A-10 Warthog catches fire on takeoff (huge RC model plane)
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- This huge A-10 Warthog RC model plane suffered not one but two engine fires shortly after takeoff. It was very lucky for the pilot that he managed to get away with this landing -- and more than a little reckless -- since he had to turn the flaming model back towards a gathered crowd of about 80 people to achieve this. Imagine if the RC gear had failed!
There are other videos of this model flying (without the fire) on my channel.
Filmed at the 2011 ANZAC international jet meeting in Tokoroa New Zealand.
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No RC fire truck? 😟
PAULY😮😮😮
this is CHEATING ! There should be RC fire engines and playmobil firemen running after that burning aeroplane .... tstststststs
lego animators ain't as fast as they used to be..
lol
Hahaha....I love it. Well stated.
or at least dress up in a gundam suit and shoot the extinguishers from your fists
So true
what a nice landing he was able to pull off, especially under pressure. looks like it will be able to fly again.
Yeah, she'd probably need work on her jets to get her up again, but you dont give up on a beast like that.
@@shayneoneill1506 add fireworks and a airsoft gun onto it and you got a RC fighter jet for RC dogfights
I was gonna say 4+ extinguishers is kinda overkill, but then changed my mind when I saw how stubborn that fire was!
WonkyTonkBotty and the guy shouting "GET MORE EXTINGUISHERS!"
probably using the wrong kind of extinguisher. Foam or Dry powder would have worked better than CO2 in this case
Antonios Sfakiotakis But the dry powder would destroy the engine.
mikkel hansen I am no expert but I think that disassebling- cleaning and reassembling would have done the job. Plus there is no way to estimate what's going wrong causing a fire while it is still burning and causing more damage
Antonios Sfakiotakis Powder actually ruins metal and all electronics. Makes it rust after 6 months if not removed by either a hard air compressor or some chemicals. So foam would work better. Or do as the guy in the end (looks like the owner) to blow from the front and trough the jets.
Mothstrike... Left engine ingested it...
+magicstix0r mothstrike! good one....
sully more like xjeully
Alan Cogan is right, turtles are going to take over soon
Nah probably a hummingbirdstrike
The guys should have ran there with the fire extinguishers making fire truck noises lol
ArcticAstrophysics should have run
vashon100
ran (past tense):
"The dog ran across the road" ;"she ran the last few yards, breathing heavily". "he hasn't paid for his drinks-run and catch him".
What is the point of being a Grammar Nazi if you don't even get your 'correction' right?
RC fire trucks needed!
@@vashon100 lol you red faced idiot..
Like the Minions: BeeDoo, BeeDoo, BeeDoo.
Look at all those GIANT PEOPLE!!
I gotta stop smokin' those spliffs before I fly!
@@urbannpa No... You don't 😉
"Lets See that in slow motion"
*Shows 5fps video*
Yeah I know, I was only poking fun
Sorry for the owner but that looked absolutely cool!!
joel trevino Wet starts on the full size require the fuel to be shut off and the engine to be dry cycled before the next start. Looks like the nacelles were full of unburnt fuel!! Tough luck but remember to dry cycle next time if the start is not immediate.
CLUE LESS YOU MEAN
I didn't know the A10 had afterburners
And just like the real A-10, it takes a major catastrophe and still lands lol.
Just like the real ones indeed.
...losers flag...
You are clearly an idiot. By all means though keep it up with your fake news and revisionist history so democrats never get elected again =)
Engine placement (like real A10) limited the damage to the engine only. Working engine and control surfaces were unaffected by a catastrophic engine failure..... nice video.
@@planetwalker Fuck of asshole. Keep your "Hurr durr Americans bad durr" bullshit to yourself.
Sh*t....even the A10 models are tough.
1:58 You just have to love the barefoot firefighter running along the runway...
Barefoot? I see shoes on him.
Br0 tH3r3 aRe No sHoEs BrO
That's dedication!
Missed that first time round!
Yep, the barefoot guy was the first to dump his retardant on the plane....double duty, fire suppression and FOD check. Barefoot folks usually find the sharp crap first.
They are so stupid standing so close to the engines they might get sucked in
XboxIssues you do realize im kidding right
Matthew Alsante don't think so Lol
Nice one.
