Mike484
AR-1 🇺🇸
- Joined
- Sep 1, 2008
- Messages
- 4,522
- Location
- Houston, Texas
- Aircraft
- RAF 2000 w/Horizontal stabilizer, KB3 w/tall tail
- Total Flight Time
- 40+
The scary thing is that some new guy that doesn't know any better is going to believe what he is being told and make a bad decision based on inaccurate information and be hurt in the deal.
I called this seller and asked him some questions about it, and it was obvious he didn't know hardly anything about it, but he thinks he knows enough and he really doesn't care if he is passing along bad information, and it scares me to death. He told me if he doesn't sell it in the next month that he will take it out and fly it himself. He believes you don't need a pilots license if you are flying it from private property and he doesn't think he needs instruction to fly it. This is just the kind of scenario that leads to someone crashing and possibly killing them self. So very sad that he really doesn't even want to know more about the truth.
The scary thing is that some new guy that doesn't know any better is going to believe what he is being told and make a bad decision based on inaccurate information and be hurt in the deal.
I called this seller and asked him some questions about it, and it was obvious he didn't know hardly anything about it, but he thinks he knows enough and he really doesn't care if he is passing along bad information, and it scares me to death. He told me if he doesn't sell it in the next month that he will take it out and fly it himself. He believes you don't need a pilots license if you are flying it from private property and he doesn't think he needs instruction to fly it. This is just the kind of scenario that leads to someone crashing and possibly killing them self. So very sad that he really doesn't even want to know more about the truth.
An old vancraft with a mac. Easy to fly , no licence needed. Sounds like an ntsb report in the making. Again Doug thanks for the effort.
RWE
200 MPH.................. just before impact.
Nearest I can tell the structure (or tail) is not VanCraft...
Jason, what are you seeing which leads you to say this? This is the Vancraft Rotor Lightning, and that's the stock tail and welded steel structure.
The design continued briefly as a Sport Copter model in the late 1980s, when it was replaced by the Sport Copter Lightning, which uses a triangulated, bolted aluminum frame and no fairing. The mold for the fairing was modified to eliminate the "flag" along the top on each side, where the Vancraft logo is on this one, and used on the Sport Copter Vortex.