When this very large turbine powered F15 RC plane crashed just a few meters away from me, I did not flinch 🙂 The result is the footage you see here.
Yes, the MFNZ jet fliers are back, pounding more Tokoroa turf! 🙂
Obviously the right-main undercarriage leg on this model did not fully deploy and this resulted in a rather nasty “arrival” on landing. That’s what pre-flight checks are for I guess.
Roddy’s channel has a more humorous perspective on the crash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUxnYSsnTmw
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I would be laying on the ground in the fetal position hugging the radio
crying like a seven year old girl.
That looked like really bad luck.
The touchdown was OK.
Not sure he had that option. But retracting the gears for the grass belly
land would perhaps been better than going down with one not deployed.
The higher wing caught the wind and all was lost.
The MFNZ jet fliers are back at the Tokoroa Airfield. Another season of fun
and excitement is bound to ensue.
Excellent videography as always Bruce ! Indeed, what a stout fellow and
seasoned professional to stay on the subject when there was imminent peril
! :-)…..These always make me hurt for the pilot/owner – an incredible
plane flying beautifully until the left engine flamed out, he had to come
in hot, his gear didn’t deploy so he aimed for the grass – looks re
buildable though !! Cheers from Oregon
I would put a go pro camera in the cockpit. What an awesome plane.
I call bullshit- you are too slow to flinch. Roddy said it takes you an
hour to make minute rice.
*thanks for the vid!
Looks like one of the wheels didn’t deploy correctly and was stuck at a 45
degree angle. I also think it was landing way too fast.
How much does an aircraft like this cost?
This wouldn’t have happened if Maverick was flying it.
whats the scale of this compared to the actual plane?
I’m suprised (WTF I spelt that wrong?) that it held up. I was expecting it
to be barrel rolling down the run way.
All the birds flew off in panic and the cows just kept on eating , Smart
cows there
Luckily the missile did not detonate.
Btw; nice detail on this model! Only thing missing was an ejector seat.
KERPLAPP .
I feel so bad for you. Sorry for your wreckage.
Nothing beats the look on the cows faces.
They lived kerbal space program is so proud of the pilot
looks like the landing gear failed… I would have retracted them and put
it down on its bottom.
The most important part of any jet build is the gear…not everyone can
install properly and working smoothly..before any flight you should always
cycle the gear twice while model is on a stand…
A lifting body doing what a lifting body does…. Hindsight and Monday
morning fighter piloting here.
First.. sorry for the damage to the owner’s beautiful model.. man that
hurt seeing that..
My opinion is pretty simple though… if you are going to build scale or
close to scale (Since in the case of RC scale looking airframes…there is
no computer software controlling stability and CG management) you should
really have all the functioning control surfaces the real aircraft have
built into your model… Mainly the air brake /boards…
When I watch owners flying these amazing high dollar/ High build hours
kits… it is always so shocking to watch both takeoffs and landings… the
scale speeds they land are seems to be close to 275kts…. that jet in the
video on landing looked to be moving at 30 + kts maybe … the real F15
lands at 160 kts with 10 degrees alpha. bleeding speed at idle throttles…
The owner had flaps… but a speed-brake and full down stabilator might
have save that jet from damage… maybe even coming in with gear up with
have spoiled the airflow/ground effect.
Not sure how much airflow is required for a scale jet motor to prevent
flame out or stall..not sure how much a model like that weights or how much
thrust those jets can produce. But If I owned one of those models I would
practice low speed nose up flight to figure out how the jet sinks and make
that the base line for landing and approach to slow things down a bit.
Hopefully it was repaired…
Ouch thats to bad, looked like a sick jet..
http://s4.photobucket.com/user/whela_rs/media/ScreenShot2014-10-25at130551_zps49b5d2f2.png.html
That cow at 2:17! $$ eyes, cow thinks “oh crap!”
Not surprised, he barely had the thing under control during the landing.
It’s funny how all of those cows in the background at looking at the wreck
like “WTF???” !
Блин я думал он взорвётся.
R.I.P 3000 $
That would totally suck!
shit happened ;-)
So these guys can get away without doing a sufficient preflight with a
massive jet. But Hobbs comes bitching to you about filming a helicopter?
What a grumpus
Must have been the sense and avoid system interfering with the pilots brain
Bruce
No flames at least!
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Duct tape anyone ?
One wing snapped off clean. Could have been way worse. Your lucky day.
You can see the right landing gear isn’t fully down, kudos to the pilot for
reducing damage by putting it down on the left wheel first or this would’ve
been a lot worse.
They were lucky that the missiles did not explode in the crash. My brother
died the exact same way. Scary.
Good thing he didn’t try anything to do any Maneuvers
LOL The cows are like “Oh Yeah”
Next time he’ll land on the pavement XD
Pavement landing would’ve meant more re painting but far less damage
how fast can those things go?
Stupid, Stupid “ads”…………I NEVER watch them.
Would not be better do a belly land with no landing gears at all. Such a
flat belly plane would not have plroblem landing on the grass. I guess?!
lucky those sparrows or side winders wernt armed .. I would cry if that was
mine
Look at all the birds in the background at 1:47! That must have been one
heck of a crash to make all of those birds go flying away!
That’s just bad luck that the undercarriage didn’t come down properly and
that the plane bounced into the air after touching down.
Well, I understand why you post these videos, and I don’t blame you for it,
but anyone who has ever seen this happen to her/his pride and joy will feel
for the pilot. This was a particularly beautiful model, and at least in the
early part of the clip it would be easy to think you were watching the full
size version if you didn’t know better.