Stunning RC De Havilland Vampire turbine Jet suffers terrible belly landing mishap

[@EssentialRC]

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[@GroundControlRC]

The Vampire is an awesome looking airframe. Very unique design. Nice soft touchdown before the gear collapsed. See you in the Air!

[@RCplamodel]

*The airplane and the beautiful scenery are wonderful images. 😍🤗🤗👍👍👍*

[@cornbreadburgess1950]

Very nice and enjoyed it,sorry about that landing ouch.

[@gmorphan]

Hmm! My Durafly Vampire is the bane of my existence too. But sometimes the heart just wants what it wants. 😟

[@astronaviatahir3335]

you should sometime bring your freewing avanti turbine in field. Will be an awwsome show, in advance Good Luck! By the way great plane. Saddened to see the landing mishap.

[@kwmitchell]

Given it a 'like' for your camera work, Dom, but can't say I liked the flight!

[@EssentialRC]

We all have flights like that Keith. Frustrating when the cause of these issues is something so minor. Catch you at a show soon no doubt.

[@Raptor50aus]

Is there no grass to land on for belly landings?

[@publicname515]

Wow that build looks amazing. What is it made out of? How did they get the silver to look so real?

[@Phantom-mk4kp]

I would have thought he could have landed it in the long grass, crop field

[@derrickgreen9020]

Just fabulous sight and sound against the backdrop of a threatening sky. Did anyone see the original that ripped up a runway strip on takeoff?😱

[@EssentialRC]

I saw that Derrick. Probably an indication it needed replacing anyway.

[@PhantomMark]

Gorgeous model, it will repair tho right ?? Looks very fast on approach, does it not having landing flaps ?? in RL neither ?

[@EssentialRC]

Has been repaired and flown successfully since this incident

[@PhantomMark]

@@EssentialRC That's great to hear, any redundancy built in since this incident ?

[@EssentialRC]

@@PhantomMark Sorry but I don't know. I suspect the owner will have improved it. He's one of our best designer/builders for large models in the country.

[@sendit_rc]

Hope he tried to cycle the gear a few times.that really stinks

[@NicholasStreet]

That was a shame. Looked very blustery. Barkston Heath?

[@EssentialRC]

This was at Elvington.

[@rcthailandbasic9734]

🤟🤟👍

[@aragorn318]

He never did a gear pass. This is why you gotta do a gear pass!

[@EssentialRC]

It wouldn't have mattered.

[@aragorn318]

@@EssentialRC It would have alerted him to keep cycling his gears until all 3 are properly down.

[@brad-in-flight]

The model actually lost all its air during the flight, due to an airline touching the turbine. No amount of cycling would have helped. The pilot is a very experienced show flyer. These things happen unfortunately.

[@waynebeasley8700]

He made 2 passes with the gear extended…..

[@brad-in-flight]

@@waynebeasley8700 only partly, the legs weren’t locked down.

[@rodneymcqueen1706]

nearly always dodgy frail retracts that fail with models, unless it's a WW1 then it will flip over on landing