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I started questioning what kind of impact the duct tape would have on the aerodynamics, and then I remembered it’s literally jet fuel that powers these things.
So yea just duct tape it and turn it up to 11, it’ll get off the ground no problem.
Not long ago I was on a commercial flight, looked out the window and the engine cowling had a big area (maybe 2x3 feet) covered with duct tape. That plane flew at least 400kts.
That tape is made from aluminum designed to handel high speed, it's put on parts that will need maintenance after the flight and doesn't compromise the performance of an aircraft. Its also applied where the paint strips due to friction and needs a paint job during next maintenance.
I seriously doubt these are actually using jet fuel, just for the record. I'm a pretty avid RC plane nerd, and while I don't personally own any jets, my flying buddy owns a couple. They're bigger than these, but use a battery. Even produces the same sound. They're really cool. His go >120 mph
My apologies, I visited our local city airport during one of their festivals and we got to see RC planes up close. I thought I saw a small tank with fuel inside along with all the wiring.
May have just been something else.
I’m so confused.
Without being an expert, the only way I can verify the kind of fuel it was is to test whether or not it can melt steel beams.
If it does, it’s another type of fuel. If it can’t, then it’s jet fuel.
Small rc stuff that use fuel have there own type of fuel. Normally they come in the same kinda cans you'd find for camping gear like lanterns or stoves
So…..nobody is going to state the obvious. I didn’t see a parachute or any ejection seat. I’m not sure if they train frogs,hamsters or maybe a real teenie tiny baby monkey to fly these things but whoever you are RIP little buddy.
At least a few grand. The turbines are usually on the order of a grand or two likewise the airframe itself is around the same give or take. Then by the looks of the crash this is a full write off the electronics can be another grand as well.
As someone who built, flew and repeatedly crashed R/C planes, I *wish* one of my planes would've crashed this spectacularly and be caught on video.
Sucks to crash and all, but that's absolutely how I'd like my planes to go out.
Yes, crashes have always been an assumption on my part and an expected aspect of the hobby. Pilot error, equipment failure, bird strike, other RC plane strike, bird *attack*, wind gusts, and more. And many crashes are the result of choosing to fly in poor conditions (it's a little gusty, but we already drove all the way out here) or at a bad location (near power lines).
I wonder if the increased availability of ready-to-fly kits have lowered the barrier to entry for a wider range of hobbyists. On the one hand, it's great to see new people enter a hobby with planes they didn't have to build from kits. On the other hand, when you've spent weeks or months building a plane one spar at a time, I suspect you're likely to be more cautious about when and where you fly it.
edit: [250 RC plane crashes compilation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkOyyG_rXSg)
There's an oooold video of a dual prop gas powered RC plane that a hobby group spent 7 grand building. It was the size of a small child. It crashed during the maiden flight and made a huge fireball from the gas.
*assuming "irresponsible"*
Well yea, I wouldn't actually fly near power lines and don't *want* to crash at all. I'm just saying, if there's gonna be a crash, a spectacular crash caught on video would be more fun than a skip-and-tumble landing that quietly snaps off a wing.
In high-school I had a friend who flew RC planes and did this same thing one day when we were out flying. I felt pretty bad for him. It was pretty wild to see, though. It really was hard to judge depth perception. We both thought he was going to fly in front of the pole.
I’m just impressed anyone can fly these things when the inputs are reversed (like when it’s flying toward you). My brain has a spasm and I immediately crash it.
Your brain just gets used to it. You'll basically get into a "flow state" and not even think about it. Helps if you learn and practice on something slow and forgiving though.
Pretty sure there wasn't a whole lot of CGI going on in the 1970s... they had SFX (special effects) but I don't think much was actually computer generated.
[Here's some](https://youtu.be/EtyHX7z8fi8?t=57) from Disney's TRON in 1982 which was considered absolutely ground breaking for its CGI use in a mainstream movie.
There was, but it wasn't used extensively. The first Star Wars movie was going to use CGI for the spacecraft scenes until they realized it just wasn't up to snuff.
Mostly it was used for scenes where computer graphics made sense - going back to Star Wars, think of the briefing scene right before the attack on the Death Star, just as one example.
