150" (82 pound) Stuka Maiden flight and build pics

First two flights are at the end (starting about 10min30sec). Been a long 5 years building this plane, but it was all worth while as well as it flies!! Here is a Late afternoon flight a few months later: • Beautiful evening flig...

[@jonathanredman8497]

I'm not a modeller myself but I can appreciate the jaw dropping level of commitment to such a project. Well done!

[@jeffburnham6611]

Five years of work, truly a labor of love. That Stuka looks amazing!

[@pbstratocaster]

Not only he knows how to build it, in every detail. He also knows how to fly it. 2 very different skills. Very impressive.

[@Malcolm701]

Yes, unusual combination of skills indeed!

[@davem526]

I didn't see a bomb drop on the underbelly...perhaps you could add one and drop it on the knuckleheads who gave your video a thumbs down! I really enjoyed it! Even buying models that you build with plans out of a box is a mostly lost art today. 5 years and from scratch...that's an accomplishment! Well done!

[@donbrynelsen2157]

On the real Stuka's the bomb was mounted on a trapeze like arrangement that swung it clear of the arc of the propeller before releasing it as the plane was nearly perfectly vertical during a dive.

[@CrewCrewlancer]

I also believe that on the left fixed gear the siren was placed

[@PARATERRORIST]

i believe that he could fit airsoft mg"s in there too... that would be awesome

[@mikewilson4847]

Brilliant. How far we've come since my own feeble R/C efforts in the early 1950's. Wonderful.

[@stevek8829]

Wow! Beautiful build and the flying sure looked real to me. The take offs and landings looked so real. Bravo!

[@pilotdave6057]

Superb workmanship and LANDING ! As a 12,000 pilot I think landing without seeing the airspeed would be very difficult to prevent a stall but you make it look easy

[@ripper9111]

That was one of the most scale take offs and landings I have ever seen on a maiden voyage. Beautiful warbird and great skills.

[@scottgorman7166]

Sweet takeoff and landing. That's a nice looking bird you built. Thanks for sharing.

[@philiprawlinson2561]

Just wow on every count, design, build, problem solving , flying and an incredible landing 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Timsfpvshow]

Absolutely beautiful build brother. You are a very talented person. Thanks for sharing

[@spottyjack614]

Beautiful build..... Great job..... She look's gorgeous!!!!!!!

[@gaius_enceladus]

Great work! A really good result from the build and silky-smooth flying skills - very well shown with the nice landings! Well done!

[@beer1for2break3fast4]

Skills my friend....you have them in abundance! Thank you for showing us your passion.

[@garymucher9590]

Older video, but it does bring back memories when I was building and flying RC. I even got to the point of teaching others to fly RC via the typical buddy-box system. So I know how much time, effort and work it takes to make such aircraft. And I can also understand the absolute "pucker" factor on your first, second and sequential flights with that build. I was holding my breathe on the first landing, but you did it very smoothly and life-like. Bravo sir, Bravo!

[@VintageTamiya]

Beautiful work, absolutely beautiful. I was literally praying all would be ok on that first flight. Great video, and no shitty music. Please make more videos. You are awesome sir, a true master craftsman.

[@robertfeindel1145]

"A critic is a product of creativity not his own!" You 'da Man!

[@solracohcnap]

Amazing work. You are a mixture of engineer, mechanic and artist. Beautiful giant Stuka.

[@travelbugse2829]

I loved the fact that you are honest about your tryouts and revisions. A journey taken is worth as much as arriving! I hope your son recognises that he has an awesome Dad! Best wishes - Rick in London

[@Donatillo1961]

Thank You ! Cox JU87-Stuka is my childhood first plane !

[@samuelhaines617]

Brilliant! I was in awe and then...”the tool man”. Love it!

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

_Congrats. Nice built and successful maiden with brilliant landings !!!_ *THUMBS UP*_

[@bobturner3388]

Absolutely a professional build! Very talented! Plus You must know Darryl Strawberry, tell him he still has lifelong fans up in Western Ma.. Thanks for an amazing video on an amazing plane!

