Gee Bee R3 RC Plane Maiden Flight and BRUTAL CRASH
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- Join us as we put the Gee Bee R3 RC plane through its paces during its maiden flight. Unfortunately, things take a dramatic turn when the plane stalls mid-flight, resulting in a crash. Witness the highs and lows of this thrilling aviation adventure
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Beautiful plane. Sorry to see the crash.
I’m surprised by how well it could stay together in such a brutal crash, I loved the sound of it
Thanks to the bush it fell in I guess
As the old saying goes, any landing you can walk away from is a good one! 😊
pretty sure that's a saying for real aircraft
Beautifully constructed with near perfectly matching flight characteristics of the real airplane. Namely a widow maker. Looked to be a scale stall spin.
There was never a full size aircraft…..it was just a design concept.
Was really looking forward to seeing this flying - it’s a beautiful build and a work of art. Really sad for you for it to end like that - whatever happens with the R3 I’m sure we will see something else amazing from your workshop. Commiserations and best wishes from the UK.
The Granville Brothers designs had a checkered history with numerous lives lost. With the long months you put into this beauty, that doesn't make it any easier but believe me when I say thank you for sharing. Jim
Couple thoughts: First rebuild the plane with 2 changes, taller vertical stabilizer and 2 to 3 degrees of right thrust in the engine. Second, always keep in mind that with the Gee Bee R3 that wing design is very prone to stalls at low speeds so you have to keep the speed at no less than 1/3rd throttle at all times especially on approach for landing. Hope this helps.
Good advice,
Is it wrong to use rule of thumb of vertical stabilizer/tail being 10% taller than prop ?
And possibly a few degrees of wash out on the wing tips.
I would not be surprised if these massive main gear fairings forward of CG add to the instability.
@@rehepeks well you have to keep one thing in mind the full scale Gee Brrhad large fairings and I’m having flown a couple RC Gee Bees myself I can tell you that the fairings actually added to the stability believe it or not. Especially in knife edge.
so sorry about your plane. fortunately you are the builder you can build as many as you want. tks fir sharing!!
Bummer mate. Was all good right up until the stall that it wouldn't recover from. Perfect example of an accelerated stall spin.
never forget that Geebees are speed planes!!
Geebees are planes known to be sensitive and unforgiving.
Trying to make a committed turn without speed or a propeller blowing the wings is the best way to send it to the ground :(
once the stall is engaged you pull on the elevator which has the effect of engaging it to the right which does not help anything.
You have just paid dearly for a basic piloting error :(
I hope you reassemble this plane as quickly as possible and enjoy it fully.
That is so well observed. Beeing slow and turning with this airframe will for sure produce exactly that. I wonder, was there a way to recover you think? Still had some decent altitude and I would do the same with the elevator in end up in that spiral too.
@@ConservativeUSA67
in the video it is difficult to judge the altitude but yes it is possible to prepare a stall (it is a known figure in aerobatics (flat spin))
1:
in order for the wings to be supported again, the aircraft must be allowed to regain speed with the control surfaces to neutral and engine to slow down the aircraft will naturally stop its spin and we will be able to pull gently on the stick and put gas gently also .
2: note that the aerodynic of a wing is a very complicated science , so the wings in eliptic shape have shown very quickly that they are vicious in flights especially at low speed , so yes it is very pretty on a mustang but that’s all:)
today no plane has eliptic wings.
3:
according to me and what I apply on my planes, during the maiden flight I need to be alone in flight and out of the question that a drone comes to make videos around me .
the concentration must be at max with nothing that must pollute it .
4: I do not know the level of the pilot and far from me the idea of judging him , however some planes require a time of learning ..
sorry for my bad english :)
Wow. Sorry for your loss. This is why I’ve never flown my R3. It’s too beautiful to crash. Red and white. Bought a ARF kit at an auction for $75. It hangs from the rafters at the warehouse.