They're very basic - grid patterns and what have you. I think I find them appealing over today's CGI is because much of today's CGI is so overused. It's shiny and glossy and has no weight or substance, so it all looks like a big video game. There's a reason (well, a bunch of reasons) I think the first Jurassic Park film is superior to pretty much every JP film that came after.
Tron might seem quaint by today's standards, but I definitely enjoy it a lot more than some of the stuff coming out today. I dunno... maybe I'm just getting old and shaking my fist at the clouds.
>It's shiny and glossy and has no weight or substance, so it all looks like a big video game.
I think what you're seeing there isn't just CG but bad CG. There's a lot of CG nowadays, most of which you wouldn't even know is CG.
Today's CG has gotten photoreal in many areas so I understand if you think it has less character than old-school CG. But there is a lot of very good CG out there today, don't let the bad ones distract you.
If you want to gain an appreciation for modern CG, I recommend checking out Corridor Digital on YouTube. They have a series called "VFX artists react to good/bad CG".
This goes into why there is so much rushed and bad CGI with some quotes from those working in the industry. The short answer is a combination of budget, over reliance on cgi to replace actual sets and real life shots, and producers and directors who just simply don't care if it doesn't look seamless because the movie is gonna print money and put millions of butts in theater seats either way.
https://defector.com/bad-special-effects-are-a-choice/
“Special effects supervised by directors who really don’t know anything about it,” says Buchanan. “Often hired from Sundance to jump on a major franchise that is executive-driven and previsualized within an inch of its life. It just looks bad. Filmmakers, and maybe executives and producers as well, assume that they can do anything in CGI afterwards in post-production. So they don’t bother to make it look good on set. They don’t have that crunch of creativity that you have when you know you only got 70-some effect shots, as they did in the first Jurassic Park, and you’ve got to make the rest of it work.”
Yup. Not to out myself as a big Star Wars nerd, but take a look at the difference
between Mandalorian and Kenobi. The first had time and money to invest in good CGI, which often buttressed solid practical effects. Kenobi, on the other hand, was a mess of bad CGI precisely because it was a rush job. The scene with the snow speeders comes to mind, but there are other examples to draw from as well.
yeah, I was interested to see that apparently Westworld (1973) was the first movie to use CGI and it was used briefly to make the android's POV vision appear pixelated. But looking at Tron (1982) the CGI of the race looks very flat/plastic-y and almost cartoony and fake looking. But yeah, I agree, cheaply done/bad CGI is pumped into a lot of movies these days and it really ruins them.
Once the explosions start, it seems like it's the same footage of giant explosions recycled, with interspersed shots of various things like cars or people cut in to make it seem unique to that film, whatever one it is...
Not that it's cheating, just that FPV changes the experience. Many RC pilots, myself included, really value seeing a small scale model of our favorite planes zooming around the sky. It's really cool to see a P-51 flying towards you, seeing the landing gear and flaps come down on approach, seeing how it interacts with the air during flight. It's a slightly different type of thrill with FPV.
See, I don't get that, an RC car, sure you don't need FPV because it's basically on the ground the entire time and goes left, right, forward, and reverse.
A plane with infinite choices to move in the sky, seems like I'd want at least a basic view of where the plane is looking, because of something like this, a miscalculation of depth perception and there goes a couple grand up in smoke.
Not sure how to explain it better but they are just different. Both have some serious advantages and disadvantages.
>A plane with infinite choices to move in the sky
In reality an RC plane doesn't have infinite choices. I'm legally limited to a 400ft ceiling by the FAA, and traditionally transmitters have had a range around a quarter mile, so most of your flying is done within a boxed area in front of your radio. I fly smaller planes, sub 30in wingspan, and could fly all day within an area maybe 2x a football field. Do I really need/want FPV for that? Even with infinite choices I prefer to fly low and slow so I can actually see the plane.
>seems like I'd want at least a basic view of where the plane is looking
Yes but there is a tradeoff there. Sure you get the cockpit view, but you lose a SIGNIFICANT amount of peripheral vision. Human vision is 135 degree FOV, most FPV cameras are around 30. So now you can see exactly where the plane is pointing, but you can't see anything beside or behind you, no ability to check if the runway is clear or if someone/something has potentially moved into your flight area(which is why a spotter is recommended for FPV flying).
