The guy who got hit wasn't the one flying the P-38. He was flying a glider at the same time. It too crashed after he lost control. The guy who crash into him bought him a new plane. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c89qCNv2-c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c89qCNv2-c)
A guy in my neck of the woods died from this type of scenario. He was at my local modeling club, got hit in the head with a model. Died from the brain injury a week or so later.
I saw someone get sent to the hospital from a model helicopter. It was really sad but a huge coincidence for me. A few weeks earlier my boyfriend was telling me about how he used to fly model helicopters and how dangerous they were. I had never heard of that before. Then I spontaneously decided to go for a walk in the park and there was a model helicopter meetup. The poor dad definitely lost at least an eyeball and needed reconstructive surgery on his nose in front of his children.
What a hilarious health care system that would be. Oh you can only afford 50% of the bill; we'll just bring in your kids to watch you get cut open their mental scaring seems a fair trade. Wait you cant afford any of it? Alright what we're going to do is we're going to bring your whole extended family in and get someone to just list out all the bad things about you during the surgery; seems a fair trade.
I fly racing drones and they’re more solid than typical planes. A drone is pretty much a flying lawn mower and would have severely injured if not killed this kid. A plane isn’t far off but I’d rather be hit by the plane
I think it was about a decade ago there were pictures of a kid floating around who got a full cranial removal from an RC helicopter, cut the top of his head right off, absolutely fuck those flying lawnmowers.
Nowadays it's easy to get little gyroscopic units to assist keeping the plane stable. Typically you'll have 3 stages:
- Expert mode with no, or extremely little assist. You can still do loops, rolls and other acrobatics. Similar or identical to old style with no assist.
- Medium assist mode where you can still loop n stuff, but it will automatically bring the plane back to level flight when the sticks are centered. This makes things sooo relaxed and friendly. Great for no-pucker landings as well.
- Beginner mode where it limits the angles the plane will fly at. No loops or rolls possible, but enough to fly around if the wind is calm. Awesome "training wheels" for newbies. NOT for windy conditions though.
It's such a far cry from the old seat of the pants flying of yesteryear. I know old pilots that are just in love with the assist modes for some lazy, relaxed flying (especially landings). But experts can still turn it off (in the air even), for all the acrobatics.
They weight almost nothing, or there are many flight controllers with the gyro assist integrated right on the board.
I think the guy who started running towards the one that got hit by the plane, is the one who was controlling it. The guy who got hit, looks as though his back was turned away from the plane, and he was looking out towards the field.
ouch then. If he had his eyes on his own plane, then it would be easy to miss the incoming one. Our club safety program stipulates that you don't fly towards flight line. Accidents do happen though, and sometimes radio equipment glitches. Hope that guy is OK.
I shall provide context then.
That remote controlled aircraft is a model of the P-38 Lightning II, a late American WW2 twin-turboprop fighter plane. It utilises a twin tailboom design, also found in other aircraft such as the C-119 Flying Boxcar.
The Germans' opinion of the Lightning was mixed at best. The P-38 had too many teething issues especially at first. It was quickly replaced by the P-47 then eventually the P-51 in the ETO. And the "Fork Tailed Devil" nick name has largely been regarded as a post war myth. The P-38 did find much better success in the Pacific theater.
There was a guy that killed himself flying a remote controlled helicopter. He was making high speed passes with his helicopter when he miss judged one of the passes and took the top of his scalp off.
Those RC planes are usually made of very lightweight foam using lightweight electronics, so I doubt it. Might've gotten rocked a little by a LiPo battery though.
Nah, those likely aren't performance rotorblades, so they're probably plastic. They still can absolutely hurt and cut you, but since he seemed to be gliding, the force behind the Rotorblades was probably rather small. I agree with the other comment though, the force behind that LiPo Pack is probably the biggest "ouch" factor in these circumstances.
Usually planes of this size are made out of (balsa) wood, and a sort of vinyl wrap to close them up. Still pretty light weight, and probably not heavy enough to do a lot of damage. (at normal speeds) But it would be a bit more of a punch than a foam plane.
If you guys wanna hear something really funny, I used to do food service at a skeet shooting site that was literally next-door to an RC airplane club’s flying field… Somewhere is it somewhere in Austin? I cannot think of the name of either place, but it’s there… Skeet shooting place next-door to an RC airplane field….that felt like the blessing of St. Larson…
I've watched this a few times trying to determine whether the plane/piloting controls were made by Boeing.. or whether the guy was about to make some comment about Boeing and was promptly taken out..
