Spocktra50

Spocktra50 is the name of the Youtube channel created by Mark Speakman on September 26, 2009. Mark uploaded various videos before focusing solely on R/C aircraft videos.

History


The first video relating to R/C aircraft was uploaded November 28, 2011. The video is an aerial view from Jeffrey Coopey's Hobbyzone Super Cub LP.

The first ground- view camera video uploaded is "Winkle shortest flight ever?????" in which Alec Wintle crashes his P-51 Mustang very shortly after launch. The diagnosis is "needs a bit of up."

Short single- flight (incident) videos continue for about a year until they gradually evolve into longer videos of whole day's worth of flying.These long compilation videos roughly started in April 2013. More recent videos average around 35 minutes.

During the weekend of September 6, 2014, Mark hosted an event he called the "Spockfest", which many local viewers including the original Spock Crew came and flew, along with camping and getting drunk. There was also a bang. The uploaded videos of the event total 2 hours 46 minutes and 22 seconds. Approximately 95% of that is rubbish flying and drunken waffling.

The spocktra50 channel abruptly ended in 2016 with no reasons given from any members of the crew. Mark claimed in the months following the final upload that they were only taking a break, but has never given an update or addressed concerns from fans. Mark continues to voice displeasure with people asking what happened in the comments of old videos.