The RC B-58 Hustler Saga: Full Build, Flight & CRASH!
Вставка
- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Join me on an epic and heartbreaking journey with my RC B-58 Hustler in this comprehensive build & flight video! You'll laugh (maybe), you'll cry (definitely) and maybe pick up a tip or two in the process of building and flying this iconic supersonic bomber. I do wish that this project had ended differently, but unfortunately mistakes do happen even to the best of us (I can only blame myself for the crash)...but I WILL build another one and I will NOT repeat the same mistake! A big thank you to Brian Smith for helping video and John Pryor, his son, and everyone at the airport for their search and rescue operations!
Model Specifications:
RC B-58 Hustler
Scale: 1/15
Wingspan: 46"
Total weight: 20.75lb
EDFs: 4xSchubeler DS-30-AXI HDS (69mm)
The model is all hollow-molded fiberglass from a limited edition Jet Hangar Hobbies kit with scale retracts from RCCrafters. Servos are all Hitec using a Spektrum iX20 radio system.
▼SEE MORE!▼
See the Full B-58 Build Series ► bit.ly/RCB58Build
RC B-58 Hustler First Flight & Crash ► • From Triumph to Traged...
Previous Scale Projects ► bit.ly/YTRefinishing
Building the Ultimate Race Plane ► • The ULTIMATE Race Plan...
▼HELP SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL▼
Join the Patreon Team ► / thercgeek
Buy Me a Coffee ► www.buymeacoffee.com/thercgeek
Horizon Hobby ► bit.ly/HorizHby
Legend Hobby ► bit.ly/LegendHobby
FMS Hobby ► bit.ly/FMSHobby
RTL Fasteners ►bit.ly/RTLFstnr
Bitgo Hobby ► bit.ly/BitgoHby
RIPT Apparel ► bit.ly/GeekRIPTApparel (Awesome Geek Shirts!)
StarBond CA Glue ► bit.ly/StarBondCA (Use Code "Geek10" at checkout to save 10% OFF your purchase!)
TRCG Swag & Shirts►teespring.com/stores/the-rc-geek
TRCG Centerburner AB Lights ► thercgeek.com/centerburner
TRCG 3D Printing ► thercgeek.com/category/3D-Parts
00:00 The Ultimate B-58 Hustler
00:42 Let the Build BEGIN!
00:54 Setting up the Elevons
01:34 Building the Drag Chute System
02:26 Building the Drag Chute Doors
03:45 Drag Chute in Action
04:08 Installing the Pull-Pull Steering
04:33 Building the Nose Gear Doors
05:24 Actuating the Nose Doors
05:49 Building the Main Gear Doors
06:36 Actuating the Main Gear Doors
07:18 Scale Retract Check!
07:32 Cockpit Wind Screens
08:23 Installing the EDFs and Afterburners
09:56 Paint Prep
10:43 Full BURNER!
10:59 Painting the Trim Colors
11:41 Painting Aluminum
12:17 Natural Metal Variation
13:01 Painting Markings
14:11 Detail Lettering
14:33 Whole Aircraft Weathering
16:02 Maiden Flight
18:37 Uh-Oh
19:19 What Happened??
19:31 What NEXT?? - Наука та технологія
This hurts my soul! Such a gorgeous bird! If there were one single build that I wanted to succeed... this is the one! Unbelievable detail in every step of the process... even when plan B kicked in. Rev 2 will be much better!
A work of art. I'm sorry to see her go.
What a beautiful B-58! It was a pleasure watching her fly, and I'm sorry it crashed. Looking forward to watching the build on the second one.
You have built a perfect model of a perfect Convair B-58 Hustler, it was heartbreaking to know it crashed, however we learn from our mistakes. I admire your aircraft building prowess and I'm looking forward to your next videos. Thank you for sharing with all of us.
Thanks so much!
One of the most stunning models ive ever seen. And she was flying so damn good too
All the engineering, crafting, planning, attention to detail… it’s amazing to watch you work- you sir, are a true artisan!! Thank you for putting it all out there Chris- Heartbreaking to watch it crash, but I’m THRILLED to hear you say you’ll build another!!! 🎊 😁🎉🍻
I love RC. I switched to ground vehicles because i would build for months and fly for one minute. MAYBE! Now i use the TV and a game controller. Still got the rc's, but all the planes were recycled into tooth picks long ago
What an amazing build too... I'd be willing to bet they were Castle ESCs... I had this happen the first and last time I tried them. Only Hobbywing from then on and have never had another ESC failure in 10 years. Never again...
