Huge, expensive RC plane landing fail
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- This very impressive EE Lightning RC plane is powered by two real jet engines and put on a very impressive display at the Tokoroa Airfield (NZTO), however the landing did not go exactly to plan.
A truly stunning model, I hope it wasn't too badly damaged.
I remember reading an article decades ago that said 'you didn't so much land a Lightning as do a controlled crash'. So 10 out of 10 for demonstrating scale flying !!
Thanks to you I now know the type of aircraft this is. I have never seen a twin engine over and under before!
@@timw6863 English Electric Lightning
@@timw6863 It was built in the UK at a time when they built their own planes...Some were the best of their type in the world.
As a retired EE F3 jockey my landings were often similar!!
🫡👍😄😄😄🇦🇺🦘
No they weren’t.
@@Dan-di9jd You never viewed my landings old chum in the 70s!
Some of this footage, especially the taxiing 0:39 - 1:10, is almost hard to believe this is a model. Not only does the aircraft look realistic, the sounds, even the heat shimmer from the exhaust, feels so real. If someone were shown that footage alone without the rest of the video or title, they'd surely believe it's a real English Electric Lightning. Truly impressive work! Hope the damage to the nose isn't too bad, and more importantly that no FOD went into the engines - that's when things get expensive.
Spot on. And that is why I now want one. I don't know how to operate it, but surely I can put the beacon lights on, and just look at it. Maybe push around the yard.
@@kingkreole9121 Ha ha
Just a pity they don't have afterburners like the real life ones, having seen one in real life on a night fast taxi here in the UK they're awesome aircraft. Just a shame the CAA won't let any fly.
@@Simon-ui6db I could imagine an R/C jet with afterburners - probably wouldn't add much thrust and would give them two minutes of flight time instead of five, but would look really cool, especially in twilight airshows.
How can sound and vision "feel"? Apart from that it is a stunning example of modelling but I do have to disagree with it sounding real, it sounds nothing like the real thing but it certainly looks real in those taxiing shots as you said!
This is truly epic. Beautifully built, with a flight control system that can handle the high speed and maneuverability, it is a testament to the skilled artisans who built and flew it. Landing was a tad problematic, but you'll fix that.
@@pimuce Seems to me there are two main issues with remote control of these models: your perspective must be very different, watching from the side rather than having a perfect line of sight from the cockpit; the lack of feedback because you aren't part of the aircraft, so you don't get the direct "feel" you'd have through the airframe and the controls. I guess you are spared your brains disappearing into your backside when you're making some of those very sharp pull-ups though!
@@pimuce Flying RC is challenging in a different way . Not being in the cockpit and the controls changing due to changes in orientation is something you have to get use to . Example is , when the aircraft is pointed towards you as in landing , the left and right are reversed .
@@copperfield3629 8
Pilots of the Apache helicopter have a similar problem when using the monocle 🧐 view through the camera mounted under the nose. Getting the brain to coordinate with a remote camera poses similar challenges to those facing r/c pilots.
Yea, $30,000 later
That was one of the most convincing scale like flying displays I have seen. Kudos to the pilot who I could watch again and again.
Very convincing, it appeared to have the weight and inertia of a Lightning, only reheat was missing.
As a non-enthusiast I'll admit that was pretty cool. Came expecting a destructive crash landing but was impressed by how awesome this little plane was.
Did he died ?
@@BrenMurphy1 Yes, he did. Rest in Peace, he will be forever in our hearts.
@CH4madness little? The things massive!
It's hardly little
From what the title says, I was expecting something bad. There's a difference between a crash and a not-so-good landing. I'm glad it was something easy to repair. As any r/c modeler knows, any model in flight is in mortal danger.
Agreed, easy to interprete the title as either "Huge and expensive aircraft, has a landing fail" or "Expensive aircraft has a huge landing fail". Happily it was the first one.
That's not a crash. It's having your gear fold (or get ripped away) and having some minor cosmetic damage. It's easily repairable. Anyone who doesn't expect to have some damage on their models, they shouldn't be flying. It's only a crash if there's nothing left to salvage.
Was expecting to see much destruction. Disappointed.
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not so good? That was a terrible landing, he seeminglly just completely forgot to flare the plane - no visible movement of the horizontal stabilizers right till the impact. And an impact it was, he can be glad that the main gears didn't went flying as well.
Amazing model of what is an incredible plane, and some very good piloting and a flying too. The landing recovery showed the pilot's experience and understanding of his plane.
