These builders put their heart and soul into their models, then do all the work of prepping and bring all that stuff they need out to the field, then fly the planes for everyone to see and appreciate, for free! I used to build and fly R/C planes and crashing is just part of the game. It's a test of character. This fellow probably has as much fun building and repairing the plane as he does flying it. No need for anger, stuff happens. Thanks for show, mate!
cheers tim, he told me (when we met months later) that he repaired her within two weeks and shes now flying ! and i agree with everything you said in your comments - thanks
Absolutely the most scale-like crash I've ever seen! The pilot was pretty masterful keeping that contraption in the air as long as he did! And he lived to fly another day. Thanks for posting.
all he did wrong, in my opinion, was to come in for final on too acute an angle and too low. You can see the wind direction, he nearly had the right line for direct into wind but with that aircraft he did really well anyway. That type of flex wing is way harder to fly than ANY more modern craft.
That's the way the originals flew. They did not like to be pushed. Everything had to be done very slowly. They got out of hand very quickly. So this was an authentic scale model flight.
Yeah I did it for awhile but it wasn't for me. I can put in the work and dedication for a project, but rebuilding it after a crash is too Sisyphean for me.
Sisyphean! I think repairing crash damage is the best part of my RC plane compulsion. If I come home with an intact plane I cant help but feel a bit disappointed.
When Bleriot landed in Dover in 1909, typically, the first people he encountered were Customs officials. When they were filling out all of their usual forms, they came to the section which asked: 'In What Conveyance Did You Cross The English Channel?' segment, which, of course, did not have 'Aeroplane' as an option. After a short discussion with Monsieur Bleriot, the box marked 'Yacht' was ticked. So, officially, Louis Bleriot flew the English Channel for the very first time... In a Yacht.
@@tbobborap1 - No problem - it's one that always amused me. If it was someone flying from England to France, the pioneer aviator would have been greeted with the local Mayor, possibly a band, and definitely booze. Here... A couple of blokes from HM Customs. With paperwork.
I knew an old bloke called Howard Right who learned to fly on the beach south of Coffs Harbour in the 1930's. He showed me his licence for a "Flying Machine (Airplane)".
This is an exceptional posting. We get a peek into the past of powered flight. We can probably assume that the model handles very much like the original and the aviators of the time probably had results similar to the pilot in the video, sometimes with less desirable outcomes for the man in the cockpit. Thanks for the trip through time
Agreed. Great comment. What interests me is that the engine was right in front of the leading edge. Because the XI had a low aspect ratio wing (broad chord), plenty of heavy stuff was way back, eg the fuel tank. The Anzani engine did not weigh much - about 47kg, less than a Rotax 582. The pilot sat almost at the trailing edge of the wing. I suspect Bleriot hadn't got his head round the optimal centre of gravity for monoplanes. Like many people in those days, he thought of the tailplane as a miniature lifting wing, an idea that persisted until the 1930s and longer with model aircraft. I wonder how he would have got on with the engine and tank forward by about 30cm.
Louis B couldn't handle all that extra power and its asymmetrical blast (including P-factor with the aircraft tail down)! It turned his head, literally, and he couldn't control his landing! On a more serious note, my commiserations. It's an amazing model, and I would like to thank you for giving me understanding as to how the wing warp system worked. Always wondered how that was achieved. I'm sure with your knowhow the model will fly again. Best wishes from London.
I saw this crash and it was a fairly windy day,the Bleriot had made a few attempts to land but would just not come down,wing warping controls can be tricky to handle. So sad to see such a wonderful model like this go in so heavily but I hope that it can be repaired to fly again.
Sad to see such a well built model go in like that. It looked a bit tail heavy in the air and the elevator obviously had a lot of authority. The pilot was too heavy on his controls after the engine cut. You can see that the model was stalling throughout the flight and only the power from the motor was saving it from a full stall. Just before contact you can see full up being held but without the motor this will only stall the plane.
