That's why I prefer the robart spring airs. Not as scale looking when you drop gear, but at least you have em. If you get an air leak they automatically drop. Great job.
I see no pilot error on his maneuver. All the way around, he did save his plane. That could've have been worst. He save the pane with minor ready to repair damage. My respect to this pilot. You did great dude. Whoever says that you did wrong doesn't know nothing about this. Have a great day. By the way, excellent video and flying skills.
@Mikecamrc I dont know what rock you live under but ailerons are used to turn the plane, and as your turning have a little rudder input just to help complete the turn and make it tidy
This is one of the best sounding RC Mustangs I ever heard! What engine is he using? Corsairs with Moki radials sound best but Mustangs can't use radials, and most P-51s sound like angry weed whackers. This one sounds pretty sweet though!
8:41 - that crash landing you're wanting to see. Isn't a crash. It's a landing without the gear down. Snaps a plastic prop. Not worth watching the entire video, unless your just wanting to watch a bit of aerial display :)
Why is everyone talking about pilot error? He had a landing gear failure, as in it didn't the retracts wouldn't drop. The gear doors were open but they never dropped. You hear him say "I'm gonna lose those doors" meaning, when he lands.
Seems like he was coming in fine, and at the last minute took his focus off to flip his throttle cut. When he did he pulled up on the elevator and some aileron and made a rough landing. Nice plane though
Boy that's a cool airplane. Those P 51's must've really brought a lot of hope and pride to the American soldiers that were over in Europe. It looks so awesome flying through the air banking and descending...sounded good too. glad it didn't get damaged too badly.
Plane was coming in hot, but the speed bled off in a hurry, leaving an ominous tip stall as far as I can tell. Overall nothing much could be done, better that than the tip stall wasting the whole model. Try it before you criticize, its very hard to make the decision to dump it knowing full well you will cause damage, and far easier to try and 'save' it by pulling up causing a pile of mess.
Sadly, this is all too common. Drag it off the ground, fly around a bit and suck it on landing. Buy a flight simm and learn to take of and land properly. After that, practice what you learned on the simm, at the field on a small plane. Then get onto the bigger stuff.
i watch the vid and i think you did pretty dam good i kno those mustang aren"t easy to fly at all so keep doing your thang and dont let kno one tell you you did a bad job that was great
bad landing yes, but it was stop the mega tail tip stall that was about to flip plane upside down nose first.... out of the 2 he picked the right option. cant all be pros
Freakin retracts.... they all seem to fail at one point. Been there many of times. Beautiful bird though. Hope not to much damage was done on the impact.
All in all I would say that was a good save, I mean Yeah I could have been perfect with no damage but minimal damage is the next best scenario and far better than a write off be panicking and going balls to the wall on a landing, he did really well to get it down like he did, planes like the mustang ain't beginner planes and take a lot of experience and skill to fly so anyone who says they could have done better is either a professional flyer with serious experience or is lying frankly, but the Internet people can always do better because they landed their polystyrene air hogs from argos with no landing gear and in high winds while fending off a pack of wolves and a 6ft dwarf so no sense in arguing with them, they are the best at everything... Lol, Seriously though, credit where it's due, he handled it well!
My guess is the gear got stuck... so he couldn't put them down. Why would you put your flaps down if you're going to belly land? Maybe you want him to rip them out too?
Wouldn't exactly call that a big crash. Quite a good one actually. Broken prop of which he prob carries spares with him and maybe need to replace gear doors. Prob flying again later that day.
Hi This Mustang is a PICA I built it many years ago it was part of my Warbird collection for years. It was sold to a nice fellow from Georgia if I recall 3 to 4 years ago. The engine was a ZDZ60 and it had Century Jet Retracts even a scale tail retract in sequence. I recognize all my work from your video. Did you fix her? Ian
Learn to use the rudder. Zero rudder correction at takeoff ( 2:15) and in fact you get on the ailerons to turn the plane which is the last thing you should do. Ailerons bleed off airspeed and at that point it is the last thing you want. For no gear landing stay a little higher and shut down the engine first, hello opti kill, and a little less diving for the end of the runway will give you a nice soft landing
Not one low pass caught in center of camera. When filming, you must understand that YOU don't get to watch the plane. Your job is to center it in frame. Now you've given the pilot a shit video.
Need to learn how to land it. Full flaps, slow it down and let it settle while controlling your altitude with the throttle. When you're sure you are going to make the field, shut down the engine, keep it above stall speed and gentley settle it on to the runway.
The landing could be better! Nevertheless with a new model is quite difficult to know its aerodinamic reactions! Thats why everybody should fly every now and then, a glider! I wonter why nobody with a rectract problem doesn make a few high speed dives with a sudden up elevator! Maybe the G force could solve the problem!
seems like he gave up on her on final and flopped it in when he could have put down his flaps and skid in nice and soft causing less damage from the sound of the impact I promise that was more then a gear door
Agree with dcd , if your ready to fly this type of plane you should know how to keep your cool in situation's lie this and landing should be second nature. Should of gone way out and come in with good airspeed to a slippery belly glide. 30 minutes tinkering with tools and spares and he could of flown again that day. I see it all the time, flyers jumping from trainers to scale fighters.
Nice plane. Since the demise if the big ol vid cams, vides such as these have become of poor quality, cameras no longer set on ones shoulder and no more steady-cam feature, oh well....
My first video camera was a "full size" one that rested on your shoulder. It took great, stable video. Also, the eye-piece was easy to use to capture RC planes in the sky. Its a pity, newer stuff takes us backward!
@TheBatman996 So, you're an expert at flying huh? Or no wait...you're an expert on flying one of these high spirited 'Stang's'!! Just so you know, this plane is not for the "BEGGINER" flyer. And far more advanced than most people think. Having three of them, from a small sixty size, a Hangar 9 150 and my biggest, A Don Smith 1/4 scale, I speak from experience. Personally, I feel he did a really good job bringing it home without the need for a body bag. Let's see your expert flying...K?
Now i remember why i don't post videos to youtube. The morons who comment after not seeing what actually happened. It's clear he couldn't get the gear down, and tried to get it as slow as possible to lessen the impact. So what if it stalled 6" off the ground.
#1. camera man to stop watching clouds,#2. why no use of the flaps for landings and takeoffs? they just for looks.#3 gear down is a must on landings. Such a beautiful aircraft in the hands of idiots...
I'm sorry but that landing sucked ass. There's no need to get the plane down so quick that you break it up doing so. I belly land my P51-D quite a bit and never have landed like this.
don't you just hate people who start talking with "I'm Sorry but! .. I had an ex wife who did that constantly, and drove me right out of the house.. I'm sorry but the dinners cold, I'm sorry but the lawn needs mowing, I'm sorry but you're tie is on crooked, I'm sorry but the car is low on gas, I'm sorry but I'm having a bad hair day and on and on ad nauseum!!!
temp, what do you have to do with the video that gives you the right to call people names? the landing sucked ass plain and simple. way to slow for the plane to land right.
Wouldn't exactly call that a big crash. Quite a good one actually. Broken prop of which he prob carries spares with him and maybe need to replace gear doors. Prob flying again later that day.