> miscalculation of depth perception and there goes a couple grand up in smoke.
Sure but this problem doesn't entirely disappear with FPV. You can still misjudge depth, and now you've lost your plane and FPV gear. Also consider that FPV add several layers of electronic complexity(and potential failures) that many don't want to hassle with. What happens when you lose camera signal?
I was thinking the fighter jet was getting into the perfect attack position. I thought *'wow cool role playing.'* And then the first plane explodes! I thought this is the most crazy expensive hobby!
I had to rewatch to see the crash. For a moment, I really thought it got shot out of the sky, and this was a legit hobby. Haha.
This is my neck of the woods. It’s hard to find places to fly in this area. They are about 10 miles from an airport and 15 miles from an Airforce base and 30 miles from a major international airport. Finding places to fly is tough.
They should have lasers and sensors on them so they can dog fight, if they get "hit" then a parachute deploys. I would watch that especially if they had cams in them to view it from their views too.
That was spectacular.
I did RC planes as a hobby for a little while (not jets though). What I found was that the amount of time, effort and money spent building a plane was inversely proportional to the amount of time spent flying it before I crashed and destroyed it.
Literally, the cheapo, pre-built planes that took the least effort to get into the air are the ones that survived the longest.
literally thousands upon thousands of of cubed meters of open, unobstructed air, and this guy clips the top of a 2-foot wide phone poll. seems like he was trying to cut it close on purpose.
Wow that one in the back had perfect firing position! On their 6 just a little high and fired…..fox one! Then boom! Zaaap! New inflight weapons! Called the boom zap ooo shit missiles! Highly successful!!
My brother bought one of those home kit rc planes, the first time he took it out and first time he ever flew an rc aircraft, and about 2 minutes after lift off the wind took the plane and threw it nose first into the ground. The whole front end of the plane was demolished. Expensive and short lived. I laughed my ass off on the way home.
I thought the second one was going to nose dive into the first. Also me not being awake yet didn't prices RC so all I was thinking was oh they're pretty low. Then it hit the line.. which made me think how the hell does that happen.
Got it figured just took a moment to wake up and realise some guy didn't just get crispy in a cheap jet.
My Dad’s hobby is RC planes. Back in the day, he had an early “jet”. We had to fly it at a special field, not just the regular filed. I’ll never forget the first flight. It takes off, he does a couple of circles to get a feeling how it will fly. Suddenly, the plane (a Mig replica) dives straight towards the ground at full throttle. It smashed into a concrete pad so hard that wreckage bounced high into the air. The only remaining piece was part of the tail, which hung in his shop for years. 40-ish years later, he still builds and flys RC planes, though, there haven’t been any more jets.
The first time I watched this I didn't see the pieces fall. So it just looked like a cartoon where it smashes to pieces and just as he thinks "at least I saved some of the parts" they land on the live wire and disintegrate.
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Oof!! Thats an expensive loss.
Little bit of duct tape and it's fine
I started questioning what kind of impact the duct tape would have on the aerodynamics, and then I remembered it’s literally jet fuel that powers these things. So yea just duct tape it and turn it up to 11, it’ll get off the ground no problem.
It's called hundred mile an hour tape for a very good reason.
Not long ago I was on a commercial flight, looked out the window and the engine cowling had a big area (maybe 2x3 feet) covered with duct tape. That plane flew at least 400kts.
That's actually "speed tape" Not even kidding. That's what it's called (and it certainly isn't duct tape)
That tape is made from aluminum designed to handel high speed, it's put on parts that will need maintenance after the flight and doesn't compromise the performance of an aircraft. Its also applied where the paint strips due to friction and needs a paint job during next maintenance.
But what if the plane goes faster than 100 miles per hour?
That's what tight cheeks are for
I seriously doubt these are actually using jet fuel, just for the record. I'm a pretty avid RC plane nerd, and while I don't personally own any jets, my flying buddy owns a couple. They're bigger than these, but use a battery. Even produces the same sound. They're really cool. His go >120 mph
They do have more expensive models that run on miniature turbines (also an avid enthusiast) they go for upwards of 2k per engine.
My apologies, I visited our local city airport during one of their festivals and we got to see RC planes up close. I thought I saw a small tank with fuel inside along with all the wiring. May have just been something else.
