Holy snapping turtle eggs ...

[bexrbetter]

Wow, just wow! You would think it was a part of a Hollywood movie ...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJBMYC8ReA

 

 

[storchy neil]

Oh sheeeet moment neil

 

 

[rgmwa]

Lucky!

 

 

[flyvulcan]

Elliot Seguin. Top guy. Incredibly aviation oriented. See Wasabi Air Racing on YouTube. He does some great videos.

 

 

[Marty_d]

I'm amazed he walked out of that.

 

 

[onetrack]

Oh, Noo-ooo-oooo!! ... What about all the pax in the waiting aircraft?? Did any of them survive???

 

 

[bexrbetter]

Oh, Noo-ooo-oooo!! ... What about all the pax in the waiting aircraft?? Did any of them survive???

Imagine if those airliners had people in them, why it was "Almost the worst airliner disaster in history!!".

 

 

[Mike Borgelt]

It is Mojave airport. The airliners are stored there. No passengers. Look at Google Earth

 

 

[onetrack]

Gee, Mike - have you had your funny bone removed, and a spoiler bone inserted, instead?

 

 

[Mike Borgelt]

So we watch what could have easily been a snuff movie and you find humour in it?

 

There are some lessons in the movie:

 

1.When test flying, wait for good weather. In this case there was a strong crosswind which presumably sprung up quickly, which can happen at Mojave. Have an alternate.

 

2. The aircraft had two engines but the single engine performance was marginal in which case it might be better to figure it as having one engine and fly appropriately. It should have been possible to find this out in the performance estimates during the design process.

 

The pilot was pretty badly banged up in fact.

 

Aviation can be a lot of fun but it is unforgiving. Opportunities for humour are there, but this wasn't one of them.

 

 

[onetrack]

Aw, c'mon! You obviously don't understand it's a fun, spoof crash video, using a small RC model, and filmed with such good video angles, it tries to make it look like a real, lifesize crash!

 

 

[kasper]

They are model jet tbs turbines. In the shots put the front when it's clearly a human pilot there is the prop visible.

 

So yes. It's s cut together of two different aircraft for the purposes of showing something that's not quite kosher

 

 

[Nobody]

To those saying it's fake have a read of the NTSB crash report:

 

WPR16LA110

 

 

[farri]

[onetrack]

Well, I've been properly fooled by a complete fool. More fool, me!

 

You just have to wonder about the permanent death wish of some people!

 

 

[MarkyMarkOZ]

They are model jet tbs turbines. In the shots put the front when it's clearly a human pilot there is the prop visible.So yes. It's s cut together of two different aircraft for the purposes of showing something that's not quite kosher

Where is the prop? None I can see.

 

 

[kasper]

Sorry. I have reviewed and the slip string appears as a reflection off the back of the prop.

 

My error

 

 

[bexrbetter]

So we watch what could have easily been a snuff movie and you find humour in it?

Yes.

 

And the Pilot didn't "Almost got killed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", he walked away with an incredible story to tell his grandkids and left the World amazed.

 

 

[Gnarly Gnu]

Sound so sweet but very inefficient, running out of fuel would always be a worry.

 

 

[onetrack]

I got caught out by the RC jet engines, thinking it was just an RC model, and all the rest was camera angles and acting BS.

 

I can't believe anyone would be idiotic enough to try and use RC jet engines to power a full-size, piloted aircraft - but as the saying goes, "there are only two things that are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity!"

 

I wonder if that Wasabi Racing pilot is the brother of that Colin Furze idiot?

 

 

[horsefeathers]

I got caught out by the RC jet engines, thinking it was just an RC model, and all the rest was camera angles and acting BS.I can't believe anyone would be idiotic enough to try and use RC jet engines to power a full-size, piloted aircraft - but as the saying goes, "there are only two things that are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity!"

 

I wonder if that Wasabi Racing pilot is the brother of that Colin Furze idiot?

Watch this video to see how it's done

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAdCt6qgj9k

 

I suppose a CRI CRI isnt what you'd call full size, but seeing it can carry a person.....

 

 

[winsor68]

Well this post went to the dogs quickly...turned out about as well as Elliot Sequins flight...

 

 

[onetrack]

Oh .. so Elliot Seguin is a full time test pilot! So, perhaps we can now estimate, that his aircraft build skills, are yet to reach his test pilot skills?

 

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