Back in about '87 (I think) at Fairford, me and my Dad saw one of the last remaining flying Lightnings fly. We were standing at the runway start line opposite the plane, the pilot throttled up to nearly max, brakes off and pow! The noise thundering through me is something I'll never forget. Thanks for posting this, hope the repairs were okay and she's flying again.
Had the same experience ..just listening and feeling one take a short run down Cranfield Airport in the U.K. was an awesome experience. This was in 2014.
"landing recovery" ??? are you serious ??? LOL
Stunning looking plane!!
Any landing you survive is a good one but not sure how that equates to the RC world
When you retrieve what's left for the purpose of flying it again rather than for the purpose of avoiding littering fines. When you don't need a bucket for said task.
Any landing you can walk away from.....
When you don't hit anyone? 🤔
I think it's "Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, and any landing where you can use the plane again is a great landing"... so for RC, I think he did OK, he didn't crash the plane into himself, and I think it will only take some minor repairs and it'll be fine.
We call them "Hefty" landings, as in the trash bag!
I remember as a child with my father collecting small aircraft models here is a completely different level! The nostalgia has kicked in.
Really really beautiful aircraft model. I once saw the Lightning in real live when visiting a airshow in England and I was blown away by the raw power this aircraft has, it was very impressive. I hope the damage on the model is not that bad and it will fly again soon. Thanks for this great video. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Always been favourite. My late father took me to see the Firebirds, RAF 56sqn display team of 5 lightning's. I was about 5 or 6 at the time so don't remember a great deal.
Plll
Too bad it didn't have an on board camera.
If you ever find yourself in the U.K. again, make your way to Bruntingthorpe airfield. You'll be able to get up close to live Lightnings
This looks almost like the real thing. I started my aerospace career at BAe Samlesbury where all Lighting aircraft were finally assembled. I worked with lots of people who built these awesome aircraft and saw some great displays at work.
Thanks for the video, brought back many good memories.
My father worked at EE from late 50's to 1966. Built Canberra's and Lightnings then in the drawing office for TSR-2. My my mum there. Left after cancellation of TSR-2.
Beautiful flight, really glad it was just a landing gear failure, not total destruction. Dig the forced perspective.
This isn't meant to be criticism, but, rather, an observation: I don't think the nose gear would have failed except that the right main and the nose gear hit the runway at the same time in a nose-down attitude; there was no flare. It appears at 3:34 or 3:35 that the nose gear took the brunt of the impact. I found it easier to fly a full-scale plane than an RC plane and I admire those who build and fly them.
What a wonderful aircraft, and what an amazing pilot to fly that machine remotely. I am lost in admiration of the skill and imagination of these builders and fliers. I hope the aircraft was repairable, and that we'll see more. With best regards.
Amazing skill doesn’t result in the nose wheel rolling past the aircraft on landing….
@@Captndarty Can't argue with that comment, but I'd still give them full marks for effort alone.
@@Captndarty it was a hard landing, maybe the engineering could’ve been better.
@@walkie1985 maybe the landing shouldn’t have been as hard….🤷🏻♂️
@@Captndarty absolutely not ideal for sure. But it happens to private, commercial and fighter pilots.
I wouldn't have said that was a landing fail, you landed it and with minimal damage, great job
ok so if your 737 did that ... is it a good job or a landing fail ... short glide in ... fast drop onto the runway ... slammed the nose gear down not set it down ... heck im surprised the rear gear didnt fold up also ... yes it is a nice build decent flight as well ... BUT pitiful landing practice ... it all boils back down to the pilot ... they got too ahead of themselves and crashed it into the runway ... instead of FLYING the plane ... as that line goes in that film ... when the civy pilot tries to recall what he needs to do to land .. FLY THE DANG PLANE ... is the most important part of landing
@@0623kaboom"If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing." - chuck yeager
@@mcameron6031 in this landing the approach is stupid, He practice more before trying an expensive plane
@wolfe1970.
Do you always talk out from your backside?
Absolutely, kudos to the pilot who didn't eject after that 'structural failure' - it must have been terrifying! 😊
As they say in aviation industry: "You cant make a good landing out of a bad approach."
But a great looking aircraft anyway. I loved all the details in the cockpit and how life like the pilot looked. Johan.
Or as my primary flight instructor used to say, "Never try to save a bad landing. Go around! "
Good recovery! Could have been worse. Thanks for the great video mate
Ditto here….