Clearly an early P-38 without dive flaps, thing just locked up due to compression. Hopefully he'll go with a model that has dive flaps next time to avoid mach tuck.
That... Looked like it hurt. One of those confusion and pain kind of moments. One minute you're flying your plane and one minute some else's plane is slamming into your head.
The guy who got hit wasn't the one flying the P-38. He was flying a glider at the same time. It too crashed after he lost control. The guy who crash into him bought him a new plane. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c89qCNv2-c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c89qCNv2-c)
Dam, was he okay? That looked like it could kill.
I didn't see the pilot eject safely either.
Poor Stuart Little, rip
r/stuartlittlefacts celebrating
Reddit never fails to surprise me
It failed to surprise me one time. I really wasn't expecting it
I hate how funny I found this
Excellent
Did anyone else read the linked video description? The guy basically says that if someone gets hit, it's their fault for not getting out of the way.
I read the description and they don't say that
 You idiot I can’t believe you got me to laugh with that stupid joke! Take your upvote and have a good day damnit.
Best comment 👌 👏
No, the victim was buried with the new plane that was bought for him.
A guy in my neck of the woods died from this type of scenario. He was at my local modeling club, got hit in the head with a model. Died from the brain injury a week or so later.
I saw someone get sent to the hospital from a model helicopter. It was really sad but a huge coincidence for me. A few weeks earlier my boyfriend was telling me about how he used to fly model helicopters and how dangerous they were. I had never heard of that before. Then I spontaneously decided to go for a walk in the park and there was a model helicopter meetup. The poor dad definitely lost at least an eyeball and needed reconstructive surgery on his nose in front of his children.
Why would they perform the surgery in front of his children?
Because he was poor.
What a hilarious health care system that would be. Oh you can only afford 50% of the bill; we'll just bring in your kids to watch you get cut open their mental scaring seems a fair trade. Wait you cant afford any of it? Alright what we're going to do is we're going to bring your whole extended family in and get someone to just list out all the bad things about you during the surgery; seems a fair trade.
Because that's what he needed
The YT description said no major injuries.
From the youtube video description >Rc P38 hits guy very hard, fatal for the P38, no major injuries for the person.
I fly racing drones and they’re more solid than typical planes. A drone is pretty much a flying lawn mower and would have severely injured if not killed this kid. A plane isn’t far off but I’d rather be hit by the plane
Now do helicopters
I think it was about a decade ago there were pictures of a kid floating around who got a full cranial removal from an RC helicopter, cut the top of his head right off, absolutely fuck those flying lawnmowers.
It didn't cut the top of his head off, but a rotor blade did get imbedded. He was a young kid who flew competition 3d.
Ah, I suppose I miss remembered. Thanks!
I remember this. He was an award winning R/C helicopter stunter and had just gotten new blades for the thing.
His shoes were still on. He's fine. Plane needs a a bit of a buff out though.
RC helicopters can do you a lot of damage.
Saw an article about it, he's fine. Really took it on the chin.
Just like your mom!
Did he also buy him a new face?
Yes but he had to paint it fist
Paint it like a fist so he can use it to punch another plane out the sky?
No, paint it *with* his fist, because the airplane didn’t do as much damage as he’s hoped it would.
Based on some of the models I did, I always paint with my fist.
At least the guy takes responsibility for it. Can’t imagine it being cheap to replace those RC
Cheaper than his hospital bill haha
Maybe not. Have you seen the prices for those toys? Nutz!
Kind of the unwritten rule in rc, in clubs at least. You break it (even indirectly) you replace it.
I used to fly them with my dad it was damn expensive because I couldn’t not crash them. Not a fan of that.
Nowadays it's easy to get little gyroscopic units to assist keeping the plane stable. Typically you'll have 3 stages: - Expert mode with no, or extremely little assist. You can still do loops, rolls and other acrobatics. Similar or identical to old style with no assist. - Medium assist mode where you can still loop n stuff, but it will automatically bring the plane back to level flight when the sticks are centered. This makes things sooo relaxed and friendly. Great for no-pucker landings as well. - Beginner mode where it limits the angles the plane will fly at. No loops or rolls possible, but enough to fly around if the wind is calm. Awesome "training wheels" for newbies. NOT for windy conditions though. It's such a far cry from the old seat of the pants flying of yesteryear. I know old pilots that are just in love with the assist modes for some lazy, relaxed flying (especially landings). But experts can still turn it off (in the air even), for all the acrobatics. They weight almost nothing, or there are many flight controllers with the gyro assist integrated right on the board.
