Amazing. I served on 11 Squadron in 1973 as an Air Photography Operator at RAF Leconfield and RAF Luqa, Malta. I actually worked on the real XS904 when she was bare metal and my daughter Fiona sat in her cockpit at Bruntingthorpe in 2013 when she took me there for my 60th birthday. The rear panel on the fuselage the guys remove is almost the same place where the real Lightning’s visual recorder camera was located. Just below the radar bullet in the intake was a G.90 gun camera which was the same camera as the vis recorder and used the same 16mm cinefilm. I used to change the camera film magazines in both. It would be amazing to see if a miniature camera could be fitted in the nose without affecting the balance/handling of the RC model. The guy flying it has amazing skill. I congratulate you sir.

I was fortunate enough to see Lightnings at, Mildenhall, Bentwaters, Wattisham, Coltishall and one or 2 others. An absolutely fantastic plane: where I lived at the height of the cold war, I've seen them a few hundred ft off the ground and you knew they were coming because you felt the air vibrating 1st, then you'd hear them once they were already over the horizon. British technology was way ahead of its time, like our space programme, which few nowadays know we even had.

Fantastic model, many hours of work went into that machine for sure. And beautifully video work once again Bruce. Amazes me how steady you are even zoomed in, considering your shaky hands it's even more impressive. Always a pleasure to watch.

@hughjohnston

5 жыл бұрын

As a x lightning man I can tell you that 11sqn Binbrook bird is spot on I can almost smell the avpin starter fuel once again .

Unbelievable! If I didn't see it with my own eyes ....... That thing just Floated in !!!!!!!! Superb Aircraft, excellent Videography! Thanks

I watch all of your vids and enjoy immensely but that one is going to take some beating. The landings were superb and that's something you don't see very often especially with jets.

What a superb model, what great photography making the video look as if it was a full size aircraft. Cannot imagine the hours and the skill that went into producing this wonderful gem! Thanks so much for this and fly safely!

Impressive to say the least ! Nice video , great sound . Well done .

I used to live near Wharton in the sixties where and when the real ones were made. We used to see them regularly making test flights and delivery flights. That engine note is pretty much the way that I remember it.

A beautifully built & detailed model of this iconic British aircraft. Some nice shots, too, Bruce.

All it's missing are the twin afterburners, to give it those near-vertical take-offs. I really miss the Lightnings. They were flying from several aerodromes around here when I was a child.The best of it was how they made your whole body vibrate with the noise at liftoff. They could go from scramble to a 1200 ft cloud base within a minute, and then keep going straight up to more than 60,000 feet.

Built one half this size. A real twitcher under power. But a lamb on finals. Just sits in its groove like any mid wing

What a great plane , well flown and looked like perfect flying weather :-)

What can I say FN AWESOME!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍 WELL MADE!!! & many, many hundred of hours building it & worth every single second of it. 😉 I'd ❤💕 to see this in real life but, sadly due to bad health travel is rather limited SADLY!!! So, KZread is my oy freedom most of the time with the outside world.. But, many, many thanks in sharing this with many others.

What a great pilot, Beautiful plane and the sound is awesome, thanks for filming and showing on the tube.

What a beauty and very well flown

Nice model, well flown! Nice work Bruce

Wow!!! What a beautiful model..... Looks and sounds so realistic in the air. Nice touch with the brake chute. Great video..

Wow!!! Looks great. Thanks for sharing

Takes me back to my days at Binbrook. Superb.

If ever you think the aircraft is too 'bouncy' when taxying then run the video at half or quarter speed, that's how Jerry Anderson did it back in the 1960's with 'Thunderbirds' and 'Captain Scarlet'.

Thanks that was enjoyable, and a awesome aircraft.

Beautiful approach & landing!

Wonderful machine and properly flown as well.

Epic plane amazing camera work 👌

Used to be one of these parked at my local airport in Rochester Uk for years! Great machine!

amazing flying skills! looks so realistic

Awesome! Thanks for posting...