[@thommothomason7297]

Absolutely Stunning Man! Fantastic work on the aircraft and both flights shown were perfect. I would have been very nervous on that maiden flight, but her balance and trim looked spot on. Great piloting and landings 😎👍

[@flonkbob8246]

Simply amazing. Beautiful, detailed, inspired...and it FLYS!

[@maljohn6584]

HI R/C FREND BEEN R/C BUILDING FROM PLANS AND DESIGNING FOR 40 ODD YEARS . AND FULL TIME FLYING. SO NICE TO SEE THAT THERE ARE SOME REAL BUIDERS AND FLYER STILL OUT THERE. I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE ACHIEVED. NOT LIKE SOME OF TODAY'S FLYERS ON LINE CREDIT CARD OUT OF A BOX TODAY AND FLY TOMORROW. WELL DONE LOVE IT R/C FREND.

[@isisthewatcher7932]

fantastic air plane .credit to your building skills .

[@klausphx]

Das Good Quality Build und Kraftsmanship Pretty Good Pilot Too. Your ready to join the Luftwaffe. Prost!

[@fredboat]

Just ran across your video, Great Build ,Ben a fan of the screamer for decades, Great ground attack air craft. Flying tank. Later from Texas

[@derekstynes9631]

Very very impressive and She looks Great.

[@biffedya]

inspirational to see reward from a long passionate journey..... thanks Patrick

[@awoerner1285]

Great project. Fantastic craftsmanship. Congratulations!

[@tennriverluver3534]

Incredible! And big balls to fly it afterwards!

[@velocita8842]

You are an amazing artisan...beautiful war bird!

[@PetrincicBrosRC]

Amazing work my friend, really amazing. Thanks for posting and big salute from Slovenia, Pilot Robert

[@JT-uf4pg]

gentleman this is only a sport/hobby. this is a great build no matter what country had it. my first plane was a line control model like this one. I bought it WOOLCO, IN AMERICA. please do the math. Patrick you did it right. for all of us who viewed this, why did we stay to the end?

[@ericwright7570]

Amazing job! Beautiful airplane. I would be scared to death to fly that. Too afraid of hurting it.

[@lordclancharlie1325]

Once you built it you can always fix it

[@ericwright7570]

Lord Clancharlie He probably could.

[@manuelbeltranmeza]

Master piece. Greetings from La Paz BCS Mexico.

[@brinkybrinkz]

Wow! You blew my mind! To build that from scratch. Liked the Tool man lol! Great landings, you were born with an an amazing gift. Learning to fly and I ain't got wings! Amazing job!

[@にけ-p7w]

I don't know why it appears in the recommendation,but it was good to see it!　from Japan I'm sorry if the translation is wrong.

[@menone2606]

Don't worry about your English. I am an older korean RC er. Off topic,, i like to share something,, you can ignore if it's uncomfortable,, KZbin *" JOSHUA BLAKENY JAPAN BITES BACK "* i have much love for Japanese.

[@AustNRail]

Brilliant job there mate!well done!

[@Freecloud9]

A truly amazing achievement & awsome build. Thanks for sharing. 😉✌️

[@Error_404_Account_Deleted]

Thanks for not removing the swastika. They look silly when people neuter history. Amazing build.

[@eh438]

Definitely one of the best! Love to see it actually dive bomb some day!

[@joerobertson7887]

Beautiful! You should put the siren on it like the real Stukas had on during dive bombing.

[@Vex_Mistaken-qf9un]

This is a man of commitment and sheer fucking will

[@thomasbuss1118]

Fantastic project, wish I could have the room for something that big. Turned out awesome!