Took the words out of my mouth - coulda been a lot worse.
Exactly. I 1st thought it was an eng. falling off, but after the replay, seen it was just the nose wheel.
Lucky break.
Sorry, BAD recovery. He should have kept the nose up till the jet would have lost speed.
@@Schaumwaffelflieger9 Says someone who's never flown anything more complicated that a Testor's model plane.....
That was a beautiful brilliant model, the shot at start going onto the runway you thought it was a real plane.
I remember in the 70's as a kid watching them over the house in Beverley when they were based at RAF Leconfield
wanted to see this masterpiece fly and what a beauty. bad luck with the landing but I hope we'll see it again soon . thanks for displaying it.
no bad luck - just lack of skill
If you saw that overhead and didn’t know it was a model….. excellent model engineering skills and terrific flying skills. The landing was quite a realistic replay of some of the prangs full scale planes & pilots have. No matter, review, repair and back into the air.
Stunning model, really captured the essence of a ‘Frightening’. As someone else commented, a great damage limitation recovery.
The regulation of larger RC planes usually relates to two issues. The first one is safety of people on the ground and commercial aircraft. The second one is potential weaponization. If the payload capacity is large enough in theory someone could load one up with explosives and use it like a crude cruise missle.
If my memory serves me correctly, in 1982 an unidetified plane at 80,000ft flying over the UK was intercepted by a English Electric Lightning. This was a suprise to the pilot of the SR71 not knowing we had a fighter jet caperble..
Thank you for the video Mr Simpson.
I read a good story about Concorde and Blackbird , the blackbird crew wearing space suits and the people in Concorde at a similar altitude and speed drinking champers .
May be the U2 story you are referring to.... SR71 was some way faster than the Lightning (you can't say that about much else...).
as someone has already stated, seeing her taxiing like that was almost like being back at Bruntingthorpe watching 904. The landing, well it was well saved!!! what a beautiful display too! fantastic in every way!!!!!
Cracking machine, looking down the tailpipes was spooky. Loved watching the flying too. It reminded me of the 5 Sqn Lightnings at Binbrook in the 70s during my brief time there. They were in all metal but a Lightning is still a Lightning. So sorry about the nosewheel accident. At least it is repairable.
I think these are 11 Sqn markings. Beautiful model and great flying.
@@andrewstevenson6721Correct - this is the 11 Sqn emblem - colloquially referred to as "Fly United"😂 5 Sqn bore the Maple Leaf 🍁
Great to see this amazing model Lightning. So realistic, it brings back fond memories of visits to Farnborough air show as a boy with my dad. The landing was lucky. Good luck with further flights
I could never understand how two large jet engines could get enough air through that small inlet.
That being said, the EE Lightning is my favourite Cold War interceptor, many thanks for posting the video.
Its old jet tech, with no fans.
Fast jets typically have a way of reducing the inlet size to ensure that the air is subsonic when it gets to the engine. A small intake is one of them.
@@GDay_InPrint For sure, but you'd expect that the inlet cone would be able to move fore/aft to vary the inlet area. And also for sure the inlet was optimised for M 1.5+ speeds, but I suspect it would have suffered at low speeds.
What a fantastic model. When I was in the RAF cadets in the sixties, we had a weeks camp at RAF Wattisham. Cold war at its height so they always had a pair of Lightnings in a hanger at the end of the runway, ready to go. That footage of the runway roll out was just like standing there, nearly sixty years ago, watching those amazing planes getting ready to rocket, nearly vertically, into the Suffolk sky.
Amazing, Congrats all round.
Used to watch the Lightning plus Victors, Vulcans etc at the Tangmere airshow in the 60's. The speed and power of the Lightning was something to behold and the noise of the Vulcan unbelievable!
A Lightning in reheat could break the sound barrier in a vertical climb -a fantastic machine, and this model is completely convincing.
I've sat in a lightning before(two seat variant) a man owns one near where I live at an airfield.
They are tryna get in running again.
In 71, @ JHQ Rheindahlen, AOC Mick Martin reviewing the parade, I watched 2 Lightnings from Laarbruch, and a Vulcan from the UK, perform a vertical corkscrew climb. The Vulcan was the quickest to ceiling……
Lightning’s and Vulcan at RAF leuchars. Now lightnings can only be seen in Saudi Arabia due to being banned due to noise restrictions
Apparently they had a Vulcan at the same airfield as the Lightning but they stopped flying it at airshows because the noise kept cracking peoples windows lol🤣
I can feel the wallet burning.