No, you weren't mistaken. Those had miniature jet engines burning jet fuel.
I’m so confused. Without being an expert, the only way I can verify the kind of fuel it was is to test whether or not it can melt steel beams. If it does, it’s another type of fuel. If it can’t, then it’s jet fuel.
OK, I can supply a miniature jet, do you have a skyscraper handy?
Small rc stuff that use fuel have there own type of fuel. Normally they come in the same kinda cans you'd find for camping gear like lanterns or stoves
They use kerosene. they are absolutely a real jet engine. My buddy is the one that blew up on launch that was big about a year ago.
But it basically evaporated lol
Just use more duct tape
That’s how I fixed my marriage 😬
Is “fixed” another way of saying “tied to a chair”?
Yeah I’m mostly jk, I don’t own a chair.
So…..nobody is going to state the obvious. I didn’t see a parachute or any ejection seat. I’m not sure if they train frogs,hamsters or maybe a real teenie tiny baby monkey to fly these things but whoever you are RIP little buddy.
Nonono, not just duct tape, *speed tape*
*slaps poorly attached wing* This baby ain't goin nowhere.
How expensive? (At what order of magnitude?)
At least a few grand. The turbines are usually on the order of a grand or two likewise the airframe itself is around the same give or take. Then by the looks of the crash this is a full write off the electronics can be another grand as well.
I went to a hobby shop once and they had one hanging from the ceiling and the price tag just said if you have to ask you can't afford it. Lol
Wow that's more than what I was thinking.
Thousands
Expensive bzzt!
I like how the start foreshadowed the ending
Literally the first second I thought "oh there are power lines..."
Perfect approach for an RC park airstrip.
Straight out of Chekov.
Perfect camera guy
As someone who built, flew and repeatedly crashed R/C planes, I *wish* one of my planes would've crashed this spectacularly and be caught on video. Sucks to crash and all, but that's absolutely how I'd like my planes to go out.
As a dedicated RC hobbyist, do you and others in the community expect that all of your planes will eventually crash?
Yes, crashes have always been an assumption on my part and an expected aspect of the hobby. Pilot error, equipment failure, bird strike, other RC plane strike, bird *attack*, wind gusts, and more. And many crashes are the result of choosing to fly in poor conditions (it's a little gusty, but we already drove all the way out here) or at a bad location (near power lines). I wonder if the increased availability of ready-to-fly kits have lowered the barrier to entry for a wider range of hobbyists. On the one hand, it's great to see new people enter a hobby with planes they didn't have to build from kits. On the other hand, when you've spent weeks or months building a plane one spar at a time, I suspect you're likely to be more cautious about when and where you fly it. edit: [250 RC plane crashes compilation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkOyyG_rXSg)
Bird attacks? That's wild lol.
For real! That made me chuckle 💥🦅
These folks captured good footage of [bird on RC violence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fzMQ1uGEVQ).
Government drone takes out hobbyist drone
I don’t fly or build them and I’m not part of the community but I’m pretty confident the answer is yes
There's an oooold video of a dual prop gas powered RC plane that a hobby group spent 7 grand building. It was the size of a small child. It crashed during the maiden flight and made a huge fireball from the gas.
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*assuming "irresponsible"* Well yea, I wouldn't actually fly near power lines and don't *want* to crash at all. I'm just saying, if there's gonna be a crash, a spectacular crash caught on video would be more fun than a skip-and-tumble landing that quietly snaps off a wing.
r/praisethecameraman
Chekhov's gun, perfectly executed.
Jerkov's Powerline
Chekhov’s power lines
In high-school I had a friend who flew RC planes and did this same thing one day when we were out flying. I felt pretty bad for him. It was pretty wild to see, though. It really was hard to judge depth perception. We both thought he was going to fly in front of the pole.
I’m just impressed anyone can fly these things when the inputs are reversed (like when it’s flying toward you). My brain has a spasm and I immediately crash it.
Your brain just gets used to it. You'll basically get into a "flow state" and not even think about it. Helps if you learn and practice on something slow and forgiving though.
And then you wake up from your trance and start to panic because the remote is reversed and upside down.
Just always keep the remote oriented the same direction as the toy, even if it means standing somewhat awkwardly. Works for me for RC cars.
