The real explosion occurred when he got home and told his wife what happened to the $35,000 RC jet that he spent all his retirement money on.

Sorry for the guy who lost his plane, but he was putting on an excellent show.

2:47 well.. that "slow ride... take it easyyy" ... was so fitting

One reason I have RC tanks. When the battery or engine fails, it doesn’t fall out of the sky.

If you're gonna have such an epic crash, the best you can hope for is someone at least gets it on camera. This camera guy did a great job.

I can't get over how realistic these RC Aircraft are . That crash almost looked real too, but the aircrew didn't eject.

Sorry for your loss. Kudos on your flying sir, you rocked it.

Imagine having $35000.

Even the explosion was to scale! LOL Shame about that jet. That was very impressive engineering and piloting. I hope he can rebuild!

Looks like thrust pipe failure. Would have melted through the elevator servo leads fairly quickly. Sorry for the loss but happened safely. Good piloting in all aspects.

What happened to the parachute? He could have saved the plane if he installed one. Even cheaper rc planes has it.

These RC videos are absolutely Amazing! From Planes to Boats to 4x4's!

Flying RC planes is an exercise in humility and impermanence. I’ve felt awful losing a $600 plane. $35000, I can’t imagine.

Now that jet had real ‘presence’. It sounded great, flew with amazing grace and energy. So sad to see it crash. Even in death the machine made the most spectacular smash and burn I’ve ever seen.

An awesome jet for sure. Amazingly fast and so sorry for the loss of it as well. Thanks for posting this.

Good job, realistic ground explosion 😅

As an old RC instructor told me years ago, "If you aren't willing to crash it, you never should have built it!"

Boy, those $10,000 mini Stingers really work! My G.I. Joe really nailed that sucker.

A lot of those scratches will buff right out 👍

Sorry this happened a fantastic model and well flown !

I spent 3 years building a Ray Hayes Oly III 3 meter sailplane, it was flawless. On my second outing, I flew it into a steel power pole and it looked like someone threw 10 deck of cards in the air. I was sick for months. I feel for this dude.

I know exactly how that feels. I've spent months and months building a Mustang "Miss America" with my father in the 80's and at the maiden flight in Austria it was moving lovely, until at one point it became uncontrollable and crashed. We've come to the conclusion that it must have been the receiver battery that came loose and pulled it's own plug. That may not have been $35000 in cost, but definitely in man hours and I can tell you it hurt real bad for long....

I flew RC for many years, and I can't imagine how he feels. But I also can't imagine putting anywhere close to that amount of money that is highly likely to crash one day!

Sickening loss but ultra realistic crash fireball. If this was shot at 300fps it would have passed as a real jet crash

I've been flying rc since 1984. Those pretty turbines that cost as much as a car can crash just as easily as the $100 ones made out of foam board do and when they crash the destruction is often total like this one. The rule is that if you can't afford to crash it you can't afford to fly it.

They should have a little fully working RC fire engine on-hand at these events. :0)

That explosion is incredible.

Besides the fatal end handling was magnificent and the flame out apparently not caused by the pilot. This guy obviously is the right person to operate costly rc models like this.

Even the crash looked like the real thing! Very sad, it was a beautiful plane being very skillfully flown.

200mph-0mph in a fraction of a second. That's impressive

You pay the money… you take the chances. I like RC aviation, I’m also career long aircraft mechanic & pilot. If these guys would put a camera in the airplane for visual reference it would minimize the accidents. RC aircraft are not stressed for the G load the real bird is… one control surface fails you’re toast!!!

Notwithstanding the end, that was an absolutely spectacular flight with some ultra skilled ground piloting! If you're gonna go down in flames, that's the way to go....

I do feel for this guy. I’m sure there was a lot of time, dedication, & personal achievement in making & flying this. I do hope you fly again my friend.

Sorry about the plane, but the great thing about this being an RC show (as opposed to a piloted air show) is that you can have an epic crash like that... and no one was hurt.

I would have never thought an RC plane could make such a realistic plane crash, fire, and smoke...wow!!

Let's Give a round of Applause to the Cameraman..!!!

I owned a nine foot glider, that lost reception. It flew off... .. into the distance. And I could see it ten minutes later flying the coastline. No lie. It kept going. I never found it because it was over ten miles away.still flying today. Legend has it.

Some of those maneuvers were not to scale ( very tight turns ) which spoiled the display for me.

Crash at 3:00 but in all fairness the operator showed some serious skills before hand.

He was a very small man, with a very big heart. RIP.

That’s the best sounding and looking model jet I’ve ever seen, amazing piloting skills as well 👍

Those dudes running to the crash site like theres real people inside.

Even the background music was an point: „… take it eeeeeaaaasaaayyyy“ 😂 RIP Jet

Thoughts and prayers for the pilot's family ☹️

So amazing to watch fly. I am so sorry for your loss. That was just unfortunate. It was so beautiful to watch fly.

Wow.. right in the cornfield!! That’s terrible!! Really impressive to see the agility of that plane..

I think there was on board fire and it burned the elevator and rudder servo cables. That’s why he was unable to control and land the plane safely. You can see the black smoke before crashing, which shows that there was a fire inside the fuselage.

$500 a second ; totally worth it! And he really stuck that landing!

Excellent flying! Beautiful to watch. Condolences to the pilot, hope his garage has a few extras.

lol good. "Slow ride" is right 😂

"Slow Ride" playing when the jet crashed is wild

Sorry for the lost of the beautiful jet, and congratulations to the pilot that have good skills to fly the plane.