Awesome model, and the flying skills top notch, can't be easy with that swept wing and weight :) Hopefully a straightforward repair, that landing gear has a v slim profile. Great flying:)
Good thing those Firestreaks didn't explode.
Great flight and recovery.
The mind boggles at how much this utterly stunning model must have cost to build.
20k or more easily
@@Lucifer-qt9gh and 2k hours?
All labour really
That Machine is Awesome!! Sounded better than a full size one...Great piloting until the hard landing...
you know shiat is getting real when the pilot have a alcantara leather wrapped radio 🤣
For real I don't even know what an alcantara but I know radio master don't have that option
@@RubyS.1 a fancy kind of artificial leather you find in expensive cars like porsche and lambos. and yes. my radiomaster have 2 rubber things which already fell off lol 🤣
@Jesus is coming. Read the Gospel. mate did you eat ants today? or took any other drugs?
I was a builder by trade and in the 80s had a maintenance contract with the MOD. Most of my work was centered around RAF Binbrook which was a base for the Lightning at that time. What an amazing aircraft. It was probably one of the fastest aircaft on the planet in its hayday. If the stories I heard from the pilots were true it could out perform anything the Americans had at the time. Apparently it could acheive these speeds despite the fact the engines were not pushed to max power. The fuel consumption if ran on full power would drastically reduce the flight time. I dont think they were that stable at such high speeds either. I am no expert on aviation but every pilot I spoke to that had actually flown them said that despite their age they were still one of the best aircraft around back in the early 80s. This may have been a bit of an exaggeration but they definitely had something that made the pilots love them. Watching this vid reminded me of the times I spent waiting to cross the runway watching them land and take off. Exellent scale model / working replica, I hope the damage was not to severe and you have many more hours of flying her around the skys. Thanks for bringing back the memorys.
Maybe that downwind leg should be extended a bit so the pilot has a bit more time to settle into the approach rather than trying a very challenging aircraft carrier like landing?
Seriously, you are giving advice? 😒
@@rcpmac I haven't flown rc extensively but enough to know that it doesn't hurt to have some time and distance to settle into an approach. That's all I'm sayin'. If it was that easy then there wouldn't be so many rc landing crash vids on youtube would there?
Stunning plane, kudos to the builder, the lightning has always been one of my favourites, so glad it wasnt destroyed.
Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing...
Very rare for a bad landing in RC planes.
I'm pretty sure the pilot survived.
However, a "great landing" is one after which the aircraft can be used again :-)
@@spudeleven5124 I definitely agree with that ;-)
He was not onboard. Lol
@@TheFunkadelicFan Might need a chiropractor!
That is the best rc jet I have seen, beautifully flown, so happy it wasn't a full crash. I can be fixed, living in the UK, and being 45 I just missed out seeing a real lightning flying.
I’m 38 and feel your pain I missed out on it flying also! This looks incredible very realistic in flight. Time to start saving!
Absolutely stunning. The real thing was an amazing aircraft, you have a model ther to be proud of. Shame about the minor damage at the end but its all part of the hobby. I would rather fix damage than have to pickup a total right-off
at 3:35 hit nose first at higher than flare speed. Ouch. A Nice weekend repair job, no biggy. Great flying video.
Two of my favourite British fighter planes ever made are the Lightning and the Harrier jump jet. Brilliant planes. And great video of a remote controlled model of a Lightning fighter jet. Shame about the landing though. 👏👏👍
Incredibly realistic model and great display to show it off so well. Hope there wasn't too much damage after that landing. Now, about that F4C..... :)
Ouch! That'll buff out. I have heard it said that the wings on an E Lightning only serve to keep the nav lights apart :)
Amazing model. It looks so realistic. I hope it's soon fixed and back to flying.
In 1973, I was taking my A levels when the public schools armed forces day was held at the school. A Lightning did an aerobatic display over the school when I was in an exam and it went into a vertical climb right over the hall I was in. The vibration from the engines made my bottle of Quink ink decided to migrate across the desk and on to the floor (luckily without breaking). It was DEAFENING!
Great “save”!!! You guys and so many others I’ve seen here take it all to an astounding new level. If that jet was diving at me and I didn’t know where it came from Id duck for cover..
I know nothing about RC planes but that is truly impressive! Amazed at the skill you showed flying it. Thanks for sharing!