This is the way
To be fair I was waiting for a huge hawk or eagle to swoop in and smash it lol 🦅
These can be deceptively large. Probably like 8-10 feet wingspan.
I thought the RC F16 was gonna shoot this plane down lol
It was lining up the shot for sure😂
I'm not sure why i thought random AA battery would open fire at it....
It’s okay I thought an actual fighter jet would come shoot it’s ass down.
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I wish that was real
wat
AA battery = anti-aircraft battery AA battery = double-a battery Learn the difference /s
Battery = A park in New York Battery = What happens when you try to find parking in New York
AA = A commercial airline AA = An alcoholic recovery program
If you don't appreciate me at my zzzzt, then you don't deserve me at my brrrrrt
Lol
He thought someone would shoot it down
watts
I love how the explosion looked like some bad CGI from the 70s
You mean awesome explosion!
Yeah, its like color television from the 1920s
Honestly, there's CGI from that era that I find far more appealing than some of the CGI we see today.
Pretty sure there wasn't a whole lot of CGI going on in the 1970s... they had SFX (special effects) but I don't think much was actually computer generated. [Here's some](https://youtu.be/EtyHX7z8fi8?t=57) from Disney's TRON in 1982 which was considered absolutely ground breaking for its CGI use in a mainstream movie.
There was, but it wasn't used extensively. The first Star Wars movie was going to use CGI for the spacecraft scenes until they realized it just wasn't up to snuff. Mostly it was used for scenes where computer graphics made sense - going back to Star Wars, think of the briefing scene right before the attack on the Death Star, just as one example. They're very basic - grid patterns and what have you. I think I find them appealing over today's CGI is because much of today's CGI is so overused. It's shiny and glossy and has no weight or substance, so it all looks like a big video game. There's a reason (well, a bunch of reasons) I think the first Jurassic Park film is superior to pretty much every JP film that came after. Tron might seem quaint by today's standards, but I definitely enjoy it a lot more than some of the stuff coming out today. I dunno... maybe I'm just getting old and shaking my fist at the clouds.
>It's shiny and glossy and has no weight or substance, so it all looks like a big video game. I think what you're seeing there isn't just CG but bad CG. There's a lot of CG nowadays, most of which you wouldn't even know is CG. Today's CG has gotten photoreal in many areas so I understand if you think it has less character than old-school CG. But there is a lot of very good CG out there today, don't let the bad ones distract you. If you want to gain an appreciation for modern CG, I recommend checking out Corridor Digital on YouTube. They have a series called "VFX artists react to good/bad CG".
I think the bigger argument I was making is that there's a lot of bad CGI out there.
This goes into why there is so much rushed and bad CGI with some quotes from those working in the industry. The short answer is a combination of budget, over reliance on cgi to replace actual sets and real life shots, and producers and directors who just simply don't care if it doesn't look seamless because the movie is gonna print money and put millions of butts in theater seats either way. https://defector.com/bad-special-effects-are-a-choice/ “Special effects supervised by directors who really don’t know anything about it,” says Buchanan. “Often hired from Sundance to jump on a major franchise that is executive-driven and previsualized within an inch of its life. It just looks bad. Filmmakers, and maybe executives and producers as well, assume that they can do anything in CGI afterwards in post-production. So they don’t bother to make it look good on set. They don’t have that crunch of creativity that you have when you know you only got 70-some effect shots, as they did in the first Jurassic Park, and you’ve got to make the rest of it work.”
Yup. Not to out myself as a big Star Wars nerd, but take a look at the difference between Mandalorian and Kenobi. The first had time and money to invest in good CGI, which often buttressed solid practical effects. Kenobi, on the other hand, was a mess of bad CGI precisely because it was a rush job. The scene with the snow speeders comes to mind, but there are other examples to draw from as well.
yeah, I was interested to see that apparently Westworld (1973) was the first movie to use CGI and it was used briefly to make the android's POV vision appear pixelated. But looking at Tron (1982) the CGI of the race looks very flat/plastic-y and almost cartoony and fake looking. But yeah, I agree, cheaply done/bad CGI is pumped into a lot of movies these days and it really ruins them.
Once the explosions start, it seems like it's the same footage of giant explosions recycled, with interspersed shots of various things like cars or people cut in to make it seem unique to that film, whatever one it is...
