Control line tragedy

First competitor flying at the scale and semi scale control line event at Hard2000, Siggenthal, Switzerland. He came all the way from England, the flight started off pretty well but ended in tragedy. Possible causes for the lack of engine power were the combination of higher altitude and temperature vs the UK where the model was set up and tuned.

[@Thebuilderofthings1]

"Shit" was the first word that came out of my mouth when it bit the dust. A real shame. My condolences.

[@charlesg1150]

I feel bad for the poor fellow really. Many hours spent on the fine points of scale modeling with a beautiful model.

[@charlesg1150]

With the desire to run the engine at that rich or low throttle setting in order to achieve more realism, the loop should have been started after a dive in order to gain more speed.

[@JB73691]

Never allow slack on the cables, as soon as you feel slack take a couple of steps back and pull in your arm to regain tension. on Another note he made the mistake of trying a wing over with the engine poorly tuned . Well that's u control in a nut shell.

[@RustyKControl_Line]

Oh, that's tough. All the hours of building and detailing you scale guys spend. That's what really hurts.

[@SuperStuffo]

Pity, such a nice build!

[@miken87p]

I wouldnt even launch if the engine was running like that.. NO POWER to keep lift or string tension tight. And I havent flown a control line since I was about 8 years old...

[@justinharker]

I was hoping it was going to break of it's line and go on a rampage shooting at the people or something. fly free poor plane

[@nomotiv4all]

Not In Bad Spirit But Skip To 5:10

[@wingnutzster]

In RC we typically fly by the rule that if something sounds or looks wrong you announce your intentions and land right away, models dont sort themselves out - that said horrible loss, enjoyed the flight before the incident

[@TorqueAholic]

Hard crash.. I'm surprised they did not try to lean out the engine a few clicks before takeoff.. The plane was flying "heavy" too or just under-powered from the overly rich engine. Sometimes the engine leans out in flight.. I guess it didn't that time. Any attempt at a loop was ill advised. I'm surprised he did not do a "test and tune" flight on site that day before competing.

[@gearheaddave9639]

Looks like someone let out the internet experts...

[@homerodelgado8884]

ni modo ,se te aflojaron las lineas por falta de velocidad, muy bonito avion.........

[@rlondon1958]

he must be deaf, engine way to rich!

[@robertsalser848]

Ouch, a very nice plane.

[@TheDemon190]

shame it was a nice model looked like the engine was running too rich maybe

[@pompeltube]

For sure not optimally. The weather and altitude were greatly different than where the plane was set up and adjusted. Makes a big difference in choice of fuel, glow plug, settings.

[@reefer2917]

Dagnabit! bad luck fella,

[@honeydew5022]

Noo

[@machia-mw1lm]

Nice flight , beautiful model . Too bad she hit the deck like that . Were you able to rebuild her ?

[@BobABooey.]

Too heavy and under powered for that kind of climb. Sad, looked like a nice plane.

[@grycu5580]

Ohhh :(

[@kevin_6217]

You tune the engine every time you start it... There is no reason for this to have happened besides laziness!

[@TheHereford21]

It's his own fault, obviously was too rich, they are easy to tune and it should be done at every flight anyway.

[@Aluminata]

I was sure it was going to snap the line and hit that photographer in the head - up close and personal. It seems a slightly beezaare hobby when there are such sophisticated radio control systems...

[@michaelslack5269]

Ooops

[@cristianogiustozziarchitet9846]

I don't understand what really happened... 😳

[@Amatronix999]

Transmitter brownout?

[@pompeltube]

Control line planes have no TX/RX. Just 2 )or 3 sometimes) steel wires between pilot and plane

[@calescapee9642]

too rich no power

[@Raycefan]

The video was boring til he crashed! LOL
He openly admitted he was trying to do a loop when he crashed it. The crashed was caused by inexperienced pilot.

[@JB73691]

No way no how with the engine running too rich. May be if he had time to point the nose strait up the engine could have time to lean out and pick up the revs.

[@bigvee401]

haha