Matthew Alsante the might be on fire when they get flung out
Im thinking 4 more fire extinguishers would have done the trick.
CO2 may have put the fire out, but for a jet engine fire, foam would have been a better (if messier) option, Why?, Foam has a cooling effect which CO2 doesn't, hence the fire reigniting again and again.
DieyoungDiefast Its not that the foam has a cooling affect its the fact that it doesnt dissipate like CO2 does. The foam keeps the area covered and starved of oxygen.
These small Turbines have very sensitive bearings and parts on them, and even have electronics on the front of the engine with diodes and transistors for the temperature, and RPM sensors. Foam would have worked better for this type of fire, I agree, but CO2 has no damaging effect. on the sensitive electronics. the pilot did the right thing, he killed the turbine power, but I believe the fuel pump was still running. once he killed that, the fire went out. The fire crew, should've kept spraying CO2 to cool the engines below the ignition temperature of the Kero.
I think at least 10 more should be enough. And buckets of water, lots of water. Then sand.
SO GLAD you had so little damage, great reaction time and way to stay calm. That is a brilliant looking aircraft, the amount of work shows. Hope to see much more soon!
*EJECT EJECT EJECT!*
Has anyone fitted an ejector seat to one of these scale models? I'm off to search that!
What's the point in saving $5 puppet over 10K worth plane :)
In this hobby every gram matters, less weight = more flight time,, toy pilots are like captains of the ships,, they sink/burn with the plane - to me that is honorable death.
bambi You are right - it is a noble death for these little guys. Semper Fi. I salute you.
bambi Maybe he meant have ejection seats for the engines. That way you only lose the engines, which are like $10k instead of the whole plane, which is like $20k.
HyperSpify
Only if it makes a good glider with the change in CG LOL
HyperSpify Wow, those engines cost that much? Crap, expensive hobby. But I'm sure the more toned down jet models are more affordable, right? If I got into this I would stick to propeller planes.
Here is the reason why....
There were no afterburners for a start.
Why the long start? Pretty simple, one engine blew a glow plug, so just as easy to use a lighter up the back end, But before you do the engine has to cool down to 90 deg before it will allow another start.
Why did both engines blow? Not one of you were close to a guess, Do to the fact both engine systems were separate the best guess is a voltage spike killed the ECU's causing the runaways, Both ecu's were electrically fried when I looked at them. seems they shorted and put full battery voltage to the pumps hence the engines blowing and then not stopping when back on the ground until battery power was cut.
I quite like how xjet changed the video description from lucky save and great piloting to calling it reckless and endangering, How would he know? I was flying the model, I had a fair idea of what was going on, I also had full control, no problems as they say.. More like sour grapes for xjet getting kicked off the flying site.
If you think that turning a burning model back towards a crowd of people gathered in the pits is a safe move then that's fine. Personally, I would put the safety of innocent people ahead of trying to rescue my burning jet -- but that's just me.
***** Perfectly safe move, flames were out the back not in the model... also no control issues, You do know receivers are in the nose right? and you do know the wire loom was insulated where it runs down the fuse, of course you did, you know everything! you also noted where I parked the model didn't you, away from the people and away from the grass,
But then again you do like your drama and conspiracy's don't you. No need to reply with another argument.
***** Seems like a little crash cart practice would be in order. The lack of preparation and rehearsal for emergencies was embarrassingly obvious. Kinda like "The Great Waldo Pepper" except Edward Herrman doesn't get burned to death.
+nzbalsa I don't care what anybody says, you got that thing on the ground and put out the flames and everybody walked away in one piece and the RC survived. All in all, a good day. I bet that "Ohhh s**t, fire in #1!" moment went through your head for a second, though.
+magicstix0r then how the fuck does it light the fuel?
spark plugs are usually WAY THE FUCK BIGGER than a rc glow plug, and a glow plug is one long "spark"...one long ignition
most...not all, but most, spark plug CDI systems are large and heavy, and fire a pulse, not a long sustained spark like the glow plug which just needs a battery and a wire.
Ahahahaah look at that guy running with sandals and short shorts
Reminds me of your mother .
I know nothing about RC Airplane flying other than I think it very cool. That said I'm glad the A-10 was not badly damaged.
and that is how it's done. great landing in a very bad situation, response team put out the fire with minimal damage to the model. this should be a AMA training video!