Just keep on with the great work good luck Peter
Right thrust would cure most of the issue like the last poster said. I also think some wing dihedral would be benificial. Beautiful plane! I watched the whole build series.
I had an EPO version of this plane, and I remember the yaw axis being marginally stable at slow speeds. It got a little better at higher speeds, but that tail wagging and tendency to drop the tail in turns was still there. Pitch was a little bit touchy too, but totally manageable. I'd imagine that those characteristics would likely be magnified in a larger scale balsa model. Loved flying it though, and just like yours, she looked great in the air!
I know it has been said before but since I noticed it in the video before reading the comments there are three things. The plane looked tail heavy, if you look in the turns the tail is flying way below the nose. Yaw instability at different throttle settings is typically an issue of incorrect thrust angle. This plane does not like to fly slowly, particularly the elliptical wing and the short vertical stabilizer. I don't know if you were flying with flight stabilization or not but I would consider it for this kind of plane, it won't save you from a slow speed stall but it will help smooth things out in general flight (make up for some of the difficulties of this type of airplane). Still, beautiful build and it seems to have survived remarkably well, hope to see it flying again.
Such a nice plane, I hope you will get it up in the air again! 😀
An absolute work of art!
Beautiful plane, sorry for your loss
Well, this was one of my favorite projects throughout the winter season... So sorry to see such an unfortunate crash 😢
Very sad - such a wonderful build! Hope you can rebuild her with improvements and fly again 👏
You are a strong man Sr. YOU COULD CREATE THIS PEASE OF ART SO YOU ARE UNSTOPABLE!!! drink a beer and do it again ...go for it...
Sad to see. If its any consolation, as history would have it, it was practically as successful as any of the original Granville Brothers racers. Only, yours did not kill its pilot, and will probably fly again.
Thanks for sharing.
Hey Marko, i am sorry for the temporary loss of the GeeBee. That hurts but is still a part of our hobby. I am sure you can rebuilt the plane, it was more or less in one piece after the crash. GeeBee's are real aviation diva's...they don't want to do what the pilot want most of the time 😅 Good luck for the remaiden! 😉👋❤
Awww damn bro, gorgeous plane! Sorry to see her go down. Tip stalls are a b****! Hope you can get her back in the air again soon brother!
Sorry on such a beutiful build. There is a reason that conceptual art aircraft dont fly well (the R3 is originally from a graphical designer and not an engineer). The R3 just dont have enough vertical tail size. Looks cool, but directional stability is poor, as evident from the video. Look at the massive nose area and the the landing gear fairings acting as destabilizing surfaces in front of the cg. Then look at the tail and its aerodynamically inefficient planform. Scale up the vertical tail and she will fly again! And give that bush a hug for catching the aircraft softly. Best of luck!
Several R3 models are great flyers like the one from airworld. I had a wooden 3m R3, and that thing flew like a trainer, even in a dead stick landing. You can find that video on my YT channel BTW.. for the rest.. sad to see such a beautiful build heavily damaged. I think a bit tail heavy, side thrust of the engine. Also the way it cornered.. no coordinated turns with the rudder? I hope he rebuilds it.
Looked to be flying just fine… he caused an aggravated stall
That's what you noticed?? The thing is definitely not running right from the very start, it most certainly needed to be tuned before it flew. As an automotive mechanic, and a model airplane hobbyist, that thing sounds absolutely terrible.
After watching the whole video despite the poor running quality, he definitely stalled trying to bank and yank, and was trying to pull out the whole time when you need let it dive when stalling to get airspeed.
Que de bêtises .... Mais vous savez pourquoi un avion vole....?? Apparemment....non
Allez apprendre
@@sharp68chevyguy french....!
What a beauty! Awesome! 2 thumbs up!! Then it went down, and I cried.
Tell ya what, that could have been 100% worse!
That’s not that bad.
Sorry bud, I feel your pain. That was an awesome build and it looks like it can be repaired. Good luck getting it back together, would love to it fly again!
