Pilot's Freewing F-8 Crusader bites the blacktop on Maiden Flight! Fly RC model airplane

We were all smiles getting ready to launch that 64mm EDF Crusader... though I was concerned about what I considered to be the huge amount of elevator/aileron throws... "It's per the book!" ... The model didn't have the thrust to jump out of Eric's hand as he launched it... but the pilot recovered and saved the take-off... the model shot across the field and cleared the far fence... and then clawed its way into the sky... and then... ......

[@Leos-World]

That hurt 😥

[@KillerKev1961]

Seriously underpowered.

[@CousinHubertRetrogaming]

Why??

[@CousinHubertRetrogaming]

Oh i see, barrel roll an loss of altitude