The first Cricri did fly with 2x 10hp engines and was able to fly with only one...

Wedging yourself into what is pretty much a model aircraft with an oversized canopy has its issues... But on the plus side you get to fly a twin jet!

Its a pretty cool colonoscopy though!

Thank you for the compliment. Of course engine outs needs to be practiced regularly and to me very important to do the pre takeoff brief for an engine out.

@@sakkievanheerden8828 thanks!

SAFETY OFFICER! Knitting club? you clearly have no concept of air safety.

@@abmbarry Thanks for your comment. Could you back up your criticism?

@0.56 can see fire

The smoke is from the smoke system. I switched it on for the take off. The flame that came out was bugger than the camera showed. It stretched the whole length of the plane.

Bigger

Aviate, Navigate, Communicate !

Estuary, Torrent or Pond/Swamp

Those little hobby jets use a lot of oil in the fuel if I recall.

Past V1 safer to keep going

@@charlesspringer4709I have had a few of them, none of mine smoked when they ran.

@@JohnVHRC What could be causing smoke?

@@charlesspringer4709 Something isnt burning properly, Ive never had one fail, or smoke, so Im not sure.

If you watch his very first video it's this aircraft but with 2 cylinder, 2 stroke engines & props, he later changed them to turbojets.

lol most older light twins can't 'comfortably fly on one engine' and this is the very lightest of light twins

@@chrisnielsen9885~ This is true. Which suggests our manned aircraft powered by model aeroplane jets, actually has better & safer margins than the standard one. All be it the standard one is now going on 50 years old ~ The always & forever nightmare with twins, is being able to feather the prop of the engine which has failed. I go back to Eric Winkle Brown and the praise he lavished on the DH Hornet, and the subsequent fatal incidents with that aircraft when an engine failed but the prop-feather didn't work. I look at Howard Hughes and his near fatal accident. I look at the fatal incidents on P-38 Lightnings when control of one prop is lost and the aircraft rolls uncontrollably. I read about it in a novel, (The last dogfight) in the '70s, and then saw video of it happening at an airshow in real life. Lindberg possibly knew a thing or two when he decided on a single engine to fly the Atlantic. As a general guideline ~ two engines is NOT twice as safe as one. It does introduce more options and choices and complexity, but that's not always a good thing.

@@Kneedragon1962 I think you're overthinking it. I don't think you can extrapolate much from a specialty tiny twin design that applies to full size GA aircraft

@@chrisnielsen9885~ What you can extrapolate and what you can't, from models and miniatures ~ that's a bottomless pit, which I've been playing in for over 60 years. And overthinking it. Some things scale up and down almost perfectly, others don't. The hard part (almost impossible) is to guess before the fact, how well something is going to scale up or down.

Left hand circuit is the standard procedure. Love those Aussie.

The main reason for turning left was that there is big high tension wires to the right and one wants to stay well clear of those when you have an emergency.

No rudder, it fell off.

A fair bit of rudder. Not full rudder but pretty close.

The Cricri is considered as a single engine aircraft because needs only a light rudder action on 1 engine, can fly without problem with 1 engine, the first Cricri did fly with only 2x 10hp engines

Thanks. From the perspective of a single-handed ocean sailor that is a beautiful design. I think I first saw one in the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy 2".@@leneanderthalien

@@kiteblaster The one in the movie was apparently a modified Ultraflight Lazair. The Cri-Cri is a low-wing, whereas the aircraft in the movie was a high-wing

Thanks. I like these low-tech planes.@@sweeflyboy

@@kiteblaster Ja I do as well. Would definitely get an experimental aircraft if I was going to buy. SA is the only country where we can train on them, as well.

PTT (push to talk) radio transmitter button

Machine guns.

That button is for the ejection seat, but was inop. Hey.... just kidding.

I wondered if it was an afterburner that was not working. He pushes several times at first when you think he needs more power. Damn it Scotty, I need more power. All jokes aside, good flying, good landing, good thinking.

It carries a 2 kilo ton nuclear bomb.

The engines are on pods at the front. Look up "Cri-Cri aircraft".

Cri cri jet engines mounted same way as the prop version, left and right front pods beside aircraft's nose...

Very cool that cri cri jet can takeoff, flying and landing just one engine !

The gauge above the panel is a timer, he uses it to let him know how much fuel he has remaining (jet engines are thirsty, and it doesn't carry much fuel). Above the VSI is a G-meter.

Could u build a smaller plane, seem silly to me. No way that is comfortable

Colomban is a magician. I fly one of his designs. Incredibile performance. Still has a good climb rate on 1 engine

This is a chest-mount GoPro. Pilot POV is significantly higher

If you look at some of the other videos from this channel, you'll see this Cri cri has been modified with two model jet engines. It's hard to read the screens of those controller monitors for the jets, but it's clear one of them had an unexpected failure.

@@3dartstudio007 let's say you're right about the jet. The engine failure on the starboard side happened shortly after he throttled up. Plenty of time to abort the take off. Pilot still gets an "F"

@@amiabledave50 Yea I saw that. I'm curious about the two modules on the dash that seem to monitor the jets. To me this is research and development of a new jet. It looks like they are doing test flights in a somewhat safe area. I'm also wondering about the right side engine smoke as it's the one that smokes intentionally for skywriting. I'm interested in seeing an electric quad (like the jetson1) that has VTOL with jet propulsion for distance and speed.

Cri-Cri jets are a fairly well-known mod. Apparently the smoke was due to smoke fluid injection, which is intended to produce smoke for airshow use, etc. Not sure why it would be used here though.

@@sweeflyboy I DON'T BELIEVE THAT SCENARIO. The smoke from that engine was because the engine was in trouble.

Because he is off the ground and beyond any opportunity to put it back on the runwat. So his best choice is to make gentle turns back to runway, which, happily is what he did.

The problem is that he has no clue how turbine engines work.

The GoPro camera has a much wider field-of-view than the human eye. The smoke in far right peripheral vision may not have been apparent. The pilot has every clue how turbines work. The TBO on Jetcat turbines is short. That one was shorter than most. The owner-builder-pilot is very thorough and I would be his passenger any day.

@@DARANGULAFILM It would have been caught even in peripheral vision. Blue smoke coming out of a jet engine on full thrust is cause to shut down IMMEDIATELY. Pilot fail.

Clearly the engines are not too small, as the aircraft can fly just fine on one engine.

@@KingJellyfishII Yeah, one is enough to keep it aloft, but can it practically take off on one engine? I very much doubt it. You need lots of power for a take off or you'll run out of runway. So it needs two engines. Full throttle.