Amazing model.Congrts!

one of the best jet vids Ive seen :)

@xjet

5 жыл бұрын

Why thank you Stephanie :-)

wow, what a monster. thanks bruce :)

Just to think English Electric from washing machines to this!! Amazing leap.

Absolutely brilliant, I half expected to see vapour over the wings when looped, so convincing was the flying I forgot it was an RC clip.I was watching.

@xjet

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words.

What a beaut! Great camera skills there Bruce 👍

Stunning model of the worlds most beautiful jet , , , I want one! Beautiful

What's not to like, all manner of skills tied up in making and flying that. Wonderful wonderful wonderful

Awesome. Love the Lightning 👌

Wonderful! Although i always have this nervous feeling watching expensive birds in the air. I don't know how people have the balls to do this!

Superb!! Of course, I'm biased, being English. And as long as you can add the word "twin" to the title, I'll be happy as a sandboy. Well the model does have twin jet turbines after all. ;¬)

Great vid! I love watching the rc jets. We have the Gardner Jet Rally every year here. All jets of all sizes. The first impression I had was some can fly so so fast. It's hard to visually track them as they make a low pass. gotta be upwards near 200mph.... Thanks for posting!!!

nailed the landings 👍

love the "Safety Officer" standing there with his fingers in his ears!!!!

Gorgeous. Love the chute

lovely model of a great plane

Beautiful air craft

Absolutely superb

That's awesome thanks for sharing

Wow. Beautiful

Marvellous, from Whitby North Yorkshire.

Amazing.

Incredible

If a jet accelerates and there is not camera person to edit does the jet accelerate into the air? Well done Bruce for getting returns on tokoroa airfield for the community that pay for its administration.

You just cant beat the sound of a turbine jet engine ahhhhh

Very impressive. Truly a beautiful model!!!! I liked the way you were able to get the plane landing through someone's head too Bruce. That impressed me no end!!!! Was that Ron's head-:)-:)

What a machine !

The plane looks top though!!

Good god!!! That's almost the size of a microlight

I don't understand how these guys can build a model twin jet-turbine airplane in their garage and still the landing gear doesn't seem to function correctly. Nice landings though.

man this thing is massive..

@EleanorPeterson

5 жыл бұрын

Tamandua-RJ Hah! I bet that's what you say to all the girls... ;-)

A Beast!!

Amazing

It's a bucketlist/life goal to FPV something like this

This is interesting, XS904 is at Bruntingthorpe as part of the collection. Leicestershire isn't far from where I come from in the UK. Also have another one the same with reg mark XR728. :)

@nigeh5326

5 жыл бұрын

DerbJd and when they do taxi runs they are amazing and v v loud 👍. Bruntingthorpe is a great place to visit for a few hours when they have events on IMO.

Superb! Can’t seem to find them on Banggood!

What a beautiful piece of engineering! Just a question though, can you reheat RC turbine engines? I’ve never seen it done. Can it be done? Is it a fuel consumption issue, or is it just too dangerous to achieve with a model aircraft?

Quality footage only wish there was a build brake down with the man who built it.

That's some Big ass plane

Cool 😎

Bruce, to the best of your knowledge, is there a super sonic model out there in the wild??? Excellent video and a/c!!! Thank you :-)

@xjet

5 жыл бұрын

I am unaware of any recreational RC model that can exceed the sound barrier. It's actually quite a hurdle ;-)

Wow. If i built that...i dont think i could ever fly it. Did he say how much he had invested? Really beautiful

4:07 very nice reality

I laughed a little when one of the retracts did not go up, just like so many of the smaller, cheaper models I've seen. It was good that one of them did not get stuck up instead. I would have cried at seeing that beast crash land.

skills

Grace in the air often translates into a spiffing war plane. Wot.

If I built something that bid I would go just a bit further and put a seat in it.

Awesome but why wouldnt you long range FPV it or at least get an on board gopro video...... I know (& understand) that its a highly visible model for the crowd to see but.......... awesome machine and video.....

@FlyingFun.

5 жыл бұрын

Keep the pilot line of sight just in case but on board fpv with head tracking and a go pro to record too would be mint.

