Growing up in Hawaii my dad was into RC in the 60's , 70's and 80's and I was always surfing , now I turned into my dad and I fly, lol. He would build beautiful planes and bring them home in pieces on occasion. Now with foamies that are easy to build and are great park fliers , the hobby is much more affordable for newbs like myself. Being in the visitor industry in Hawaii I have to say that Aussies have the coolest attitude in general as a people and it shows in the way they are dealing with these crashes of there beautiful planes. Simply amazing, thanks for sharing Brah! Skippa
I agree! I've seen some brand new foam planes that were toasted on their first flights. I've toasted a couple of nitro trainers myself. You feel like crap, and sometimes stupid because it happened. I lost one because my transmitter had a short from the battery. I didn't know what happened until I looked at the wires weeks later.
I had an Ultimate biplane go in like that at about 70mph in knife edge. Saved nothing but the tail to mount on the wall. It hurts. In all the years of seeing R/C crashes, I have never seen a cylinder head bounce down the runway like that. Damn good filming Pete! J
ouch on the ultimate m8, I wouldn't have noticed the cylinder head if I hadn't actually heard it pinning of the tarmac ! steve burnt his fingers when he picked it up - still hot ! john gave me permission to post this crash bless him,
That opening crash ! The clatter of the dslr shutter going like the era machine gun that brought these wonderful looking aircraft down ... thought evoking .
This brought back memories of an R/C Ju-87 I spent two years scratch building, only to lose it on the first flight because another guy ignored the flight rules and "tested" his radio gear while I was flying. His gear was on the same channel as mine...
It's weight saving, otherwise, they'd need really big engines. You have to pick and chose. Personally, i liked the ones a South Korean (only jets, the name of the channel escapes me) made here on TH-cam. Compressed air burst and instant lock design. The landing gear itself was beefy, but the compressed air part was not. Over all, very light. There's basically one control. On. And that's it. Downside, you need to charge it every time...forget.. and well, that's that. ALSO, it's not the expansion design that sucks (since most are scale copies) rather the deployment system. From what i've seen, from blogs and the such, people...just complicate things unnecessarily, for whatever reason.
I'm sorry for your loss.To me the video is positive it shows the skill needed, to build , pilot, and come back again and to do it again . I can feel every move ment from your X/T and the gut wrenching feeling your baby's Gone. I can speak this because I know this. I too fly R/C ,for forty years. Thank You for the well done video, a lot of us have walked this road. Sincerely Lance Anderson ( Maine)
Flew r/c for 25+yrs and got out of it, after watching this video i still dont miss the hobby, even when everything seems right & going well it all can come crashing down (literally) at any moment
Pete,at least some can have a laugh. I love the mouth to mouth performed on that "pilot". I also appreciate the fact that you have the ability and presence of mind to not target fixate and catch the sometimes tragic end to someones prized machine. Most appear as they will fly again, but I remember when you first aired the opening clip and were most considerate enough to get the owners permission to do so. It stated that fact just before you showed it. These clips show we all belong to a large group of "duct tape" owners. I could overhear one person conversing with the owner of that Sea Fury "you could just wrap a little tape around here" or something to that effect. It reminded me of a bush pilot who was hunting in Alaska, left his campsite, and when he came back, discovered that he had lert something in the plane that a bear really wanted. The bear tore the fusalge to heck. The pilot radioed his friend to bring duct tape and plastic sheeting. He rebuilt his plane and flew out of there. Happy Holidays, keep the rubber side down and God Bless, Paul from Florida.
thanks paul, yes the feelings of pilots do vary indeed, one pilot destroyed a model four years ago and still wont let me show the footage because of the bad memories it will awaken !
These pilots must be in the scale heavy weights. Heaviest plane I've ever had was a 2 meter F3A- barley 7 quarter lbs. If I could only get my hands on a proper scale Hawker tempest kit. Great footage. Painful to see in the moment but I learn great deal every time!