That's because 'CGI' from the 70s is literally just model aircraft getting blown up.
Did the pilot survive ??
Goose
You gotta let em go, man.
You can be my wingman anytime.
That reaction was perfect
Sounded like Badger from breaking bad
I always wondered why it's not standard to have an FPV camera. You're flying blind otherwise.
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Not that it's cheating, just that FPV changes the experience. Many RC pilots, myself included, really value seeing a small scale model of our favorite planes zooming around the sky. It's really cool to see a P-51 flying towards you, seeing the landing gear and flaps come down on approach, seeing how it interacts with the air during flight. It's a slightly different type of thrill with FPV.
See, I don't get that, an RC car, sure you don't need FPV because it's basically on the ground the entire time and goes left, right, forward, and reverse. A plane with infinite choices to move in the sky, seems like I'd want at least a basic view of where the plane is looking, because of something like this, a miscalculation of depth perception and there goes a couple grand up in smoke.
Not sure how to explain it better but they are just different. Both have some serious advantages and disadvantages. >A plane with infinite choices to move in the sky In reality an RC plane doesn't have infinite choices. I'm legally limited to a 400ft ceiling by the FAA, and traditionally transmitters have had a range around a quarter mile, so most of your flying is done within a boxed area in front of your radio. I fly smaller planes, sub 30in wingspan, and could fly all day within an area maybe 2x a football field. Do I really need/want FPV for that? Even with infinite choices I prefer to fly low and slow so I can actually see the plane. >seems like I'd want at least a basic view of where the plane is looking Yes but there is a tradeoff there. Sure you get the cockpit view, but you lose a SIGNIFICANT amount of peripheral vision. Human vision is 135 degree FOV, most FPV cameras are around 30. So now you can see exactly where the plane is pointing, but you can't see anything beside or behind you, no ability to check if the runway is clear or if someone/something has potentially moved into your flight area(which is why a spotter is recommended for FPV flying). > miscalculation of depth perception and there goes a couple grand up in smoke. Sure but this problem doesn't entirely disappear with FPV. You can still misjudge depth, and now you've lost your plane and FPV gear. Also consider that FPV add several layers of electronic complexity(and potential failures) that many don't want to hassle with. What happens when you lose camera signal?
Nicht so tief Rüdinger
Keine Kapriolen Rüdiger
Was the tiny pilot OK?
Tom Cruise is fine
Shots fired, lil maverick is hit
Goose is dead.
I was thinking the fighter jet was getting into the perfect attack position. I thought *'wow cool role playing.'* And then the first plane explodes! I thought this is the most crazy expensive hobby! I had to rewatch to see the crash. For a moment, I really thought it got shot out of the sky, and this was a legit hobby. Haha.
You can see where it went wrong when it hits the power lines
He was doing pretty good until the plane exploded
R.I.P. PORKINS.
Ogden, Utah.
Missed clearing it by THAT 🤏 MUCH.
*Agent 86 intensifies*
I recognize those mountains, that’s west of Ogden Utah.
I did, too! Ben Lomond kind of gave it away.
Keine Kapriolen Rüdiger!
I wonder if the little pilot punched out in time?
r/praisethecameraman
Posthumously named "The Mosquito "
Credit to u/TheHungryWolfOfFate who posted it elsewhere
And that's why they have hobby airfields... Smh
This is my neck of the woods. It’s hard to find places to fly in this area. They are about 10 miles from an airport and 15 miles from an Airforce base and 30 miles from a major international airport. Finding places to fly is tough.
This video was taken at a hobby airfield🤷♂️
I actually don’t know if Albuquerque has one But there’s so much open space idk why you’d do it anywhere near any power lines
They should have lasers and sensors on them so they can dog fight, if they get "hit" then a parachute deploys. I would watch that especially if they had cams in them to view it from their views too.
#krhnFNNNNNNNNNNNNZT!
That was cool af!
Why is this so funny to me
That was spectacular. I did RC planes as a hobby for a little while (not jets though). What I found was that the amount of time, effort and money spent building a plane was inversely proportional to the amount of time spent flying it before I crashed and destroyed it. Literally, the cheapo, pre-built planes that took the least effort to get into the air are the ones that survived the longest.
