PILOT SPIN
Pilot Zone => Accident Review/Never Again (I hope..) => Topic started by: Rush on January 30, 2024, 06:28:23 PM
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It was just a little plastic 6 1/2 inch RC plane prop but it tore his hand up pretty good. That little thing spinning at
1800 25,000 rpm can do some damage! We went to the doctor who dressed it up and asked when he last had a tetanus shot. Despite profuse bleeding and his hand looking all chewed up, the doc said it’s all superficial and doesn’t need stitches.
You can’t be too careful with airplanes, even those little bitty radio controlled ones.
Edit: Could have sworn he said 1800 rpm. Today he said no, 25,000 rpm. Huh? How did I mishear that?
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Sorry to read of it happening. Sounds like he's been dealt a bad hand. Expect premiums on your RC airplane insurance to go up or even be denied for the next three years. He might be forced to fly naked.
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We have a Purple Board Last member that did that to his foot with an RC model.
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We have a Purple Board Last member that did that to his foot with an RC model.
Wonder if he was barefoot? Or did it cut though a shoe?
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Wonder if he was barefoot? Or did it cut though a shoe?
I believe he has sandals on.
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I believe he has sandals on.
Who would have thought steel toe boots would be a good thing to wear at the RC field? And chain mail gloves? Maybe a face shield? ;D
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Glad it’s not stitch worthy, but best wishes for healing! New procedure to shout “Clear!” before starting the little plane!
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Glad it’s not stitch worthy, but best wishes for healing! New procedure to shout “Clear!” before starting the little plane!
Ha ha, yep! It's already healing up pretty well. It went from looking like a big bloody mess to now just a series of slices. His hand looks like a manatee or shark with boat propeller scars. And ever widening, he said, "see, the plane was accelerating". The issue is that this RC doesn't have gear, so he has to hand launch it, and he failed to get his hand out of the way.
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Who would have thought steel toe boots would be a good thing to wear at the RC field? And chain mail gloves? Maybe a face shield? ;D
RC Airplane Models meet the Society for Creative Anachronism.
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I had a nice model aircraft once. Spent a long time tuning the engine and learning how to get my finger out of the way of the prop. Practiced with the controls to make sure that every control surface did what it was expected to do with the control input. Then finally the day came. Took off, climbed, stalled, spun, crashed. Just that fast. Gave the debris to a neighbor so he could play with the parts.
For Christmas my wife gave me a tiny drone. I can ONLY fly it in the basement where there's no danger of crashing into something important. I've mastered straight up and straight down. Someday I'll try some forward motion.
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I had a nice model aircraft once. Spent a long time tuning the engine and learning how to get my finger out of the way of the prop. Practiced with the controls to make sure that every control surface did what it was expected to do with the control input. Then finally the day came. Took off, climbed, stalled, spun, crashed. Just that fast. Gave the debris to a neighbor so he could play with the parts.
For Christmas my wife gave me a tiny drone. I can ONLY fly it in the basement where there's no danger of crashing into something important. I've mastered straight up and straight down. Someday I'll try some forward motion.
My husband crashed one of his new RCs on one of the first flights. He’s really into them and has been since he was a little kid so he’s pretty good. He just finished constructing a “racing” RC. His RC buddies have scheduled a race and he tweaked his to have speed and weight advantages and jokingly told them he was testing it in a wind tunnel. I don’t know when the race is scheduled for, some weeks out I think.
He’s got those things hanging all over his shop and the garage.