On repeated looks at this incident it appears that someone underestimated the pressure build up in the square fairing on those engines. All was fine till the plane looked like gaining speed when the pressure in the engine fairings must bave risen beyond what the anchorage of those fairing could take. All one needs to do to find our how much pressure can build up is to open the window of a car and extend the hand out to catch the air coming over the windscreen. It is not something to take lightly. I would estimate that the plane was travelling more than 90 mph when the incident happened. Pity, a great pity and at times like this I tend to be speechless at knowing what the builder must have felt. The pilot was pretty fast to fly it inverted for a time, but by them the high speed air ramming through some gaps in the fuslage must have affected some of the remaining control systems. Congratulations for the courage shown in building such ambitious structure. It flew well and so graceful, so that is a great satisfaction.

240 people thought that this was a real concorde...

Shame such a beautiful model ended in such a tragic way. You can see the love that went into building it.

Did you retrieve the black boxes?

Good camera work, keeping her whole the time in focus and following her..

"Tower, Speedbird 1 declaring emergency, we've lost enginges one and two." "Copy Speedbird 1, are you able to restart them?" "Negative, we've lost them.. lost. Like dropped them."

The thumbs down are from the 127 little people on that Concorde.

Very nice job by the pilot to steer it away from the crowd.

I suspect tyre damage was responsible.

Impressive that he was able to react so quickly to actually attempt to fly her inverted.....outstanding skills!! Sorry for the loss ;(

That's what happens when you glue your turbines on...

imagine: you've built this plane and you see it falling down to ground while knowing exactly why it's happend. That wish in that situation to kick oneself as hard as possible... Let's hope the guy built an another Concorde

If you look closely at the final few seconds from disintegration you can see that the plane was in a bit of a dive and over speeding. Then you can notice that right before the first engine pod separated, the pilot jerked the plane up.that over stressed the left engine nacelle, and it fell off, leading to the plane's demise

.......................that was the most amazing almost surreal crash sequence, so graceful strangely enuf . Just watched this again. Still hard to believe, such a shock to see that happen. Magnificent scale aircraft & credit to the owner/builder, hope he designs a better flight control system next time:-) Appears one of the engine intakes assemblies on the L/H side detached & took out the relevant Elevon, the rest was just a sequence of events even the pilot had no control over.

I feel bad for the guy. All that work. Of course, I felt even worse for all the people who were in the real one that went down.

Copilot: "Wait wait sir, what are we doing?! Why would I trim down??" Pilot: "We're gonna roll it." Copilot: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'ROLL IT'!?!"

Everybody gangsta until the ground starts to get on fire

My condolences to the families that passed away in this horrific tragedy

It broke up when it hit the scaled down, sound barrier...

I'd say that those parts fell of because of flutter. They weren't stiff enough or not damped properly. The plane just hit that critical sweet-spot airspeed during lowpass. It happened to my plane too, same situation. It happens quite often in those faster, bigger RC planes, most of the cases concern ailerons and flapperons (like in that case) . Many real planes crushed due to dynamic aeroelastic phenomenas.

Вот и из- за не поладок движков и потерпели крушения эти французкие самолёты. Прям как реалити, терпит крушение настоящий. И радует только одно; на барту нет постродавших. Супер зрелище, но не стоит на чужом горе плясать.... да очень жалко конечно моделистов- сборщиков, но что поделать, никто не застрахован от подобного случая. Держитесь крепко асы без крыльев....

So sorry! My dad was master modeler and I appreciate the amount of work in a custom plane like that. Hope you build another.

What a sad end... Great reaction of the pilot, but without reward at all... I don't undestand, the engine cowlings rip off on mid air (on the slow motion replay you can see the engine attached to the wing) and the model dies?... very strange indeed...

It clearly hit some debris on the runway during takeoff which later caused the crash

i was out testing my rc surface to air missile launcher that day......whoops

I'm so sorry your model crashed . It looked just like the real thing in the air !

Don't tell me that was pilot error, .... well, unless the pilot built it I guess?

Looks like the bubble gum holding the turbines on was not chewed properly?

"And thats why kids, the concorde was forever retired".

so sorry man !

great move from the pilot who managed to keep the plane away from the crowd and flew it inverted casually to a safe crash area!