This is a general question to everyone who would like to answer me. In my city we use a paved runway only. I found many landings In this video use grass as runways which I think is more likely to damage the landing gears? The wheels usual get stoked in some holes and the surface is not so even. Why to they still prefer to use grad even if they have the option little farther of a paved runway?
simple - tarmac destroys models when they come into contact with it, if a £20,000 jet tips a wing onto tarmac when landing across the wind then that wing will be torn open in seconds (same for any model) and the wing will have to be repaired or replaced (very expensive) grass does no damage at all - simple
Ive flown a lot of full scale and RC. One thing that RC'ers lack is training in holding a steady and stable approach, whether landing with power or dead stick. A good approach almost always insures a good landing.
Pilot down at 5:03 and no barn to be seen. Bad thing about those tail draggers is that you have to give them a lot of up elevator to keep them from nosing over. Must have been one hell of an impact at 10:46 to break the cylinder off of the block. That poor plane disintegrated on impact. I'm glad no one gets hurt by debris flying all over the place.
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It is not pleasant to watch, but it is exciting and instructive. I have a feeling (maybe wrong) some builders are neglecting strength due to less a weight of models , but they paid the price.
Josip Vrandecic Yeah I think your right man! Give up a little performance for landing gear beef up in particular! Some of these mishaps with the nose gear gettin wiped off and just collapsing in general seem like things are a little to weak!
Must be very heartbreaking for the builders/pilots, but i guess its part of the hobby! It takes some serious determination to rebuild and fly again. And nobody said it was cheap, either! Here I am disappointed that I ordered a few parts that i didn't need for my RCs and its past the return date! lol
I think at the 10:47 Mark the pilot lost his plane! I don't feel so bad, but you need a video of someone hitting the windsock on the field, that would bring back memories
B25 crashed because the pilot turned into the dead engine. Big no no. If your left engine dies, do right turns only. If your right engine dies, left turns only. Where possible of course.
Some crashes were ensamble failures and others were pilots' technical failure, yeah, they didn't landed their planes by decreasing speed, lifting the plane's nose 7°, or in case of a windy day apply the Xwing or put in practice some avionic principles.
Heck, the size of these things - look at the first, if it was much bigger you could put a child in it! I actually wonder if that one could lift a young kid off the ground? But think of the risk, and the insurance!!! Marvelous machines, just terrific to watch, all those 100s of hours of pain to build it, of mastering it from the ground, with the real prospect that the darn thing will awol misfunction and do a kamikaze. Great stuff, many thanks, but do try to stop burying them!
Dude, does a crash really require a normal speed, slow speed and confetti raining down for a time? You've got a great photographic eye, but your editing needs some work!
You guys land better on one wheel than when both are down. Something in that.....
panther105 true, true
i know dummy
Growing up in Hawaii my dad was into RC in the 60's , 70's and 80's and I was always surfing , now I turned into my dad and I fly, lol. He would build beautiful planes and bring them home in pieces on occasion.
Now with foamies that are easy to build and are great park fliers , the hobby is much more affordable for newbs like myself.
Being in the visitor industry in Hawaii I have to say that Aussies have the coolest attitude in general as a people and it shows in the way they are dealing with these crashes of there beautiful planes.
Simply amazing, thanks for sharing Brah! Skippa
skippajack this is in uk
Thanks for the correction, these guys still have a great attitude! LOL
All of that was rather painful to watch.....
Looks like some pilots are much better at building than flying.
joy to watch pissed my pants laughing
I agree! I've seen some brand new foam planes that were toasted on their first flights. I've toasted a couple of nitro trainers myself. You feel like crap, and sometimes stupid because it happened. I lost one because my transmitter had a short from the battery. I didn't know what happened until I looked at the wires weeks later.
gooniac33 jm
gooniac33 my wallet was crying
Number one plane to avoid. Corsair. Absolute insanity
MrStamperh or p-51
MrStamperh hellcat*
I'm in tears, can't remember the last time i laughed like that
One thing I've learned from these clips: stay away from Corsairs.
ha
LMAO XD
Stay away from the most beautifull WWII fighter ever built?
