MAYDAY MAYDAY COMPILATION 2012-2020

RC planes can sometimes surprise the pilot with technical problems, such as dead stick, gear failure of servo issues.
You only have a few seconds to make the right decision on how to get the aircraft back onto the runway undamaged.
ENJOY !!!

[@TheophilusPWildbeest]

3:37 That's what you call ground effect. Great flying.

[@taofledermaus]

Great comp! The pilots did a great job at bringing them back to fly another day. (except for that last one!!)

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thanks for your great comment, Jeff. 😎🤙🏼

[@joeys5429]

sad one major malfunction

[@matty82003]

3:04 Italian voices

[@SiR2Dean]

Most of these landings with no gear are better than mine when they're fully working..🤦‍♂️😁

[@krotchlickmeugh627]

Best to land with a smooth underbelly when you have a gear failure. Far less damage. Look only as far as real aviation and the procedures of landing when partial gear failure occurs

[@gsxrdrama9025]

Im still trying to figure out why mine even has landing gear when it needs a brush guard

[@garyjohnson1970]

Some spend their entire flying career, with no wheels, and hand launches. I like wheels and cement, no grass!

[@mixtumaster]

Really 🤣🤣🤣

[@sandisbergvalds2008]

13:51 i love how a jet plane shakes it's tailfin before landing.

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Luckily it wasn't falling off. 🤙😎

[@garrettodonnell4177]

Love the P-61. That's the great thing about RC - no matter how obscure a given aircraft may be, someone has built a giant model of it.

[@trustyoldiron5416]

8:23 That Corsair might be the best sounding rc plane I've ever heard.

[@cloakedgt]

odds are its a satio FG 90r3 or the 5 cyl radial, they sound killer

[@trustyoldiron5416]

@@cloakedgt That's possible but I bet it's a Moki radial given the scale. It's definitely a 5 cylinder either way.

[@andreglinke8210]

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[@muzzaball]

Happily no catastrophic failures or total losses! Tho that Tailfin flutter at the end had me worried, and RIP the Tiger Moth pilot lol.

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thank you for your kind comment which I really appreciate !!!

[@weld4200]

I cant BELIVE my clip made it here ...AWSOME .

[@brandonwesson6818]

What's the time stamp for your landing..would like to see it. They were all pretty great giving the circumstances 👏 👍

[@thomasevans1128]

I love how these are all completely original and have featured no where else!

[@krotchlickmeugh627]

What'd you expect he filmed them all personally. America has been broke for a long time. Americans have little to no freedom and we dont enjoy expensive hobbies in mass like other countries do.

[@Ayare4]

@@krotchlickmeugh627 bro what💀

[@avipatable]

That was awesome Horst! Some truly heroic saves there! Those two with the flutter were very lucky! Good to see there were no full write offs - even the Tiger Moth and the end didn't look too bad! And damn that landing gear that locks half up and half down! Great compilation :)

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[@bobdyer422]

Great save with the Panther. I did breath a sigh of relief when the "Superbolt" landed safely. The wings scrapes on the runways, OUCH! Then poor Strega! A lot of "You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel!" At least not too many hearts were broken. Great stuff Horst!

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thank you for your kind comments, Bob. I think just about every RC pilot has had to master one of these sticky situations. The aircraft did not always end well. 🤙😎 _Cheers, Horst_

[@chuckels431]

Love that “ you picked a fine time to leave me lose wheel” 🤣

[@abundantYOUniverse]

Glad to see the Corn Barrier Restraint System doing its job perfectly!

[@user-rc1eu5vm2t]

Basically people who make large models do not know how to get out of unexpected situations and break models but here everything is done correctly Respect✊

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thank you for your kind comment, which I really appreciate!

[@4486xxdawson]

The guys at the end had a good sense of humor even after such an expensive fetal crash , Sorry for the pilot , RIP

[@skuula]

I had one of those pilot figures just refusing to stay in the plane one day, he kept falling out. I started without him and crashed ...

[@mobeyond]

the last clip is just hilarious 😂😂😂

[@NikolayAgopyan]

These videos that you make are amazing, thank you!

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Glad you like them!

[@Soulmate_1001]

Sehr kurzweilige und tolle Zusammenfassung lieber Horst. Fantastische Piloten, das darf man schon sagen. 💙

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Vielen Dank Markus. Da stimme ich dir vollkommen zu. Bei derartigen Situationen geht jedem Piloten der Puls hoch. Da ist es wirklich bewundernswert, wie gut die ihre Flieger an einem Stück zur Erde bringen.