Am I the only one dying of laughter watching them put the engine fire out?
no
I have some firefighting training. What we have here is a class B fire, with a flammable liquid and its vapors. The materials in the aircraft and its engines are above the ignition temp of the fuel. CO2 works by displacing oxygen away from a fire, breaking the chain reaction. However, CO2 is not very good at cooling the material, unlike water. So, when the extinguishing agent disperses, the reaction immediately resumes, because of the residual heat. You can't use water on liquid fuel fires because it just spreads the blaze everywhere. If they used dry chem extinguishers, that'd put the fire out right away and keep it out, but the aircraft would be very difficult to restore with that nasty powder in there. Smothering it with firefighting foam is another option.
Needs Yakity Sax
Mark Batarina no
Mark Batarina i thought I was the only one
2:41, Bootyshorts Floppyhat to the feckin rescue!!
Those extinguishers are garbage
Looks like the fuel pump was still on, so ever time the extinguished the flame, it would light up again. not the extinguishers fault, its the pilots for not killing power to the fuel pump.
oh ok, din't think of that one.
They were actually pretty awesome, they look like the old CO2 ones, i keep a few for this kind of thing, the cheep home ones will destroy everything with that white stuff, i do sound work, and don't want someone cover 10k in amps in the white stuff, i always have a co2 unit ready to go first.
The extinguishers are fine. It was how they used them, just spraying into the back of the engines, which were still running. What this means is that the still-spinning turbines just blew the CO2 out of the engines. Until that one guy came along and sprayed some CO2 into the front of the turbines, the fuel would stay lit due to the oxygen rich air still being pulled in.
Creeperkiller32 Yeah I agree, i had a chance to see a jet powered rc plane in action and must admit that those turbines pack a punch. CO2 will work if pushed into the air intake as it will kill the engine's oxygen supply, forcing it to shut down.
This is why I always use genuine GE j79s. Oh yea, they cost a little more but...
I absolutely love the team effort here. great salvage. a10 is a survivalist, from a 20 in craft to this to full scale. beast
Who else realized that the voices in slow motion sounded a bit like chewbacca
Yeah he was saying, "dammit Hon you've tore up another one "!
wow I never saw an RC catch on fire! this is a real aircraft with hazards to be prepared for I didnt know hahaha
That's what happens when a flock of mosquitoes gets sucked into the engine, good thing Capt. Sully brought her home safely.
Nice touch with the D-Day markings ala P-47 Thunderbolt
makes no sense though... D-day markings on a A-10...
Ha yes the role of the A-10 at Normanday is little known but here's the proof
Fast break
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Les Anderson
I was in the Air Force when the A10 was commissioned. It was designed to be a robust aircraft. This RC benefited from that design philosophy. It's suppose to fly with one engine and parts of it's wings blown off. It's a beautiful model.
Air Power! AEF!
Respect to u
LMAO! 2:38. THOSE SHORTS!!!!!!
His boxer shorts.....?
Hahahaha well spotted!
1980s flash back.
I'd love to see somebody actually make the gun fire airsoft pellets. I know airsoft miniguns exist, but I wonder what it would take to retrofit one into an RC plane like this.
BrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRT😝
OH THE HUMANITY!!!!
I know it would be a waste, but I wish you had let the plane keep flying so the whole thing catches fire and stay in the air until the mechanics burn out. That would be epic!
Where are all the RC fire rescue trucks???? Just saying.....
That would have been sweet , little ladders going up with little hoses squirting co2 or whatever . And maybe a little ambulance just for effect.
And a little hot nurse would pop out wearing a short skirt.......
that's what you get for giving it the tail number of 149. I hated that damned jet. ironically because its engines leaked and vibrated out of limits like crazy all the damned timed time.
I sense a little animosity...
this makes me want to know what you do for a livin or at least what your experience is with this number 149, i'm intrigued!
I was an Engine mechanic in the 23rd Fighter Wing on A-10c's for 6 years. worked on probably 80% of the jets in the entire fleet. and 149 was always a problem jet. its engine vibration recoding system had to be re-wired like 3 or 4 times in the 6 years I worked on it, just because it had just so many ghosts and gremlins in the system. It also never stopped leaking even with new engines on it. somehow even refurbished engines would just leak oil or hydro, for no observable reason. we would swap parts out all the time trying to get it to stop but it just was a freaking drama queen.
