Joined a RC sailplane club in LB long ago. One of the members actually built and flew the planes we've all seen in many famous movies. His problem was that he never had to land the planes in the movies, only crash them.... and when at the park with the club, he always had someone land his planes for him. Another member spent 2 years building a replica Cessna, and carved his own appearance on the pilot. He did a remarkable job. Everyone was having fun with how it looked. He let someone else take it up and fly it the first few times on the winch.... When he finally got the courage... He never got it off the winch... buried it into the ground with the winch still hooked on it. Don't think he ever recovered from that. 2 years of work gone in an instant.
When I was a kid, I made balsa wood airplanes and flew them just like this. It almost always ends in a crash! I’d gob glue all over it, and fly it again the next day! My plane was such a Frankenstein it’s a wonder it flew at all.
Reminds me of when as a kid I asked my parents to buy me a plastic Cox PT-19 control liner for Christmas even though I knew zilch about how to fly it, but figured i could learn as I went along. Wrong! I pranged it on its first flight and gave up on it..:)
My first control line flight was as a kid with a Goldberg Stuntman 23 balsa model. I somehow managed to keep it up for a whole tank and got it down in one piece (there was a lot of jerky, up and down flying though). After that I smoothed out and had a lot of fun. This was 60 years ago.
I started with wood chuck gliders to ff, to cl, to rc. The proper way lol then again I still have 63 inch planes I built 30 years ago I just cant seem to get rid of and my house resembles a hobby shop....
@@battano In my late teens I decided to have a crack at R/C flying and like an idiot mistakenly thought I needed an expensive multi-channel outfit and big planes, it took me a year to save up for a DigiSix outfit, but when I tried to wheel my bike out the door with my 54" wingspan plane across the handlebars to pedal to a field in the country it was too big to get out the bloody door! So I sold off the whole caboodle and switched to small lightweight single channel R/C like i should have done in the first place..:)
my dad crashed mine on its first flight. so I recently bought one and flew it. It's tricky. and it suckks compared to RC. the trick is to use a school baseball diamond to launch and fly over mostly grass. then you have a chance of surviving a crash. pavement, forget about it.
Everything was fine until his STOOGE ran out into the circle. Needed a washer under the left side of the engine mount, an extra big nut on the prop shaft, and a lucky penny or two glued to the firewall. Changing the nut on the control handle would also help. Mullet head causing balance problem with too many curls aft.
how come everyone fails to tune the engines on these control line planes properly? it should sound like "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". not "rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
@@Aandrzej12 It's not just you, Boris. Do a search for "Control line tragedy". The engine that video is spinning like 10 rpm. I'm surprised that mullet didn't get you sent to Siberia as an "enemy of the state." Come to America, you can rock your high-octane mullet in total freedom.
You're right, RC, that's it, but... An airplane model controlled by strings also has its own charm, it is always close to you and is not just a dot in the sky.
Motor was not tuned right from the start. Sounded like it was running to rich and at to low of an rpm but then again it could have been propped wrong....
You are correct that tethered cars don't need holding on to, but this is a control line model, or U control model and you have to hold the handle and control the elevator. Sorry if you already know this!
Bad pilot with an insufficient engine. It should have been tuned first before flight and checked the center of gravity, control line aircraft have wildly different CGs than RC, CLs are nose heavy in comparison. Tail heavy aircraft have short lifespans. Ask me how I know.
The smell of the fuel….exhaust is stashed in one of the early files of my noggin.
I also have the same disorder (incurable)🙂
Mine too!!
Ouch! I think the tragedy was that mullet.
It was a long time ago, back in McGeywer's time.
lol
Kids like mullets again. And mustaches.
@@richardbaker_0086I like kids with mullets...oh hold on, that doesn't sound right 😂
@@westfieldracer 😂
Highly dangerous - the lines could easily get tangled in that mullet.
The mullet explains the low resolution of this video aka a very OLD (might be even VHS or Betamax) video.
Oh, the humanity!
Joined a RC sailplane club in LB long ago. One of the members actually built and flew the planes we've all seen in many famous movies. His problem was that he never had to land the planes in the movies, only crash them.... and when at the park with the club, he always had someone land his planes for him. Another member spent 2 years building a replica Cessna, and carved his own appearance on the pilot. He did a remarkable job. Everyone was having fun with how it looked. He let someone else take it up and fly it the first few times on the winch.... When he finally got the courage... He never got it off the winch... buried it into the ground with the winch still hooked on it. Don't think he ever recovered from that. 2 years of work gone in an instant.
🥺😢😭
Fantastic story.😄
From the title I thought the control line hit a power wire and electrocuted him. THAT would have been a tragedy. This was a minor inconvenience.
When I was a kid, I made balsa wood airplanes and flew them just like this. It almost always ends in a crash! I’d gob glue all over it, and fly it again the next day! My plane was such a Frankenstein it’s a wonder it flew at all.
I still have my dad's Ureely. He was a control line guy back in the 60's. Then, when he retired he went RC.
Beautiful years, at the moment I only fly RC models.
Reminds me of when as a kid I asked my parents to buy me a plastic Cox PT-19 control liner for Christmas even though I knew zilch about how to fly it, but figured i could learn as I went along.
