (Czech Republic). This was quite a feat given that he'd only brought three models with him - the other two were borrowed from Les Knott, and it was only after the sedcond of these went in that Les discovered Alan had used the Rx from the first crashed model in both of Les's models ("I tested it on the ground and I worked fine!").

Les was grumpy for the rest of the weekend. Some people have no sense of humour...

PDR

I remember Alan celebrating a 3rd place in a NATS final by tombstoning his model in from about 500ft!

He never did explain what happeneded.

I remember Alan celebrating a 3rd place in a NATS final by tombstoning his model in from about 500ft!

I remember Alan celebrating his win in the finals at the Nats with a screeming fast pass back down the course, pulling up into a huge loop. Unfortunately the loop took him past the main runway sightline, promptly disqualifying the flight and handing the trophy to Malcolm...

PDR

I remember Alan celebrating his win in the finals at the Nats with a screeming fast pass back down the course, pulling up into a huge loop. Unfortunately the loop took him past the main runway sightline, promptly disqualifying the flight and handing the trophy to Malcolm...

PDR

OUCH!! 

A few years ago, I had a Junior 60, vintage blue solartex fuz and vintage yellow wings and tail powered with an OS 25FP.  A clubmate had an identical model (same colour scheme) powered with an OS 20FP.  Would you believe we managed a mid-air – two identical models – and no we weren’t flying the ‘wrong’ model or doing anything silly – it was just one of those moments.  Fortunately they both escaped with only minor damage.

Beezer

2009 has been my worst year so far for demolition
 
sebart katana 30 totalled ---lost battery through the hatch
E2k Wasp-----demo flight at Bickley electric meet tore wings off on plylon turn (matchwood)
YT Iconic ep totalled 2nd flight-----done a spin and it never recovered snapped comp fuselage
H9 Extra 260------ engine stalled never made it back to the runway(was on course to but someone was on the strip taking off)
Extra 260 ep ------battery died on downwind 4mins before timer never made it back to the strip(matchwood)
Miles Sparrowhawk-----totalled wing at Hastings show gusty conditions wind dropped suddenly on landing(wing replaced)
RcLander Panther-----fan motor cooked air frame survived though
H9 P47 60 sized EP-----midair at Hop Farm after flight no6   this was my most annoying one as i was flying the right way round the circuit!!

YT Edge 540------retired gracefully after long service

this was an anus horriblus for my wallet
steve

I hope no newbies read this post, they will be put of ffor life 

Its ok, things arnt always as bad as this 

Didnt someone else bin a few F3D models in the Cezch Republic?  I cant quite put my finger on who it was, I'm sure I know them though   

CM

Did 2 in one day not so long ago. Actually the last time I flew..


1st I bent my Kestrel autogyro. Broke one of the rotas. Repaired and ready to go again
2nd I bent my Silhouette. Did a few spins from a height. Guess what. I was 1 spin to low.....Repaired ready to go.

Way to busy at work and when I ain't at work the weather is pants..

Didnt someone else bin a few F3D models in the Cezch Republic?  I cant quite put my finger on who it was, I'm sure I know them though   

CM

They did?? WHo was that?? 

Who was that masked man...?

PDR

I seem to remember some pylon race chap

1st pylon he banked, he yanked, he collected a bin bag full of busted plane

turned out he had'nt bandaged the wings together!!

what a knob!!!

tally ho

Max Maxage

I wonder if he's on here. 

I seem to remember some pylon race chap

1st pylon he banked, he yanked, he collected a bin bag full of busted plane

turned out he had'nt bandaged the wings together!!

what a knob!!!

Hmmm...F3D wings aren't "bandaged" - they are moulded and have spars.

PDR

My losses were.

1.   MFA Yamamoto. Battery died - flew off and lost.  May 1990
2.   1/4 Crystian Eagle. Insufficient power, crashed full power flat. Wings/engine ok -  sold. remains for £60. Bought whole plane for £100, inc BGX-1 engine and PCM RX. 2002
3.   63inch Gangster. Radio interferance. Total loss, radio/engine. 1993
4.   Thunder Tiger stick. Someone switched on 63, as I was flying. crashed inverted.       Minor damage. repaired and sold.
5.   Extra Slim Twin. Mid-aired at Weston Park 2008. Engines/radio ok. Got a New kit.
6.   Seagull Corsair 46. (Cheap) Servos on aileron went to full deflection airframe lost.

I think the F3D pilots planes were made of "cardboard"

CM