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Safety - RC Helis are not toys > Catching a Trex600E while it is flying

reckless loony
Senior Heliman
Location: MIA

This seen from another forum. More stupid than those idiots that flew a Raptor 90 nitro in the house.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tftFmiE_7qs

An obvious attempt at getting listed on the Darwin Awards

http://www.darwinawards.com

The resulting injury

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYRQ...feature=related

11-27-2007 11:22 PM

eggmcmuffinplz
Key Veteran
Location: Southern California

That guy is crazy, I wont even think of trying to catch my 450 while it is flying!!!!

Super Auto Master Scott
Rexy 450 and 500-DX7

11-27-2007 11:43 PM

phover
Senior Heliman
Location: Joliette, QC, Canada

The question is... WHY??

Totally stupid!

Martin
www.photo-vertige.com

11-28-2007 12:51 AM

HOMEPAGE

spog
Senior Heliman
Location: Ontario, Canada

Yeah, that was crazy. I'm surprised at how minor the injury was.

11-28-2007 01:46 AM

Rappy 60
Senior Heliman
Location: Sandefjord, Norway

looks like it wasn't on purpose, looks like he lost it towards the end and his reflexes were to reach out and grab it. Totally stupid flying that close, especially when learning.

Dale

Load "*",8,1

11-28-2007 02:01 AM

HOMEPAGE

reckless loony
Senior Heliman
Location: MIA

Quote
The question is... WHY??

Possible reason.

There is a dude in the USA that is offering $10,000USD for Jackass movie type video clips. Basically video clips of people having darts thrown at them, setting themselves on fire, jumping of buildings, etc

Youtube is now becoming more of a place where idiots show off their stupidity to the world for personal fame and an attempt at $10,000.

11-28-2007 02:17 AM

playfair
Key Veteran
Location: Rochester, NY

So that guy said he did that on purpose? BS!
That would only be a vain attempt to cover up looking like an amature.

Mistakes happen, and he was pretty lucky, considering.
The first error (and give-away) was walking out to follow the heli when it started drifting away, the second was obviously not moving out of the way when it started coming back.

The sky is our canvas

11-28-2007 02:17 AM

HOMEPAGE

Sceaduflyer
Senior Heliman
Location: Standish, ME

Anyone get the video before it was removed?

It wasn't me, it was my thumbs!

11-29-2007 04:42 AM

LouInSD
Veteran
Location: San Diego CA USA

That looked like he meant to do that. No mistake, just being stupid for a camera...

11-29-2007 05:11 AM

helibill
Senior Heliman
Location: London, Ontario, Canada

Video is gone. A video like that deserves to be seen! I hope someone else has it.

11-29-2007 03:07 PM

reckless loony
Senior Heliman
Location: MIA

The video is now at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ-GsJR-97Q&feature=user

Notice how he increases hovering height in order to be under it so as to reach up to grasp it.

The aftermath

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRO416s767E

See them before they disappear again.

11-30-2007 12:25 AM

TachyonDriver
Senior Heliman
Location: Chipping, Lancs, UK

What a bruise!
I bet that stung in the morning!

What a pillock. I mean he seemed to have proper control over the heli up until he got hold of it

Tach.

Little Spinning Bundle of Joy®

11-30-2007 01:18 AM

lnverted
New Heliman
Location: Markham, Ontario - Canada

Wow.....i would probably crap my pants if that happened to me

Ben

Uh..... I swear the ground wasn't there before.....

11-30-2007 01:18 AM

LouInSD
Veteran
Location: San Diego CA USA

That was totally intentional...

11-30-2007 01:44 AM

coops2
Senior Heliman
Location: New Zealand

what an idiot!!!!

I downloaded it want to know how? http://keepvid.com/ paste it into here then convert it to a usable format

11-30-2007 05:29 AM

MickeyMoo
Senior Heliman
Location: central Ohio

I wonder if this guy ever heard of the term gyroscopic precession (GP)? Sometimes it's fun to analyze these videos and try to figure what this guy was thinking... or maybe not thinking

Sometimes I'm not thinking, just not at this level

Anyways, I believe he thought he could grab the boom and the nose of the heli would just drop to the floor while keeping the rotor on the far side of the fuselage and out of harms way (main shaft perpendicular to his chest). The only problem was that when he grabbed teh boom he must have applied some force to pitch the nose down. Due to GP the heli rolled to the right and put him in line with the spinning rotor

resulting in a Darwin Award nomination

Point is, be smart and when you grab the boom of your flying heli always take GP into account*

* If you didn't catch the sarcasm in the last line, you may want to list you heli stuff on Ebay ASAP.

Personally I like to keep 20+ feet from my flying heli and use throttle hold when approaching the running heli on the ground.

12-01-2007 05:31 PM

xxl
Senior Heliman
Location: The planet Earth

what?

What the heck was he thinking is this guy nuts?

12-02-2007 05:42 AM

lordraptor1
Heliman
Location: armore oklahoma, usa all the way

i think he has 2 brain cells one is lost and the other is out looking for it

12-03-2007 01:22 AM

dpcarey
Senior Heliman
Location: Ontario, Canada

Stupid, foolish...whatever. I say he is lucky, darn lucky.

12-03-2007 07:55 PM

poindej
Heliman
Location: austin, tx