The turbine-powered airplanes simply cut huge holes in the sky, which made for impressive patterns and routines.
down near the end of the runway; and, it did so with quite a bit of kinetic energy remaining in the airplane. That resulted in the airplane taxing briskly off the end of the runway and into the dry grass for about 100 yards. The ECU didn’t know the Havoc had run off the runway and into the grass; and, it didn’t much care. What it did
know is that it wanted to try to restart the turbine to save the model from an otherwise crash if the airplane had still been in flight. That meant it was pumping fuel into the turbine, which was then running into the HOT exhaust pipe. Sadly, even though Andrew and company were running their butts
off to get to the model as quickly as possible, they did not reach it before the fuel started to burn! The result was, we all watched as lots of dollars in airplane and hardware went up in smoke— black, sinister smoke. As you can see from the photos in this article, the airplane was a total loss because there was pretty much
Here Andrew has just realized that his model’s turbine engine had flamed out, so he is making a very short final approach.
Sadly, Andrew’s Leonardo caught fire after landing, which resulted in the complete loss of his aircraft! rcflyernews.tumblr.com
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