@@tbobborap1 I read that Bleriot was always fiddling with his designs. He eventually went over to a conventional tailplane/elevator arrangement. I reckon your version replicated the twitchy control of the full-sized aircraft. The danger of ground damage to those all-moving elevators, too, would have put me off flying one!
The 1909 Bleriot is virtually unflyable because it is tail heavy and has huge positive incidence in the wing. It will stall if the fuselage looks level which makes it hard to control. The center part of the horizontal stabilizer has a lot of positive incidence to keep the tail up. The later version has the Gnome radial engine, a longer nose and less positive incidence in the wing and stabilizer.
I'm so sorry it crashed , I do hope it is repairable and soon back in the air . I did notice there was quite a strong cross wind coming from the left . Which makes it not the easiest plane to land , and such a beautiful model too !
Sorry to say flying was on the stall a few times .You do not roll a wingwarp aerie near the ground .The drag was simply too much and the wing stalled and she went in . Turn should have heen completed withe aerie lined up for landing with altitude to spare .Else keep wings level and land .Damage will be the least .
That was a hell of a pilot he didn't even blink. Beautiful job on the build. I love that plane. It might be underpowered and pitch sensitive.. I talked to the guy who built a replica of the original and flew it Oshkosh. The warp wing is not as easy to fly as it looks. The original engine can be found at the "Fantasy of Flight" near Orlando. They also have some actual era aircraft which were inspired by the original. Great place to visit while the wife and kids waste their time and my money at Disney.
Yes, it's part of the hobby... It's the part that hurts! Nice to know the builder didn't give up and buy something pre-moulded from foam. A lot less trouble, but then it would never have made it into a TBOBBORAP vid! I'm not sure what went wrong, and sitting here in my armchair I'm certainly not going to blame anyone for anything, but I did notice that the (scale) aerofoil was a low speed, high drag, deeply undercambered one, and that the fabric covering on the underside had become detached on some of the ribs, making the wing section flatter. In the full-size planes of the period the covering was securely sewn to the ribs with needle and thread to avoid this. Is it possible that the 'flat-bottomed' section created uneven lift, made less controllable by the authentic wing warping feature, resulting in a high-speed stall? Just a thought. :-)
Much agreed! We live in a need it now culture and I'm glad to see there are still real hobbyists that believe in what they fly. This foam crap that hobby stores sell is cheap made in China crap!
A lot of models can't use an authentic airfoil-section but I'd have thought that it would have been straightforward to keep the "full size"one used on the Bleriot for the model, assuming that there was some way of keeping to the concave contour of the wings' undersides. Such a thinner wing-section might make it easier to warp the model's wing.
The tendency to pitch up repeatedly which was corrected with the elevator input, indicates, I think, that the CG was too far aft. This is a problem with the pre WW I aircraft which had such short nose moments. A few ounces of lead in the nose would help, but this is hard to disguise. Wing warping has less effect on models then it did on full size aircraft because the way models are built causes the wing to be more rigid then in the full size aircraft. In the preflight servo check the wing can be seen not warping but canting left and right with the 'aileron' input. Increase down trim, lead in the nose, weaken the wing structure to allow flexing. I have been there and done that, and speak from experience. We learn by mistakes, at least we can walk away after the crash.
Hey the originals were pranged just as much as having a good landing. Wood was snapped and fabric ripped. It was the norm. The remaining original acft are flown in practically no wind conditions today.
All the white lightning went into the fuel tank. I got an impression he ran it out just before the crash, engine rpm dropped off suddenly. Not something you do in a turn.
Beautiful model and great piloting.. The only down side is all the jabbering going on... Who ever had the motor mouth needs to put a lid on it.. or be told to..
Beautiful aircraft but the Bleriot was difficult design and unstable in pitch. The secret to flying this design was constant throttle adjustment with the ac tendency to change its glide speed. The old designs had much drag and did not maintain a constant glide speed even with the nose pointed down . Stall speed and cruse speed are very close together which make landing difficult without constant power adjustment to compensate for the high drag and small inertia this ac has.
