"Icebound" wrote --

There is an interesting quote amongst the Radio Control Videos that you
have
there....

Explaining the crash of the magnificent B-52 model, Paul Metcalf states:

quote:
With models you should throttle back on down wind lines to avoid the
airplane being over stressed, but in this case Gordon throttled back too
much and the B-52 ran out of airspeed.
:unquote

Interesting comment, to be sure. Hard to believe he said that.

I disagree with low speed being the cause of the crash.

The sky was very cloudy, and the aircraft had no contrast, with the
backlight washing out all clues as to the orientation of the plane. High
wing sweep makes it even harder to recognize orientation, especially with no
highly visible paint jobs to identify top and bottom.

He thought it was banking too far right as he began the turn, and gave it
more left. In reality, the plane was banking left to begin with, and more
left just further added to the mistake.
--
Jim in NC