That was a pretty good landing. The pilot recovered nicely from the bounce. Losing the nose gear is way better than the plane being destroyed - should be easily fixable.
The landing was horrible. No flair before landing on the nosewheel. He is lucky to have saved the plane from total destruction, is all.
Old pilot saying: if you f.....up the approach the landing will be dire !!!
My heartfelt condolences to the pilot.
Yeah, his career is over after that one.
These RC guys are in a class by themselves! Brilliant stuff!
It will live to fly another day. There wasn’t much of an approach. Makes me think something was amiss and he needed to land.
That's one of the nicest and most realistic RC planes I've ever seen.
I love R/C planes, but am terrified of crashing an expensive one. I've put nearly $15K into a flight simulator instead -
Same. You can't just respawn your plane after a bad landing.
Fantastic model and authentically displayed. Kudos! I echo the comment made elsewhere to maybe try a flatter approach. Whilst most military aircraft of that era used a 3 deg glide path, the Lightning used 2.5deg, flattening to 2 deg in the final stages. This enabled the engines to run with sufficient power on finals to be able to spool up quickly in the event of an overshoot being needed, whilst maintaining a nose-up attitude with loads of induced drag to aid the round out. Hopefully the airframe damage was minimal and that nothing was ingested into those fabulous engines to cause damage. Thanks for posting. I can remember watching a pair of lightnings take off at night from Binbrook on full reheat in about 1967, and the sight and sound is still seared into my soul.
Too steep an approach. You highlight this impressive model often and I would be interested in knowing more about the plane's specifications.
That was awesome! When it was in the air, it really looked like an actual RAF Lightning.
Good save, I'd guess that was a $1k landing and not a $30k landing
Extremely nice aircraft and fantastic realistic flying. Landings huh? At least you were able to keep that work of art from being destroyed.
Heartbreaking, but at least the damage is hopefully mostly superficial - aside from the nose wheel strut! Gorgeous model, beautiful aeroplane.
I'd wondered how the turbines fared with the inlet at the front, debris getting sucked in? Hoped he was able to cut the engines once he was down but they seemed to keep going....
Beautiful model. Fantastic. I sincerely hope that you got that beautiful model flying again. Any modeller who has a jet aircraft has a thumbs up from me. I built a Glider and couldn’t control it.
Very, very impressive quick reaction, going on the grass right away.
It was damaged, but this is minor compared to what it could have been.
Beautiful plane!
The pilot's excellent flying skills and calm thinking are evident especially when the landing goes awry - immediately he took control of the aircraft, kept it flying, adjusted over to the grass to set down more gently. (that it came back on the runway was probably not preventable as control was lost at that slow speed on the ground with no nosewheel.) Magnificent flying!
Well, if He hand't lost control moments before, when he completely forgot to flare the plane for a gentle touchdown, whe wouldn't have needed to regain it in the first place... ;)
@@florianN132 12 year old
It's a Lightning, going wrong is the norm
Usually Pilot Error....
@@Zacharia503 Unnecessarily complicated engines played a part too. Made maintenance difficult.
@@alangarland8571 I loved the Lightnings; they were so ugly they were beautiful! I've just looked up the list of Accidents and Incidents; takes some reading!
Yur killin me Smalls!
@@Zacharia503 Honestly this plane looks like a bad design instinctively. You know the old saying if it's a beautiful plane it will fly well.
Somewhere there is a photograph of a Lightening in a near vertical dive , moments before crashing , in the image is the pilot ejecting and in the foreground , a man on a tractor turning around to look at the scene unfolding . Arguably the best picture ever taken.
The Lightning was always bonkers: Basically a way to perch a pilot on top of two huge engines. This is/was a beautiful model, and seems to be very scale. Not too much damage done, I hope!
I think the term the pilots used was a passenger seat on a rocket..
Beautiful model and a shame about the damage but I'm sure you'll sort it out. Apparently you didn't get into a Lightning, but strapped it on😬😂😂
What a shame......such a beautiful aircraft and very impressive build quality of one of the more rare RC aircraft. So glad to see it wasn't completely destroyed and should be able to get a little bit of fixing and back in the air in no time. Great video 👍👍
From the title I was expecting a fiery crash, but was glad to see that did not happen. Very nice flying and a cool looking model!
I watched this video peeking from between my fingers waiting for the landing… that sound, though, magnificent!
Any landing G.I. Joe can walk away from is a good landing! Kudos on this amazing model so very realistic.
