Large Scale F-8 Crusader Flight and Crash! -- Top Gun Invitational 2018
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- Unfortunately, crashing is a part of the game in scale competition and this was one of a couple incidents at Top Gun. This F-8 was a beautifully built model completely designed and scratch-built by David Hudson (not to be confused with the ultimate jets F-8 which is a completely different design to this one). It was a very unique airplane to see and I can tell you from experience flying my JHH A-7, it's a challenging configuration in adverse winds (hence the wing scrape you see on the takeoff). Unfortunately, after the Immelmann manuever, the airplane seemed to go free-flight for whatever reason. He was able to regain control, and fought with it a couple passes, but ultimately the airplane performed that all too familiar death turn and went in. David is in the process of building another that he's documenting on his facebook page ( / dcmodelshop , so hopefully we will see this DCModels design return to the air again soon!
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Flew those in Vietnam, 10 knots xwind is maximum on landing and that is a hard limit. Your model here was absolutely amazing. Sorry for your loss.
Very cool, thank you for your service! Very interesting about the cross wind. The model isn't too far off from that either, haha!
This configuration is quite challenging in cross winds.
The F8E Crusader is my all time favorite aircraft. It looks so good at any angle. Thanks for your service btw rf8driver
Thank you RC Geek for posting this video. I believe what I was having was an electrical problem. Yes, the next bird is in work with electrical upgrades included. David Hudson
Thanks for chiming in David! It was tough to watch this happen. The F-8 is a difficult design to tackle and you've done a fantastic job with this model. I'm sure the next one will be even better and log countless flights!
dcmodels _Wish you all the best. I feel sorry about the lost of this beautiful jet._
I used to build scale models from scratch (papercraft is what they seem to call it now) and the F-8 was always a bit unstable with the wing popped up, even more so with full flap. It usually wanted to roll with a roll center near the trailing edge. How did yours handle?
Lots of luck on nxt build. Hope you can drop that little demon on it's head nxt flight. Smooth flight.
Were you able to salvage the turbine?
I flew F-8s briefly in the Navy. It was a great treat to see such a beautiful model and tragic to see it crash in the video. The cameraman probably had no control, but it would have been nice if someone had beat up on whoever was running the plane in the background that sounded like an extended fart. What an assault on the ears while trying to enjoy the beauty of the F-8 in flight.
Ah, the F-8. What a pure power machine it was.
Oh wow, cool! Which squadron did you fly with? Sorry about some of that background noise. They had 4-5 flight lines flying all at once, so unfortunately there's not much I could do about that. :(
The RC Geek :. I flew the F-8 briefly at Navy Test Pilot School, NAS Patuxent River. Thanks.
sucks to see a master piece go down like that. Great vid!
Unfortunately, it's part of the game we play and comes with pushing the limits of RC scale airplane design. Thanks for watching!
Wow! That really hurt my heart. Here is my take why your F-8 behaved as it did at slow speed. I know articulating all those angles on your flaps, slats and wing raise attack angle looks great & scale when displaying for the judges, but just before take-off and landing you should have set them at least at 50%. Those angles work on a full-size F-8, because of its great weight and size. But on a smaller scale, it creates a massive vortex at the bottom of the wing which spills out amplified at the ends of the wingtips making your ailerons aerodynamically inoperable. You noticed how your F-8 behaved well when everything was retrieved, but the moment you set it up to land... Well, you get the picture. I truly loved your F-8 and only hope you build it one more time and follow this advice.
T/O was loose A F 2
Awesomely detailed model and always entering the unknown when you build something so unique. How true is the first sentence of your description. My repairs skills are pretty good now and always learning new methods. Was wondering if pilot had 3 hands on take-off; stick, throttle and ejection handle. Imagine the last words they heard were "pull up, pull up, pull up."
Beautiful jet. Sad it had to end like that.
Awesome plane, awesome crash. I'll bet it hurt to watch that beauty go in, but it was pretty epic.
Love the 1960’s jets, beautiful model, sad result but nothing we haven’t all experienced once or twice and the next version will hopefully live a lot more flights.
I was at NAS Dallas Hensley Field 1977-1979 and daily watched the F8's from VF-201 " HUNTERS " and the VF- 202 " SUPERHEATS " fly. It was pure excitement to watch the reserve boys take off in pairs and the afterburners blasting out 30ft long flame. Sorry for your loss of a strikingly beautiful scale jet.
Last of the "gunfighters"
1000 hrs of work and at least it flew. Heartbreaking to see a last gunfighter flight end that way. Very well done vid and total histology build on that plane.
Thanks for watching!
What a beautiful airplane a little rocky on the takeoff... You know the old saying in RC flying all airplanes have an expiration date we just don't know when it is... Bummer man I hope you build another one just like it I always like that style of airplane
The designer/pilot already has another one in the works. I'm sure it'll be even better than this one!
There are some builders who can’t fly well, but that is not the case here. Dave is among the best pilots I have ever seen.
I agree with you. There's only so much you can do when you're dealing with radio issues and it's so often out of our control (literally). :(
Vraiment, très dommage ! Le Crusader est sans doute un des plus beaux chasseurs à réaction . J'espère qu'il aura un successeur !