[@caveman8200]

Wanting a new transmitter but I'm stuck between the ix12 and nx10 spektrums which would you get? Also seen alot of reviews on radiomaster tx16s

[@keiththompson2172]

Fantastic flying and landing . I get the feeling that RC pilots , especially the WWII plane pilots, would love the ‘wounded plane’ landings resoluteness of a successful mission !? My fave is the 3:32 landing

[@paktoysreview8377]

i really admire your work

[@TheBobhyp]

Fantastic models, flying skills, and wonderful videos! Thanks for sharing what can only be considered dedication to a difficult and expensive hobby!!

[@pnnedbydr_ogreacts2220]

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[@thebestofj.fraley]

LMAO, doing pre-cardial thumps and CPR on the down pilot. That was funny A H!

[@madeleyinc]

The European Pilots have dead stick and emergency landings down to a fine art. Brilliant to watch.

[@lw216316]

trying to revive the pilot was worth waiting for

[@DesignedbyWill2084]

3rd Annual Dead-Stick Wheels-Up Landing Competition.

[@startazz]

That Grumman F9F Panther is one of the few RC models i always regret selling especially when i see it flying so well here on YT,mind you mine was the old smaller RCLander model with their EDF fan unit and ESC which i upgraded with the 12/10 bladed fans,which made it sound so much better and as close to a real turbine as you can get when using electric in my humble opinion. Thanks again fro sharing these great video Horst (sorry if spelling wrong) as it's very much appreciated sir,with much love and respect from the UK. ✊🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

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[@Toscanto]

Les pilotes sont tous expérimentés pour faire face à ce genre de difficultés.. ils restaient calme et sans précipitation . Bon les abords de la piste étaient aussi très bons gazon de partout Mais du grand pilotage yoit de même Bravo messieurs

[@johnandrewnaylor5121]

Lovely flying machines, and lovely quality clips well shot and edited. 👋👋👋👋👋

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thank you for your kind comment. Much appreciated !!!

[@Yuriy684]

very interesting and instructive selection! videographer well done! very high quality and beautifully filmed!

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thank you very much. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@wikingjarl]

Was für tolle Modelle 👍👍👍Aber ein großer Schwachpunkt dürften wohl die Fahrgestelle sein.

[@TheGramee]

Best collection ever! Thank you...BC Canada

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Our pleasure! 🤙😎

[@RcNickster709]

Just goes to show you. There are some great pilots out there. Some great saves .. Thanks for sharing

[@rinunculartoo3006]

Great pilots?

[@rinunculartoo3006]

Hope the Retract manufacturers watch this presentation, they need to build more reliable units.

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thanks. You got that right! 🤙😎

[@RcNickster709]

@@rinunculartoo3006 Absolutely

[@bird271828]

Wow. Just wow. 👏👏👏👏🌷🌼 15:01=😂🤣😂🤣

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

THANKS 😎🤙🏼

[@cloakedgt]

watching all the crashes/mishaps has made me want to get into the hobby, covid and all, i know its a big project but im getting myself that doug smith 1/12 scale B29 lol, i have an RC boat, and have had a rc plane when i was younger but i was about 6

[@volvo09]

Good thing real landing gear is more reliable! Some nice smooth landing in here 👍👍

[@AdrianPrath]

Excellent compilation, no clickbait!

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[@coreybunss]

Very nice recoveries tho good flying👍

[@carguy1979]

Some really good saves! 👏🏻

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thanks! 😊

[@divifo]

very nice shots

[@Filzkiiz]

AwesoMe!! Love de channel Mate!!😁😊😎😉👊👍😚👌🤙💯!!

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thanks 👍

[@aloysiusjones3985]

Two recurring themes. 1, corsairs figure prominently and 2 farmers fields next to run ways. Do the farmers get danger money? That tiger moth CPR was a ripper. 🇦🇺👍🍺

[@Warbird-Aviation]

Really nice filmed!!!!!

[@4291juneau]

Some great saves there!

[@ShaharBenDavid]

2023 and we have yet mastered the art of landing gears 😂.

[@GOASTRC]

A very handy technique to wipe off that excess speed on an emergency approach is side slipping.

[@grandpa71]

Bravo! Thank you!

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thank you for watching and commenting.

[@danhessler]

I hate to say it but I enjoy watching them belly landings.

[@shelbyseelbach9568]

Feels like I just watched an ad for electric servoless retracts.

[@conradkenneth5216]

Greetings from the international space station!

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thanks for watching and commenting, Conrad. 😎👍🏻

[@thomasevans1128]

rlly lol

[@javichu_0581]

Hey

[@alexdavies9162]

You’re an astronaut

[@MickyOliver]

Great pilots! [Brazil]

[@balferono4568]

So the first company to make landing gear that works, wins.

[@lancegrey1225]

Great great great great great job 👌 LANDING THERE 👍 NICE WORK ON THE VIDEO TOO. GREAT FOCUS THERE. THAT HAD TO BE TRUTHFULLY TOUGH TO KEEP UP WITH!?