[@Joe..3.8.0.9_]

Well sir First let me say , you are a master craftsman . My first plane my mom got me at age 9 was the cox black stuka gas control line , I now own 5 of them ..... Since it has been my favorite plane in the world . Am 61 now ...Ex Navy .. This plane you built is ABSOLUTELY beautiful.!!! To the mis fits who gave thumbs down Bunch of ass wipes Let me see your sorry asses build and fly this plane Go back under your rocks . Joe....

[@steveottavaino3804]

I too had that Cox Stuka, had to take a bath every day for 6 months per agreement with my mom to get it. After 6 months had passed she drove me to the hobby shop and made good on the agreement. Took about two tenths of a second to crash it, perhaps less. Used to swing it around on the stings with a small rock in the front until as dizzy as a dizzy thing. Unique we had the same life experience, hope you actually got to see yours fly under its own power!! Ciao.

[@detroit19531]

They to stupid to but at 3 strings attached, and a Cox .49 engine

[@milesnoell]

Here's to line control planes with nitro engines! My father grew up building big beautiful balsa and silk line control planes and when I was a kid we got a little nitro engine line control plane. Mine was made of sturdy plastic parts that required basically zero build time and would just pop apart in a crash though, ready to snap back together for the next run rather than weeks or careful rebuilding. Now that I have a son of my own to share the hobby with I tried finding the modern version and ended up with a very disappointing lightweight foam line control plane with a small brushed electric engine that nearly squelched my interest. I could simply swing it faster than the motor would drive it and basic ups and downs get old quickly anyway. Trying desperately to recreate that experience for my son I found an old Cox engine and a vintage balsa line control kit, but before I could get it up and running I fell in love with electric R/C. First quadcopters, then helicopters, and on to planes. I started with foam RTF models but now I'm hooked on building DIY foamboard designs (mostly the freely available designs from Flite Test) and tend to fly daily. Line control planes were the spark that led to a very important and very positive theme in my family's lives, and I am deeply grateful, so it's fun to hear that we are just one instance of this phenomenon.

[@thisolddog2259]

Mine was a p51 with about 12 ft of line! I couldn't wait to fly it then I couldn't wait for it to run out of fuel!

[@harambe-h8884]

Mama

[@didierneeferc]

she flies beautifully! now some wheel pants and a spinner! looks great!

[@dennism103]

Flies like a dream

[@andrewmagro7703]

Absolutely Wunderbar , Great Plane well Done .

[@Pantokrator1]

Wonderful-looking Machine. Sehr Güt. Well done.

[@Ka8Pilot]

Sehr schöne Modell und sehr gut gebaut! Gute Arbeit und schön geflogen. Gratulation. Gruß aus Deutschland!

[@idleonlooker1078]

Superb build, and beautifully flown! Congratulations! 🖒

[@dutchflyingwings5862]

Well done Patrick. Stunning job you did here, and professional landings :)

[@heliloco]

OMG..!! Nice Beast I wanna see the next time with the landing gear cover, congratulations bro..!!

[@rc-fannl7364]

Nice work. The sliding canopy is a really nice touch. Looks great in the air, and the landings were very good too.

[@electron4784]

Well Done!!!!! Beautiful airplane

[@rolfschulz9651]

excellent Patrick skill and perfection,and a good pilot and you got it all,good luck!!!

[@twelvtyfive]

Beautiful plane and a beautiful landing, too. Well done!

[@atticstattic]

That looked so pretty taking off....

[@khankrum1]

This would still be far better than CGI for the cinema

[@williamgallinger5445]

GREAT JOB, VERY NICE MODEL!!!

[@matdeeskbkn]

Perfect takeoff, flying around and landing.. This awesome build should get 100% like from all the viewers.. Every pilot in this hobby should appreciate others hardworking or go and play rc cars

[@Timotheus157]

Beautiful...just beautiful! Salute! Suggest adding the classic siren. 👍👍👏⚡💪⚡🌷🍻

[@roberttaylor6030]

That was an excellent landing, great looking plane too.

