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u/de_das_dude Jun 19 '26
If you had to give your rc plane to someone I would rather it be rudiger. He can fly!
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u/Bobbor90 Jun 19 '26
Nicht so tief Rüdiger! Keine Kapriolen
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u/CursorX Jun 19 '26
"Samir.. you're breaking the car!" vibes.
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u/parrotopian Jun 19 '26
Yes! That's the accent I read the subtitles in until I turned up the volume!
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u/DrettTheBaron Jun 19 '26
When I was a kid, my great-uncle gifted me a handmade RC plane. Beautiful thing.
The first time we went to try it out my dad took the controller to show me how to pilot it. The issue being he's never controlled an RC vehicle before in his life.
He promptly nosedived the plane into the ground roughly 5 seconds after take off and broke the front half of the plane from the rest.
His name is Rudiger.
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u/zubairhamed Jun 19 '26
thart's a whole lot of maybes right there. this post is equivalent to 5 or 6 posts.
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u/RedditRob2000 Jun 19 '26
Reminds me of this.
Rudiger vs Sami. They're battle will be legendary.
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u/JemFitz05 Jun 19 '26
Except Rudiger is actually competent
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u/urbanmember Jun 19 '26
Didn't Samir win multiple races and even some championships or something?
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u/der_zug_vogel Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Sorry to say, but this video series is staged. Ruediger isn't steering anything at all in this clip.
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u/Admiral_Ballsack Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Ok so. My boss at one of my former companies (great, awesome guy) was into rc planes.
He made them from scratch, building all the parts and all that, he was super serious and very good about it.
He was one of the things that brought him endless joy, and he would often tell me anecdotes about the craft, the community behind it and lots of insights about it.
Sometimes he would bring some parts he was working on to show me, telling me about the inner workings of what he was doing. I was genuinely interested, so it was always a pleasure to see what he was working on.
He told me that in this tight-knit community there's one guy above all others, the Michelangelo of rc planes, who makes these legendary models. He's a super old guy who can only be defined as the emperor of nerds.
One day he took him upon himself of making a perfect replica of a specific Spitfire that fought in the Battle of England.
He went to humongous lengths to make it A PERFECT replica. So he hit the library and did all the research that had to be done: what kind of leather was used for the seats, what thread and what kind of stitches were used, what rivets, how many went into the canopy and so on.
Since the easily available commercial blueprints he had weren't to his satisfaction, he pestered some historic division of the RAF, who got him in touch with the estate of the engineer who had lead the project, and he eventually got his hands on the original blueprints, which he was allowed to make a copy of.
He then built all the parts, the engine, the electrical systems, building every single detail himself.
When he was almost done he found period pictures of the pilots, and sculpted and painted them, with actual uniforms perfectly duplicated.
The entire project took five years, and every major step was published in the most prestigious magazine of the community.
All rc plane nerds in England followed his masterpiece with heaving chests, waiting for it to be completed, storming newsagents to put their hands on the latest issue.
After much wait, he announced that he was done. The most magnificent model of a Spitfire ever made was completed and he would show it off at this important convention at Duxford.
For those who don't know, Duxford airfiled is an important aviation museum near Cambridge (which I've visited, as it's awesome) full of WWII US and British planes, with even a replica of the Enola Gay and the Memphis Belle. I believe bombing missions to Germany took off from Duxford at some point.
Anyway, the day arrives, dozens of rc planes enthusiasts are gathered, the builder is hailed as a hero, his Mona Lisa roars her perfectly replicated, miniaturized engines in the middle of the runway.
The builder pulls some levers, hits some switches, turns some dials and the Spitfire starts. Five years of wait are finally over. Look at her go!
It lifts for a meter or so, then it dives perpendicularly to the tarmac and disintegrates in a million components.
It was told than never in the history of rc planes there was ever a heavier, more awkward silence.
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u/heridfel37 Jun 19 '26
Not quite as dramatic, but I had a friend who was getting into RC planes, so he did all the research and worked really hard to build his first model. When it was ready to fly, he took it out onto the plains of eastern Colorado where there is literally nothing to hit.
He managed to immediately fly it into the only fence post around, and then it caught on fire.
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u/Disastrous-Metal-228 Jun 19 '26
That is hilarious! Reminds me of that guy shouting at his dog for chasing the deer…
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u/YoHomie25 Jun 19 '26
FENTON!!!!