Wrong! I pranged it on its first flight and gave up on it..:)
Been there. Mine was a P-40 Warhawk. Didn’t even make a 1/4 of the way around. 😂
My first control line flight was as a kid with a Goldberg Stuntman 23 balsa model. I somehow managed to keep it up for a whole tank and got it down in one piece (there was a lot of jerky, up and down flying though). After that I smoothed out and had a lot of fun. This was 60 years ago.
I started with wood chuck gliders to ff, to cl, to rc. The proper way lol then again I still have 63 inch planes I built 30 years ago I just cant seem to get rid of and my house resembles a hobby shop....
@@battano In my late teens I decided to have a crack at R/C flying and like an idiot mistakenly thought I needed an expensive multi-channel outfit and big planes, it took me a year to save up for a DigiSix outfit, but when I tried to wheel my bike out the door with my 54" wingspan plane across the handlebars to pedal to a field in the country it was too big to get out the bloody door!
So I sold off the whole caboodle and switched to small lightweight single channel R/C like i should have done in the first place..:)
my dad crashed mine on its first flight. so I recently bought one and flew it. It's tricky. and it suckks compared to RC.
the trick is to use a school baseball diamond to launch and fly over mostly grass. then you have a chance of surviving a crash. pavement, forget about it.
Oh. That. He did better than I did as a child - three laps before crashing was doing *good!*
If the engine hadn't choked, maybe it wouldn't have been so bad.
looked like a NasCar race. Always turning left
Everything was fine until his STOOGE ran out into the circle. Needed a washer under the left side of the engine mount, an extra big nut on the prop shaft, and a lucky penny or two glued to the firewall. Changing the nut on the control handle would also help. Mullet head causing balance problem with too many curls aft.
just curious, why does the guy run out there at 1:10?
You’re always amazing Doug! I wish I played like you
Years and years of practice.😀
how come everyone fails to tune the engines on these control line planes properly? it should sound like "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". not "rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
Did you try to tune a Russian engine without nitromethane 30 years ago?
@@Aandrzej12 It's not just you, Boris. Do a search for "Control line tragedy". The engine that video is spinning like 10 rpm.
I'm surprised that mullet didn't get you sent to Siberia as an "enemy of the state." Come to America, you can rock your high-octane mullet in total freedom.
@@user-gl5yk5ys5b But I laughed, thank you.😂
Thought it was going to get stuck in a tree as the line extended but damn, that stall at the wrong time
Nice looking CL model...Looked pretty straight & level until out of gas, Stall, slack lines & Crash !!
Unfortunately, you're right.
Look at all the extra parts you have now ....
Very funny 🙂
That's just not funny
😂😂😂😂😂😂
rip to all those who died
Did they record this on Idaho or russet
You are near 😀
that always happens, especially painful when it happens one second after the plane almost gets airborne.
You're right, you pay for learning.
We had a JU-87 Stuka. It did not survive the impact.
😉
He stalled it! (not engine stall, wing stall)
I would describe it as a stall (loss of lift) caused by the stopping of the propulsion engine.
What memories 😂
Yeah 🙂
Under powered?
It is not known exactly. The Aircraft Accidents Investigation Committee is still in operation.😁
😭 bad memories from my childhood
And this "disease" haunts me to this day.
Like watching a NASCAR race.
🙂
Oh man, I know that run😮😉
I escaped so many times, especially when the engine suddenly stopped.
Where’s the tragedy? I saw the crash but nothing more
For me it was a tragedy - a destroyed model, a destroyed engine.
The mullet!
@@westfieldracer This was the fashion back then. Even now there are still such dinosaurs 😁
I hated these things. I asked for an R/C plane one Christmas and i got this dumb s*****
You're right, RC, that's it, but... An airplane model controlled by strings also has its own charm, it is always close to you and is not just a dot in the sky.
Motor was not tuned right from the start. Sounded like it was running to rich and at to low of an rpm but then again it could have been propped wrong....
You're right, the engine was slightly flooded (too richly).
@@Aandrzej12 Sad looked like a nice model but thats the way the ground bounces.....
@@battano The fun must continue.
Na finiszu złapał kreta 😂
Nooo,
Shit that was bloody shit, one second from a nice aircraft to a total wreck 😝
Unfortunately, this is life my friend, sometimes one second is enough.
You get dizzy..... spinning around after a while ...they had vehicles too. But you don't need to hold onto it. Its staked to the ground.
😊
You are correct that tethered cars don't need holding on to, but this is a control line model, or U control model and you have to hold the handle and control the elevator. Sorry if you already know this!
@@flyboy451 he didn't
Bad pilot with an insufficient engine. It should have been tuned first before flight and checked the center of gravity, control line aircraft have wildly different CGs than RC, CLs are nose heavy in comparison. Tail heavy aircraft have short lifespans. Ask me how I know.
I don't have to ask. Your comment proves that we are dealing with a professional.
Moteur trop faible il fallait voler plus bas pour ne pas décrocher..... !
Désolé....... !!
C'est exact.
Salutations
Filmed on a potato
Big exaggeration.
So Tragic… 🙏🏻
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Thank you.
Well the ending was a tragedy if u under 16