Skillful piloting, but a sad end to a stunning performance, can't guess what g-force this machine had undergone.

When you have a millionaire’s money…and Homer Simpson’s brain.

LOL, do it again, do it again 😂

Impressive flying! Sorry for the crash. That was tough to watch.

“That was some of the best flying I’ve seen to date - right up to the part where you got killed.” - Jester

That thing looked so real. I was half expecting the pilot to Eject Eject EJECT!!!!

Bummer. That was sick

The announcer gave a top speed, but I was wondering what g-force he was pulling in those snap-to-verticals. I was waiting for the wings to come off.

Magnificent example of why I choose to love this hobby from a distance.

1:36 okok he got me at first ..

I've been flying RC since 1980. I have gone through two fleets of aircraft, over the years. Expensive hobby, for sure.

Announcer: “It goes 199.8 miles per hour!” Jet: “Wait til you see how fast I stop”

Can we just take a minute to appreciate the skills of the pilot doing the maneuvers? Easily could qualify for the Top Gun of the RC world! 👍

This is better than some real airshows

That went a lot better than I expected. Pilot has some good skills 👍

That was spectacular from beginning frame to end frame. Wow! Great flying and great camera work!!

That's why a properly trained RC flyer never flies over any people or cars.

Quite a nice view, video is stable and sound is spot on. Will be keeping tabs on your travels. Cheers

When I was a kid my dad got us into RC planes.. spent months working on them. First time out someone turned their radio on while my dad was flying and his plane flew right into the ground. We packed up and never went back.

Great job on the photography, kept it nicely in frame whole time. Hurts your heart when it flames out, you know it's coming down like a dart. 😕

Good show! I've never seen one of these wrung out to such extreme G. Clearly a skilled pilot, but the excessive loading may have contributed to the failure. That was one heck of a tough plane to be able to handle those forces. It's fortunate that nobody was in the path when it lawn darted.

My friend is a major-league RC hobbyist, has some aircraft hanging from basically every ceiling in his house! (-he's single!). He told me this story: Some years ago he was at a big RC event and witnessed this: Another guy was flying this scratch-built, jet powered B-52 bomber, doing lazy passes back and forth across the field. Suddenly he really throttled up, did this scorching flyover, but something went wrong and the thing spiraled into the ground and made this small, flaming, expensive crater. There he was, standing there stunned with his now useless RC controller still in his hands: -from behind him, his...WIFE spoke up: "Well, THERE goes Twenty-THOUSAND dollars." I'm not sure where the injury ended and the insult began!

It's a good show and great flight. But, if your looking for the Crash, the flame out is @2:40. The Crash comes quickly.

That hurt to watch but clearly it wasn’t the pilots fault. This guy can fly !

Its truly a shame the plane was lost but it went out in blaze of glory. A truly brilliant flying display of an amazing jet. Sorry for the loss of your gear but that is a hazard of the sport.

Woa! 99% of RC model crashes just end with a crunch and some debris…This one go Boom!

Very close to the road. Since you don't always control where the crash will occur, make sure that you are far enough away to not endanger the public.

Sad to see. Great flying from the pilot, certainly more aerobatic than you usually see from these jets.

Great flying skills, sorry about that loss..!!😢

This is why I don’t fly radio control airplanes anymore. This happened to me too much too many crashes. I quit. Started playing guitar instead. Sorry for your loss. I know it’s a very painful thing to lose such a beautiful airplane. I know a lot of hard work goes into putting those together, I put a lot of plans together in my life. I quit this hobby in 1974 and exchanged it for guitar.🎸🎼🎵🎶🎸

Although we can feel bad about the demise of the aircraft, it was probably one of the most beautiful explosions in RC history!

Incredible piloting. The agility was jaw dropping

Although an unmanned flight, the pilot may never fully recover from the accident but is reportedly in stable condition.

Looked like only a loss of control surfaces initially, but it looked later that the loss of control surfaces was a symptom of a bigger problem. It was a hell of an explosion though.

I would have preferred hearing the jet more than the event music. Great flying, fantastic machine, sorry to see it get destroyed but even the explosion looked to scale!

LOL Even the crashes are realistic!

I agree, why not a emergency chute like at scale prototype aircraft. I'm thinking an energy giving nose cone as well? Seems worthy for anything at that cost.

That hurt to watch. It looks like the flame out did something to the controls because he 'should' have been able to glide it to a landing, but the flame out must have damaged internal control elements causing a total loss of control. Beautiful flying though. Great skill.

RC jets in that price range ought to have a parachute like small planes do now.

That was great! He pushed that engine beyond its limit. Predicatable.

Everything looks and sounds so real!

Glad no one got hurt. Pretty impressive flying. More impressive camera work.

The visual, timeline & recovery is a exact match to my last relationship.

Anyone that spends $35,000 on a remote control jet needs his head examined anyway !!!!

That corn on the cob gonna taste good! 😂😂😂😂

Jets tend to do that boomy thing when crashed into a field. Pretty spectacular flying though, right up till the boom.

Dang that sucks! My guess is turbine blew and severed control linkages or electrical lines to servos.. An engine out you could glide back in, but that was pure yard dart straight in. = no control. Luckily not into spectators, parking area or houses. Thats a big plane. Well flown though.

The first responders to the crash site is just incredible. 👍