Large Scale F-8 Crusader Flight and Crash! -- Top Gun Invitational 2018

Unfortunately, crashing is a part of the game in scale competition and this was one of a couple incidents at Top Gun. This F-8 was a beautifully built model completely designed and scratch-built by David Hudson (not to be confused with the ultimate jets F-8 which is a completely different design to this one). It was a very unique airplane to see and I can tell you from experience flying my JHH A-7, it's a challenging configuration in adverse winds (hence the wing scrape you see on the takeoff). Unfortunately, after the Immelmann manuever, the airplane seemed to go free-flight for whatever reason. He was able to regain control, and fought with it a couple passes, but ultimately the airplane performed that all too familiar death turn and went in. David is in the process of building another that he's documenting on his facebook page (  / dcmodelshop  , so hopefully we will see this DCModels design return to the air again soon!

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