Oh no and it seamed to be flying well till then too. Ya have to feel for the pilot crashing in front of so many people and being caught on camera too. Cheers or posting bro
Mikael Carlson, who's been flying Bleriots for over 30 years reckons it's pretty much over if the engine fails. The lifting tail and lack of slipstream make control almost impossible. The whole plane was likely to tuck under in a powered dive, which probably killed Harriet Quimbey and her passenger back in 1912 when they fell out. (No seat belts)
@@tbobborap1 Check out Mikael Carlson's article; "Unlearn what you know about conventional flight" He also talks about flying with opposite wing warp when turning to prevent the aircraft side-slipping. Forget crosswinds and the plane is incredibly unstable in pitch, at no time do you take your hands off the controls even for a second!
There was a PBS/Nova special on the early days of aviation. A few of those old birds were manufactured. All I remember of the special was they were a bear to fly. A crossing of the English Channel was scheduled. No one attempted the flight.
A beautiful model, what a shame it came to grief like that, it must be very difficult to break down an aeroplane like this for transport, then re rig it for flight and get it right, but it did look a bit marginal in stability in the high wind conditions, I hope it all goes back together so people can see how things were at the birth of manned flight!
Watching this, you get the impression that the design, itself, was inherently unstable, and controlling it remotely just compounds the problem, of seat-of-the-pants reaction to variations in role attitude.
To play armchair pilot it looked kinda tail heavy. It would explain why it was pitching up and down so much. Probably also why he stalled it so fast when the engine died.
If I was trying to fly a model of the caliber - completely unappreciated by other spectators, I'd probably have crashed it too. Their comments were extraordinarily insensitive: twats.
Beautiful model! Flown realistically too. By the way it handles and moves, looks like it flies quite similarly to the real one, like an absolute pig... And to all these random comments saying the guy is a crap pilot..., I'd like to see you fly a wing warping model in those kind of conditions, looking at people's clothes, it was kinda breezy. The Bleriots top speed was barely above its stalling speed, it was not an easy aircraft to fly, and the builder looks like hes been quite faithful towards the power to weight ratio etc. The models not that badly damaged either, wing root will need rebuilt and covered, and the undercarriage repaired, and the nose will probably need straightened and/ or rebuilt, but it's all pretty repairable. Look forward to seeing it fly again.
Oh Shame !! Don't worry about crashed. go back workshop for repair. It will be okay for fly again. It will perfect. It is beautiful old plane.!!! I'm very happy for fly.
must have lost power there toward the end...no one would come in with a bird like that (a beauty) under-powered at such an angle. That one mechanical failure cost him several hundred sterling pounds.
Was not balanced properly to begin with. Must take into account fuel consumption when balancing this type of aircraft or any for that matter. It began porpoising soon after takeoff, as the fuel was used became worse. Also the thrust angle is equally as important. Sure it was a handful landing crosswind.
Plane crashed 15 times before it hit the ground, flew like a paper plate in that wind. Guess he built it so it is his right to smash it in front of everyone... ;-)
To bad they can't replicate the ound of the fullsize plane. They didn't have any throttle, power was controlled by the magneto. So when they fly they turn the ignition on and off to control airspeed.
These builders put their heart and soul into their models, then do all the work of prepping and bring all that stuff they need out to the field, then fly the planes for everyone to see and appreciate, for free!
I used to build and fly R/C planes and crashing is just part of the game. It's a test of character. This fellow probably has as much fun building and repairing the plane as he does flying it. No need for anger, stuff happens. Thanks for show, mate!
cheers tim, he told me (when we met months later) that he repaired her within two weeks and shes now flying ! and i agree with everything you said in your comments - thanks
i like the "test of character" part.
Absolutely the most scale-like crash I've ever seen! The pilot was pretty masterful keeping that contraption in the air as long as he did! And he lived to fly another day. Thanks for posting.
thanks ken
very realistic model.. even the crash ! Some repair work to do, but that's how it goes with RC planes..
Was it just me or did he stall that thing about a dozen times before it finally crashed?
all he did wrong, in my opinion, was to come in for final on too acute an angle and too low. You can see the wind direction, he nearly had the right line for direct into wind but with that aircraft he did really well anyway. That type of flex wing is way harder to fly than ANY more modern craft.