NEVER!!! 😉
Nah mate it was the spitfire
And don´t even get close to a fucking Lancaster
WoooW ... first and last crash was horrible. Too sad
thanks m8, its a shit hobby some days !!!!!!!!!!!
That's right. Especially if you do not have to disassemble your plane for the journey home.
lol - been there done that m8 !!!!!!
That recovery on the second one though!
😅 awesome air planes
I had an Ultimate biplane go in like that at about 70mph in knife edge. Saved nothing but the tail to mount on the wall. It hurts.
In all the years of seeing R/C crashes, I have never seen a cylinder head bounce down the runway like that. Damn good filming Pete!
J
ouch on the ultimate m8, I wouldn't have noticed the cylinder head if I hadn't actually heard it pinning of the tarmac ! steve burnt his fingers when he picked it up - still hot ! john gave me permission to post this crash bless him,
That opening crash ! The clatter of the dslr shutter going like the era machine gun that brought these wonderful looking aircraft down ... thought evoking .
This brought back memories of an R/C Ju-87 I spent two years scratch building, only to lose it on the first flight because another guy ignored the flight rules and "tested" his radio gear while I was flying. His gear was on the same channel as mine...
Pucker landing with the Vulcan. Very nice save.
My heart breaks when a plane is totaled but I also laugh and thank god it is not mine
Aside from the obvious pilot errors, it looks to me like retract design absolutely stinks.
Lauren Robison it's just the heavy models that they carry
more up elevator on landing and ditch the retracts
Lauren Robison More times then not it's the servo's or linkage that causes the trouble.
+Red where do you get the better landing gears at?
It's weight saving, otherwise, they'd need really big engines. You have to pick and chose. Personally, i liked the ones a South Korean (only jets, the name of the channel escapes me) made here on TH-cam. Compressed air burst and instant lock design. The landing gear itself was beefy, but the compressed air part was not. Over all, very light. There's basically one control. On. And that's it. Downside, you need to charge it every time...forget.. and well, that's that.
ALSO, it's not the expansion design that sucks (since most are scale copies) rather the deployment system. From what i've seen, from blogs and the such, people...just complicate things unnecessarily, for whatever reason.
6:13 - and that's an excellent demonstration of why, in real life, the full-size version was called the "Ensign Eliminator".....
Very sad and heartbreaking to see this😢
awful lot of socks and sandals there.
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall.....and the bigger mess they make.
Today I've discovered what the world needs...and that's someone who can make a decent landing gear for rc aircraft!
Man that lancaster bomber has some gear issues
I'm sorry for your loss.To me the video is positive it shows the skill needed, to build , pilot, and come back again and to do it again . I can feel every move ment from your X/T and the gut wrenching feeling your baby's Gone.
I can speak this because I know this. I too fly R/C ,for forty years.
Thank You for the well done video, a lot of us have walked this road. Sincerely
Lance Anderson ( Maine)
many thanks lance
Flew r/c for 25+yrs and got out of it, after watching this video i still dont miss the hobby, even when everything seems right & going well it all can come crashing down (literally) at any moment
0:47
Hold J to exit your aircraft
War thunder is now irl
So sad ........some of those belly landings were done well by the pilots though !!!
thanks tom
Damn, some of those were really hard to watch. My heart weeps for those pilots who have to start from scratch all over again.
@ 5:03 does anyone know if the pilot made it? he wasn't moving....so didn't LOOK good... 🙊
D G yea he'll be alright
Sadly its been a year and the pilot succumbed to his injuries awhile back.
Yes, and Barbie's pregnant...!!
some great landings here even if not perfect. Love the save on the vulcan...
outstanding one legged hurricane
Two lessons that I've gotten from this video: 1) Never use retracst and 2) never use tail-dragger-type gear! ;-)
lol - yep
Or know how to fly a tail dragged properly and be able to handle a gear malfunction without doing something stupid
haha....yeah Christian, you could do it that way, but they are fun to learn. Everybody screws up once in a while. Even the know it alls. lol
Did that F4U's engine stall right after retracting the landing gear?
That’s what it looks like!