That was tough to watch. Beautiful model. Seems obvious that there was some malfunction and the pilot did a good job of letting everyone know and getting the plane away from the crowd.
I could be wrong, but it looked like decent skill and very good decision making. It seemed like he was committed to getting the plane on the ground with the large crowd and lack of control.
Awesome plane, I'll be periodically searching UA-cam for the next one.
damn, bad crash of this beautiful model 😕
Awesome plane ! Very famous in France. So sad to see this crash ...
Hard to see that. Such a beautiful airplane.
Very Sad to watch. What a Beautiful Aircraft. I watched those airplanes take off, and land at Eglin AFB Florida when I was just a kid. They looked Ominous. They made a very Distinctive Whine when tgey were landing. Sorry about your loss Guy. I hope you build anotger one just like it.
Wow! Excellent craftsmanship! I hope he builds another.
From what I understand, he has another one in the works.
@@Thercgeek hallelujah!
Aah man! Everything was going so well
I feel bad for thumbs upping a crash. But your videos deserve thumbs up
haha, thanks man! Unfortunately crashing is part of the game. :( We'll see this design flying again soon I'm sure!
*ooooh NOOOO*
Difficult takeoff ... stabile flight ... but what caused the crash? Any information?
According to David, he believes to have had an electrical problem in flight. So, that being the case, I'm guessing he was dealing with periodic brown outs with the system. Such a bummer, it was a beautiful model! Love your vids BTW! :) I can only hope to capture videos to the same quality that you do.
The RC Geek _it's always heart breaking to witness such terrible moments. Last weekend I've captured a midair crash of two huge BAE Hawk. What a shame._
Thank you for the compliments regarding my videos. Much appreciated.
_Cheers_ ✌😎
RCScaleAirplanes. I saw that video with the BAE hawks. Heartbreaking.
Full flaps on take off with that cross wind was not good to begin with but it was going great. CG looked good as it tracked through the turns very well. It did look like a brown out, but didn't he have redundancy? I had a bad deans connector cause a crash on landing approach. I heard my Taranis say " Telemetry lost" about 6 feet off the runway and it never said " telemetry recovered. I rebooted it and everything worked as it should, so I can only guess it was the ESC's built in BEC, or the Deans connector.
I just glad no one got hurt because sometimes they head towards the crowd or the parking lot. Still a big shame and painful to see. I hope he narrows it down through data logging. Nothing worse than not knowing what caused it.Oh,,, by the way, My failure was on a 3D printed airplane. Dusty Crophopper from 3Dlabprint.com and let me tell you, these plastic planes SHATTER on the runway. Since I fly jets as well, I knew how important it was to get all my FOD off the runway and will from now on bring a push broom and dust pan with me. LOL
Many happy landings guys. Really appreciate the great filming. Wish there was someone at my field that did that. The guy that used to do it moved. I miss him now! LOL
@@garrykennedy5484 Dumb thumbs.
Even the best pilots cant beat the gremlins.I hated seeing such a icon from Vietnam go down,it hurt my heart.
Ouch! That's going to leave a mark.
Great vid. A bit anoying thar "water pump" sound in background :-D
Yeah, sorry about that, it was a big ice cream machine, haha!
The verbal sounds of the reaction of the plane crashing was hilarious! LOL
Overturned, while diving, with not much altitude. Get ya every time!!!!!!! I welted up a little bit that plane was beautiful!!!
Now THAT was unbelievable! Last one I saw that was that bad was a Hawker Hunter ...
Looks like a stall while diving. Amazing.
Dang, always such a bummer to see a crash!
These rc planes r bad ass!!!
This really changed the Philippines back then its just dumb to hear that it got destroyed just because of a volcanic eruption
Rapid unscheduled disassembly ...... ouch! RIP a beautiful plane
I was going to say something about the take off but. dang. that landing was spectacular. WOW. 😎
haha, it was an arrival! On the takeoff, he had a good cross wind going and with that high anhedral wing and large dorsal tail, this configuration is really difficult in crosswinds. My A-7 will do something similar, although here, he had flaperons down, so I don't think he had as much roll control as he would have liked.
Don't they say any landing you can walk away from is a good landing?
RR67890 yeahh. I think his head was hanging low when he did Walk away.with his trash bag full of jet.
Did you had a failure of something, it was easy to pull up i think. In some way the last seconds of the Crusader are reminding me the same flight path of the Eurofighter which smashed into the sea in Terracina - Italy last year (videos easy to find on YT) . Had seen that plane right two months before during another airshow. F8 is one of the plane i love because of the shape and really sad to see what happened. Wait for the next one soon. Cheers!
Yeah, the pilot was dealing with radio and/or mechanical failures unfortunately.
Aww man that was tragic! Looked so beautiful.
It was beautiful man, it really was. Unfortunately these things happen. I'm not really sure what happened though, but the pilot struggled with it for a couple passes too many.
The RC Geek yeah, it looked like it was quite a handful from the moment it started accelerating. Flew well for a bit but then someone called out "heads up" before the crash like he was having problems. So sad but glad he is tackling another build.
