Rob Baker takes off Mike Hess' RC turbine powered jet airplane

[olivervcto]

My quick review of this mishap : terrible CG placement, rotation happens at very low speed with so little up elevator (approx 5 degrees), then you can see the pitch instability and the 'dolphin kick' in pitch with obvious PIO, finally it looks like the left flap got stuck full down,creating both a roll to the right and killing airspeed and then entering an unrecoverable spin.Always good to place a ton of lead in the nose for 1st flight. The whole thing being worsened with thrust line below CG...

[cholubaz]

I beg to disagree. I think he did a smashing job of getting the nose to come down.

[BellowingBeaver]

holy effin hell guys, so sorry for the bad luck... it hurts just seeing it... :(

[popcornreviews]

Very nice bird!!!

Ive always fancied a turbine jet myself