Duo Discus glider crash.

Huge scale model of Duo Discus crashes in cliffs and into sea after bad launch. Amusing to watch if it's not your expensive glider!

[@GlidersByStefan]

What a disaster by the launch team… 🤦‍♂️ the two guys holding the wings both pushed up at the back of the wing as they released. There was never enough forward speed either. I reckon it was saveable, but the pilot lost sight and stalled it. More wind, better launch and it would have been ok. Real shame that, looked a lovely scale model.

[@pgnutter]

I guess one of them should have held it longer, run faster. The guy with the fuselage was holding it too far behind the centre of gravity causing it to pitch nose down. The theory behind it not flying correctly after it hit the ground was that the elevator connection got knocked away...

[@nuil501]

I think the launchers were just looking straight at the camera. Thank godness none injured, they could fall down the cliffs too

[@foxds6809]

Dümmer geht's nimmer....3 komplett "unfähige" Starthelfer...von Koordination haben die wohl noch nie was gehört...Schade um das schöne Modell !!!

[@torstenscholz6243]

Ja, diese Leute haben wohl echt viel zu viel Geld, wenn sie eine bestimmt ordentliche vier- oder gar fünfstellige Summe für so ein Modell ausgeben und es dann so leichtfertig zerstören.😢 Da haben sich bei den ersten Flugversuchen im 19. Jahrhundert viele weniger dämlich angestellt.

[@cloudstreets1396]

Gee. I would have thought three baby steps was enough to launch a 35lb glider.

[@javierllatche]

Prefiero no decir nada...que lastima. Larry, Moe y Curly. No tenían idea de lo que hacían

[@s9523pink]

That’s one of the worst I’ve seen, because it looked like a save at first, then the shocker👀👀👀

[@Rover101]

that's one dope-ass submarine!

[@stabes70]

A right Royal fork up by the launch team!

[@rcbif101]

Looks like low airspeed and the pilot panicked seeing the glider drop below his line of sight behind the cliff and stalled it. Didnt look like that hard of a hit to break a linkage, and it did fly straight for a bit.

[@theblobfish9614]

Bullshit

[@theblobfish9614]

You dont stall a plane for half a minute by accident, it for sure was the linkahe or servo

[@hughjohns9110]

Launch by committee, what can possibly go wrong?

[@samsly8464]

Too many chefs in the kitchen.........

[@SamSung-vh2wm]

That is so sad. I hope the plane was repairable

[@chrisbirtle2124]

The 3 stooges are still alive!

[@supercross81]

he person who holds the glider by the empennage throws his gesture up and suddenly, it plunges the glider down and the result that we know!

[@Ra_dio_Iberico_ea4ggc]

No hay que pasarse con la maqueta, no ponerla instrumentos y después hacerla despegar por rebote contra el duro suelo.

[@grengeg7373]

The sky is that way!

[@torstenscholz6243]

The Lemming plane 😂

[@james66872]

It was the guy in the middle who is at fault

[@bittersoulsleeping]

The idiot pumps the back up so the glider is getting down in the front,... OMG I would have killed him :-)

[@james66872]

bittersoulsleeping To late. I already did! Lol

[@theblobfish9614]

@@bittersoulsleeping its the pilots responsibility to get people whom he can trust to throw the plane. If anything, he didnt brief them right

[@Rover101]

Damn.. one hell of a way to go shark fishing! 😆 #Idiots

[@alwaddle7390]

So sad.

[@RudyNortz]

Long transmitter antennas - what frequency are they using? Not 72 MHz?

[@SamSung-vh2wm]

Maybe 35 mhz?

[@markfox6596]

The ground crew was pathic.. Couple of minutes of my life wasted.

[@minidora1]

Reversed elevator?

[@theblobfish9614]

I dont think so, he would have been able to save it. I think a servo broke or blocked upon impact

[@makethman007]

nice flying site where is it? sad about the plane , did they collect the bits?

[@pgnutter]

+henry dumber Yes it looks gorgeous. I have forgotten where it was, I will ask the lady who took the pictures. Someone climbed down to get the bits on the side but the wings floated away :-(

[@pgnutter]

+henry dumber Apparently it was a "Bring and Buy" Meeting and someone called Bob Pertington was involved. It was over 15 years ago before strong servos and linkages, on the Southern tip of the LLyn Peninsula, South of Abersoch, North Wales.

[@elcotorro]

Falta el VIENTO

[@andysolution62]

monche lerns oanfo et an Segla wirft ma ALLOAN cazzo

[@MrBeje]

use tripod

[@Rover101]

lol 😆

[@tomseim]

Get yourself a tripod and a steadycam setup, then learn how to focus your camera.

[@pgnutter]

Tom Seim Yes, pretty jerky isn't, and she got too close to the take off path! My friend said ok to put it on YT; at least she got something :-)