Long shallow dive, slight pull up adding G, airframe could not take it. I was reading somewhere that certain model manufacturers models have been banned from the US RC jet show circuit, not strong enough to handle the speeds they can reach. There are quite a few videos of model aircraft breaking up due to being over stressed, but the possible consequences of a model of this size and speed is scary.

Pitty. I'm not into modeling or anything, but that plane looked like a masterpiece.

Excellent initial save, figured it was a goner from the initial failure but he got it inverted and climbing. Too bad with no engines she lost speed and stalled. Mandatory accessory at jet meets, a 4wd ATV with fire extinguishers aboard.

That is what I call "real scale" nicely executed...

Not really into rc aeroplanes - but that was a really beautiful model, quite a feat of engineering. Sorry for your loss, hope you continue to make some other marvels.

I thought it was the real one when I clicked on the video!

Oh man, what a gorgeous aircraft and such a terrible loss! There's a few ten's of 1000's of $$$ tied up in that, not to mention the man-hours, and to have it all gone in seconds must be tough to bear. I wonder if he'll try again. Even at scale, it's something else to watch that sleek Concorde slice thru the sky so gracefully, I had the good fortune to be directly under the real thing as it came in on landing once. Very close the the runway threshold so it was big & loud and awe-inspiring...8 months later and it was toast and Concorde was grounded.

some people say it wasn't the pilot who leaded the plane away from the crowd .others they say he did,,,, I will support the 2nd opinion that he was still in control even after the disintegration of the first engine from the plane ... now , if left engine is teared out of the plane.... then , aerodynamically this means that the left side would have less drag and resistance than right side. usually in such case plane would go in a turn towards the right side and goes into a slow spiral descend, even if there is no thrust as inertia will keep some lift for the plane under its wings ( that's incase ruder is not used to adjust the turn making side slip )... guess that means it should have had to turn right not totally revers towards the left side ,,,,,isn't it ???? if that is true,, then till this moment the pilot had a control ....that means he was the one who turned it away from the crowd,,,,, and good he did that. why ??? coz later it seems like the plane started elevation ( the pilot had a hope to get high revers it back and figure out a way to land his rc with minimum damages ) but unfortunately the 2nd engine was gone too :( all what he could do was just see it going down but AWAY FROM CROWD AS HE PLANNED .... guess he was or maybe still a air liner or an air force pilot .... sorry for the pilot sorry for the model ...but good job was done

Wow. I know it was heartbreaking for him but that was by far the coolest R/C crash ever, I think he might have saved it if all the control surfaces had not departed as well.

Anyone else expecting a big explosion at the end?

"Expensive Yard Dart"! Ouch!

Crashing is an inevitable part of flying RC. Sometimes you can fly a cheap junky model for a few consecutive seasons without any damage, and sometimes a nice flying aircraft with the most reliable top-quality components will bite it on the first flight. If you've put a lot of work & money into a nice model and can't stand the thought of banging it up, don't fly it :)

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahh..."

Oh the humanity

Kudos to the pilot for keeping it out of the crowd, and in inverted flight no less!

No satisfying fireball at the end. I think all R/C aircraft should carry a pint of gasoline in the event of a total failure.

Man, that really sucks! Such a work of art, of beauty and so much time and money! I am SO sorry you lost your Concorde!!!! If a person is into cars, they will be empathetic to this loss. You put so much of your love and attention to detail into something and then, run her as she was meant to be run only to lose her is one tough pill to swallow. I love my cars and my rotary winged R/C aircraft, so I feel your pain! This was quite awful to watch. Hopefully, you make a comeback with either this airframe or something else! Don't Quit! Never quit!

It looks like the landing gear assemble broke apart when the wheels were deployed by the remote controller. The retracting lever, trying to come out, just tore apart the undercarriage of the wing, taking the engine with it. The right landing gear deployed a split second later, and had the same catastrophic damage. Poor structural assembly for the landing gear, and too near the engine.

For you guys saying its a TU-144 your wrong that is concord. And what a shame to see it crash, but well done to the pilot for navigating it away from the crowed...

I don't fly RC but that was sad.

I've always likened the Concorde to a lawn dart. Now I feel sick and guilty :(

I'm not an expert or anything... But I think you have to wait for the glue to dry before flying? lol Seriously though, that sucks to lose all that work so quickly...

The crash site has been marked with a huge black cloud of smoke, it'll be easier to find. Sorry for the loss man I hope you don't give up on that. I felt your pain.