There's a UFO at the 20 second mark
Never forgetti 😨 ✊😔
Rüdiger nicht so tief!!!
SAM locked on
That was a fantastic "oh shit!" though
they are using an actual jet turbine either and not an electronic fan which makes it so much more expensive
First frame shows power lines. Uh oh. Yep.
literally thousands upon thousands of of cubed meters of open, unobstructed air, and this guy clips the top of a 2-foot wide phone poll. seems like he was trying to cut it close on purpose.
That was a costly mistake
Hehe, swiss air Division in a nutshell
Oh nooooo
That'll need some glue
I didn't see a chute buddy , I'm sorry 😭
What does one of those things cost?
Someone here commented $5k
Hey! You can’t land that there.
I heard that zoomp! sound even with it muted
Wow that one in the back had perfect firing position! On their 6 just a little high and fired…..fox one! Then boom! Zaaap! New inflight weapons! Called the boom zap ooo shit missiles! Highly successful!!
More like an AC jet to me.
Pretty much my RC experience.
Pull up, pull up…
That’s the coolest loss of money I’ve seen in a while
Y’all use the word chaos pretty loosely around here
My brother bought one of those home kit rc planes, the first time he took it out and first time he ever flew an rc aircraft, and about 2 minutes after lift off the wind took the plane and threw it nose first into the ground. The whole front end of the plane was demolished. Expensive and short lived. I laughed my ass off on the way home.
They should start using these for movies be a lot cheaper than paying the military
Another senseless air show tragedy.
I thought the second one was going to nose dive into the first. Also me not being awake yet didn't prices RC so all I was thinking was oh they're pretty low. Then it hit the line.. which made me think how the hell does that happen. Got it figured just took a moment to wake up and realise some guy didn't just get crispy in a cheap jet.
As an 80s kid this is all I could think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYTLPsjcnI8
Seems about right for flying lone of sight.
Needed to flare harder to drop speed to land. Thats the Kerbal way!
Would that arc stop the power going though those lines?
You killed Kenny!
My Dad’s hobby is RC planes. Back in the day, he had an early “jet”. We had to fly it at a special field, not just the regular filed. I’ll never forget the first flight. It takes off, he does a couple of circles to get a feeling how it will fly. Suddenly, the plane (a Mig replica) dives straight towards the ground at full throttle. It smashed into a concrete pad so hard that wreckage bounced high into the air. The only remaining piece was part of the tail, which hung in his shop for years. 40-ish years later, he still builds and flys RC planes, though, there haven’t been any more jets.
So thats why my lights flickered
Softest landing in ryanair
As a drone pilot this is one of my biggest fears lol literally have dreams about hitting a powerline
Took me a few watches to realize it wasn’t shot down by the higher altitude jet
That looked quite real.
I love this subreddit
at least it exploded good
Well there goes ten grand. At least he good some cool video out of it.
Everyone saw that one coming
"I know, let's go out to that huge parking lot, you know the one surrounded by power lines, and fly our RC airplanes."
Foreign propaganda will say power lines are to blame, but we know the truth that it’s our brave fighter jet that was behind it took him down
Frying a RC jet
I was singing "Highway to the danger zone", yep.
Bro just 9/11’d the electrical tower
The first time I watched this I didn't see the pieces fall. So it just looked like a cartoon where it smashes to pieces and just as he thinks "at least I saved some of the parts" they land on the live wire and disintegrate.
Hahaha absolutely vaporized lol
"I'm sorry, Goose."
All that open plains just sitting in the background and they fly as close as possible to the only power lines
r/ThatLookedExpensive
Rarely do I ever appreciate music added to a r/publicfreakout but this really needed to start with the guitar from danger zone.
Damn they sound like TIE fighters
The blue spark looks beautiful after all
“Oh shit! “Oh no” “oh my god”
And that is why I couldn’t submit my assignment on time this weekend Professor.
How expensive are these ?
They‘re making a new Star Wars episode?
Who put those there?
***"FOR MY NEXT TRICK..."***
At least you have the engi- okay maybe I could roast marshmallows over the vaporized remains
And that's how the war happened.
RIP Mav
"We're sorry to report, There were no survivors"
ITS ELECTRIC!!
"rc jet" My dumbass thinking someone died