Just can't beleive ! Everything was perfect ! And bam ! I d'ont think it's the plane ! Look like the electronic problem ! Signal or receiver ! Hope you will find out ! You put so much work and times on every planes you make ! I feel so bad for you ! 💙✈️
Very strong airframe. Faired well considering the crash. Looks very repairable.
Hey Marko. So sad to see this beauty crash. Flying planes with tricky behavior fast, always helps. Even on my RC SCRAPPY, it feels best at half throttle or higher. Would be great to see your GeeBee R3 fly again.
First turn we can see it does not want to turn, maybe add angle to the engine, differential to the ailerons. Maybe it spin at the end because it need negative twist at the tip of wings?
Hope that beautiful engine will be OK to live next plane, sound is impressive. Your planes look like art.
not the end of the world! i think you must keep up with the good work of yours
Watched this build from start to finish
Beautiful maiden flight
Hope that drone didn’t interfere with signal
I was thinking the same thing drone interface???? Possibility
Rüya gibi bir inşaa süreciydi inanılmaz yetenekli ve donanımlı bir adamsın.Süreci adım adım izlemek büyük bir keyifti.Güzel başladı ama kötü bitti çok üzgünüm😢Bu yakışıklı makinanın tekrar uçtuğunu görmek için sabırsızlanıyorum kolay gelsin😃
Merhaba
Uzun süre endişelenmenize gerek yok, uçak zaten onarıldı, değişiklikler uygulandı ve yakında yeni uçuşunu bekliyor. O halde bizi izlemeye devam edin :)
@@markoroolaidпросто ты мастер делать модели а не пилот.
Будешь всегда падать при простых ошибках.
@@markoroolaidэлероны вывалились
Не умеешь ты делать их.
Lo siento mucho. Ánimo y seguro que nos asombrarás con futuros proyectos
Noooooooooooo 😱😱😱😱🤯🤯😭😭😭 Shit happens ! But you are a great modeller, i think she fly's in two weeks. 👍
Wow! you are very optimistic two weeks!
shame... Its a beautiful plane!! One of the prettiest I have seen
It needs a thrust angle which is why the yaw is controlled so much by the motor cause of p factor… and I’ve been watching you build this thing so sad to see it go in on the maiden but I’ve had it happen with many a plane including balsas
honestly i thought there would have been more damage. Looks like you built it like a tank. Hope you can get it back in the air.
Sorry to hear. Hopefully it’s repaired able. Keep us posted on what possibly happened that you lost control.
Good job….. keep going
That's a solid plane. From the crash video I thought it was a total loss. But after disassembling it, it looks like repairable damage after all. Keep on pushing. Next time it will be better. 👍
If the engine/prop was creating turbulance over the vertical stab, then it stands to reason that u didnt have any or enough offset in ur engine alignment. We have ALWAYS built in a certain degree of left or right and some down angular offset depending on which direction the engine rotates as it creates propwash and directional propwash votex over the aircraft putting forces on the vertical and horizontal stabs. Some are not noticable while others with a high torque engine or large prop, can create substantial amounts.
Hi, thank you
So sorry for you Marko such a beautiful plane. Looks like it will repair OK
So sorry mate its heart breaking when it happens, i hope you can repair her bro ,all the best 🤙🤙🤙
Very nice model ! Tho. Hope to see it or another one flying soon !
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Outro teste em breve, o avião está saudável novamente e esperando para voar
It went into a spin after one of the tips stalled. The Gee-bee is well know for being a tetchy plane to fly. Given how hard it crashed, it’s a testament to how well she was made. Maybe add some winglets and a flight controller. She looks like a handful to fly. Also retracts. I think there may have been a side gust and the legs are causing aerodynamic drag along the lateral side.
bad luck , feel your pain ,you told it like a man well done .
Thanks
Thank you, it's a small amount for you but a big amount for the future universe
So sorry man, it suks to put all ur time an heart into sumthin an it doesnt work out. Ur one of the best builders ive ever seen, im sure ull come bak with sumthin even better!!!