[@ChrisB257]

Excellent selection of, for the most part, brilliant saves. So good to see a plane still be basically all intact and able to fly another day. Very sad end with the last biplane -- must have lost his elevator servo authority - big ouch. Super compilation Horst and thanks for all the time needed editing it together :)

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[@indridcold8433]

The first one was an excellent dead stick landing.

[@ammevideovlog]

Wow like my friend, is great

[@avianarod]

Hey. You don't have a contact email on your channel?

[@stellarpod]

Why is it, that with all of the advances that have been made in RC aircraft, we STILL cannot devise a robust retractable landing gear that will hold up reliably? It just seems outrageous to me that we continue to see planes landing on failed gear. I think most would agree that the consumer would be willing to pay substantially more for landing gear they could rely on. As always, thanks much for sharing. Steve

[@krotchlickmeugh627]

No, no we wouldn't pay ore than the ridiculous prices we pay now. Most of the failures you see are pure negligent paintinence or shitty air systems. Electrics have their failures but only the cheap ones. Have you seen real aircraft land with gear failures? Yeah happens all the time. Same reasons negligent maintenance. Air systems aren't really used as much today. But there's millions of rc planes that were made a long time ago that have never been converted to new tech. Others are built by old guys that think what they used 20 years ago was good then and is good now. Its not

[@jamesberwick2210]

Years ago, I was judging an RC scale contest at our field. One of the contestants, flying Dauntlas, made a hard belly landing on Saturday, he was from out of town, so one of the local fliers, invited him to fix it and fly Sunday. Sunday morning he made a test hop, everything looked fine. He flew the second flight on our line and mid flight, it suffered a catastrophic wing failure, he called it as one of his scale maneuvers, yelling Mayday...Mayday. We gave him tens for it, it was only the second thing on his flight. The next year someone else flew a Dauntles and made his way up in altitude, nosed over, flaps deployed, he dropped the bomb, then got watching the bomb, the bomb hit mid runway, a few feet further down, the plane hit, total loss, I was watching this time. Things do happen in RC, and not always what we want.

[@offgridderbulgaria4416]

The purpose of the prop turning is to cut holes into the air for the plane to fall into....once it stops the holes dissapear, hence the plane comes down, or so it was written in our club magazine in the jokes section the one time in 1992. Good memories. ❤

[@joecalobeer6396]

That was fun!

[@carguy1979]

1:50 boom-sa-daisy. It's enough to make you weep

[@ecuxxil7010]

Just spent a great couple of hours wandering around the streets discovering neat places to fly (albeit with quads because it's *windy* as hell today). There are some wonderful spots which might not be 100% legal... but they are 100% safe :-D I may post some video later -- although there's not much to see except an old man crashing into trees (LOL). Looking forward to summer and a backpack filled with lipos and planes/quads.

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Very cool!

[@connieschmitt714]

I love watching these I was just wondering how the ones that don't crash stop

[@johnburrows1179]

I love these videos. But a question for those in the know… why do so many landing wheels fail to deploy? And why when they do deploy they fail so much? Can’t they make the landing gear beefier, stronger?

[@evansabo4908]

I work at a hobby shop in Canada, but here it's hard to find retracts for decent price, and along with if it'll actually fit the aircraft you want to install them onto. You can make them more "beefy", it's just often time's you'll sacrifice weight for better retracts that are custom built for your likings. But these are compilations and not all of these mishaps happen on the same day, but radio control I hear is far more popular up in Europe, then North America, and that's why I suspect that there are more content coming out of these guys then North America... If that make's sense. Hope that helps :D

[@alexcowie8634]

they added sound to this the motor is dead and theres a motor running sound ??

[@steventoone2478]

Why are they landing without wheels?

[@FlankerTanker]

Dead stick landings are a.normal part of rc model flying part of the BMFA certification is learning how to do them..and calling out Dead Stick......Landing....

[@icewalker117]

I don't understand . When I started flying r/c planes - one of the 1st things i learnt was to set your prop in the horizontal position just as the compression starts - that way if you have a dead stick the prop stays horizontal and clear of the ground. (obviously not for the 3 or 4 blade props ) ...

[@chuckels431]

That also doesn’t work for most multi cylinder engines

[@eriks87cam702]

Some Of these guys make you wonder how good they would be in a real plane

[@julesviolin]

Rwal Power pilots should take note of those powerless landings. Most bugger it up when their engine quits !

[@nicholasroberts6954]

What a lot of FOD ! Great compilation

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Yes, thanks.

[@EiranAmerica]

The pilot from the last video is alive!

[@jamesn5051]

13:03 was a rollercoaster

[@barnstormrcsessions2951]

Great video! thanks for sharing 👍new subscriber 🤙

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Awesome. Thank you for the sub.

