RC Messerschmitt Bf-109 with O.S. FS-200 4-stroke maiden flight / vol inaugural

Video location: http://bit.ly/Airfield_NE

1:32" aborted start with nose-over
1:52" successful start
4:00" aborted landing with big difficulties
4:55" successful landing

This is a Messerschmitt Bf-109 powered by an O.S. FS-200 (4-stroke) with a fantastic sound. I filmed the maiden flight of a colleague on the air field spontaneously with my Ixus 860 without zoom etc... and I tried to cut something together from a couple of sequences and photos. No music - just environmental and engine noise...

That day we had fluctuating cross winds and at the far end of the runway wild boars make wholes at night when they trample around. This often stops planes with littel wheels and they tend to tip over the nose.

Once in the air the model was behaving good, but the take-off seems to be quite difficult. It needed two approaches and tentative to land, which is normal with a model that you don't know yet. I think he achieved his objectives that day and nothing was broken at the end...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Messerschmitt
• Bf-109
• WW-II
• warbird
• rc
• model
• maiden
• flight
• vol
• inaugural
• start
• landing
• décollage
• atterrissage
• O.S.
• FS-200
• 4-stroke
• neuchâtel

[dtarm1]

After struggling to watch the lack of skill from the operator, I would be shocked to know this plane is still flying.

[Free07Style]

@dtarm1 I don't know if it still is, actually. I didn't see the guy since then

[marshallgibson89]

Thats a beautiful airplane, how much is that?

[Free07Style]

@marshallgibson89 The kit is around $ 600, the engine around $ 450 and depending on how you setup the electronics with a simple solution you will end up at $2000 and with higher quality setup around $ 2500 to $ 2800 both without the transmitter

[Ordensammler98]

@Free07Style und wo bekommt man so eins? möglichst billig und gut?



[Free07Style]

@Ordensammler98 Er hat es in einem lokalen Hobbyshop gekauft für ca. € 500. Es handelt sich anscheinend um ein Modell der Firma Topmodel - siehe 3w-topmodel-fr

[Free07Style]

Thanks for watching and thanks for your comment. Why? Because I was there and there are some interesting scenes that are worth to share with you. My flying skills are less the his and I believe that no skill level can be criticised as such as far as pilots are not putting others in danger. Everybody started one day and most of us will never be champions and don't even want to be one. His skills are actually not that bad - he build a nice plane, he flew it and he saved it on its maiden flight...

[eight7777777]

Calm down. It's YouTube. It's a cool vid and be grateful that someone took the time to create and upload a vid of a great plane in action.

[eclipser2004]

He did alright. Just needs to learn when to throw in a little right rudder, especially when adding power suddenly.

[nico2000103]

nice plane

[hokuspokus29]

landing is great

[RadioControlledSven]

I've flown in some tight spots before where diving from 100 - 30 feet is a requirement to land in one piece before the end of the runway. I'd say he did an amazing job at saving a tip stall 30 feet off the ground. I didn't have the luxury of saving my P51-D Mustang's tip stall at that height. The landing was planted nicely and stayed down without bouncing. AND if you can walk away without needing glue, its a great landing.

@Free07Style: Great job. Very nice plane.

[abelardojay2010]

Relax people. He was able to land it nicely. He was able to save it in the first place. It probably shoked him a bit but who wouldn't be?

It was a good landing at the end & that's that, right?

I wish I can build something like this one day.... Very nice plane.

[InSynR8]

What kind of approach is that? 50 meters high lets nosedive and pick up 100km/h to land. No wonder this thing almost crashed. Get a simulator!

[superchase08]

109's are a pain in the ass to fly! they always wanna tip stall real easy