Freewing Yak 130 Crash, and Rebirth

Two weeks ago, I had my fairly new Yak 130 brown out, lose power and all flight surface controls, and it spiraled into the ground. Yuck. I ordered an ARF-Plus version of the same plane. I am not sure what caused the brown out, but I replaced both the receiver and the ESC. The stock ESC is rated for 60 amps. I replaced it with an 80 amp ESC that I had in my parts inventory. This video shows the 2 flights leading up to and including the crash, and then the next two flights after I remaidened it and trimmed it out two weeks later. I painted the nose cone orange to match the colors on the fuselage, and I added orange to the bottom of the wings for better visibility.
I might hold off on doing more summersalt flips in the future. Maybe that heated up the ESC. Not sure what really happened.

[@FarmerFpv]

Sorry about the crash. I always run a separate UBEC on all my EDFs. I use the Castle Creations BEC10 or Hobbywing Air V2 UBEC 15. I don't trust the ESC BECs that come in the PNP kits. I have had a few failures. Never had an issue ever since using a separate UBEC. It's worth the extra 20 dollars for peace of mind. The Freewing Yak 130 is a great flying EDF. It flies like it's on rails. Glad you got her fixed up. I love mone.

[@Kbeezzy23]

That was a stall. Too much elevator. It happens. It looks like a brown up because u cant control it afterwards.

[@stevecoltrin7230]

I thought about the possibility of a stall, but I was flying at about 75% throttle and making a long sweeping turn. After the turn I was going to drop my gear for a gear check. When I checked the flight log on my transmitter it showed a complete communication failure between transmitter and receiver. Then two other pilots had their planes do the exact same thing in the same area after my plane went down. I think it stalled because lost communication, which stopped power. We have one of the city's water processing facilities next to where we fly and I went over to talk with them. They kind of hemmed and hawed around after we asked them if they were testing or had installed new radio equipment. They didn't want to take the blame for our planes. So maybe, maybe not. But 3 planes with different pilots and transmitters losing power and spiraling down in the same place within an hour is pretty weird.

[@williewideback]

Be nice to see Freewing bring back the 90mm version of this Yak 130

[@tonyyimbo]

This plane is awesome! I have the fms version and I’ve crashed it lots and had similar damage . The body is really tough and the front end is the area that breaks the most . I’ve ripped both wings off and still just fine . I’m painting mine at the moment and was awesome to watch your footage . That looked like a stall to me I’ve had similar situations in fpv and it feels like everything is off

[@speedtwin5t]

I have 3 Yak 130s. Love that plane !