[NSRCA-discussion] Stupid accident

Mon Aug 24 12:11:29 AKDT 2009

I take short 1/4" x 1" pieces of moneycote and make a colored band for the
extensions. Several color choices and no weight.

I always check surface movement and direction before each take off without
fail. I used to do the wiggle test and then took off with one aileron not
plugged in. I noticed it was very sluggish in roll and landed to find the
problem.

Dowayne

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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Ken Thompson
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 11:15 AM
To: General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Stupid accident

If I can find the servo leads in colors, I usually use red and green, both 
in the receiver and on the servo...green for right and red for left...makes 
for brain dead assembly at the field.

Ken
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From: "Jon Lowe" <jonlowe at aol.com>
To: <jpavlick at idseng.com>; <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Stupid accident

>I just put a small tiewrap on the both the right aileron receiver and servo

>leads.  Match them up, and I'm good.  I do this on every plane I have, so 
>it is consistent.
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> Yeah but that only happens on the first (and last) flight of a new 
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> times have you plugged each aileron into the wrong channel? In other words

> the left aileron gets plugged into the channel that's programmed for the 
> right aileron and vise versa. This doesn't reverse the direction but the 
> trim gets messed up. A trick that I learned from Joe Lachowski was to use 
> JR extensions on one servo and Rx channel and Futaba extensions on the 
> other. It's pretty hard to plug the wrong servo in this way even if you're

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> Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 10:35 AM
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> Just "wiggling" doesn't do it. After changing servos, I "wiggled" and 
> everything was fine .. until airborne. The new servos rotated the opposite

> direction and the ailerons were reversed!
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> [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Richard 
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> There was an old saw about pilots who had landed gear up this reminds me 
> of: "There are two types of pilots--those that have landed gear up and 
> those that are going to.." And then a few--well actually many years 
> ago--there was another article in FLYING by a guy who had landed gear up 
> for the second time... So he changed it to: "There are three types of 
> pilots--those that have, those that are going to--and those that are going

> to again..." I lost a perfect Tipo 750 way back and
>  a nice Temptation more recently by not plugging in the ailerons and was 
> distracted both times during assembly--and not wiggling the surfaces prior

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> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:53:11 -0400
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> My favorite "trick" is to neglect to attach the aileron servo connections 
> if I am disturbed while assembling the airplane. Consequently, John Fuqua 
> asks me to "wiggle the sticks" before carrying the airplane out; it's 
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> Wow! I saw these planes at Toledo and the Nats! I'm really sorry. They 
> were/are beautiful trophy winners in Toledo. I agree with Don, make a 
> routine and stick with it. A good budfdfy of mine recently had 9 stitches 
> from a mini electric (smaller than a 1/2 glow) when his throttle went to 
> high, he grabbed the wing and the plane20spun around and struck his hand.
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> From: "Atwood, Mark" <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com>
> To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 2:45:03 PM
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> Had a bad morning this morning because I got careless, and because I 
> altered my normal habits. I normally have my neck strap tucked into my 
> shirt starting the airplane, but this morning I simply clipped it onto the

> Tx while it was sitting on the ground. Started my primary Black Magic, had

> it sitting on idle, picked up my Tx and somehow turned the Tx funny such 
> that the strap bumped the throttle.enough to make the plane jump forward 
> startling me. In the split second that I moved to catch it, the strap 
> moved the throttle higher and before I could recover it, it slammed the 
> wing into the table next to me hard enough to snap the entire fuselage 
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> I was very fortunate that no one was injured and that no other equipment 
> was damaged, but I was crushed to watch (in slow motion of course) such 
> catastrophic damage occur to the plane. They're just=2
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> Anyhow, just wanted to throw out the warning. I've picked up my tx 1000 
> times without incident, but seldom do I have the strap attached. Just not 
> my routine. But one odd movement can make things go VERY wrong, VERY fast.

> Be careful, be methodical, and don't change your habits.
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> PS, probably repairable over the winter. Fuse is in 2 pieces with a lot of

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