Air New Zealand loses an 787.

[Rusty Heap]

Air New Zealand loses a new low flight hour 787 as an Awesome R/C jet.





Inflight Video before and after AOG when it's burning on ground.


super realistic, scale sound and controls...............



until it goes splat crashes at the 5 minute mark.

sad.




https://youtu.be/WEZ0EuRFLgs?t=222

[porsche4life]

Sure that wasn’t a Max8?

[Bob Kontak]

9:00-9:15 in they show the in-plane vid of the crash.

Note foam exit door popping open a few seconds before impact. Explosive bolts?

[Zeke]

Did you see the bicyclist? Not much chance he would have been hit, but there still is that chance. So, RC guys don't operate in secure areas?

[berettafan]

oh man what a heartbreaker! awesome plane.

I crashed a propped sporty plane with a lipo battery years ago. middle of a bean field. same moment they experienced when the smoke started coming up. scary!

[oldE]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

9:00-9:15 in they show the in-plane vid of the crash.

Note foam exit door popping open a few seconds before impact. Explosive bolts?

I would guess the aircraft was side slipping and the pressure imbalance caused the door to pop.
It sure was pretty until that last turn.

Best
Les

[sc_rufctr]

Huge batteries!

Great looking plane... I'm sure he'll build another.

[Seahawk]

Same guy?

[mb911]

Around here if something happens in a farm field you respect the farmer's crops..

[berettafan]

Build video....gonna have to check that out. Such a neat hobby!

[cstreit]

I've been there. Lost a really nice Extra 300S that way years ago...

[GH85Carrera]

One of my old buddies got into large scale model airplanes in a major way. He was a widower so he had the run of the house for his toy shop, and deep pockets.

He built the 1/4 scale Winnie Mae. He started with a 1/4 scale kit, then started over from scratch and made it far more detailed build. He did the weights and balances calculations to build the airplane around a engine to make it perform like the real thing. He even made a costume for himself and went to schools to give talks to school kids while he was dressed up like Wiley Post. He only flew it once, as he had crazy amounts of time building it. I sure hope that model is in a museum somewhere.

He had other large scale models he flew, but the Winnie Mae was his special build.

[flipper35]

RC Groups has some awesome sections on large, scale aircraft.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by bob kontak

note foam exit door popping open a few seconds before impact. Explosive bolts?

isis

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by mb911

Around here if something happens in a farm field you respect the farmer's crops..

I thought the same thing. The farmer works hard to plant and grow his crops. Then this guy crashes his RC jet in his field, spraying fuel and fire extinguisher all over the place, and trampling his crops.

[berettafan]

Originally Posted by flipper35

RC Groups has some awesome sections on large, scale aircraft.

must resist.....

[drcoastline]

Were there any survivors?

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by drcoastline

Were there any survivors?

No passengers survived.