GoPro + RC jet == awesome

tcsenter

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So many awesome hobbies, so little monies.....

That seemed like a long-ass paved runway for being out in the middle of nowhere with no services and no hangars, nothing. Do you know where that is?
 

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So many awesome hobbies, so little monies.....

That seemed like a long-ass paved runway for being out in the middle of nowhere with no services and no hangars, nothing. Do you know where that is?

There is one near me as well. It's just an RC park.
 

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It's aboot time the Canuckians got an Air Force...of sorts. Now if they could just strap some bombs to it and bomb ISIS/ISIL/TheMisogynisticThoughtPolice back to the stone age where they got their "morality" from...

Just kidding that was a cool vid thanks for sharing!
 
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Rakehellion

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Kind of boring. Though I am impressed by that wide open field. Where would you find something like that?
 
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much bigger than I thought the plane would be. They should make one 1.5x bigger and fit a small person in it.

The weight of a person would not allow it to fly.
As you can see, those planes are fairly light. A single man can pick it up, despite its size. For the plane to be able to carry a small person (about 50kg or 100 pounds) it would become heavier. The engine would become bigger, making it heavier. Thus the wing size has to increase and the amount of thrust the engine can generate must increase. For the plane itself to be able to handle all the forces acting upon it while in flight, it becomes heavier. All this comes to an end result that you have to scale it up a lot more than 1.5x .


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I am amazed :
This plane only ways about 188kg with a jet engine.

BD-5J

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glS4YtEnMJA
 
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The weight of a person would not allow it to fly.
As you can see, those planes are fairly light. A single man can pick it up, despite its size. For the plane to be able to carry a small person (about 50kg or 100 pounds) it would become heavier. The engine would become bigger, making it heavier. Thus the wing size has to increase and the amount of thrust the engine can generate must increase. For the plane itself to be able to handle all the forces acting upon it while in flight, it becomes heavier. All this comes to an end result that you have to scale it up a lot more than 1.5x .


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I am amazed :
This plane only ways about 162kG with a jet engine.

BD-5J

JP086S.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/v=IkxjkWpCePI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glS4YtEnMJA

You can tell how light it is when he climbs right after the low fly-by of the landing strip. It's climb rate is absurd in ratio to weight, probably.

there area many runways like that out and about. maybe it is an old private airstrip?
Found a reference in the comments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley/A._J._Flying_Ranch_Airport

It's probably an old emergency-strip for crop-dusters and private flights. They have one like this out near my grandparent's farm in South TX.
 

brianmanahan

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Kind of boring. Though I am impressed by that wide open field. Where would you find something like that?

kinda agree - i always thought i would LOVE rc piloting (used to play a lot of flight sim back in the day) but i just could never get into it

and everyone knows that long rectangular fields are canadian. since there are no mountains, it is probably west of BC (maybe alberta or saskatchewan).
 
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You can tell how light it is when he climbs right after the low fly-by of the landing strip. It's climb rate is absurd in ratio to weight, probably.

I see what you mean with respect to the climb rate.
Does it stall at around 2:30 ?
Or does it lose its RC signal and turns back automatically ?
 

dougp

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I see what you mean with respect to the climb rate.
Does it stall at around 2:30 ?
Or does it lose its RC signal and turns back automatically ?

He's just doing a loop. The stall speed on these things is pretty low.

RC planes have to be fundamentally aerodynamic - they don't have the onboard computers to control flight surfaces like modern aircraft, so controlling them has to be pretty basic and handled with minimal interference.
 

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I would have to put a GI joe in there and paint like a warthog. Now a fake minigun on the front may scare the natives.


Once Live view cameras are MUCH cheaper we will see a paradigm shift in RC. I cant wait till I can watch it fly away and put on my VR head gear and fly up to 10k feet.
 

skyking

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You can tell how light it is when he climbs right after the low fly-by of the landing strip. It's climb rate is absurd in ratio to weight, probably.



It's probably an old emergency-strip for crop-dusters and private flights. They have one like this out near my grandparent's farm in South TX.
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If it is the airport I linked, it does have a building and fuel pump.
4500' long will accommodate many business class jets.
 

BudAshes

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It's aboot time the Canuckians got an Air Force...of sorts. Now if they could just strap some bombs to it and bomb ISIS/ISIL/TheMisogynisticThoughtPolice back to the stone age where they got their "morality" from...

Just kidding that was a cool vid thanks for sharing!

The real Canadian air force

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