Jet powered RC plane - takeoff and crash

This beautiful jet powered model takes off and does some excellent flying but then all of a sudden the engine cuts out. Well no engine, we know what happens. Crash!

(Jet Action 2007, Adelaide Model Airosport Field, Monarto, South Australia - 26 May 2007)

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Entertainment

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• jet
• action
• Adelaide
• model
• airosport
• field
• Monarto
• Australia
• powered
• RC
• radio
• controlled
• airplane
• plane
• crash
• F18
• Hornet

[kalliber5]

I hate the most of the stupid cameraman (women) who stops shooting after a big event, this is annoying and shows lack of creatism.

bad luck for the pilot, great flight bad movie

[trevidau]

@kalliber5 - Didn't stop shooting. Cut it on the edit desk as there was nothing to see except trees and people walking towards it.

[crazydale]

Hi, i actually think he made a bad decision there, with the speed he was going he could definatly made another circuit and landed, now you're going to say well how would you know, i know because i've flew a boomerang turbine jet and unfortunatly flamed out on takeoff and i managed to do a circuit and land again, all in one bit. So i think him deploying his speed brakes was the first mistake he made, trying to land there was also bad judgment. Rate me bad or whatever, i'm aloud my own opinion

[tigerhornet]

i'm the owner of this model, its an f-18c hornet, 2.2m long (7ft) weighs about 13kg + fuel and flys at 280kph. it definatly did not run out of fuel, the radio control suffered interference and is programmed to stop the engine if it goes for more than 2 sec. it has been repaired and has flown again (8 times) and feels as good as new. thanks for all the kind comments. look into the hobby, its very rewarding!

[GoEflight]

Hey for all you complaining about his "terrible dead stick landing" your wrong...a jet has extremely high stall speed and with his position he could glide it ALL the way for a down wind cross wind then final approach...what he did was the best decision he probably could've made.

[dino312989]

That "beautiful plane" is a F-18.

[mr420ishigh]

oh shit here comes mr. smart ass crazydale hey we dnt care that u flew a boomerang turbine jet cus i dnt give a rats ass nd they guy is a shitty lander ahaaha

[BigBuggyDinosaur]

Oh God, I can't believe Im even going to comment here. You think a Boomerang is anything like an F-18?? You get ONE, I repeat, ONE turn with a flamed out bug! Thats it!

[Snuggfit4u]

@crazydale Your talking out of your ass, crazydic

[sciencefreak85]

that is one hell of an airlplan, damn its scary

sorry for ur lost

[socommk233]

id have thought someone flying a large expencive rc jet would have thought about EVENTUALITIES before flying ?

plan ahead and get some proper experiencewith dead stick and this could have been properly avoided!

[governmentcheese411]

i see no reason for the crash at all. he had plenty of speed to pull off and land it. oh well, hope you had insurance.