Is this the coolest RC anything - ever?

Is this the coolest RC anything - ever?

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308mate

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223 months

Wednesday 25th April 2007
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jezrider

261 posts

206 months

Thursday 26th April 2007
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what a landing !

mybrainhurts

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256 months

Saturday 28th April 2007
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jezrider said:
what a landing !


Errr....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRmg88t35Y0&mode=related&search=

falkster

4,258 posts

204 months

Tuesday 8th May 2007
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How smart is that!!! Not too sure about the next landing though!!

Uriel

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252 months

Tuesday 8th May 2007
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mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

256 months

Wednesday 9th May 2007
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Dead right...always liked that

Wouldn't you just love to scare the crap out of your neighbours...?

runway78

434 posts

206 months

Friday 11th May 2007
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Why did the B-52 crash? wind?

mybrainhurts

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256 months

Friday 11th May 2007
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Looks like the same weakness as the real thing...

Too tight a turn and it falls out of the sky....

There's a video somewhere of one doing that at a US airshow rehearsal. The pilot was about to retire, mentally unstable, and got miffed when told to go round again before landing...

Found it...

http://thatvideosite.com/video/978

http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc



Edited by mybrainhurts on Friday 11th May 18:00

tr7v8

7,201 posts

229 months

Friday 11th May 2007
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runway78 said:
Why did the B-52 crash? wind?

Too tight a turn, with not enough airspeed, stalls then the pilot becomes a passenger!

ATG

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273 months

Friday 11th May 2007
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Looked to me like it was taking off into a strong headwind. I guess having a big difference between the ground and airspeed makes it quite a lot harder to judge what a smooth turn through the air would look like from the ground. I'd guess he underestimated the degree to which the plane should continue to run down field as he started to turn it back up wind, so he ends up putting it into a very steep bank and then splat.

Hope to hell nothing was under it when it pancaked. Looked bloody dangerous.

susser

270 posts

211 months

Thursday 17th May 2007
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Once the B52 exceeds a certain (critical) angle of bank, the nose falls away as the rudder can't hold it up.
The recovery is to nose down, roll level and pull up.
All of that required more sky than he had.
AFAIK.

Simpo Two

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266 months

Wednesday 6th June 2007
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But you can roll a Lancaster smile

slartibartfast

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202 months

Wednesday 18th July 2007
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That B52 was pilot error, tip stalled on the turn.

heres mine....this was my first jet flight ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZd0cYQeY0


heres my engine on test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aud8n3ykWkM


heres me test running a friends engine which had a massive wetstart and i nearly shat myself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yY7prfCwx4

jets are ace fun, a friend of mine makes them (small jet engines) for a living for model aircraft and target drones so i get chance to go play with them all the time.

ATG

20,684 posts

273 months

Wednesday 18th July 2007
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awesome ... I want one ... no idea what to do with it ... maybe the first jet strimmer? ... use it to light the barbeque?

If they're knocking out 15-20lbs of thrust, how much do they weigh?

Roop

6,012 posts

285 months

Thursday 19th July 2007
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slartibartfast said:
heres mine....this was my first jet flight ever
Excellent. Bit of a dodgy landing though. Found this part particularly funny.hehe


slartibartfast

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202 months

Thursday 19th July 2007
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ATG said:
awesome ... I want one ... no idea what to do with it ... maybe the first jet strimmer? ... use it to light the barbeque?

If they're knocking out 15-20lbs of thrust, how much do they weigh?
they weigh between 2 and 2.5lbs

slartibartfast

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202 months

Thursday 19th July 2007
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Roop said:
slartibartfast said:
heres mine....this was my first jet flight ever
Excellent. Bit of a dodgy landing though. Found this part particularly funny.hehe

NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo......

i can see i'm going to be haunted by that dodgy run for the rest of my life aren't i!

it was after all my first ever jet flight and i was really really excited

Roop

6,012 posts

285 months

Thursday 19th July 2007
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slartibartfast said:
Roop said:
slartibartfast said:
heres mine....this was my first jet flight ever
Excellent. Bit of a dodgy landing though. Found this part particularly funny.hehe

NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo......

i can see i'm going to be haunted by that dodgy run for the rest of my life aren't i!

it was after all my first ever jet flight and i was really really excited
hehe I think I'd be excited too - looked like great fun. I must say, I'd like a turbine scale heli one day...

slartibartfast

4,014 posts

202 months

Thursday 19th July 2007
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Roop, turbine helis are amazing, not only do they look good the sound is as close to the real thing as you'll ever get.

expensive though.

bob1179

14,107 posts

210 months

Thursday 19th July 2007
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Awesome looking model!

I would love somthing like that. smile