Spectacular Control line crash!!

Was practicing the beginner pattern and on the first outside loop not sure what happened, I guess I just "dumb thumbed" it right into the ground!! Plane is destroyed....oh well, SV-11 on the way.

[bossbluff]

Priceless. Her response has made this one of my all-time favorites!! Thank you for sharing this video! We've all been there!

[willg]

Just came across this video. We used to fly these back in the 60s, when I was a kid. Lots of fun, we flew them on the asphalt road in our cul-de-sac. Crashed many of them on the hard surface. We also had race cars that we ran down our street, attached to a long string. Do you remember those? Thanks for bringing back the memories. Great video!😊

[JB]

Part of the hobby we all been there and will be there again.

[KenMac-uivb]

Wow, that was a lawn dart. A very pretty, lawn dart. Sorry brother... Love the attitude tho It's all a journey. Good stuff.

[zvent]

Wow man, I feel your pain! I did, seriously, the EXACT same thing to my Goldberg Shoestring a week ago! I now have a Top Flite Flite Streak that I am practicing with.

[danmunro]

Ouch. I had a similar incident with my Peacemaker a couple of months back. Now rebuilt and flying better than before.

[deanswars]

Hey, I'm a 15 year-old teen, and I don't like mouthing off!!!
But you are all to right, a lot of teens like me do like to mouth off on YT!
-Nice crash by the way, did almost the same thing with one of mine...

[BikeMeAustin]

Hey, yeah you are right; ton's of em here on YT, it's so bad that half the time I can't tell if someone is being serious or mouthing off. Well it sounds like you've got a pretty good head on your shoulders, thank you for the comment!

Oh, yeah, if there's one thing I'm good at doing it is crashing! ;)

[BikeMeAustin]

Yeah after too many in one direction it begins to get a little tougher. The line is actually steel wire though so it's pretty slick.

[Aeromaniacs]

Based on your wingover, you entered the outside on the wrong side of the wind. Also learn to enter you outside inverted.

[BikeMeAustin]

Man, I seem to have more than my fair share, oh well, it's still a ton of fun! Thanks for the comment!

[BikeMeAustin]

Yeah, it sure sucks doesn't it!?! Did you see the other one where the line let go? Damn man, first flight with the plane and the crimp let go on the handle cable and down she went. That got me a little frustrated and I put them away for a while but am getting the urge to get back in the air.

[Raycefan]

I’ve crashed way worse. I’ve crashed so hard that the engine was all that was salvaged

[musicalmike]

I assume that even if you don't make any mistakes, there is a limit to how much you can do it though?

[phil]

SL Mitch Mitchell from Tasmania has done this many times.

[Roboprogs]

Flying planes means fixing planes. So it goes.

[dirtbikeracer]

I did the same thing learning outside loops to, the only hing different was my plane basicly exploded on impact.

[BikeMeAustin]

Hi Mike, well the lines do twist but if you do the same amount of loops in the opposite direction it untwists the lines. But, control lines still fly fine with some twists in the line, well until you do what I did in this video anyway!! lol.

[BikeMeAustin]

Not sure I see the point of the USA comment. Yes, we live in the USA and are damn proud of it.

[BikeMeAustin]

@dieselmac You have to admit that I did a fantastic job at lawn darting this one! That sound is well, you put it best.