Beautiful airplane! As it is specific design, used for speed racing, it needs to be piloted cautiously.
I am not as good pilot to give advices to somebody else, but I would recommend you to use expos especially on elevator and maybe ailerons, too. I have much smaller Spitfire (similar conception, eliptical wing, rudder not so big and prone to stalling), and have some experience (crashes :)) with it.
I would say, during flight maintain speed, at least half throttle, use more rudder and less ailerons in turns (the last turn was at 90° bank angle and without speed, if I can assess from the view taken by the drone, also moving). You could also lift both ailerons up, 2-3 mm, simulating twisting of the tips, or ad turbulators on the outer parts of the wing. I wish You good luck and many flights with the beauty in the future!
Hello Marko, first of all compliments for the very nice build. The plane can and MUST be rebuilt, it's too nice to be forgotten. I have read several comments blaming the designer Mirco Pecorari because he's not an aeronautical engineer. Honestly I don't think that has anything to do with the issues your plane has. I don't think the rudder size is an issue, there are other Gee-Bee R3 flying with no issue at all, so the problems must be somewhere else.
In my opinion there are three problems, two are easy(er) to solve then the other:
- First issue is the engine alignment, the engine must be tilted right and down about 2 or 3 degrees right and 2 or 3 degrees down. Honestly I don't recall from your videos if you already did this or not. If you already mounted the engine with a tilt you should increase it. The higher the engine power compared to the plane size, the more angle you have to tilt the engine. This is done also on real airplanes, very easy to notice on the Bearcat, when the plane is sitting on the ground the propeller is almost perpendicular to the ground, but the nose is pointing the sky. This will take the spinner/propeller out of the center of the nose cowling so you have to move the engine mount attaching points to the firewall from the center of the plane in order for the spinner to be centred;
- Second issue is the CG, it definitely was tail heavy, move the CG forward about 7-8 mm or 1/4 of an inch and you'll be fine. This will improve also the stall and spin characteristics;
- Third way to improve stall and spin characteristics would be to build a washout on the wings ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washout_(aeronautics) ), but you would need to rebuild the wings. Something you can do is to lift both ailerons 1 or 2 mm in order to decrees the average incidence of the wing tips.
Hope this will help, keep up the awesome job you've done and keep on inspiring us.
Blue skies.
Oh, man! I feel your pain! After 1 year build I had same crash happent with same plane!
Hello
Then I'm not the only one :):)
Deliberately done
no
I suppose it's one of those very rare occasions when you're glad you DIDN'T put a Moki up front.
Sorry for your crash.. what a nice plane it is, and seems plenty fixable. You can get some cues from your maiden flight landing. The plane seems a bit tail heavy and prone to tip stall instead of droping the nose forward. The usual fixes are less elevator authority, some washout on the wings and some extra nose weight. Also consider that this plane is not the easiest to fly and control at low speeds. Cheers!
Nice Sound! Sexy Crash!
:):)
Really sad because it was such a beautiful plane!
So sorry to see the crash. Beatiful build! On the bright side, I think you gained lots of subscribes today and support. Love all your videos and can't wait to see your next project or fix 🤗 I just wonder, out of all the other gee bee r3's flying out there is that adverse yaw with thrust common? I know by design this plane is a handful no matter what. Looked like a stall for sure. Again, sorry to hear, was great to see her fly 👍
So it is what we all hate, even the cost of a loss like that one, it could have been worse, no one was hurt, we all can relate too the loss of a beautiful plane. It hurts every time.
I agree. It looks like it stalled. Been there a few times. Hate to say it but crashing is apart of the hobby. But there is always another one to build!
@@jdsstegman 🙂🙂🙂 Thank you
So sorry for you 😢
this plane is superb and it deserves a second chance even if it's mentally tough.
Regards
I saw your car license plate, you are from Estonia :) Greetings from Lithuania :)
What a beautiful plane, what a pity!