@Fireball XL5 No it's caused by a strong wind coming from the left , making it very difficult to land !
That's the way the originals flew. They did not like to be pushed. Everything had to be done very slowly. They got out of hand very quickly. So this was an authentic scale model flight.
Thats what I was thinking, One of those crashes just happened to contact the ground.
@@justtowatch111- In the words of Maxwell Smart "Missed by THAT much!".
If you fly RC planes of any type it's not a matter of if, it's when.
Too true
Yeah I did it for awhile but it wasn't for me. I can put in the work and dedication for a project, but rebuilding it after a crash is too Sisyphean for me.
Sisyphean!
I think repairing crash damage is the best part of my RC plane compulsion.
If I come home with an intact plane I cant help but feel a bit disappointed.
When Bleriot landed in Dover in 1909, typically, the first people he encountered were Customs officials. When they were filling out all of their usual forms, they came to the section which asked: 'In What Conveyance Did You Cross The English Channel?' segment, which, of course, did not have 'Aeroplane' as an option. After a short discussion with Monsieur Bleriot, the box marked 'Yacht' was ticked. So, officially, Louis Bleriot flew the English Channel for the very first time... In a Yacht.
thanks brian - great story
@@tbobborap1 - No problem - it's one that always amused me. If it was someone flying from England to France, the pioneer aviator would have been greeted with the local Mayor, possibly a band, and definitely booze. Here... A couple of blokes from HM Customs. With paperwork.
I knew an old bloke called Howard Right who learned to fly on the beach south of Coffs Harbour in the 1930's.
He showed me his licence for a "Flying Machine (Airplane)".
This is an exceptional posting. We get a peek into the past of powered flight. We can probably assume that the model handles very much like the original and the aviators of the time probably had results similar to the pilot in the video, sometimes with less desirable outcomes for the man in the cockpit. Thanks for the trip through time
thanks for your comments greg
Agreed. Great comment. What interests me is that the engine was right in front of the leading edge. Because the XI had a low aspect ratio wing (broad chord), plenty of heavy stuff was way back, eg the fuel tank. The Anzani engine did not weigh much - about 47kg, less than a Rotax 582. The pilot sat almost at the trailing edge of the wing. I suspect Bleriot hadn't got his head round the optimal centre of gravity for monoplanes. Like many people in those days, he thought of the tailplane as a miniature lifting wing, an idea that persisted until the 1930s and longer with model aircraft. I wonder how he would have got on with the engine and tank forward by about 30cm.
Louis B couldn't handle all that extra power and its asymmetrical blast (including P-factor with the aircraft tail down)! It turned his head, literally, and he couldn't control his landing! On a more serious note, my commiserations. It's an amazing model, and I would like to thank you for giving me understanding as to how the wing warp system worked. Always wondered how that was achieved. I'm sure with your knowhow the model will fly again. Best wishes from London.
I meant, the guy who built it, of course! Apologies.
thanks bugs, yes shes flying now
Odear and such a work of art......I hope you took her straight back to the repair shop!!!!!!!🙃😎
repaired and flying a few months later
The pilot appears to have a few too many pints under his belt. Cheers Mates 🙂🤣
Such fine detail in that plane. At least he didn't have to dig it out with a shovel.
Very beautiful plane - what a shame it crashed but nice to hear that he was able to rebuild it. Are the plans for this build available somewhere?
thanks kim, im afraid ive no info on this model or pilot
I saw this crash and it was a fairly windy day,the Bleriot had made a few attempts to land but would just not come down,wing warping controls can be tricky to handle.
So sad to see such a wonderful model like this go in so heavily but I hope that it can be repaired to fly again.
thanks angel
Great video. The plane didn't look like it was flying that well to begin with. So sorry to the pilot and owner of this airplane.
Thanks for watching!