George D Do you remember the tail number that got hit in 2003 during Iraqi Freedom? I was at Pope from 2000-06. Ammo troop.
Ian Hunt
i heard about it but i joined in 07 so it was before my time. but i want to say it was 660 or 674....
These videos are scary. My brother died the exact same way.
Good
He died from a rc plane, cool!
bram van heijnsbergen It was a drone ordered kill from Obama.
Bounty Bountyqp
Yes it is good. He was a total A-hole. Thank you for your support. Did you know him?
LOL, no one died this in the video. Remember the video of the RC B-17 crashing that you commented on? No one died there either. Is your "brother" an R/C plane?
What was the guy doing with lighter in the beginning? Testing for fuel leakage?
obviously you never started a jet
Joey S which is probably why he asked the question. (doh) .. I imagine the vast majority of humanity haven't had any experience starting a jet.
Designed to fly even with one broken engine
Breaks both engines
Nice emergency landing and an excellent response from the ground crew! Glad they saved that beautiful plane.
Can't even fly our RC planes without the North Koreans trying to take em down. wtf
I hope the pilot is okay.
Great save...But you can't impress the experts. Love the A10 THUNDERBOLT.I think it's awsum, not ugly.
Such a shame that happened to such an apparently well-made model!
Beautiful model and an impressive emergency landing!
Where are the RC crash trucks??
well to me this looks like they're using Co2 extinguishers, which in an environment outside like where they are is pretty pointless. there is oxygen everywhere, no wonder they have to ask for more extinguishers. powder or foam extinguishers they should be using on this
CO2 is the standard here as it doesn't damage the engine. You shoot dry chem in one and you're pulling it and sending it to the factory for a tear down (with a fat check).
***** Halon was banned here a few years back. I remember the training we did with that (USN Aviation). Good stuff but not sure what would happen if you shot a blast of that down an intake.
You keep the fire extinguisher going till it’s empty. This will take the heat out of the triangle needed for a fire. HEAT - FUEL- OXYGEN are needed for fire. Remove one and no fire
Looked like he got hit by a burst of AAA in that turn. Glad the pilot survived.
good to see how many fire extinguishers they had there
Precisely how not to use a fire extinguisher.
How would YOU have used it?
Lester Hartness You keep it on the source of the flames constantly until the extinguisher is exhausted. Using it in little blasts like that allows the fire air, allowing it to continue burning.
Looked to me as if that was what they were doing. They exhausted a number of them.
Lester Hartness They were doing it in short bursts rather than one continuous one, that allows the fire air rather than smothering it entirely.
You do a short burst, and the fire is out. It RE-IGNITES, and you try again. After a couple of times, you realize what's going on, and you give it all you got. Hey, they saved the airplane. That's more than a lot of people would have done. I've seen people aim an extinguisher at the hood of a car when the engine was on fire.
Nice emergency landing just in time!!!
am I the only one that wants to see a video from a gopro placed in the cockpit?
Andrew Navarro you are not the only one
Real life turbine engine fire procedure is to shut off fuel flow(not done here) and continue to motor the engine while the extinguishing agent is injected into the engine INTAKE not the exhaust. This gets the heat and the fuel vapors out of the engine, while removing the oxygen at the same time. These guys were obviously not trained in turbine engine operations. Very unsafe to guys in flip-flops running around trying to put out an engine fire.
That was really good
Sorry for your model
But that really happens
Fire control fire control lol
Ex Navy ..
nice landing but shut at power to that plane
the pilot did a great job
Thank goodness for the dork wearing flip flops bringing a forth extinguisher. Hope he didn't waste a fried turkey leg.
What a fast response team
If only it were that easy on the REAL thing!!
VERY NICE EMERGENCY LANDING
Perfect emergency landing :D
Darn good pilot.
Did you hear Chewbacca at the end when they played it back in slo mo?
I think its a fuel leak because if the fuel touched the engine it would have made it catch fire which caused the fire to drip on the run way
four firemen to put out a model plane engine!
I love how FOUR people rush with a fire extinguisher, lol
LOL! Look at all those guys running over to the toy plane, are they afraid the toy pilot is gonna die?