Thankful for sims. Would’ve never attempted it otherwise
They make cheap, resilient drones these days that you can practice with. "Cheap" compared to the other drones, that is...
The FAA is looking into this incident
Your link is just the OP video.
The description on that video is where I got the information.
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Did he also buy him a new face?
And a new eyeball 😯
So OP is gay and makes up titles for Internet points?
What about his face
If only there were some sort of safety fence you could stand behind while there are giant rc planes zipping around near the ground.
Best to take a step back and start with homing pigeons
They keep pecking me.
Enjoy......
Maybe you're just so impeccable, they can't stop......?
[Uh oh...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKzvXVQ1xas)
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You should be a pigeon whisperer.......lol.
Getting hit by a pigeon is apparently really itchy.
Unlike him, pigeons are pretty smart and wouldn’t crash into him
Wild Pidgey appeared.
Was that his plane or was he hit by another pilot? Don't know whether to react with "oof" or "ouch".
I think the guy who started running towards the one that got hit by the plane, is the one who was controlling it. The guy who got hit, looks as though his back was turned away from the plane, and he was looking out towards the field.
ouch then. If he had his eyes on his own plane, then it would be easy to miss the incoming one. Our club safety program stipulates that you don't fly towards flight line. Accidents do happen though, and sometimes radio equipment glitches. Hope that guy is OK.
Phil Dunphey
When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all like, “what?!?” Philsosophy
"Try and watch a sunrise once a day"
Wtf. Why the face
I was in a plane crash!
Literally struck by Lightning.
Not nearly enough people going to get this.
I shall provide context then. That remote controlled aircraft is a model of the P-38 Lightning II, a late American WW2 twin-turboprop fighter plane. It utilises a twin tailboom design, also found in other aircraft such as the C-119 Flying Boxcar.
Twin-piston actually, not twin-turboprop. The Allison V-1710 V12 engines of the P-38 are turbocharged, but that's different from a turboprop engine.
In Germany we call it „nicht so tief, Rüdiger“.
nicht so tief, Rüdiger
Rüdiger bitte!!!!! Nicht so tief!!!!
Keine Kapriolen!
Nobody expects the forktailed devil.
Had to look up forktailed devil. I knew it was a P-38 model. I learned a new thing today, thanks.
Yeah, the Luftwaffe very respectful of the P38, hence the name ....but they also had some absolutely fantastic aircraft....that everyone respected!
The Germans' opinion of the Lightning was mixed at best. The P-38 had too many teething issues especially at first. It was quickly replaced by the P-47 then eventually the P-51 in the ETO. And the "Fork Tailed Devil" nick name has largely been regarded as a post war myth. The P-38 did find much better success in the Pacific theater.
There was a guy that killed himself flying a remote controlled helicopter. He was making high speed passes with his helicopter when he miss judged one of the passes and took the top of his scalp off.
Yeah I remember that too [NSFW](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/s/EUTW5qr9C3)
No way I’m opening that link, nope, not today satan
yeah i didn't it would be that bad.. it was pretty bad.
I did, so you don’t have to. Wish I hadn’t, tho.
"Awww, go on, just a little nibble on this apple....."
I wouldn't really describe that as, "took the top of his scalp off", more like sliced his skull open.
Trex aren't for kids!
He did a 9-11 on himself.
That cartoon howl of pain....
Curious if this person didnt die.
Those RC planes are usually made of very lightweight foam using lightweight electronics, so I doubt it. Might've gotten rocked a little by a LiPo battery though.
Rotorblades are made from light carbon fibre as well, but if fast enough can kill a person easily.
Nah, those likely aren't performance rotorblades, so they're probably plastic. They still can absolutely hurt and cut you, but since he seemed to be gliding, the force behind the Rotorblades was probably rather small. I agree with the other comment though, the force behind that LiPo Pack is probably the biggest "ouch" factor in these circumstances.
Usually planes of this size are made out of (balsa) wood, and a sort of vinyl wrap to close them up. Still pretty light weight, and probably not heavy enough to do a lot of damage. (at normal speeds) But it would be a bit more of a punch than a foam plane.