It was looking very good! Those old time planes are very interesting! Thank you.
thanks rob
Sad to see such a well built model go in like that. It looked a bit tail heavy in the air and the elevator obviously had a lot of authority. The pilot was too heavy on his controls after the engine cut. You can see that the model was stalling throughout the flight and only the power from the motor was saving it from a full stall. Just before contact you can see full up being held but without the motor this will only stall the plane.
hmmm you've studied the video well andy !
@@tbobborap1 I read that Bleriot was always fiddling with his designs. He eventually went over to a conventional tailplane/elevator arrangement. I reckon your version replicated the twitchy control of the full-sized aircraft. The danger of ground damage to those all-moving elevators, too, would have put me off flying one!
I just heard “O mate” hahahahaha it’s ok the pilot walked away
Ich wundere mich immer, dass diese Flugzeuge bei dieser extremen hinteren Schwerpunkt überhaupt steuerbar sind.
thanks karl
The 1909 Bleriot is virtually unflyable because it is tail heavy and has huge positive incidence in the wing. It will stall if the fuselage looks level which makes it hard to control. The center part of the horizontal stabilizer has a lot of positive incidence to keep the tail up.
The later version has the Gnome radial engine, a longer nose and less positive incidence in the wing and stabilizer.
I'm so sorry it crashed , I do hope it is repairable and soon back in the air . I did notice there was quite a strong cross wind coming from the left . Which makes it not the easiest plane to land , and such a beautiful model too !
thanks pete
Sorry to say flying was on the stall a few times .You do not roll a wingwarp aerie near the ground .The drag was simply too much and the wing stalled and she went in . Turn should have heen completed withe aerie lined up for landing with altitude to spare .Else keep wings level and land .Damage will be the least .
Beautiful model,sad to see the crash,but noticed in the comments it was flying again.Nice work.
thanks dc
Great video coverage (Unflinching as usual). Beautiful plane, realistically flown and sounded so real. I think most Bleriot's landed like that.
thanks siren
Beautiful model! Shame about the incident, but good to know it's airworthy again.
thanks
I'm surprised it took so long. Such a nice aircraft.
That was a hell of a pilot he didn't even blink. Beautiful job on the build. I love that plane. It might be underpowered and pitch sensitive.. I talked to the guy who built a replica of the original and flew it Oshkosh. The warp wing is not as easy to fly as it looks. The original engine can be found at the "Fantasy of Flight" near Orlando. They also have some actual era aircraft which were inspired by the original.
Great place to visit while the wife and kids waste their time and my money at Disney.
Awwwww man! Sorry for your loss.
thanks lance
Beautiful model. I hope the repair isn't to difficult.
thanks, repaired and now flying
Yes, it's part of the hobby... It's the part that hurts! Nice to know the builder didn't give up and buy something pre-moulded from foam. A lot less trouble, but then it would never have made it into a TBOBBORAP vid!
I'm not sure what went wrong, and sitting here in my armchair I'm certainly not going to blame anyone for anything, but I did notice that the (scale) aerofoil was a low speed, high drag, deeply undercambered one, and that the fabric covering on the underside had become detached on some of the ribs, making the wing section flatter.
In the full-size planes of the period the covering was securely sewn to the ribs with needle and thread to avoid this. Is it possible that the 'flat-bottomed' section created uneven lift, made less controllable by the authentic wing warping feature, resulting in a high-speed stall?
Just a thought. :-)
lol - thanks Elli, yep she re-flew a few weeks later
Much agreed! We live in a need it now culture and I'm glad to see there are still real hobbyists that believe in what they fly. This foam crap that hobby stores sell is cheap made in China crap!
A lot of models can't use an authentic airfoil-section but I'd have thought that it would have been straightforward to keep the "full size"one used on the Bleriot for the model, assuming that there was some way of keeping to the concave contour of the wings' undersides. Such a thinner wing-section might make it easier to warp the model's wing.