Looked, sounded, flew amazing! I love how you kept smiling even when it crashed and how you kept calm. Must have been an expensive crash and I get really upset whenever I crash
Most gorgeous model I ever saw. Can't wait to see another one.
This is almost enough to make me cry. Beautiful work.
Have to say, as a static guy, I really was impressed with your finishing. Which is what gets me when I hear a pilot say the words "I don't have it."😥(I said those words before, but it was just an ARF.)
Sorry, buddy. Gorgeous plane.
Brother, My heart was broken for you. Guttered.
That was one absolutely gorgeous model of a very beautiful aircraft. Your work is on another level!!!
Amazing attention to detail, and weirdly enough, a lot of the painstaking care you took especially with the gear doors I can empathise. Personally I would have been...Far too afraid to fly it.
I built a HET F-4 Phantom II back in 2004-2006. It didn't have any gear at all. It's custom machined air retracts were in a very shallow wing so I had to shape the gear doors much like you did. Had bulges in the strut doors for clearance. Inner doors which were shaped aswell, were servo operated as was the nose gear door. The entire build took two years. Under the model when stowed the gear and doors were nearly perfectly flush and countless cycles on them before flight they worked wonderfully...Air retracts tend to slam a bit lol.
The doors were on a sequencer back then. The detail I added to the thing (no weathering) was my finest work ever on a balsa/ply model.
It flew once...poorly. When I mean poorly, it needed up elevator the whole time. C of G was good and all.
Wasn't a full flying stab. The elevators were too small.
It was very fast though. Twin HET 6904's with 2W20 motors running at the time the best Lipos I could buy.
The incidence between the wing and horizontal stab were way out.
I got it home barely and has sit ever since as an ornament. One day I'll get servoless retracts and rebuild the tail but these days... The Freewing F-4 is just better.....easier.
Now I just fly foamies.
I do hope you rebuild the B-58. It's an epic aircraft and you did it perfect justice. Jaw dropping model.
BTW I love your centre burners!!! Mine is still going strong 5 years later!!
Cheers from Australia!
So sorry Buddy. I hope you can rebuild her again.
what a good attitude. I get all worked up on loses. Nice build bud.
Chris. I really hope you put this back on the bench one day.
Everything about it says everything about it.
May be a how to rebuild .. either way i love your channel and your content.
You are an artist buddy. Spectacular.... sad to see her crash...
I'm still in awe about your building skills, very inspiring. And I still feel sad that it had to end this way. But it was a superb model, and it seemed to fly so well. Thanks for this compilation video!
Thanks for watching! 😊
Man that sucks but you handled it like a champ…. Very impressed by your skills in building everything looked amazing
wow.. Thats a lot of work! Thanks for sharing. Hope this helps others with building!!
I hope so! 😊
Superb model! Well done!
Chris,
That was an amazing project and build and I applaud how much modeling skills that took to create. It was an incredible looking and flying jet.
You also remind us of how these projects can unfortunately end sometimes but I have to say you showed an incredible amount of dignity and class at the worst of times. Something we can all aspire to. We’re with you brother.
Stay well and keep flying.
Doug K
Anchorage Alaska.
Dang Chris that made me sick😢 when it went in. Sorry for the loss.
Bummer, was a nice plane and looked cool flying!!!
Thanks
Seeing your engineering skills, seeing the model, ya gotta build another one! You will kick yourself in the ass, when your my age, if you don't,,,Love,,,DUBS,,,,
Excellent work she took off and flew well until the esc failure or brown out
That was the saddest Video I have seen in years. So sorry Chris. I have seen some bad stuff but that brought tears to my eyes.
God speed Hustler..
A true craftsman at work fantastic to see how you do what you do, also heartbreaking to see it go down after all that hard work. What a stunning model it was 😢
Thank you!
Just beautiful to watch your work! Makes me ashamed of my own ham-fisted efforts. I also admire your phlegm in the face of adversity - we've all been there, but not with such a work of art.
Thank you! Cheers!
Holy crap! I had no IDEA you did that much paint work on that beauty. So gorgeous. The airbrushed insignia work and those friggin panels... wow. I can't imagine how gut wrenching it must've been when she went down.
That drag chute rig was super cool, man. Great video. Thanks for sharing this journey with us. I actually feel a lot better about my "re-maidens" after I've done some rudimentary rattle can job on one of my foamies- and how jittery i get because of the "work" i put in. 😊
Yours was like a flying Sistine Chapel, Chris. 👍
ouch. Such a gorgeous plane. I had a similar issue with an ME262 (in-flight video on my page). ESC caught fire mid flight, luckily able to land dead stick and fly again.
