$1000 RC plane destroyed

Very dumb of the pilot to have his face so close, inline with the prop as he revved it up, without even having any eye protection.

About as dumb as asking a rookie using a brand new club launch system to check the continuity of your rocket while you look REAL CLOSE while hooking up the micro clips.....what could possibly go wrong?

Yup, you NEVER put your face in line of a spinning prop. They DO shred if you failed to check for cracks.

It's probably not even a giant scale aircraft. No retracts of any kind and probably a simple four channel get up. I don't see what he spent $1000.00 on.

Too bad there. Not sure I see the $1000 investment here either...not a scale job...doesn't sound like an expensive four stroker...guess it was the "petrol" engine?
I guess some of the expensive digital servos might up the cost.

Here's the one I like...I 'll bet it was at least a $1K in time investment alone:
(Warning- profanities used - LOL).

......this is a good one too.

Go to 0:40 in the video.
Real "hot" jet turbine...in more ways than one. LOL

...oh well, while we're at it...….more for those that enjoy watching planes re-kit themselves....

Well... maybe a $640 plane. "XJET", who has a great video channel I've seen before, lives in New Zealand. Currently, one Australian dollar is equal to 64 cents, US. Also, their domestic R/C hobby stuff probably costs a lot more than here, and even mail order from China may cost them more (not sure on that one though). I will say that an engine of that size certainly ain't cheap, maybe it survived, maybe it broke a hard to fix component inside. Also, that may have been an "RTF" balsa plane, which costs way more than if it was a kit built by the owner's "free labor".

When a huge model of a B-52 (24 foot span) crashed a few years ago, it was about a $60,000 crash. It had EIGHT model turbojet engines in it, among other things. Most expensive R/C model to crash that I know of, by hobbyists anyway.



Article about the B-52 model crash: https://worldwarwings.com/guy-crashes-his-60g-rc-b-52-and-nearly-takes-out-a-house/

I've got $6,500 in my 1/9th scale B-17G. Built it from plans and cut all my wood.

Steven said:

I've got $6,500 in my 1/9th scale B-17G. Built it from plans and cut all my wood.

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Was that dollars, or euros Mr. Townes ? : )

MaxQ said:

Was that dollars, or euros Mr. Townes ? : )

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Smart as paint you are.

georgegassaway said:

Very dumb of the pilot to have his face so close, inline with the prop as he revved it up, without even having any eye protection.

About as dumb as asking a rookie using a brand new club launch system to check the continuity of your rocket while you look REAL CLOSE while hooking up the micro clips.....what could possibly go wrong?

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Yup, and you'll note the channel owner recording it made a comment about exactly that.

Steven said:

I don't see what he spent $1000.00 on.

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Neither did I, but he's in New Zealand, so they might have high import duties, don't know.

Winston said:

Neither did I, but he's in New Zealand, so they might have high import duties, don't know.

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That'll do it.