The tendency to pitch up repeatedly which was corrected with the elevator input, indicates, I think, that the CG was too far aft. This is a problem with the pre WW I aircraft which had such short nose moments. A few ounces of lead in the nose would help, but this is hard to disguise. Wing warping has less effect on models then it did on full size aircraft because the way models are built causes the wing to be more rigid then in the full size aircraft. In the preflight servo check the wing can be seen not warping but canting left and right with the 'aileron' input. Increase down trim, lead in the nose, weaken the wing structure to allow flexing. I have been there and done that, and speak from experience. We learn by mistakes, at least we can walk away after the crash.
thanks tom
Spooky! Bleriot looked at me, and I recognised him! 0:34
Hey the originals were pranged just as much as having a good landing. Wood was snapped and fabric ripped. It was the norm. The remaining original acft are flown in practically no wind conditions today.
thanks don
On approach always keep the wings level and steer with the rudder. That way you’re much less likely to stall.
Was there any drinking of white lighting going on prior ?
lol - no
All the white lightning went into the fuel tank. I got an impression he ran it out just before the crash, engine rpm dropped off suddenly. Not something you do in a turn.
@@aeromodeller1 its all in the video description
Beautiful model and great piloting.. The only down side is all the jabbering going on... Who ever had the motor mouth needs to put a lid on it.. or be told to..
Good point!
Beautiful aircraft but the Bleriot was difficult design and unstable in pitch. The secret to flying this design was constant throttle adjustment with the ac tendency to change its glide speed. The old designs had much drag and did not maintain a constant glide speed even with the nose pointed down . Stall speed and cruse speed are very close together which make landing difficult without constant power adjustment to compensate for the high drag and small inertia this ac has.
thanks for the history lesson terry,
Not only did the pilot survive the crash, he was all smiles too
Oh no and it seamed to be flying well till then too. Ya have to feel for the pilot crashing in front of so many people and being caught on camera too. Cheers or posting bro
cheers ken, he soon rebuilt her
Tears. The original was very difficult to fly. Deeply cambered airfoil. Tiny tail plane. Many crashed. Good to hear he had it up again.
thanks
Mikael Carlson, who's been flying Bleriots for over 30 years reckons it's pretty much over if the engine fails. The lifting tail and lack of slipstream make control almost impossible. The whole plane was likely to tuck under in a powered dive, which probably killed Harriet Quimbey and her passenger back in 1912 when they fell out. (No seat belts)
thanks for the info hugo, i didnt realise they were death traps like that, ill read up on harriet and her passenger
@@tbobborap1 Check out Mikael Carlson's article; "Unlearn what you know about conventional flight" He also talks about flying with opposite wing warp when turning to prevent the aircraft side-slipping. Forget crosswinds and the plane is incredibly unstable in pitch, at no time do you take your hands off the controls even for a second!
It didn't ever look like it WANTED to fly! Some just don't cooperate!
Pretty cool plane though!
thanks steve
The real one didnt really want to fly either lol. It was barely above stalling point most of the time it was in the air.
Beautiful plane!
thanks chris
Master built. Rookie sticked.
Why such a high idle and man it’s painful to watch someone struggle to fly a beautiful model only to crash it.
thanks
There was a PBS/Nova special on the early days of aviation. A few of those old birds were manufactured. All I remember of the special was they were a bear to fly. A crossing of the English Channel was scheduled. No one attempted the flight.
Thatairplanegeuy Painful for you, imagine how it was for him.
amazing that flies at all, as aerodynamic as a bottle of scotch
lol - thanks
A beautiful model, what a shame it came to grief like that, it must be very difficult to break down an aeroplane like this for transport, then re rig it for flight and get it right, but it did look a bit marginal in stability in the high wind conditions, I hope it all goes back together so people can see how things were at the birth of manned flight!
all repaired and now flying chris
Tip stall from flying without enough air speed in a turn.
G'day Richard.
@@hodaka1000 G'day. You're down under?
I completely concur Richard. Either that or some pints may have been envolved.
@@keith2964 You'd think he'd be flying with a lot of speed after a few brews.
Hey the pilot lived!👍
lol
Ah yes: "Any landing you can walk away from..."
Watching this, you get the impression that the design, itself, was inherently unstable, and controlling it remotely just compounds the problem, of seat-of-the-pants reaction to variations in role attitude.