[@nigel900]

Rename it "Great Saves!"

[@CaptainMav1735]

fantastic landing 0:39

[@dilligaf1009]

This should be called....deadsticking it like a boss.

[@user-ge2qn6gp4o]

Some damn good pilots in this video!

[@RCThis]

13:06 . Needs explanation!!!! How did it just start up by itself????? 😯😯😯😯

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

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[@georgecharleston2597]

I got so confused as to why the first plane was so twitchy etc... then I realised theyre RC planes

[@rektrc1142]

8:35. You don't see that happening very often.

[@keiththompson2172]

What a save for the props

[@davidhall8874]

Am I missing something? Why did they have airplanes with no landing gear? Does that reduce weight or something?

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Exactly David. The all taking off by hand launching. 🤔😉

[@krotchlickmeugh627]

Lmfao. Unreliable air systems

[@davidsapir3764]

..."F**KING LANDING GEAR!!!"" It's amazing how often they fail.

[@TinkerManRC]

Awesome

[@bslaws]

Landing gear failure seems to be the common theme here. Thousands of dollars and countless man hours lost due to insufficiently engineered landing gear.

[@startazz]

I know how i feel when i lose one of my RC planes and they cost a fraction of these ones in this video,so i can only imagine how they must feel,mine normal layout for an RC plane is anything from £250 up to £400 but normally the lower end of that pricing and only something that i really want is at the higher end,never because we need it but rather we want 🤣. Just about every maiden i would and still do get them sweaty hands right up until my landing,i soon realised no matter if you land with or with out power,you have to near enough let the plane land it's self and not force her down,even if it means getting a taxi to go pick the plane up because you landed so far away,well that's what we would say to each other that had to walk that far away,still any landing that you walk away from and can fly again is a good landing,though the greases stay in ones memory longer than the crashes. 😉 Much love and respect coming from the UK. 👍🏾✊🏾💪🏾👊🏾🙏🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

I own some smaller RC planes as well and I'm happy after every single flight when I only have to charge the batteries for the next flight. _Thank you for your great comment, which I really appreciate._ 😎🤙🏼

[@startazz]

@@RCScaleAirplanes Thanks for the kind reply and pinning said comment as that to is very much appreciated. 😉

[@namitrinh2659]

Hello! I live in Vietnam. I like you guys flying, can I get you acquainted,

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[@jeeptrucklover72]

Why wouldn’t you put your landing gear down when you know you have a deadstick landing coming up? Doesn’t make any sense to land on your belly when you could’ve put your gear down to prevent more damage.

[@oscar5782]

I wish there was rc planes events in my country.

[@Rider95king]

Last one was the best . Keep up the good work.

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thanks! Will do! 🤙😎

[@krotchlickmeugh627]

Always annoys me that people comment about how we haven't come up with reliable tech for landing gear. Seems these are the same people that don't own an rc with retracts. Listen people these are the exception. Poor maintinence is a huge issue with these guys. The term "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" does not get used in aviation nor should it in the scaled down models. Air systems are also extremely unreliable. Shit happens and electrics can have malfunctions as well. Mostly due to poor quality however and far more rare than Air systems. If you don't know then maybe ask rather than comment and show your ignorance. You're also watching a video dedicated to saves saves and near saves. What would you expect?

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[@fyter889]

It still amazes me the thousands of dollars spent on the jets and still have gear failures, i have had my cheap foamies for about 10 years with zero gear failures. Yes sometimes they get caught in a gopher hole but that isn’t the fault of the gear or operating system.

[@user-on2gu8ds6w]

how do you want me on the same the

[@lenny108]

it shows how difficult it is to build a good landing gear

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[@tomcline5631]

Why wasn't the P61 black!? Beautiful anyway! That one made me anxious actually! Never seen an RC P-61! With money these folks have in these things,they seem to have A LOT of undercarriage/landing gear problems!! 1435-40ish that old kite was extremely underpowered! Turned up wind and just couldn't keep up enough speed to fly! Against a wind soft enough it wouldn't even let him hover it down! Couple more CCs might be needed! Good thing about that plane though,couple guys eating popcicles and a spare t-shirt,plus a little super glue and your ready to fly!

[@joegilly1523]

The thousands of hours and the money spent on these cool planes ,nice to see they came in for a landing not come in to smash in to tooth picks

[@joegilly1523]

Bit coin

[@gregmctevia5087]

Nice.

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@garyjohnson1970]

P51 came in HOT!

[@bobdavis3062]

Very painful to watch, those birds scrapping the runway!

[@RCScaleAirplanes]

Yes. But as long the it can fly another day it's not that bad.

[@jimcrackery8321]

The plane at 13:10 started back up after the prop strike!

[@keiththompson2172]

Separate drive engine ?