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Rae's mosquito on it's third flight
Aug 17^th, 2013 at 4:34pm

We had two flights on the mosquito Saturday. Early into the second flight there was a horrible screech from the right engine and the plane lurched hard to the right, lost speed and almost immediately stalled to the right.

On the video you can clearly hear the power still up, but as soon as I started a turn to the left back to the field, it dropped the right wing and went in. You can hear the power being pulled back as it headed for the ground.

damage is quite severe, but rae said he might consider rebuilding it next winter.

video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0KzXltKxbo&feature=youtu.be

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FLC astroflyer Private Offline MULLIGAN driver Posts: 6524 Milford, N.S.	Re: Rae's mosquito on it's third flight Reply #1 - Aug 17^th, 2013 at 4:47pm an earlier photo just after the first flight on saturday (the mossie's second flight overall)
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FLC astroflyer Private Offline MULLIGAN driver Posts: 6524 Milford, N.S.	Re: Rae's mosquito on it's third flight Reply #2 - Aug 17^th, 2013 at 4:48pm just prior to the second flight
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Ben Lann Full Member Offline ASRCM Forum User Posts: 181 New Glasgow, NS	Re: Rae's mosquito on it's third flight Reply #3 - Aug 17^th, 2013 at 8:51pm Wonder if it threw a magnet. What a shame... I had my corsair up today three times... Unfortunately on a touch and go I nosed it over caught the prop and threw another magnet in the motor
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Steve Mosher Senior Member Offline Posts: 294	Re: Rae's mosquito on it's third flight Reply #4 - Aug 17^th, 2013 at 9:05pm Hate to see that, guys. Awesome looking plane and a ton of work put into it. Hopefully, it will be repairable.
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RevX YaBB Newbies Offline Member of Northumberland R/C Modelers Posts: 40 New Glasgow	Re: Rae's mosquito on it's third flight Reply #5 - Aug 18^th, 2013 at 10:51am Sorry to hear about mosquito loss . I feel for you it was a nice plane. Sounds like armature rubbed magnets. Loss mags or bearing sezie up. Probly not timing as there was no previous issues on first flight. Damn shame. Gravity gods been hard on a lot of us this year.
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Glen Senior Member Offline Posts: 489 Sackville N.S.	Re: Rae's mosquito on it's third flight Reply #6 - Aug 18^th, 2013 at 6:48pm Sorry to hear it, hope you rebuild it Rae.
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SandyM God Member Offline Posts: 1853 Dartmouth	Re: Rae's mosquito on it's third flight Reply #7 - Aug 18^th, 2013 at 8:00pm Well that just sucks Rae...hope you get it rebuilt
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yorcram Full Member Offline MAAC# 46487 Posts: 210 Sackville N.S.	Re: Rae's mosquito on it's third flight Reply #8 - Aug 19^th, 2013 at 10:36am That is lousey, hope it is re-buidable. mr
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Reply #9 - Aug 19^th, 2013 at 3:13pm

Looks like we figured out the cause of the crash. Rae pulled the motors and brought them to my place this morning. He indicated one of the three wires to the right motor was unplugged.

On inspection of that connection, we could see serious burning on the connector, so it must have worked loose in it's socket causing arching. From the burning on the very end of the male pin, looks like it must have been almost disconnected when the arcing took place.

The crash must have pulled it free, but the arcing had to occur during the flight. explains why the sound we heard sounding like motor timing and why the right motor slowed causing the yaw.

I think it slowed twice actually, first during the big yaw and the second time when the plane actually stalled to the right. It seemed to fly out of the first yaw for a second or two just fine and then the stall to the right.

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Ben Lann Full Member Offline ASRCM Forum User Posts: 181 New Glasgow, NS	Re: Rae's mosquito on it's third flight Reply #10 - Aug 20^th, 2013 at 9:20am Terrible luck. I actually had that happen once on a maiden. Luckily I didn't do much damage. Heat shrinked the connections after that.
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Reply #11 - Aug 21^st, 2013 at 8:09pm

I have watched the key parts of the video several times. I am struck by how quickly the nose dropped.

Is there any idea of the wing loading? What was the approximate weight of the plane?

The plane did not seem to have any tendency to glide. It seems to have just fallen. Maybe I am not seeing it clearly due to the distance. I am just taken aback by the almost vertical descent.

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