I enjoyed the saves as well as the crashes.
hate to see all these hours of work become kindling!!!!! well done on the corsair
I loved the crash where the cylinder head rolled away. Made me laugh.
Pete,at least some can have a laugh. I love the mouth to mouth performed on that "pilot". I also appreciate the fact that you have the ability and presence of mind to not target fixate and catch the sometimes tragic end to someones prized machine. Most appear as they will fly again, but I remember when you first aired the opening clip and were most considerate enough to get the owners permission to do so. It stated that fact just before you showed it. These clips show we all belong to a large group of "duct tape" owners. I could overhear one person conversing with the owner of that Sea Fury "you could just wrap a little tape around here" or something to that effect. It reminded me of a bush pilot who was hunting in Alaska, left his campsite, and when he came back, discovered that he had lert something in the plane that a bear really wanted. The bear tore the fusalge to heck. The pilot radioed his friend to bring duct tape and plastic sheeting. He rebuilt his plane and flew out of there. Happy Holidays, keep the rubber side down and God Bless, Paul from Florida.
thanks paul, yes the feelings of pilots do vary indeed, one pilot destroyed a model four years ago and still wont let me show the footage because of the bad memories it will awaken !
Una pena de accidentes! Muchos se podran reparar. Gracias por compartir
The Lancasters coming in on one main wheel is very WWII realistic.
i know this trouble - but I love this hobby
you are not the only one
Fantastic, unblinking videography, even of such morbid subjects as this. Again, the sound is great.
Vic M.
thanks mick
Heartbreaking but helps in learning what not to do or what can go wrong.
These pilots must be in the scale heavy weights. Heaviest plane I've ever had was a 2 meter F3A- barley 7 quarter lbs. If I could only get my hands on a proper scale Hawker tempest kit.
Great footage. Painful to see in the moment but
I learn great deal every time!
thanks zwanso
Me, after crashing one of my planes and smashing it into teensy bits:
"LAAANDING!"
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This is a general question to everyone who would like to answer me. In my city we use a paved runway only. I found many landings In this video use grass as runways which I think is more likely to damage the landing gears? The wheels usual get stoked in some holes and the surface is not so even. Why to they still prefer to use grad even if they have the option little farther of a paved runway?
simple - tarmac destroys models when they come into contact with it, if a £20,000 jet tips a wing onto tarmac when landing across the wind then that wing will be torn open in seconds (same for any model) and the wing will have to be repaired or replaced (very expensive) grass does no damage at all - simple
was that a bird strike at 2.57? idk if I've ever seen one
How much was that first plane worth?
Looks like its better to have fixed landing gear ?.
Never was so much owed by so many to so few....
The Sopwith Camel with the pilot was hilarious, yeah the poor guy had to endure the mouth to mouth
lol - the mouth to mouth probably killed him he next day
who else love when they are totally destroyed?
Name of plane coming in gear up starting at 4:51? It looks like a Cirrus Vision jet but is lacking the rear inverted tail fins. Great landing though
Ive flown a lot of full scale and RC. One thing that RC'ers lack is training in holding a steady and stable approach, whether landing with power or dead stick. A good approach almost always insures a good landing.
That sounds like a real plane and not the buzzing you get from others What engine that got in it
0:13 THIS is what we want to see!
Pilot down at 5:03 and no barn to be seen.
Bad thing about those tail draggers is that you have to give them a lot of up elevator to keep them from nosing over.
Must have been one hell of an impact at 10:46 to break the cylinder off of the block. That poor plane disintegrated on impact.
I'm glad no one gets hurt by debris flying all over the place.
Great CPR!
to the nose over guys, when its down throw that elevator up to keep the back end down
crashes yes... but many very deftly done saves.
Foamies make life so much easier
Hmmmm Got to love Retracts!!!
