Comment by Arachnida on September 24, 2012 at 3:40am

Nice, girls from the Limburg (NE) side of my country. They get really technical, amazing! They probably didn't take it because they understand what a GPS tracer can do, or maybe they are just nice girls.

Comment by Vincent Mees on September 24, 2012 at 4:04am

schitterend ;-)

Comment by Kabir on September 24, 2012 at 4:18am

Cool man, really got to hand it to the girls though for not taking it with them?

Developer Comment by R_Lefebvre on September 24, 2012 at 5:52am

Huh, interesting.  So the Twinstar can't fly on 1 engine?  Well, there goes that plan that I had.  I figured it would make a better airplane because it could still fly if you lost one motor.

So why did the propeller break?

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on September 24, 2012 at 6:23am

My twinstar with AXI 20-22Ls can fly single engine. I doubt if it would fly particularly well with a load though.

Comment by u4eake on September 24, 2012 at 6:42am

Yes, the twinstar can fly on 1 motor...  if you realise that you only have 1 motor, don't give too much throttle and apply the right amout of aileron and rudder to countersteer.

I have flown on 1 motor with it before.  But not in 4 beaufort wind and not fpv.  Furthermore it has been years since I lost a prop on the twinstar and I didn't hear the "klak" of the prop comming off.  So I thought something else was wrong.

I did notice that my amp draw was much lower then what I was used to for a certain throttle setting, but still I didn't make the  link to a lost prop.  If I had realised a prop had come off, I probably could have gotten it home.

Comment by u4eake on September 24, 2012 at 6:45am

Propellor didn't break I think, it just unscrewed, probably by the long descend with high headwind.  I guess that made the prop drive the motor as a generator, slowly unscrewing it.  Prop and spinner nut were missing.  I haven't noticed any other damage so far.

Comment by Neil Flournoy on September 24, 2012 at 7:26am

the "old bat" part was rather un-called for. It should have been thanks for not killing it with her shovel.

Comment by John Moore on September 24, 2012 at 7:43am

Awesome video. Youre lucky it wasnt found by boys.

Comment by Ace on September 24, 2012 at 7:58am

Ah de mannen van Diest hebben ook APM :-)

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