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It looked to me like the pilot might have gotten confused which wing
was low and then corrected the wrong way. As the roll was continued, the nose fell through. When an RC plane is flying and the light is behind it, its often easy to get confused which wing has dipped to know which way to correct. In that circumstance, you only know you've got it wrong when it responds the opposite of what you thought it should. A normal turn would have been back towards the camera to come back over the runway, not away as he ended up doing and crashing. "Bob" wrote in message ... "Maule Driver" wrote in message om... My impression was that it 'stopped flying' before it looked like it stopped flying. I think that's what dooms many a pilot because they continue to pull after the aircraft as already stalled but before any sort of break. Looked like the dreaded downwind turn to this old RCer And yes, there is no such thing as a downwind turn except as an optical illusion that effects the pilot. It looked to me like it had already made the downwind turn and was turning back into the wind when it crashed. Bob |
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