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Thats what you get when you choose grass over pavement 7:45
It is not pleasant to watch, but it is exciting and instructive. I have a feeling (maybe wrong) some builders are neglecting strength due to less a weight of models , but they paid the price.
thanks Josip, I think your right,
no - airplanes do not survive crashes like cars do
Josip Vrandecic Yeah I think your right man! Give up a little performance for landing gear beef up in particular! Some of these mishaps with the nose gear gettin wiped off and just collapsing in general seem like things are a little to weak!
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Now I know why I never use retractable gear~~
Man those taildraggers are so vulnerable to prop strikes. LOL
If you can't afford to crash your plane, you are in the wrong hobby.
Thats why i stick to video games i cant afford that type or hobby.
But a crash is still sad
This and trees are why I only build with dollar tree foam board.
I agree. These planes are beautifully made.
Yup, that's why you can count RC hobbyists with your fingers. They are not many, and are far between.
The time, money, and effort that must have gone into these things,... 'Oh the pain!'
gorgeous corsair landing at 1:00
Saved the best for last eh? Holy crap, that Corsair.. OBLITERATED!
just get some tape... and tape that round~ my field repairs in a nutshell XD
These can't be cheap. I wonder what the cost is on some of those cool jets.
£8,000 to £15,000 +
Imagine the crashes that were not recorded
Worst, and therefore best, compilation I've seen!
thanks mike
mmm satisfying
It's better as the landing gear fails then that the plane crashes and goes totaled
Must be very heartbreaking for the builders/pilots, but i guess its part of the hobby! It takes some serious determination to rebuild and fly again. And nobody said it was cheap, either! Here I am disappointed that I ordered a few parts that i didn't need for my RCs and its past the return date! lol
That would be cool to watch. Put some cap gun rounds on some little model machine guns attach to a servo.
5:29 - did he live?
I think at the 10:47 Mark the pilot lost his plane!
I don't feel so bad, but you need a video of someone hitting the windsock on the field, that would bring back memories
Several pilots contained herein...apparently do not grasp the hazard of an extreme sink rate on final approach.....until....DOH !
They always say.. the first thing you buy after completing your model is a Black bag to bring it home in.
It seems a common sound is the wind blowing, probably to hard to be flying
11:00 that moment when u realize that u need a broom to collect your rc plane
ah.... i see he was Saved by a FIRST RESPONDER....GOD BLESS OUR HEROES....THEY RUN TO THE CRISIS....NOT FROM IT...
nice legs too.... lmao....
🙊
bad luck on the Wavern?
It's so sad when some people disrespect the scattered debris that used to be your airplane.
6.03 corsair sounds lovely for a few seconds had that happen to me a few times
B25 crashed because the pilot turned into the dead engine. Big no no. If your left engine dies, do right turns only. If your right engine dies, left turns only. Where possible of course.
This is why I build and fly flite test planes.
Note to self when designing RC planes: don’t worry about how they fly, worry about if they can land in 1 piece.
awesome
Some crashes were ensamble failures and others were pilots' technical failure, yeah, they didn't landed their planes by decreasing speed, lifting the plane's nose 7°, or in case of a windy day apply the Xwing or put in practice some avionic principles.
At least some of them got off with relatively minor damage.
Nothing like seeing hundreds to thousands of dollars go up in literal smoke in literal seconds. I guess if you've got money to blow, it's no big deal.
If you cant afford to crash ypur rc plane this hobby isnt meant for you. Im just saying
RIP
all gave some
some gave all
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thanks broseph
Is anybody ever going to make a better retractable landing gear?
OMG SO COOL
0:18 I literally just shed a tear
OutaTime FPV hope Skip Stewart never sees it.
Heck, the size of these things - look at the first, if it was much bigger you could put a child in it! I actually wonder if that one could lift a young kid off the ground? But think of the risk, and the insurance!!! Marvelous machines, just terrific to watch, all those 100s of hours of pain to build it, of mastering it from the ground, with the real prospect that the darn thing will awol misfunction and do a kamikaze. Great stuff, many thanks, but do try to stop burying them!
they say the german plane never works
Dude, does a crash really require a normal speed, slow speed and confetti raining down for a time? You've got a great photographic eye, but your editing needs some work!
Oh Shit, that hurts 😂
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