F15 RC model jet breaks up in mid-air and crashes

This turbine-powered RC plane breaks up in mid air and plunges to the ground in pieces. Damn, I missed the actual break-up but I did catch the bits falling.

Nobody's totally sure what happened but it's possible that a heavy landing earlier in the day may have weakened the spar which later broke, causing the left wing to tear-free and knock off the vertical stabilizers -- resulting in an uncontrolled flat-spin for the rest of the model.

RC jets are great fun but you can spend money *really* fast when things like this happen.

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Sports

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• F15
• Eagle
• jet
• turbine
• crash
• explode
• deadstick
• Tokoroa

[xjet]

@appa609 But you forget that 97.32% of all statistics are made up on the spot to support the poster's argument :-)

[appa609]

@xjet

unfortunately, it's also 60% of all people who replied, and assuming (though not accounting for voluntary response bias) that likelihood of voting is the same for likes and dislikes, that means that approximately 675/1100, or 0.613636364 of viewers would have voted dislike. a 95% CI of the proportion is {0.584861492-0.642411235}

[Prancinglion1]

Damn nice job on the plane, looks like you captured every detail... to bad you experienced a "Gravity Check" at the wrong time. But... alas, you did indeed prove gravity is doing fine. Again... you do some really teriffic work on your models.

[sok8888]

Where is the RC fire truck? You cannot fly RC plane without stand-by RC fire safety. :-) LoL.

[9Apilot]

Don't feel so bad. The real ones do it, too.

[cheekymonkey242424]

Did the pilot eject??? i hdo hope he is OK!!

[heettreet]

the f15 breaks up in mid air ,,,,, what does it do?????? oh , the title tills us :)

[Photonemmission]

@guybro20 i wish i could insert the top gun main theme here.. (not Playing with the Boys.. that never happened)

[guybro20]

GOOSE I CANT REACH THE EJECTION HANDEL... AHHH IM, TRYING EJECT EJECT EJECT!!!!. (by the way befor idiots start pointing out i know this is an F15 and topgun was F14s)

[MX304]

8 out of 7 people dislike this video.

[gershon34]

@gershon34 maybe if it took an eye out, or something.

[gershon34]

if you like ill photoshop some fire and blood and screams, might cut down on the dislikes.