Feel the despair :-(

[Zak33]

oh that made me sad

[directhex]

Did... the tail shear off under pressure, then the whole thing just disintegrated?

[MrJim]

That's an expensive crash

[GoNz0]

Did... the tail shear off under pressure, then the whole thing just disintegrated?

Looks like he put left rudder on and it couldn't take it. As you say the tail fell off and it fell to bits.

[Ttaskmaster]

Pooly assembled parts using cheap model glue... It's Tamiya products from Beatties all over again!!

Nah, those poor guys must be absolutely livid!!

[TheAnimus]

If you step through the frames just before disintegration (hint , and . keys for youtube) you can see it wobbling a lot.

Looks like it didn't have the internal strength for the horizontal stabilizer and became very unbalanced, of course putting more stress on the frame clearly not able to cope with the airspeed and mass.

[TeePee]

Looked like excessive rudder deflection at too high of an airspeed. Anyone remember AA587?

Incredibly impressive replica. But there's always a challenge building an ultra light RC aircraft that can look like a jet fighter but be capable of operating at such low speeds. Ultimate strength is always compromised.

[TheAnimus]

I just can't imagine why anyone would be "oscillating" the rudder when in a well controlled kind of flight (ala AA587). I'd imagine it was probably the material itself that started to give.

Without a FDR on that model we've no way of knowing the FPS of the camera isn't enough.

[Zak33]

forget the why...

just look at the bloke running over to what will be all his love... in tiny bits!

[nekomata]

AA587 was my first thought too when I saw that the tail was the first to go. Thinking about it though, I suspect it will be more of a material weakness issue.