Rated 9.02 based on 5 reviews.

Submitted By: mboland on 2008-05-18
About the video: VQ P-61 Black Widow maiden flight. One of the two battery packs had melted down during charging the night before. In doing so it had melted the zip ties holding both batteries to the battery tray. When put into a stall turn the good battery fell back and pulled its connection. The result you see here. This was a brilliant flyer right from take off. I was immediately comfortable enough to do loops and rolls. The stall turn was very easy (to enter that is). Everything was a rightoff. One motor had a broken crankshaft, carby ripped off the back plate and a hole in the crankcase. Both motors had the exhausts ripped out of the heads. One of the Dubro engine mounts was in 5 pieces. The Weatronics unit was demolished by the batteries which acted like missiles as they ripped through the interior of the fuse. Not even a wingtip was found, both exploded into pieces.

The only consolation was that I got it on video to cry over whenever I choose :-(

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