Sopwith Camel crash on takeoff

At the Old Rhinebeck airport in NY a vintage Sopwith Camel was attempting to take off and then aborted. It crashed into a building at the side of the grass runway...

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• crash
• sopwith
• camel
• Rhinebeck
• airshow
• LaMarr

[jd5683]

2:15 to see it taking off

[DSi64man]

woooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuu­uuu

[wavecut1]

sex for the ears:-)

[Fokker1915]

I built a replica of the Fokker Eindecker which had the same sort of engine but I hid a modern engine under the cowl as well as brakes. It flew fairly well except for that goofy all-flying tail that went unstable at about 55mph. It was at Old Rhinebeck for a few years back in the 1970s.

[tnhl77]

@Fokker1915 wow I have been flying since I was 14 I am now 19 and I never knew that why did they now have throttles?

[GodsMan500]

I often think of how Snoopy softened and "cartoonified" the image of this beast of an aircraft. It was a deadly machine, and indeed many pilots were killed in training because of the engine torque . It could turn to the right on a dime, and any enemy pilot who came up against this monster knew chances were high that he might well not be going home.

The engine really does sound true to the video. It sounds like a constant barrage of ear-splitting pops. The most fearsome plane of the war.

[halnwheels]

@JBofBrisbane The P38 came up recently in another thread and it was said that even though the P-38 DID have counter-rotating props, they went the "wrong way". In other words, they were both critical engines. It was stated that it was done this way because of machine gun control or synchronization or something to that effect.

[halnwheels]

@CFITOMAHAWK Yep! It looks like the crownedrunway and the fact that there wasn't enough momentum to complete the turn, or rudder control, or brakes (on one wheel), just too many things working against him. Fortunately, it doesn't look too bad for the plane. Pilots egos are another matter

[bliesberg]

@Xiolablu3 Its not cutting out, its called a blip switch. All the old rotaries had them.

[hunterTS4]

i hate when fake towns get in the way while tryin to roll out!

[CFITOMAHAWK]

ENGINE FAILING, HE KEEPS TRYING TO TAKE OFF, THEN TURNS TO THE BUILDINGS WITH NO POWER ON RUDDER FOR TURNING WELL. YIHAAAA!!

[childsca]

Man that thing is noisy.