RC plane fail

[coombz]

 

[MachFly]

That's just sad. Think of all the hard work that went into making that model.

[icepac]

I never figure out how someone can spend hundreds of hours building a model and then forget to spend enough time to set up a proper landing area.

[AKP]

The guy in the white shirt just barely got out of the way.  Plane looks like a total loss too.  What a way to ruin your day.

[Shuffler]

Lucky no prop hit. The one guy was trying to grab the other. That is why he failed to get out of the way in time. Very amateur RC pilots or a failure in controls.

[PFactorDave]

Lucky no prop hit. The one guy was trying to grab the other. That is why he failed to get out of the way in time. Very amateur RC pilots or a failure in controls.

Agreed.  Kind of looks like one of the engines was out, which makes for a difficult landing.  I'm almost sure that the right engine is out.  Most R/C pilots would kill the remaining engine and land dead stick instead.

Aside from that, landing with the plane coming straight at you like that is just stupid.

[jeep00]

So that kind of landing is a "fail"? That would actually be considered fairly good compared to most of my landings in game.

[LCAMerciful]

A friend of mine once spent over two grand on an RC Helicopter.  The first time he flew it a gust of wind threw it into a tree and destroyed it!

[PFactorDave]

A friend of mine once spent over two grand on an RC Helicopter.  The first time he flew it a gust of wind threw it into a tree and destroyed it!

I've seen large scale R/C jets that cost well over $20k to build plow nose first into the dirt.  First rule of flying R/C airplanes is, you will crash one eventually.  I've been flying R/C since about 1986 or so, off the top of my head I can think of 5 planes that I've crashed and destroyed over the years.  Nothing so costly as the B25 in the original post thank goodness.

[Peacemaker]

from looking at ut in slowmo, i see that the right propellor is two bladed and stopped

 i think

[icepac]

I don't understand why the pilot set up an approach that put the plane's landing point at exactly where he was standing when he had an entire field to land safely.

[Tupac]

I've seen large scale R/C jets that cost well over $20k to build plow nose first into the dirt. 

Never understood why those guys don't buy a real plane with that kind of money.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Never understood why those guys don't buy a real plane with that kind of money.

Better for health to crash an RC instead of a real plane.

[Shuffler]

Better for health to crash an RC instead of a real plane.

Depends on where it crashes.

[PFactorDave]

Depends on where it crashes.

This is true.  That B25 in the clip weighs in at 10 to 12 pounds minimum.  That's a lot of force hitting you.  I saw a Quickie 500 pylon racer go through the side of a passenger van at an event in the early 90s.