Such a superb compilation video Chris. I admire all of your hard work. They say that a man with good hands will never go hungry and that's very true. Thank you so much for bringing all of us along on the journey with your amazing B-58 Hustler.
AirHammer out!!
Thanks man!
Good job on the build, sorry to see it crash.
Looked great and sounded awesome. That sucks
uh-oh....those words strike fear into the heart of any rc pilot. R.i.P. B58 you flew well until your melt down.
"sweet dreams and flying machine in pieces on the ground" - James Taylor- Fire and Rain
And here I am attaching a foam wing to a foam fuse thinking Im cool. Sorry to see what happened 😢
awesomework and effort. As a fellow modeler, I extend the utmost of respect to you !!
Thank you so much 👍
Such a stunning aircraft! 😢
TBH I was sitting there yelling “pop the chute“ in my head at the TV. I hope to see you make a new one.
Such an amazing build and plane. It’s sad that it had to go, but there’s always something else to look forward to.
Truly fantastic achievement, despite the crash, it flews well. A very challenging project in all aspects, it is a 4 engine delta! congrats!
Such a big beautiful bird, and really a marvel of a build by you.. You did a fantastic job with the build videos that I will watch again and again. Amazing flight with the exception of the ending. You took it alot better than what I would have. I would have been on my knees going “Noooooo” and then crying! Ohhh the crying.
I can’t wait to see you build another one. Especially with the lessons learned from the first one that you built. Good luck
Heart breaking after so much hard work . But being the true professional you are , on wards and up . A small plus you have some beautiful footage of the whole build ,including in flight. Proof of concept. Round two will be an an amazing bird . Greets from New Zealand.
Oh my, I’m sorry for your loss. But if you are anything like me you love the building of an aircraft just as much or more than flying them. I’m blown away that you don’t have a inline voltage meter and didn’t oversize the ESCs by 10-20%. Love ❤️ your content
I normally go for extra headroom on the esc’s, but allowed my concern for the airframe weight to dictate a slightly smaller esc here that I thought still had headroom, just not as much as I normally go for…which as it turned out was a mistake… 😕
@@Thercgeek being able to learn from our mistakes is a key to life, but life for me is RC lol #LoveRC
Thanks for the Great effort! Sorry it eneded like that.
So sorry about that Chris!!! I watched every video from start to finish, I followed your each and every step! Then to see that happen, was just terrible! You stated that you will build another one at the end of the video, can't wait to see it, keep up the great work!!! Robert
What a beautiful bird, dang thats so sad to see 😭😭😭 That's how the hobby goes 🤷🏻
Flying Finn ✈️⭐⭐⭐⭐
Tough to watch again, but we do appreciate you sharing your building skills and journey with the B58. I'm sure you've thoroughly watched the videos, but did you notice you lost a wheel during rotation at 17:20 in this video?
Yeah, one of the main gear tires bolted. It just spun off the brass bushing as I must have forgotten to glue that one.
As Pilot Robert would say. "OOohh viewers, this is the most beautiful and sexy model."
MK II can you develop a recovery chute? My empathetic tendencies are overwhelmed by your loss and I don't think I can take another hull loss LOL ...
The fun is all in the build in my opinion`. but if i were you id just take the loss. been on the loosing end of round 2 many times . redemption is few and far but good luck
That was one impressive Hustler, horrible conclusion. This is why I maiden fly first and finish after.
Is the receiver powered by ESC or does it have its independent power BEC?
do you think deploying the drag chute before a crash would prevent any damage?
It probably would have just pulled out the back honestly.
I like those Allen head servo screws. Where did you get them.
I get them from rtl fasteners
Was this a kit ? Who did the plane parts and landing gear ?
This is a model a good friend of mine tooled up. Hes sold a very, very limited amount through my folks at jethangar.com
FUL BUILD A CIANO 😅
What kind of radio are you using
Is there plans available for this plane
Wait - I remember watching this weeks ago. It was re-released?
This is a combination of the build and flight into one vid. Obviously posted this too soon after the flight vid which caused some confusion. 😕
@@Thercgeek ohh okay, at first I was worried this bird crashed again!! Thank you for all the hard work on this channel, really appreciate it!! All the best!
Build another one in 1/8th scale and use turbines.
The 2nd will be better
I hope so!
too bad I tought you builld that RC 100% from making the body to electronics...can you guy use the idea?
One of the pitfalls of electric powered models. 😢