That toy plane cost about 10K $, maybe even more. I would love to see your reaction in situation like this.
Uhhm that "Toy" costed around 10k$ to get just the parts since they made it themselves. So you're saying that you would not react like that if it was a "Toy" no matter what the price and that plane isn't a toy, it's a hoby and an expensive one at that like model train sets.
You want a huge fire on the runway? The faster you put it out, the easier.
lmfao
Why wouldn't you put the fire out? If something belonged to you and caught fire, would you just watch it turn to ash? Seriously, your comment is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. As the these other guys said, this "toy" as you call it is very expensive and this toy also goes extremely fast, their construction requires extreme skill. You're not going to find these at a toy store, which is why they're not toys.
The men in the video aren't worried about a "toy pilot" dying. They're worried about protecting a substantial investment. Frankly, I think if someone were worried about the death of a toy pilot, they would have to be on your level of intelligence. In other words, they would have to be dumber than a bar of soap.
There was a news article that these Warthogs are being decommissioned. They are too old and probably lack of maintenance leads to disasters like this.
The engine that previously refuse to ignite, refuse later to shut off. Looks like it didn't want to fly that day.
What if you have a big rc crashtender?
That would be cool to stand next to the runway like that and if something catches fire extinguish it
They should equip these planes with a fuel dump valve , to prevent exactly this .
Won't work on rc planes
Should've dumped fuel over the neighborhood before landing
A lesson not to wear stupid shorts when messing with highly volatile fuel.
if only fire man same was around it would have been out in one, ha ha paul
The guy in the white shirt @ 3:05 just wanted to feel helpful.
LOL ur so right! :D When you extrapolate that 'moment-in-time' there.. A dozen funny things come to mind! "Oh bullocks! I took 2 minuets to poop and I miss the plane nearly exploding!" We should start a thread of Like..Voice-overs of ppls thoughts at the time :)
Afterburner malfunction?
Hope the pilot was ok, he is now at the hospital cause his hands milted and is going to have new ones
Pilot did a pretty good job of bringing it in hot! ;) Good work from the ground crew.
Those 'lil jet engines are so cute.
Amazing that they're operable that small, really.
Pilot should've killed the afterburners.
There are no afterburners on that plane.
Enclave Captain
Yeah! He most obviously wasn't being sarcastic in any way. Anybody that moronic and judgmental should be banned from the interwebs.
Good thing there was a ground crew with lots of fire equipment.
Did he died?
Should have used foam, not CO2.
They should have had the RC fire truck on stand by.
Landing a plane like that in an emergency, nobody hit by the plane, plane relatively ok.. respect.
A-10 with afterburners!
The running firefighters should have red hard hats and red strobe lights on top .
I wonder what make of engines these are?
My guess is that the left engine failed during take off but the fuel pump was still running, the air going through the intake is enough to blow the fuel through combustion chamber and out the exhaust.(kerosene/Jet A1 passing over hot NGV and turbine is enough to ignite)
Then for some reason the right engine failed during flight and the same thing happen.
If the engines seized and the fuel pump was still running then the combustion chambers can half fill with fuel which pours out the back over a red hot NGV and turbine which is enough to vaporise and ignite the fuel.
either way if these engines had a ECU then it should have noticed RPM decrease against the stick input, temperature increase or overheat and shut the pumps down....
Pleased he got it down safe and hopefully not too much damage, turbines are great fun but boy can they be trouble at times as i know all too well.
Really 9 guys with a fire extinguisher...lol Funny how they are falling over each other to just dying to spray is a little.
Gahhhh. The flames. The FLAMES!!!! Im like. Keep extinguishing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GAHHH the humanity. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Where is the little RC crash crew?
Warthog...a true diehard jet.
Oh my god that engines on fire
Don`t those things have a remote controlled fuel shut off valve on them? If not, they should. It would be a fairly simple thing using a solenoid valve to accomplish it.
Great pit crew
I wish they had radio control chatter for these flights, I want to hear the go around given to the other plane buzzing around while they put out the fire.
It was a pretty nice landing considering both his engines were shooting foot-long flames.
you put faulty fuel in there!
It's so awesome how it actually uses jet engines!!!!!
What does this button does?
Oh it starts the real afterburners :D
Great landing!