What a terrific Pilot!

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Excellent. I've only seen one guy fly like this for real in the UK some 30 years ago, and he said he was world-class. And I've seen this guy now on here and again world class.

JUST AMAZING!! It reminds me of the first flight I made with my RC, except I wasn't doing those tricks on purpose! LOL Seriously, that plane had to have a 6061 T6 aluminum frame, no? I mean, the G-forces applied to the wings alone must have bee at least 5 or 6! And can someone who knows about this plane tell me what the size of that engine was, (CC & HP)? From about 1980 to 1986, I was into RC building and flying big time. Sometime around 1983 I built a Cessna 170 from a 100% stick-built kit. It was balsa and basswood and high-quality shrink wrap. The wings, fuselage, vertical & horizontal sections were all stick-built and NO foam core of any kind. It took me 10 months to build because I was a manager in a medium size machine shop and worked many hours each week. When I finally finished the plane I taxied it around for a few days to break-in the nitro-mix motor. Then, the day before I planned to fly it for the first time, I took it to a nearby school hard, (after hours). I wanted to just get a feel for the balance and make any necessary throttle adjustments. I didn't want to take it off the ground. But a distant thunderstorm was approaching as I taxied it in the grass. I knew I was going to have to stop the test but I was taken by surprise by a very sudden, strong, burst of wind that proceeded the thunderstorm, (which was still several miles away). That wind came in straight at the front of the plane as I was taxiing it back toward my position at about 5 mph. The wind gust had to be at least 35 to 40 mph and as soon as it hit the plane, the plane took off!! I was completely unprepared and to make matters worse, I was in a populated, residential area. 10 months of precision building was now flying 100 feet above me and the T-storm was closing in fast. In addition, the winds from the approaching storm were chaotic and entirely unpredictable. I struggled for well over 5 minutes in an attempt to get the plane safely on the ground but I was fighting powerful wind gusts and crosswinds. I lost count of how many times the plane almost smashed into the ground at high speed but I was able to recover it with a sharp elevator and/or rudder control input and kept it from a catastrophic crash. Because this was supposed to be a short "taxi ground test", I didn't have much fuel in the tank and I knew I was going to run out very soon. I honestly expected the entire episode to end with a completely destroyed plane as the T-storm reached my destination and it started raining. I was unable to keep control of the plane long enough to make a reasonably good landing. The thunder & lightning was close, too close, and I was in an open grass field. I was wet and in danger of being hit by lightning myself. So, just about when I reached the point of accepting the fact that the plane was going to be destroyed and I was simply going to have to let it crash, a strong wind current of about 20 or 30 mph came straight into the front of the plane and was blowing steady and long enough for me to match the wind's speed with the engine's rpm. I ran the throttle up and managed to match the head-on wind speed and brought the plane to a stop in mid-air! I was 10 feet from the plane and it was 5 feet above the ground in a HORIZONTAL HOVER! It was as if it was in a wind tunnel! As it floated in that flight position, practically motionless, I ran over and grabbed it by the tail! I cut the engine and started running for the car. As I did, I could hear applause coming from some houses to my left. I looked to see what it was and there were about 6 or 7 people standing under their porches, clapping!!! LOL To this day, I don't know if they thought I did all that stunt flying on purpose or not. But I can assure you, that it was all an amazing streak of luck and I could never do it again. Anyway, that was a great video and the flying was incredible! FWIW, Rich

Troppo s....enquinamiento

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Sei SEMPLICEMENTE FANTASTICO!!!!!!!!

Un maestro el tipo...me pregunto cuantos avioncitos habra estrellado hasta conseguir ese nivel...😅🤔

buenisimo

insane. amount of efforts and practice- we can't even count

llo quisiera hacer un avion igual que el de el

Clearly this guy can’t fly a plane !!!!! It’s all over the place. I didn’t see it fly nice and level at anytime. Surprised he didn’t wreck thing !!!!

Класс Просто супер

Sick

Pfff...ça ne ressemble strictement à rien !!! du vol assisté !!! pfff

Wow you are amazing talented 👍👍👍

Exelente despegue

5:04 Knife Edge

His remote skills are not to good. Nice plane though. Haven't seen a show like this on many years.

Профессор отлично водит аэроплан 👍

Bad to the mother eff’n bone‼️💥

😁😁😁😁

sexy

Good skills

Einfach toll, athemlos - das Beste was ich je gesehen habe. Hochachtung vor dieser Leistung!

O😊😊😅😮😮😢😂😂😅😊

Whats the engine ?

And, this was EIGHT years ago as I make this post.. I've been out of the r/c game for a decade and change now.. Gonna have to catch up.. Thanks for the video...

Woooh ❤❤

Отлично, мягкая посадка 👍

Que cilindrada es esa máquina?

Lovely, lovely!

Is it stall recovery at @3:39???

Bluds airrolling 😂😂

Magníficas piruetas!!!!

Ok, one of the coolest things' I've ever seen.

Awesome ❤

What do you need to fix an airplane to fly over around but it is it still crashing?

i love it!

Un vuelo muy suave y realista👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

wow....what a great pilot....and a geiler stunt...man mach weiter so...einfach nur geil....greetz from germany 🙂

😮😮 Qué chulada!!!! A ver si voy a veros, algún día en directo!!!!

Gran video Sergio !!! Gracias !

Impresionante!! Qué habilidad

Impresionantes pasadas!!!!

Que chulada!

Cómo mola el vuelo! ❤❤❤

Que chulo

Impresionantes acrobacias!!!! Gracias SCoscolin RC por acercarnos tanta destreza y emociones a casa.