Sorry to see that Marco. It’s definitely impressive to see you design and build such beautiful aircraft. Unfortunately sometimes it is be painful to learn the design needs some improvement. I hope you make some adjustments to create a more stable version. Good luck. 👍🏻
Sad to see it go down. As you already said in your video: very likely a stall and subsequent vrille. Knee jerk reaction is always to put in up elevator, where in order to get out of it you need down elevator and counter rudder. If you didn't put in any side thrust on the motor it definitely seems to need it. Unfortunately this kind of shit happens in our hobby, especially with scratch builds. I'll be looking forward to what you do next.
Experts !
I am very sorry for you about the crash!
You say - the more gas, the more instability. Like some previous comments suggest - I think the side pull should be strongly to the right. 3 degrees.
Perhaps you could test the side pull again with a shock flyer with the same ratios.
Best regards from Leipzig :)
PS: Feel encouraged to rebuild the machine!
ok, thank you
Nice maiden fly even if sadly end.
This plane is not a cool choise with short fuselage lenght, small vertical tail, big motor, enormous wheels, Reynolds-wing profile : real nightmare for good aerodynamic mix .
After so much work, I understand it could be difficult to proceed in experimental way.
Thanks for your work Maestro
I had a P51 snap roll on me becuase of the small rudder. I repaired it and increased the area by 20%. Much better now.
Need more right thrust for P factor. And more rpm
Tip stall at 6:40 and 6:46. Some airplanes will not fly slow at all and there was a bit of a tip stall during the 1st landing just before touchdown.
The solution is to be aggressive and fly it like the racer it is at all times. Once it started stalling and spinning there is almost no solution unless there is a lot of altitude for a gradual full power pull out.
Sorry to see that, hopefully no damage to your engine, part of our great hobby unfortunately
The engine seems to be fine, the muffler is slightly bent, but a new one can be ordered. I will try to start the engine again soon
CG or engine thrust line change may have helped, or a lighter wing loading. IMO the main issue is the design though. Gee Bees are designed to be racers…short coupled with lots of power and minimal flight controls/stabilizers for less drag. They are a handful and challenging to fly. Deviating from scale and enlarging the tail is hard to do on the Gee Bees without it looking wrong, but is almost required.
So sorry!! Gorgeous plane. That engine sound is fantastic.
But it was almost knife flying all the time. A bit of rudder would ease the turns.... Maybe a mix will help next time.
que ganas de estresarse con ese modelo, es lindo , pero vuela como un ladrillo
So sorry for that😢. I hope you can rebuild it 👍
My first thought was stall, as well. With the bank angels necessary to make turns it could be easy to sneak up on it when the nose comes up. I do know they drop like a set set of car keys when you do stall, but can’t be certain that was what happened here. Also could be the tail stalling as well. Even though it appeared to have enough forward speed it is deceptive to know when the wing is flying again. The Ryan STA has similar flight characteristics but not nearly as amplified as this design. It would be considered a challenge to set one of these up to neutralize all or some of the inherent power and aerodynamics instability, as the idea was all about speed. It looked like something I would try and salvage, but hate those things when they misbehaved.
it was probably wind shear from the drone that was filming it
It's a shame it was a very nice looking airplane,very nice build,I'm not a flyer so cannot say anything else,just good luck in the future.
I send my condolences to the pilot in there.
A very unfortunate episode, it's an interesting looking AC. It looks like a standard GB from the past with a stretched fuselage and Spitfire wings. Hopefully you'll bring it back to life.
It's beautiful, but the Gee Bee R3 is an artist's conception. It wasn't designed by an aeronautical engineer. Due to the small vertical tail and the huge wheel pants, it doesn't have sufficient yaw stability. A few degrees of right thrust would help with the tendency to pull to the left at full throttle. Moving the CG forward might also help. I'm surprised that it wasn't totally destroyed.
both ailerons come off after crashing were they attached properlly?