Feel sorry for that accident. good job guys and well done

How many people died ?

For a moment I thought he was actually going to save it.

The shape of the fin was wrong anyway. Hopefully he corrected that when he rebuilt it, as well as fixing his engines on a bit more firmly.

Parts were falling off that plane like a cheap suit. It fell out of the sky like a set of car keys.

With model aircraft like that (size, speed & cost), a trip to a wind tunnel before the maiden flight (or the first flight at speed) is not a bad idea.

Beautiful, and sad. Hopefully they were able to salvage some of it and rebuild it, learning from the mishap.

once more - hard to watch!

Wirklich schade, mal vom finanziellen her abgesehen wieviel Stunden Arbeit und Herzblut in so einem Modell steckt sowas tuht einfach nur weh.

Back to the drawing board

Does this Jets Over Czech happen every year?

Great skills of the pilot to avoid the spectators

Looks like the Russian knock - off of the Concorde that crashed for real at Farnborough air show. Well done for recreating that crash.

Hmm looks like the engine nacelles came off? Looks like bifurcated jet pipes too, so perhaps only 2 turbines. Pretty common to use 2 big engines vs 4 smaller. Cost less and you run a bifurcated jet pipe to replicate 4 working exhaust nozzles. Strange how she crashed, cant tell if it lost the engines or maybe the lines and controls were ripped off with the cowling? Suck! I feel disheartend when I auger in a $200 plane, that sucks!

is the crash intended as part of the show ?

Alright who was it? Clay pigeon shooting is at the other end!

Poor thing. :-( You did your best in controlling her. Hope you can make another one. How did that happen?

my god I hope the passengers were ok. Oh, it's a toy.

Sometimes it happens. I'm very sensitive about rc aircraft accidents so very sorry for the pilot because he do what he could. congratulations for creating such a beautiful aircraft and I wish you luck.

Well, at least it wasn't Air France this time.

I am sorry that this happened to you and your aircraft. Greeting from Arizona.

*pilot prepare for brace *co pilot AhhhhhHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh * impact to the hay fleid

*”Tower, this is British airways flight 4520. We lost the tail, I repeat, we lost the-“* *”Hello? Captain, British airways 4520... can you hear me? I repeat, can you hear me?”* And thats how the black boxes were heard...

Did the action man flying it die?

It was a glorious crash. My brother died the exact same way. Scary.

Didn't look like the cause for the accident was a matter of luck but poor design. Could have killed someone...¬¬

Maverick: -- started up on his six, when he pulled through the clouds, and then I moved in above him. Charlie: Well, if you were directly above him, how could you see him? Maverick: Because I was inverted.

this...is precisely why i stick with models under $100. lol

OUCH tragic loss of a great model and someones long hard workmanship real shame

its ceases to amaze me to this day that no one has developed a parachute system for these models, I mean they cost as much as a decent car. Don't give me bull about how there is not enough space or too heavy, these jets are way over powered. Maybe extremely difficult to get a plane that size completely down without a scratch but at least something to slow it down enough to save some electronic components and more importantly preventing damage to the engines...

Now THAT’S A REAL CROWD PLEASER ! Sorry for the loss of your plane but if it happens make it memorable!

Some say bin laden was on this flight.

When you go to shows like this, is there really an announcer blabbing on and on during the flight? Very irritating!

Good job of recreating the actual aircraft, crashing and all.

Man that was brutal. You could see it at the end burning up about a mile off in the distance. By the time they got to it must have been melted up and rather difficult to extinguish.

a little glue can fix that right up..LMAO

Man that model looked soo good. Kinda sad to see its gone :C

where's the air crash investigation ;)

Looks to me like the turbine housings were put under too much stress on those little lurches while flying probably causing the glue to fail in keeping it together. That's probably due to the fact of the constant heating and cooling of the turbine housing during and after flight creating minuscule cracks and brittleness. I commend the pilot on his quick reaction to the situation though. Doomed to fly from the start there was nothing he could have done. Very sad.

1:35 I expected to see a giant fireball

Excellent job flying! Kept away from spectators. Sorry for loss of beautiful jet.

expensive lawn dart

Do you think it was plain luck that had the plane bank right then straighten it's heading over the flight line, and away from on-lookers?

Should be filed under "comedy".

Did they ever find the flight data recorder? That should show where the stresses were in the plane, and if pilot error contributed to the crash in any way.

from watch yo jet video