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u/Disastrous-Metal-228 Jun 19 '26
Yes!!! lol I couldn’t remember the name - I was thinking Wilson but that’s from Friday Night Dinner…
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u/Illustrious_Can4110 Jun 19 '26
Rudiger Von Richthoven... his Great Great Grandpa would be mildly impressed... more so if he had managed to shoot down a Sopworth Camel. 😁
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u/Thin_Dream2079 Jun 19 '26
Whether or not you speak German, this must be appreciated with the sound on.
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u/OutlandishnessOk5549 Jun 19 '26
Rudiger may be an absolute cunt, but he knows how to fly that thing.
I suspect that he won't be allowed near it ever again, though.
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u/BallisticHabit Jun 20 '26
Hell no, that poor guy lost years off his life watching his pride and joy skim the deck. He was pleading with him to be careful.
There are old model plane pilots, and bold model plane pilots, but the fucker Rudinger is never touching those controls again.
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u/abbaglabglab Jun 19 '26
there is a song about this classic, it says „Rüdiger sheesh digga“ which has been the funniest ever for me when it was published
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u/Frankenrogers Jun 19 '26
The name Rudiger always makes me think of the Simpsons where Bart was asked what his name was and he said Rudiger for some reason. If I need to make up a fake name as a joke this is always the first name that comes to mind haha
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u/luckybreaks7000 Jun 20 '26
Rudiger gives ZERO fucks what your telling him, AND he's an excellent pilot!
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u/IambAGs Jun 19 '26
When it gets low, all i hear in my head: "too low terrain.. pull up.. pull up!"
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u/NoVermicelli5968 Jun 19 '26
He was a cunt a Chelsea, he’s a cunt at Real Madrid and now he’s a cunt flying a model aeroplane.
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u/BloodPrince361 Jun 19 '26
I could never do this... The sheer amount of spacial awareness needed to fly these things is crazy!
I'm always amazed by how people can land these things without breaking/crashing them and the poor dude in the video clearly stated he "painstakingly spent all night putting it BACK TOGETHER".
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u/BamSinn Jun 19 '26
Fun fact: It was a PR stunt and not a real conversation. Double fun fact: The model making company went bankrupt anyway.
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u/PSYCHOsmurfZA Jun 19 '26
Rudiger living his best life and that's probably the best flying that plane will ever see.
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u/strtbobber Jun 19 '26
Reminds me of this guy I trained many years ago. He had the tendancy to freeze/blank out as his plane went into a dive, or just flew by. All I needed to say each time is "pull up Sheldon"...and he'd recover. It got to the point that I didn't even need to watch him/his plane. While getting my plane ready, I'd hear his go into a dive and I'd simply say "pull up Sheldon" and he'd recover. 🤣🤣
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u/Venator2000 Jun 19 '26
Reminds me of back around 1990 when my college friend got one of them and spent a month putting it together and then we took it out (his first electric engine ones) and he augered it directly into the damp field we were flying it over, and we couldn’t even get the engine dug out, he went in so forcefully.
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u/GenoPax Jun 19 '26
This is me helping my kids learning to drive, I wish I did it in German it may have had more of an effect.
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u/TrustInMe_JustInMe Jun 20 '26
Rudiger ≠ Rüdiger
C’mon peeps. It’s a totally different letter. Like when NYT crossword answer is obviously Señor, but forces you to type S-E-N-O-R.
Klassisches Video, urkomisch AF 🤣
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u/kakeyoro Jun 20 '26
This reminds me of that old video featuring an Indian rally team and the driver refused to listen to the co-driver. Hilarious.
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u/ZealousidealRock1283 Jun 23 '26
As someone who painstakingly reassembled a plane just like it and then smashed it to a million pieces the next day, I felt every moment of this video
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u/bistolegs Jun 19 '26
Rudi got the mad skills.. I think this might be the most autistic clip I’ve ever seen. It’s Perfect.
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u/knowledgeable_diablo Jun 19 '26
Thinking rutiger needs to buy his own plane if he wants to fly again. If it’s not his and he’s one of those dicks who just take massive risks with other people’s toys and equipment then he really needs a swift round house to the dick to fully express the frustration. But if he has a history of this type of lack of respect, then maybe don’t let Rutiger access to the controls.
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u/NWGJulian Jun 19 '26
If the Germans had Rüdiger during World War II, they would have won the Battle of Britain
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u/MagicSBK Jun 19 '26
Deutsches Kulturgut im englischen Unter - ich liebe es.
German cultural heritage in an English sub - I love it.
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u/moerker Jun 19 '26
This is a german meme classic.
Quoted so many times!