That’s just a characteristic of that design with the tiny vertical area, trailing rudder and large prop with a powerful engine. They aren’t very stable in yaw but shouldn’t depart controlled flight just from throttle changes.
That crash was clearly due to a stall. These do have a tendency of reverse aileron control at lower speeds. The uncoordinated spiral suggests that’s what happened. Pilot induced but unrecoverable from that altitude once induced.
I thorougly enjoy all your videos, mainly the construction techniques. Sorry about your maiden, crashes are near inevitable in RC, and we can only hope for more time before our models leave us! damage looks limited though so I'll bet you'll get it fixed soon. you definately had it in a spin and some planes are non recoverable. a forward CG is generally helpful but your wing might just always be prone. best of luck with the rebuild and refly.
Sad to see it go down like that. That was a stall, and then stall spin. Been there done that myself.
thank you
Lots of side area on those undercarriage fairings in front of centre of gravity. Once the plane starts to yaw due to an upset from something like turbulence, the small area of vertical stabiliser can’t overcome the effect. Like trying to throw a dart backwards. Didn’t look right how it was flying sort of straight while banking with adverse yaw. Like a slight knife edge attempt.
thank you very much
Classic stall.
You are such a great builder. Sorry to see the crash. I don't think I've seen one of these R3's fly well. They lack directional stability just like my giant scale Kelly F1D. I don't fly that often because it's just not much fun. I sure hope your engine is ok.
It's a shame with all the hard work and how beautiful the plane looked. I'll leave you a brief analysis I've done of what might have happened:
Placing vertical surfaces at the front (or ahead of the neutral point) is practically trying to make the plane fly backward on the yaw axis. It will want to switch ends just like a weather vane would if you reversed it in the direction of the wind and let it go, creating strong instabilities. That's why I believe the huge wheel fairings cause this effect on the plane's aerodynamics. It could even be that these instabilities are intensified since this is a scale model much smaller than the original. But well, since it's a faithful model, it's hard to avoid them.
The solutions I can think of are to enforce stability with FBW electronics, actively controlling the surfaces to avoid the instabilities caused by yaw.
Another possibly more practical solution to avoid using FBW electronics is to try to shift the vertical neutral point. The aerodynamic center of yaw forces needs to be somewhere aft of the CG for the weather vane effect to work. The closer to the center of gravity, the larger the surface must be, so you can increase the size of the fin and rudder or the extension of the fuselage to achieve this configuration.
You're a fabrication master, and I'm sure you'll have the plane as good as new in no time. Good luck with the repair. Best regards!!
Thank you for this analysis
@@markoroolaidI would move the cg forward. This also has the effect of increasing the tail moment and decreasing the side area ahead of the cg. That, and setting the thrust angle to offset power changes.
Lost radio signal, maybe 😢 ,so sorry rc buddy
Hello, first of all a very nice plane and my condolences on your crash. Since I know this plane myself, I can tell you exactly what happened to you. No matter how fast you fly, there is a problem with the angle of attack with the profile of the wing. The aircraft reacts extremely quickly to elevator deflections. This then leads to the angle of attack of the wing becoming too fast and too large, which then leads to a stall. Hope you rebuild it. Also put some Expo on the elevator. Always remember that! Never pull up abruptly or take a dive too quickly. In 100% of all cases, this leads to a stall and loss of control.
@@christianbenzinger770 Ok, thank you very much
Too tail heavy for an elliptical wing, needs more dihedral as well, at-least so the top surface of the wings are level, needs right thrust on the engine mount with counter clockwise prop and, most importantly, lose the wheel pants. They are causing lift when banked which lifts the nose up/tail down as they are in-front of the CG. Vert stab is about the right size if you lose the pants. But a fantastic build, and I cant believe the prop survived a vertical crash!
I think you need a yaw dumper(whatever that is)
The Gee Bees are great planes to look at and for their time great racers. As an RC plane they suck due to difficulty of controlling.
Interesting that it appeared to depart controlled flight immediately after possibly flying through the drone's prop-wash about 06:39
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