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sperry · 2004-02-07, 11:09 PM

I told you about the 1/4 scale F4 we saw crash out at Camp Parks in Dublin, right?

It was making an inverted pass down the runway at an all-jet R/C airshow when his radio went into fail-safe (i.e. the plane stopped recieving instructions from the transmitter). Usually fail-safe would allow the plane to circle in a slow climb waiting for the radio to make contact... but in a low altitude inverted pass, it results into a nice slow lawn-dart followed by a nice big fireball.

That's a $10,000 loss of communications. "Can you hear me now?"

2004-02-07, 11:09 PM	#2
sperry The Doink Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 20,335 Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata Class: PDX/TT-6 The way out is through	I told you about the 1/4 scale F4 we saw crash out at Camp Parks in Dublin, right? It was making an inverted pass down the runway at an all-jet R/C airshow when his radio went into fail-safe (i.e. the plane stopped recieving instructions from the transmitter). Usually fail-safe would allow the plane to circle in a slow climb waiting for the radio to make contact... but in a low altitude inverted pass, it results into a nice slow lawn-dart followed by a nice big fireball. That's a $10,000 loss of communications. "Can you hear me now?" __________________ Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?