[@vizzuleyes]

What an amazing bird. I love the Stuka, and what a build that was. Beautiful flight from take off to a spot on landing. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to have to take mine up when I get of work, although mine now seems like an ultra micro compared to this.

[@johnberner2012]

The camera woman is a fucking pro. No shaking and kept it on target the entire time!

[@HebertHoober]

The Stuka siren is available as a ringtone for a cellphone and also from a number of videos. I imagine someone could develop a circuit with an amp to drive a speaker triggered my a mercury switch that only operated during a steep dive.

[@Springbok295]

I have got to get the siren for my phone. That would be hilarious!

[@DoubleDee2000]

Awesome, great build and a soft landing!

[@johnnycee5179]

Outstanding! Great job.

[@scottc977]

Wow, nice build, great first flight.

[@johndd8186]

amazing that the prop turns so slow but it still flies ok.

[@zindy29]

totally awesome, speaking as a builder myself

[@mrnexus8seven949]

Very nice... glad you didn't sanitise the tail insignia. Would be good to have a 3 blade prop but I don't know if that's available. Excellent job

[@nirvanamadpaul]

That is a work of art

[@Dzordzikk]

Hi, very very nice and smooth flying man, one of most realistic flying I ever seen. Congratulation, nice work!

[@chrismitchell5260]

Absolutely amazing airplane great job on the build I've had the great planes.and now pheonix models stuka and just love it

[@flyboy5736]

Nice build and maiden. Just didn't look right though, not too sure if it is the profile or due to missing cowling, wheel pants etc. Well done though, great building skills.

[@jgdooley2003]

Many eastern front Stukas had the wheel spats removed to simplify operations in the muddy fields of Russia.

[@alpermandac685]

Some incredible nice work done here!!

[@brutusbarnabus8098]

Sweet. Now the wheel pants and a Jericho siren and she will be complete!

[@musk-eteer9898]

dang, this man got skills

[@scooter1391]

WOW really nice job building that it's a beauty and fly's great by the looks

[@zubuxstein]

greased landingGood call on the little kid approaching the plane, to stand back, good sense of awareness.

[@AntonioRiosecoGuitar]

What a fantastic work! perfection! excelent flying skills too! congrats!!

[@RTD1947]

Pat, the previous comment is pure BS... nice job!!!! And 5 years is just a labor of love... The guy below obviously has no clue how to fly...just throws money into the air and hopes for the best...maybe he should try something safe...trains maybe! Outstanding job, you sir are a credit to model aviation....as it should be!!! VERY NICE

[@TheZantero]

Awsome!! why would anybody give this a thumbs down.

[@voicetube]

Great maiden takeoff… & landing!

[@zenersmytok3619]

It's beautiful. Well done !.

[@xtra330]

In one word, awesome!

[@billbright1755]

Our Rudel ! ,,,, why this cannot be. ( on news of he becoming JU 87 ace, he had struggled so in early flight training )

[@DanielMigneault]

What an achievement! congrats

[@howardlewis8091]

It has a starter?? That's worth a thumbs up all by itself.

[@GetRealwithMike]

Well done. Well done. Now to add a way for bombs to drop with a screaming whistle sound and a simulated machine gun sound , learn some dive bombing techniques and you will have blown us away. Very nice build and flying.

[@IansRCExploits]

Amazing build!! Amazing plane!!

[@alejandrorodriguez2380]

Congratulations Patrick, very nice job, the stuka it's the most terrible fly machine, I think so. You will be very proud , congratulations from Mexico

[@tracyhawley2740]

A Craftsman, beautiful work

[@wieslawszczepanski3379]

Tracy Hawley 99

[@wieslawszczepanski3379]

Tracy Hawley ,

[@wieslawszczepanski3379]

Tracy

[@j.mahoney1178]

Great achievement congratulations.

[@anthonywinkler6666]

Great Build!!

[@mike_oe]

What a brilliant maiden (I wont even mention the build)