ORIGINAL: Thor84
the challenge of flight video set has the super saber crash ur referring to ... and the super saber had a wicked way of punishing the pilot if he got to slow and had to abort a landing .....
the crash u r thinking of is a failed aborted landing .. the afterburner wasnt malfunctioning .... and when that happens people call it the sabre dance
You got that right! That was an early test flight and the pilot died in that crash. It's amazing how long that guy held the aircraft, but it was a matter of time. The F-100 didn't have enough thrust to climb out of that high alpha situation, and the pilot tried to save it rather than punch out. I am a little suprised that the term "saber dance" seems unknown to so many RC pilots these days. Twenty years ago, everyone knew what that meant.
Bob