Twin ic throttle mixing

[EvilC57]

2 hours ago, Martin Harris - Moderator said:

Full of overconfidence, I taxied crosswind to turn into a very stiff wind. I opened the throttles expecting the model to leap off the ground and get clear of the expected turbulence but it rolled to knife edge and arced into a none too graceful cartwheel, destroying every major component part in the process. 
 

The bigger they are, the harder they fall unfortunately.
 

As I spent several months in the planning, and around 9 months building my twin from scratch, I was very careful to do a lot of testing, confidence building and familiarisation with the twin throttle setup on the ground before I risked the model getting airborne. Indeed (much to the amusement of a number of club mates) the model visited the field some five or six times before ground testing was complete and it was thoroughly debugged, until all the conditions (including weather) were right and I finally ran out of excuses not to fly it. None of the ‘instant gratification’ you get with a foamie, but the development & testing was half the fun.

 

As so much work went into it, I have plenty of lesser weekly ‘hack’ models I can fly in windier, less than ideal days, while I can preserve the twin for the best flying conditions.

[Martin Harris - Moderator]

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