September 13, 2004
Told You They Better be Careful!

Jeff gets a no-prize smashed to bits for bringing us news that the famous giant B-52 scale model has recently augered in. The video is all weird and funky for me, but from what I could see it appears to have fallen victim to the exact same phenomena that destroyed a for-real B-52 back in the early 90s. This is all from memory, so YMMV, but anyway: the B-52's design uses spoilers, not ailerons, to generate bank. Unfortunately, once the wing goes past a certain degree of bank, the spoilers become ineffective. At that point, you either go all the way around and hope the wings don't fall off, or you auger. Since B-52s aren't supposed to be operated at high bank angles, it's almost never a problem.

Well, unless you get a gung-ho pilot (either real or remote) who gets a little careless. The real accident killed six people, I think. I imagine the pilot of the model simply wishes he was dead.

Posted by scott at September 13, 2004 12:16 PM

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Guess your canidate is rubbing off on you.

WTF is "brining"??

:-)

Posted by: Jeff on September 13, 2004 12:50 PM

Oh my! That makes you sick to watch even if it is "just a model" BTW I love my broadband internet connnect. I can't believe you kept telling me not to get it. lol

Posted by: Pat on September 13, 2004 02:54 PM

bummer for the model builders - it was a beautiful model...

and the video looks just fine for me

Posted by: Ron on September 13, 2004 08:47 PM
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