That was a terrible crash. I hope he builds another one.
It’s in the works as I understand.
F8 crusaders saw a lot action during vietnam
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If you couch pilots would scroll down you'll find the builder/pilot of this model has posted what he believes the problem was. I'd bet a retirement check he's more informed than the rest of us.....
They all have a "date". Was a beautiful bird.
Yes they do!
If they had to have all of the redundant systems and failsafes, that the real birds do, we would not be able to play with them.
One of my favorite planes crusader, they stall very easy Great Plain when you get it up to speed that was my experience with an RC version ducted fan
Yeah, this configuration has some unique characteristics.
My buddy Richie always says, "it's part of the hobby"....
True story! There are two types of model airplanes, those that have crashed and those that will crash... ;)
oh man such a nice Jet and then .....
Unfortunately it happens. :(
Was that the jet you won awards with?I should read before writing
No, I didn’t build this one. I filmed this at the 2018 top gun competition. The model was built by David Hudson.
After that sketchy takeoff I would have circled and landed something was very wrong. Sorry to see such a beautiful bird end up like that.
I have read most of the comments here ... not to many have noted the brave simulated pilot that lost his life in this crash ....
now that's funny right there, haha!
What RC field do you fly out of..?
Well, this was filmed at paradise field in Lakeland Florida.
Tut mir sehr leid, Sehr schade.
Tolles Modell 👍
I never got into large scale models as the wing loadings are typically hideous.
The wing loadings definitely can get crazy, but that’s always the case. A lot of the big giant warbirds and jets these days are actually pretty lightly loaded.
where was the scale crash crew?
sorry mate, beautiful bird
Haha, right? The mini fire engines were spoiling up off camera. 😂
My own wallet pinched me just seeing that.
haha, it was hard to watch for sure. The designer is already building another one, so hopefully we'll see this design flying again soon!
Nice looking F8 Crusader but Rocky take off nice flight but to bad about the landing.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That would so suck sorry for your loss man
It's all part of the game unfortunately. The designer/pilot is already building another one, so hopefully we'll see the design flying again soon! The airplane was beautiful.
i the real...the variable incidence wing seemed unwieldy to me
That was an awesome bird. Wonder what happened.
It looked like the plane didn't want to fly that day right from the takeoff run.. oh well...
some days be like that unfortunately.
Did Maverick and Goose eject?
Wrong airplane... 😉. You’re thinking the F-14 Tomcat.
High speed stall? Nice model anyway
The crash resulted from a radio problem. The pilot had intermittent control.
Awe man , that bites.
DUDE! That had to hurt........
Looks like he started his loop too low and just flew into the ground.
He got aileron control, so he had pitch control too. Never fly over your head, you'll get disoriented.
From what I understand, he had intermittent control as the radio system was acting up and browning out on him.
@@Thercgeek so why he keeps flying? He flew for long time.
ah man
Oh no,.......
As soon as he went behind the flight line he should have throttled down and declared an emergency
I know it comes with the sport, but sad none the less.
I hope the pilot's alright.
That sucks!!
That’ll buff out.... 😂
For sure! 🤣
That won’t buff out
We can rebuild her, we have the technology! ;)
Ugh... All that work gone in a moment.
AWESOME PILOT
Nooo!!!!
Ohhhhh nooooooo 😱😱😱 3:40.!!
Gezzz looks like the same thing that killed John Kennedy Jr. Vertigo.
Sorry 😢
noooooooooooooooooooooooo
hahahahahah lols at crash
Aw man, that's harsh! ;)
At least you can reuse the engine.
Potentially he could if it survived ok. It didn't burn, so should be ok.
Looks like a mig 17 and 19 killer.
yeah man!
LOL
Hahaha very gooood
Obviously his ego was writing cheques his body couldn't cash.....
unapro3
Obviously, you didn't bother to read the description.
Lol
It's a joke mate....a quoted line from Top Gun. It seems "you've lost that loving feeling" Richard.....
Oh. Sorry I didn't get it.
As a long time aeromodeller, I wasn't expecting humor about what I'm sure was a devastating incident for the builder of that model.
It happens occasionally on the "highway to the danger zone"...
Hello, im doing rc plane crash compilation, and i like to put your video in, if you agree? Thank you!
I really appreciate you asking, but I'd rather it not be included. Thank you!
appreciate for your answer, thanks & best wishes! :)
breathtaking beauty. Probably crashed because pilot abruptly had an orgasm. may she r.i.p.
Lol
BEAUTIFUL CRASH! Nice plane and average flying. Wish there had been fire.
that's harsh! haha
Sometimes I watch people fly and I think to myself, is it really that hard to fly a dang airplane?
Actually, precision scale RC flying is much harder than you might think, haha! In this case, the pilot was dealing with radio link problems. After the immelmann maneuver, the airplane just went free flight and he had no control. He got it back, but I'm guessing it went out again which is what caused the death turn.
Would have been funny if it were a F-105 Thundercheif
The real ones flew better.
Bad pilot seen to many great builders who should never fly their creations. So sad 😞