I want one of THESE!

[Brutuskend]

 

[jagec]

Man, that thing sure has a high landing speed...you must need a lot of experience on the slow ones to line it up correctly. I think I'd figure out a way to fit a landing hook to it

Looks sweet in the air...you can't even tell it's a model.

 

[Jeff7]

Now it needs to be equipped with little Estes rockets on undercarriage.

 

[bob4432]

http://www.bvmjets.com/

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: bob4432
http://www.bvmjets.com/

Well, I don't want one THAT bad....

 

[Banzai042]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Now it needs to be equipped with little Estes rockets on undercarriage.

Now that would be fun stuff.
I wonder how long that thing can stay up, considering how much fuel twin jet engines must take, vs. how much that thing can probably carry considering how much of the body must be full of electronics for controlling the thing. Also wonder just how much that thing cost to build. Awsome plane though, wish i had the free time/skill to learn to fly something like that.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Banzai042

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Now it needs to be equipped with little Estes rockets on undercarriage.

Now that would be fun stuff.
I wonder how long that thing can stay up, considering how much fuel twin jet engines must take, vs. how much that thing can probably carry considering how much of the body must be full of electronics for controlling the thing. Also wonder just how much that thing cost to build. Awsome plane though, wish i had the free time/skill to learn to fly something like that.

there really is not a lot of elelctronics in them, so you could put in quite a bit of fuel. the guy who edited the video was horrible. i use to fly regular model planes and 20-30mins was no problem, never got into the faster stuff like pylon racing, ducted fan or jets, too fast and too expensive. hell, even a regular plane, moderate skill level will do a conservative 70+mph easy.

with somthing like that you probably don't want to stay in the air too long due to the incredible amount of concentration it would take as i am sure that plane could do 170+mph easy, and when you take into account size, they get really small really fast. i am sure most of the time he was flying at 50% throttle or less.

these are quite fun though - http://www.hpiracing.com/index2.htm and you don't need nearly as much room, in fact in the video i was surprised at how close the houses were in the background...when i use to fly it was in a flood plain and nobody was within at least 1/2 mile, but we weren't flying those types.

here are a couple places on google where i use to fly:
33°41'6.08"N
112° 9'1.28"W

and also this one:
33°43'25.42"N
112° 1'4.87"W

good times

 

[Stangs55]

wow

 

[Troll4Hire]

OLD, I had seen that a long time ago.

 

[swtethan]

doesnt come close to this


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3151463149730867482&q=concorde+rc

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: swtethan
doesnt come close to this


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3151463149730867482&q=concorde+rc

That's still nothing compared to the B52 models. I dont remember where the video is, but the B52 was fvcking sick.

 

[swtethan]

crazy


http://www.mcgirt.net/RC/VIDEOS/Giant_B52/

 

[swtethan]

the b52 looks unstable though

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: swtethan
crazy


http://www.mcgirt.net/RC/VIDEOS/Giant_B52/

I :heart: you.

 

[kirkaptain]

I want to borrow one. I'd be damn pissed if I crashed my own, but someone else's....

"what did you expect? I don't know WTF I'm doing!"

 

[bob4432]

actually there is a commercial simulator - real planes great flight. there are free ones too but the real flight does a good job. you should be able to pick up v2 with the controller pretty cheap if you are at all interested. the simulator does a excellent job with how a real r/c plane flies

 

[sao123]

that was awesome.