Amazing R/C Model Aircraft
 

OK it's time for a distraction- I'm going to kick it off with this one, I think this is absolutely incredible:

YouTube - R/C KING-AIR turboprop WORLD´s FIRST

A scale twin turbo prop with CSU's, auto-feather (yes you heard me), nav lights, scale gear....... I'm a big fan of engineering and this guy has not held back! Very, very impressive!

The A-10 in this video below is something to behold:

YouTube - LA Jets Spring 2009 RC Jet Rally Video Series Preview

Feel free to post anything else you think is worthy ;)

Cheers,

Zap

I recall some years ago (ahem) an R/C modeller who was keen to build a Harrier. He spent some considerable time looking around the II+ I happened to be driving at the time and taking photos of the nozzle system etc. He showed me the jet engine he was going to use and the preliminary plans he had, mainly to prove he wasn't some spotter who simply wanted to get up close and take nerdy photographs. He was an engineer by day and pretty switched on to the vagaries of the hovering jets, so I have no doubt he was man enough for the job. It would be great to know if he (or anyone else) has achieved this and managed to build an R/C 'Bona Jet'....any uTube clues?

As it happens, I am a complete arse at flying R/C aircraft and, having spent more time repairing the ones I kept crashing, decided it's much easier to fly the real thing, especially when the damn thing is coming towards you!

That A10 is a neat bit of kit. They need to scale the speed down though to make it more like its grown up cousin.

I thought the King Air was impressive until I saw this!

Yep some really impressive and clever RC modelers in Europe

YouTube - RC A380

YouTube - RC Mig 29 3D Jet Jato torque roll, hovering, alpha

Amazing stuff!!! This Vid has been kicking around now for a little while & I was impressed at the scale until I saw the L-410 on You Tube, makes the Beech look like a toy plane! Apart from the motive pwr of the L-410 which are a couple of chainsaw type donks (not real) the scale detail is unbelievable! As the camera pans around the L-410 inside & out you would think you where looking at the real thing, a must see. Search YouTube "L-410 UVP at Zdice...........gotta see that!

I reckon that PelAir would have looked at the Beech model for replacement planes for our lost contract :{ but saw that wing lockers where not an option but they are cheap I guess:E
You Tube is full of scale toy planes, these models are only scale in size, everything else is way over powered as the Beech was:-)

Wmk2

How about this one:

YouTube - B-52 model crash

What you don't see is my scale model Mig 25 Foxbat coming in on it's six to bust it up!

Nothing worse than an underpowered model Wally!, one doesn't exactly have an asi to watch.

Don't lie, you would love that sort of grunt if it was possible!

As for the contract, I am not sure where the drivers are going to come from, though xxxx will have to pay the market rate, and that is whatever you and your brethren determine.

"Sparcap" (that's a good nic, get checked reg for corrosion do we?:E)

Yr right flying a toy plane that is scale like pwr wise sure is no fun, done that a few times, always on the edge.
And as for no ASI? Well you can get downlink systems that provide real time airspeed etc & believe me most with toy planes that complex sure do need such devices at times, oh the crashes of these toy planes are amazing on You Tube:{

As for the contract? well that a whole udder story buddy:-) I doubt XXXX(PelAir) will pay the current rate but I hope I am wrong as my younger work mates will struggle on $30K+ less per year as we all tend to live up to our income.


Wmk2

Wally
I dont know that these things should be reffered to as toy planes. Maybe scale models would be more appropriate. It would seem to me that they are very complex pieces of machinery
Do you think you could build and fly one:confused:

From memory Wal was very proficient at building and flying models:ok: Still involved Wal?

Yeah am still at playing with my TOY planes Yowie:-) You bin good of late?:)

AE seeing as I have been building/flying TOY planes for 40+ yrs as well as owned a hobby shop & write/review models (Fixed & Heli) for a model mag yeah you could say I can fly TOY planes (term of endearment actually:ok:) their harder than the real thing mostly as a TOY plane you have to correct for trim all the time whilst flying & never for too long in a straight line either:-). Building & flying a scale TOY plane is the easy bit, flying it in a scale manor most can't duplicate:-)
Back to the B200 Turbine job, bloody fantastic but the turbine Heli's now they are a piece of work!!:ok:
So 'AE' just teasing re TOY planes:ok:

Ah all good fun, a crash means money, not just that though with the real TOYS:ok:


Wmh

Fair enough Wal. Dont actually fly them myself (too hard) but I do help my son build them, and its just as hard to build a scale model as it is to build the RV(7):ok:
(In some ways, harder I think)

AE I hope that didn't sound too condescending it was just that I don't say much about my TOY plane background on Prune:ok: I've always said to others along the way though that flying TOY planes is harder than the real thing. Funny story: Many years ago after WW3 (Pilots dispute) & had a B737 skipper (who funnily enough was driving a taxi!!!!) joined our club & he was trying to teach himself to fly a model plane (sick of saying TOY now):) Anyway the long shot of it was he was crashing more than flying & he was a Capt on a heavy transport jet! meant nothing actually:-) So I taught him to fly the model plane he had ( at first he has a mustang, hopeless as a trainer!) Took him ages to get the hang of it but eventually he got it & said sh1t flying the Boeing is a breeze (under normal circumstances that is) compared to this model plane stuff.:) I could give the controls to just about anyone in here who is a pilot & has never flown an model R/C plane before & 99% would crash within a few minutes if not seconds, funny to watch as I have done this many a time over the years with a training model:E It's a skill just like flying the real thing, Heli's are 100 fold!:)


Wmk2 now goes back to his hobby room:-)

Gotta agree with ya Wally. some of my TOY models are quite difficult to fly. I have a much easier time flying real helicopters than I do some of my big models.
My 12 foot wing span J3 is a dodle to fly though. apart from not having an ASI, it flys just like the real thing. My 2M disc Bell 47 is a whole different story. :eek:
I find another advantage of the real one is if I have a radio failure, I squawk 7600 and carry on. I have the wreckage of some very nice and very expensive models that crashed due to the same problem. I'm guess coz I didnt have a transponder. :}

Aus They make some nice GPS addons that run off your RX pack (i run one off my seagull dual ace, two OS 55 AX's and enough servo's to run two decent pattern ships). Look on RCUniverse. They even have Airspeed probes and other things too so you can get real airspeed readings. The other thing people are doing is running a camera in the pilot seat with a set of VR goggles, so its like you're really flying :)

If you want to see something huge search youtube for "Peter Michels". Besides many other large aircraft he has built a scale 1:15 version of the A380: 5.5m and 70kg take off weight. 4x jet turbines with 16kg thrust each running at 120,000 rpms.

How it is made:
YouTube - A380 Peter Michel Baubericht

Hey Wally was that you that I saw in a mag many, many years ago with a scale RFDS King Air with the real one behind? Much effort involved in the build and a fine model based on a fine real aeroplane... Too bad having two engines to rig up would have made it a bit more of a headache than modeling a PC12...! :} :E

I've never seen anything like this. The precision and detail is stunning.

Here's one for the chopper fans. The flying starts at 6 minutes into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBcUtDJoWZ4

http://youtu.be/VU0Fq3rWsR8

not as fancy as the previous rc planes on this thread but fun to fly anyway.

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