That's a brilliant rc model and flew wonderfully. As for the landing.... well the real version landed at some ridiculous speed iirc so not surprised your nose wheel took a beating!
Awesome video of an awesome aircraft. Had the privilege of sitting in one of these ( a two seater ) at Cranfield Airport in the U.K. and firing up one of the engines. Awesome experience. Not certified to fly, of course.( this is the namby pamby U.K.) not that I would ever go up in one .I nearly shit myself when the engine fired up, the plane actually rose up on its dampers even on tick over. Different breed of men flew these beasts. Hope they fixed and flew the model again, one of the finest jets to come out of the UK.
Flying RC models myself, it never ceases to amaze me how some pilots never fly a smooth landing approach. They always seem to want to come in on a curved descending approach and try to level up at the last second.
Just as well we've got you to tell us how it's done, then...
Every time a model flies its like saying goodbye to your prized possession,i actually sat in a real one in the 1970’s.amazing aircraft
Wow I'm amazed you were able to find a pilot small enough! Epic!
Wow! What a beautiful aircraft and well flown sir! That little bump at the end not withstanding. I loved it. Thank you and I hope she is up and flying again soon!
What a pilot this guy is !!
Superb model of a superb plane! Having been lucky enough to see the real thing in action - REAL action at an air show, this model is very convincing - superb piloting too. Pity about the nose wheel but I'm sure that can be made stronger!
Amazing model. Glad it wasn't totally destroyed
Someone call in a realistic scale model fire engine, followed by an incredibly detailed model ambulance of the same era. Seriously though, that Lighting is gorgeous. From some angles it looks like the full size aircraft, but slightly further away. Very impressive.
I have been waiting YEARS for someone to make a model Crash Tender that would have lights and siren and race to the crash and shoot out a little foam :) I can't believe no one has done one with a 3-D printer. Would cost little compared to the cost of these planes.
Beautiful flight in ,but bad landing,looked like the real air plane perfect 👍 thanks for sharing. (USAF veterans) 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🇬🇧🇦🇺🇲🇽🇰🇷🇹🇼
Just Brilliant, I remember going to the Farnborough Air show in the 60s and watching the flying display of the English Electric Lightnings, the model is first class, well done.
That may be technically failed landing.but it is master piece.
Even it survived the crash landing 🛬
Excellent build quality 👍
We don't watch the races for the crashes: we watch the races for the thrill of watching recovery from near-crashes.
Dancing at the edge of the laws of physics is a mesmerizing performance.
Honestly, that's a pretty minor mishap at the end of an excellent run.
Damn that is a cool RC Lightning
So happy to see that this aircraft didn’t get destroyed.
A good landing is one you walk away from.
A great landing is one where they can use the plane again.
Hoping this was the latter. That's one amazing aircraft. :)
Failed landing? No way! More like one helluva save! The quick thinking there was incredible.
5 Squadron RAF Binbrook Lightnings live on !! What a fantastic model and flying display. Takes me right back to my childhood where my friends and I would cycle up to the crash gate in the school summer holidays (late 70's early 80's) and be absolutely awestruck watching these beautiful aircraft go vertical on double re-heat !!! ❤❤❤
I wouldn’t say that was a huge landing fail! I dunno how much repairs will cost so it could be expensive, but after the initial breakage, picking it up and setting it down on the soft ground seemed like great presence of mind and, well, the plane came to a stop largely intact.
And it is a beautiful model!
Just a really beautiful aircraft. The Lightning was always a favorite of mine. Hope it gets back in the air soon!
Awesome piece of kit, beautifully designed, built and flown. Hopefully its not too badly damaged and will fly again.
That was completely amazing to watch, well done to everyone involved, fantastic
That's WAY better than I was expecting! Good save
Fifty years ago I worked in a factory in line with the end of RAF Leconfield runway. Lightnings on training flights from RAF Binbrook would practice touching down at Leconfield then, without stopping, leave the airfield at full gas. WOW did they rattle the factory windows and so low I was sure that one day a lightning would fly in one end of the hanger style building and out of the other. Serious stuff, it was the time of the Cold War. Definitely would not be allowed today but I loved seeing the boys put the fabulous lightnings through their paces.
Mad! But when it landed I was momentarily waiting for the pilot to jump out.
Genuinely relieved that the damage was minimal. Beautiful English Electric Lightning lives to fight another day
Even the landing was AWESOME! You could not tell,it was a model.
Not so bad. Flies beautifully. Take offs are optional, landings are mandatory.