Introducing The “How Did That Happen?” Challenge 2020

[Liam B]

Hey!

The rules are simple! Post a photo with a brief description of what happened to your flying machine, and win a free prize! Plane stuff, quad stuff, whatever you choose from the stuff I’ve got lying around.

I’ll pick the winner of the one I think is most strange or extraordinary sometime in the next few weeks. Good luck breaking things

I’ll get you started!

What happened?! I tapped a tree. Guess somebody needs to use a little more material on these motor bases haha.

 

[DinosEatPeople1]

This was a simple scout- my first plane. I crashed it a few times and this was my solution to the nose being broken. I also wanted to make a sea angel like plane and this was my solution. I tried to fly like this but it nosed straight down into the ground. Fun experiment to learn from. I want to revisit though later

 

[OliverW]

I was going to have a standard take off...

 

[whackflyer]

I was going to have a standard take off... View attachment 182770

Wut? How does that even happen!? Do you have an explanation for the other pic? If it's associated with the crash I guess I can't see how

 

[Grifflyer]

Wut? How does that even happen!? Do you have an explanation for the other pic? If it's associated with the crash I guess I can't see how

Just look at who the pilot was

 

[LitterBug]

Dang.... Now I wish I had better at taking pictures @ the field before removing the debris. LOL

Here's one where I buried a quad in an inverted punch down....

 

[OliverW]

Wut? How does that even happen!? Do you have an explanation for the other pic? If it's associated with the crash I guess I can't see how

Yea that was of math homework that I did not mean to attach lol. This plane has been slammed into the ground by other pilots before so its no surprise to me that it came off

 

[The Hangar]

Go to 2 minutes and 10 seconds in - my prop saver fails and my prop flies off forcing me to do a dead stick. Other than the landing gear ripping the fuse where there were attached, the plane was OK.

 

[Liam B]

Good entries so far...

 

[Tench745]

Flew through a tree on the maiden. All the pieces came out the other side, just not at the same time.

 

[LitterBug]

This one was wrecked a few times. Here are pics from THREE separate incidents... Half of it still lives on as a merge with another kit that had been equally abused.

When your FPV feed suddenly goes blank and your motor makes a really funny rapid acceleration, you may have lost your wings and control surfaces.

AKA Pulling too many G's Too many times. LOL

The wing mount has been re glued with excess amounts of glue.
Cheers!
LitterBug

 

[LitterBug]

Got Maiden? (without double checking control directions?

 

[Timmy]

without double checking control directions?

Been there

 

[LitterBug]

Instant replay via ground station FPV DVR:

When you see that branch and think , not realizing that you already hit the ghost branch in front of it

Then your Right Front motor is no longer attached and is still attached to part of the frame....

 

[LitterBug]

When you are ripping a 6S pack on a F450, dip behind a line of trees killing your FPV feed, because you didn't use a good antenna, burying the Right front arm in the dirt, burning up the Motor, ESC, and Arm. Thank goodness I had a GPS on it and telemetry, because I would have never found it otherwise.

PS: I FLY crash EVERYTHING!

 

[The Hangar]

Instant replay via ground station FPV DVR:

When you see that branch and think , not realizing that you already hit the ghost branch in front of it

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Then your Right Front motor is no longer attached and is still attached to part of the frame....
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I almost did that with my spark over the ocean right after I bought it...

 

[speedbirdted]

My wing has sprouted a tree

 

[OliverW]

My wing has sprouted a tree

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NICE

 

[Tech3811]

My wing has sprouted a tree

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If you keep up at this rate, you will have a flying tree!

 

[Timmy]

If you keep up at this rate, you will have a flying tree!

Every man's wish!