Full scale Bleriot's always fly as if on the edge of a stall. Note the angle of the stabilizer in level flight.
Beautiful model, tricky to fly, looks like pilot became rattled during landing attempt and stalled while trying to land.
the engine died downwind so he ran out of lift in the turn into wind - worst possible place to loose a motor poor sod !
Look at all those wires!
That is a beautiful aircraft.
thanks tony
To play armchair pilot it looked kinda tail heavy. It would explain why it was pitching up and down so much. Probably also why he stalled it so fast when the engine died.
Ive got a bleriot new in box from royal kits or marutaka not foing to build it
If I was trying to fly a model of the caliber - completely unappreciated by other spectators, I'd probably have crashed it too. Their comments were extraordinarily insensitive: twats.
thanks doug, I agree m8 most are just armchair critics
Got to remember Béroit crashed when he landed after crossing the channel too
lol - yes he did tom
Yep. Scale landing! :-D
He crashed a lot before he flew the channel. Fortunately his planes did not go very fast and there were a lot of thin sticks to absorb the impact.
A work of art should be in museum.
thanks vito
Beautiful model! Flown realistically too. By the way it handles and moves, looks like it flies quite similarly to the real one, like an absolute pig...
And to all these random comments saying the guy is a crap pilot..., I'd like to see you fly a wing warping model in those kind of conditions, looking at people's clothes, it was kinda breezy. The Bleriots top speed was barely above its stalling speed, it was not an easy aircraft to fly, and the builder looks like hes been quite faithful towards the power to weight ratio etc.
The models not that badly damaged either, wing root will need rebuilt and covered, and the undercarriage repaired, and the nose will probably need straightened and/ or rebuilt, but it's all pretty repairable.
Look forward to seeing it fly again.
thanks sweeper - I agree
This is why I stick with RC crawlers, I do enough damage at 3mph without getting airborne.
these wing warpers are damned hard to fly, he will fix it and it will fly again, just bad luck
thanks alex, already flying now
Oh Shame !! Don't worry about crashed. go back workshop for repair. It will be okay for fly again. It will perfect. It is beautiful old plane.!!! I'm very happy for fly.
thanks john
must have lost power there toward the end...no one would come in with a bird like that (a beauty) under-powered at such an angle. That one mechanical failure cost him several hundred sterling pounds.
Was not balanced properly to begin with. Must take into account fuel consumption when balancing this type of aircraft or any for that matter.
It began porpoising soon after takeoff, as the fuel was used became worse.
Also the thrust angle is equally as important.
Sure it was a handful landing crosswind.
Before parachutes were perfected. Lived, Flew & Died like a Warrior. lol , Shame, beautiful bird.
thanks dave
Poor old Louie.
thanks 77
Clearly was having pitch issues and the pilot was terrible.
Appears under powered as well
Stolled.
Armchair test pilots. "Stolled"...
@@stejer211 th-cam.com/video/XDNHazkg_lk/w-d-xo.html
purely pilot era
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it will mend bud
thank keith, now flying again
It looks like he broke the prop😋
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It all looks fixable.
The guy in the back should have talked it down.
Hardly a scratch on it. What's all the fuss about?
lol
So sad
Ah what a shame, lovely model - glad it's not too bad though.
thanks sam, flying again now
IMO,, Pilot error ...!!
read the video description and change your opinion
Plane crashed 15 times before it hit the ground, flew like a paper plate in that wind. Guess he built it so it is his right to smash it in front of everyone... ;-)
To bad they can't replicate the ound of the fullsize plane. They didn't have any throttle, power was controlled by the magneto. So when they fly they turn the ignition on and off to control airspeed.
ahh but they have 69 - check out two videos here - th-cam.com/video/QoCjro11ZQ0/w-d-xo.html - th-cam.com/video/jag8ouuyGZ0/w-d-xo.html
The Good think the pilot is wolk owuey is ok
@@tbobborap1 But not on the Bleriot.
lmao get rekt