As most of you already know,one of my freetime hobbies is R/C Flying. Someone sent me this video of a guy who owns a Radio Controlled Turbine powered $4000 F/18 HORNET. Look what happens http://media.putfile.com/F-18-CRASH :eek:

Um

I WANT ONE !

Thats a shame, I didn't see the miniature pilot eject did he survive?

That is a cool airplane,what happened?

$4000......on a r/c jet??? PFFFFFFT could of had MANY parts for my car!!!!

For 4k, I could have almost tubbed my 67.

I nearly couldn't believe the $4k price, then I did a google search...

Holy Cr@p!!


http://www.bvmjets.com/turnkey/turnkey.htm

Look at the fourth down, F4-for nearly $20k!!!

Oops LOL
Cameramen shouldn't drink on the job :D

From the video it seems the turbine (yes a real turbine) jet engine failed, the plane lost thrust and so it did not have enough thrust to remain airborne. Thats a heavy jet and its not designed to 'glide to safety' like my 36" Wing Warrior Ezipper (Total cost about $600 haha)

http://69camaro.nextmill.net/temp/ezipper1.jpg

http://69camaro.nextmill.net/temp/ezipper2.jpg

Looks like it caught fire before it started it's decent.

If you can afford a $4000 toy plane, you can afford to smash it and not cry about it as you're buying a new one.

Looks like it caught fire before it started it's decent.

The guy that sent it to me said that the pressurized fuel line ruptured :eek:

Thats nothing, check out this monster:

http://thelastminute.typepad.com/blog/images/B_52_d.jpg

23 foot wingspan, 330 lbs loaded with fuel. Holds 22L of Jet fuel. Powered by 8 wren MW54 gas turbine engines each producing 12 Lbs of thrust. Each engine probably cost about 4 grand.

Now look at what happened to it:

http://www.teambanana.co.uk/b52rob.wmv

Pilot error was the unofficial cause.

oops

The B52 is just awesome! Too bad, definately pilot error IMO.

I was at the Los Angeles Sepulveda Dam Basin RC airplane park on Saturday with my two sons. We must be living right since it happened to be the L.A. Jets club day. I have a picture of an A-10 Thunderbolt (my personal favorite real-life aircraft) that was flying that day. I could not believe how realistic the planes are. Truly amazing, both in form and price.

The crash even looked real!!

From the video it seems the turbine (yes a real turbine) jet engine failed, the plane lost thrust and so it did not have enough thrust to remain airborne. Thats a heavy jet and its not designed to 'glide to safety' like my 36" Wing Warrior Ezipper (Total cost about $600 haha)

http://69camaro.nextmill.net/temp/ezipper1.jpg

http://69camaro.nextmill.net/temp/ezipper2.jpg
is that a maba in their

Heres a bunch of model jet crashes, looks like a very expensive hobby.

Model Jet Crashes (http://www.monsterrccentral.com/rcvideos/seriesofcrashes.wmv)

Has some weird german heavy metal music to go along with the video.

In the Air Force we call those "Smoking Holes" :(

and i thought we had an expensive hobby..:clonk: ..

now that brought a tear to my eye...nice jet! was!

I have a buddy that spent years scratch building a jet powered Gulfstream G5. It had 2 jet engines that put out 8 lbs of thrust each and cost $4400 apiece. The engines ran on propane and we had to use compressed air from a scuba tank to spool them up before light-off.

The day of the inaugural flight there were about 50 friends gathered to witness the event. The airplane took off and flew for about 30 seconds before the tail broke off and in she went. My buddy and I loaded up hundreds of pieces, the largest of which were the engines, into the back of my Blazer and we drove away and had a few cleansing ales.

It was a sad way to end what should have been a wonderful day. Great hobby when it goes right, expensive hobby when it goes wrong.

ZAPPER