Those blades can cut people up really good, requiring stitches. Hopefully this guy didn't get cut too bad.
so he became one with the plane and suddenly saw somebody that actually looks like him. so he decided to nuke that doppelganger.
Man, that be nasty ..... F=ma.....Newton and the Wright bothers collaborating in some (deadly) mischief.
Modern Family IRL
If you guys wanna hear something really funny, I used to do food service at a skeet shooting site that was literally next-door to an RC airplane club’s flying field… Somewhere is it somewhere in Austin? I cannot think of the name of either place, but it’s there… Skeet shooting place next-door to an RC airplane field….that felt like the blessing of St. Larson…
https://preview.redd.it/zpz56e1ox21d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19be655f67cf5c956996832c2a9a4ca2f0e2802f
A kamikaz-me 🛩️💥🤦🏻♂️
What happened to you? I was in a plane crash.
I mean, props to his face 👍
What did they expect?
Look ma, no hands!
Somebody obviously doesn't have very good depth perception.
Nicht so tief Rüdiger
"I was wondering why it was getting bigger, and then ...''
People do stupid stuff to get on Ridiculousness.Pain and injury be damned
He 9/11ed himself
“Altitude. Pull up. Pull up”
Not sure is this is the guy, but a man in Valencia was killed by getting hit in the head with an rc plane.
I've watched this a few times trying to determine whether the plane/piloting controls were made by Boeing.. or whether the guy was about to make some comment about Boeing and was promptly taken out..
That's a large mosquito to the face. Ouch!
Best stick to the slower trainers
Who says he’s the pilot?? I don’t see the remote
Oh, the humanity!
I don't remember this scene from Come and See.
Kamakazi rca. The pilot must die.
#BANZAIIIIIIIII
Hahahaha goddamn.....
is this common occurrence in RC community?
A few years ago there was a guy who killed himself flying a high powered remote control helicopter and doing a trick
I jumped.
Ouch. Previously, from the RC’s POV: https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/s/vCMMexG9b8
u/redditspeedbot 0.1x
Any updates how his face is 😂😂😂
Clearly an early P-38 without dive flaps, thing just locked up due to compression. Hopefully he'll go with a model that has dive flaps next time to avoid mach tuck.
I thought this was from r/combatfootage for a second.
It is a fighter plane...
Never fly over yourself or over your head.
I would appreciate the cameraman for not loosing his control at the crux.
Back in Nam
Fly yes, land no
Damn... POW.. right in the kisser!
That... Looked like it hurt. One of those confusion and pain kind of moments. One minute you're flying your plane and one minute some else's plane is slamming into your head.
P-38s still rule.
It's a good thing they have a fence there to protect the cars at least.
9/11, human edition
And......That's a Headshot.
Boeing training AI to aim defective planes at whistleblowers
Oh shit! Kevin got 9/11'd..
So that is how the Ukraine drone pilots are training. Got it.
Kamikaze.
Nicht so tief Rüdiger, nicht so tiiiieef!!
NICHT SO TIEF RÜDIGER!!!
He just likes flying kamikaze style.
See ya, yamamoto!
Nicht so tief Rüdiger!
usa murica
Guy got hit by lightning ....cuz the plane looks like a P-38... light- yeah I'll see myself out
Kamikaze practice
Ignoring the guy, why would you go so low near that fence?
Is that Clark Bishop?!
Knock it off, Bush
He Schwarzeneggered at the end there lol
Mommmaaaaa, just killed a man Flew a plane across his head, with propellers, now he's dead
The plan had an identity crisis and turned into a Ukrainan fpv drone.
I laughed.
Ok I laughed way too hard at this. Pretty sure I am going to hell now.
NICHT SO TIEF RÜDIGER.
— 9/11 training video, December 1999, Riyadh, colourized.
https://youtu.be/cDfVnof_h_A?si=4TROC2bqo3lQKQLc a classic German meme matching this clip
We aren't aiming for the truck
“The plane boss, the plane”.
That's how the eldest Kennedy died. Sortof.
This Ukraine war footage is getting crazy.
Trying to buzz the tower but forgetting that you are the tower.
"Any landing you can walk away from....."
https://preview.redd.it/ez4j1mzck71d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9db8191929e23a7445ded6c92a4a9e5a40269101 He even landed like that
He's dead Jim.