Largest Model RC Plane

B-29 flying RC model. One big ol' plane-two operators.

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JW

Son of a gun!

I dabble with airmodels myself, and have a crate with a 2m wingspan B-29 kit that I'll build someday. This is very good, very profesional work. I especially liked the way they started the engines, with 1 to 4 flicks of the propeller by hand. This means the engines were very carefully broken in and tuned. Either the guy is very rich, as a model this size and complexity costs a small fortune, or he has found some very understanding sponsors!

There is another large B-29 on the circuit that drops an X-1 plane (the one that Chuck Yeager used to break the sound barrier), which then zooms with a rocket motor and is independently controlled.

Great find, Jeff!

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Thanks Za. I've seen the vids of the B-29 dropping the X-1. I wished that I could see them in person.

My father was out at the airport in my hometown working on the phones one day when a man was there flying a large 4 engined RC airplane, my father didn't know what it was. Anyway, as he was landing it, he dipped the wing and apparently gound looped on the runway, crashing it and damaging it significantly. He said it had about a 6 ft wing span. Musta cost a small fortune.

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JW

That's the trouble with these things, if it's only a minor prang you can fix it yourself and it will be up in the air in 30 minutes. if it passes a critical point then it's a total loss and in more ways than one, as the bigger the plane gets the more expensive the electronic components are. There is on the net a film of a crash of a 4m large B-52, with 8 jet engines worth 2000$ each. It went up in a ball of propane flame.

That's why I stick to small planes, the ones you can fly from a car park with a electric motor. The bigger brothers are too much of a chore ($$$)

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I've seen the model B-52 crash. Didn't he do the same thing as the real B-52 prepping for the airshow in Fairchild AFB several years? If I remember right, the real B-52 tried to do a slow turning, banking climb and when he turned, he inadvertently dropped the inside wing's speed below stall speed?

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JW

You did??? Must have been a sorry sight, I never liked seen any model crash.

Yes, it might have been inside wing stalling, but I have also heard that the centre of gravity (center to you ) was too far back halping induce a stall.

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I saw the video, not the actual crash.

Center would be correct, as in "I am going to the center theater to watch the movie."

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JW

Damned colonials!

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If/when I win the Lotto, you guys can fly all sorts of that kind of stuff for me.
I'll bring bottle-rockets and provide anti-aircraft.

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Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtIL_VjBUGo

That 1/5 scale is amazing.

I saw a twin turbine RC at an air show at Addison Airport back around 88. Rather impressive. The pilot flew it through low clouds.

So what if your controller's batteries run out of power, kabooom!. You need insurance to fly such kind of stuff.

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"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
A.H.

Kerem, one of the reasons this stuff is so damned expensive is that not only all electronics are first rated as opposed to the Chinese sh1t I use, they use as much redundancies as possible. Believe me, they take all precautions as they can to protect their investment

And of course they need insurance. I need insurance, it's a legal requisite. It's much easier to put a plane through a car windshield than you think, I almost did it once.

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I found my copy of this video hiding in a corner of my hard drive.

Miguel, I still owe you a video or something, don't I?

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JW

Funny you should mention that. A RC plane intercepted my nephew in his pickup truck several years ago, damaging his windshield. The RC owner paid for repairs. He wasn't so lucky with a dented hood not long after. Hit by a fish. Clumsy eagle.

yes, Jeff, I thought you were ignoring me

Insurance is definitely essencial, once I was landing in rolloing ground, and I lost sight of the bird. When I went over the low ridge that separated me from the plane I saw it stopped putt-putting a couple meters away from a cow! It was immense luck, I though the fields were empty, I might have slashed the cow in a horrible manner!

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