WOW! Some questions - was this scratch built, or a kit? What happened with the undercarriage?

@Johnn_T

5 жыл бұрын

Richard Poynton I remember reading about this particular model and I think it’s scratchbuilt from plans available out of the UK....either that or it. Was scratchbuilt from a kit out of the UK? I can’t remember exactly but there was a write up on it in the MFNZ quarterly magazine we get sent here in NZ. Sorry my memory isn’t better.

Love lightening's

Amazing what toys you can have if money is no object.

@SolarWebsite

5 жыл бұрын

While this magnificent aeroplane must have cost a ridiculous amount of money, I'm sure more than just money will have gone into its construction: things like a decade or more of aeromodelling experience, a year or more of building time, exquisite craftsmanship, no doubt a sizeable portion of frustration and lots of love.

@EleanorPeterson

5 жыл бұрын

Hi, Geordie NUFC - Yeah, no lie, bwana. Money no object? Trump bought the whole darned USA. ;-)

OMG!

She looks and sounds spectacular. And not too shabby on the piloting skills if I do say so. scores a 99.9/100 loss of .1 cause I wasn't there. boo

Still amazes me that such huge and expensive planes don’t have autopilots. I am now so used to flying with them I forget most planes don’t have them.

@iflyrcmike

5 жыл бұрын

Stephen Gloor the fun is the full hands on control. These didn’t have autopilots as full sized. The challenge is the enjoyment.

@stephengloor8451

5 жыл бұрын

Guess so - however all these jet fighters have at least yaw dampers. If my planes lose the radio they RTL and then can autoland if they still have telemetry.

@golemsnatch5755

5 жыл бұрын

@@stephengloor8451 I could do with some of that, got any URL's for info.

I remember watching the real aircraft flying out of raf Coltishall in the 1960s

If I built and owned a model like that I'd end up having a mental break down when it crashed. Oh to have money to burn...

👍

Does it have a dodgy undercarriage? One wheel seemed to stay down on the first flight. However, what a fabulous model. I want one!

@TehMagilla

5 жыл бұрын

The best kind of retrac failure to experience.

@agentbertram4769

5 жыл бұрын

For sure. The alternatives don't bear thinking about. @@TehMagilla

Large enough for small children, babies and dogs.

That fucking thing is huge!, my dog wants a go inside it!.........

I can't imagine how tight his backside is on take off and landing. I couldn't do it

I thought that with 2 exhausts, one a rocket and other was a jet.

G'day, Wow ! Question...? What's the definition of "First World Problems" ? Answer...(!). Having to lie-down, full-length, on the ground.., just(ifiably ?) to be able to look-up at the belly of one's Model Aeroplane ; while trying to determine precisely why one of it's two Turbojet Engines isn't quite whining exactly right...! (Tee-Hee, Chuckle-Chortle...; Giggle !). Take it easy, Such is Life...! ;-p Ciao !

First bro

FFS guys, you'll go deaf!! It's a fkn Jet. Just wear earplugs. The rest of the world is. Only you will suffer

Can somebody wake me up? That's clearly why I do FPV flying in circuits is boring as hell

@EleanorPeterson

5 жыл бұрын

So why watch, Joey? Personally, I like watching AND flying in circuits - both models AND full-size aircraft; going both clockwise AND anticlockwise; either daytime in sunglasses, or night-time on instruments. Circuits and bumps: it's bloody good fun. Anyhooo, I'm not here to try and convert you, so don't let me keep you awake. Go back to sleep and dream of shooting stuff. No, not FPV video, I mean shooting stuff with guns. You like guns, right? You shoot right-handed, judging by your picture. Killing's not boring if you switch around a bit - try some tricky left-handed back-of-the-head-shots. Upload some hat-cam FPV/NRA footage of your next school massacre - that'll get loads more views than some boring ol' giant scale aircraft going round and round and round and round...

@skyforce1983

5 жыл бұрын

@@EleanorPeterson hey I had this video on my channel private but since you want to see me shooting here ya go while your at it watch my other videos kzread.info/dash/bejne/pXlnl7aaidSumrA.html I've got more guns too