| Author | Message | ||
     Just_ziptab |
About $4,000.00...........just for the engine!. | ||
| Kyrocket |
That's pretty awesome. | ||
| Strato9r |
Man, that was freakin' COOL! That take off apparatus looks strangely familiar......anyone remember Fireball XL-5? | ||
| J2blue |
Tilted launch rail system [check] Fire extinguisher [check] FAA permit [check] Hardened bunker [check] Collision Avoidance System [check] Liability Insurance [?] Man-o-man. I used to day dream of jet powered RC planes taking off from the deck of my jon-boat converted into an air-craft carrier when I was a teenager. | ||
| Americanmadexb |
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| Iman501 |
holy crap! thats one heck of a toy plane!!! very cool though! | ||
| F22raptor |
Hey J2Blue,I fly all the "BIG-STUFF' and yes,we carry about 3 million in liability insurance.All A.M.A fields require it,and you would be a fool not to have it!!Oh and also they are not "TOY AIR PLANES" lots of full scale aerobatic pilots fly R-C to try new flight routines.To do it right and look good is still one of the hardest,most rewarding things I do.(It is alot easer to ride a bike at 150mph,then to fly one of these)   | ||
| Dynasport |
Wow! Just wow. I wouldn't have thought you could control something like that, but the guy flying it didn't seem to be having any problems. | ||
| 86129squids |
OMG, THAT was so cool. | ||
| Andymnelson |
Dude has some skills to fly that thing. Very cool stuff. | ||
| Strokizator |
Seems like it would only take a few seconds to get out of radio range. Then what? | ||
| Americanmadexb |
I'm sure it has some sort of fail safe on it. At $4000 a motor I wouldn't want it crashing into the ground at 100 MPH. | ||
| Sifo |
I'm sure it has some sort of fail safe on it. At $4000 a motor I wouldn't want it crashing into the ground at 100 MPH.  If you will fly them, they will crash. I've seen far nicer models crater the turf! | ||
| Gunut75 |
Your right Sifo.....theres no failsafe anywhere on those planes. Look away for a second, and it's gone. | ||
| Americanmadexb |
By fail safe I don't mean it will land itself. I mean the motor should cut out first, then plummet to the ground. I think that there are helicopter fail safes that's will land it safely. | ||
| Brother_in_buells |
Look at the other movies from him! a bicycle with a turbine   | ||
| Etennuly |
I would think the first requirement would be an eye exam. Wholly crap, you would have to have some self focusing super glasses to keep it in view. Are those the type of engines in the manned wing that flies in.....Sweden, I think it is? Four engines, a fuel tank, and a wing strapped on his back. He was setting up for a flight over the English Channel with it. It was on a Discovery show last week. I wondered what the actual use for the engines were. Thanks for posting that. | ||
| Tpoppa |
Seems like it would have some military applications. | ||
| Delta_one |
yea but then the turbine would cost over 400,000 ea. F22 nice bird, I bet its a riot to 3D! I did foamies for a bit but decided to get out a few years ago, I have been contemplating helis this time around | ||
| Froggy |
We had radios that can communicate to the Moon back in the 60's, a several mile range RC controller is no sweat, assuming you get proper FCC clearance. | ||
| F22raptor |
We fly on 2.4 giga-hurts,range is not a issue.Eye-site is the limiting factor | ||
| Sifo |
I used to fly stuff similar to the pic from F22raptor. Those are a lot of fun to fly. I've never flown jets, but one of our club members was Dennis Crooks. Found a picture of his SR-71 here... http://www.modelaircraft.org/events/nats/NatsNews06/0806.pdf  Dennis's SR-71 He knows his stuff on the jets. He was doing development testing on jets for Yellow Aircraft when I knew him way back when. He always said flying jets really isn't that fun, especially the fast ones. You have to always be thinking way ahead of where you are at. Once you get behind bad things will follow. Real easy to get it far enough away that you lose perspective of the plane. His SR-71 was a big plane. It sat in a cradle in his full size Chevy conversion van with the nose right under the rear view mirror up against the windshield and the back doors would just barely close. He said flying an Ugly Stick was much more enjoyable than a jet. For those that don't know what an Ugly Stick is the name mostly sums it up. Personally I had a bi-plane fetish. | ||
| Bluzm2 |
F22, 2.4g? That's really crowded freq with all the 802.11 wireless stuff. Any interference problems? How fast was that thing going on the ground passes? 200 mph? Wow! Brad | ||
| Delta_one |
There are 2 different "main" systems for 2.4 and they have different schools of thought behind them JR scans available frequencies for one with the least interference before choosing an exact channel Futaba frequency hops at a fairly rapid rate, you could have interference on 10 consecutive "hops" and not even notice the hickup. They are both great radios, but I worry about the JR having interference start after the radio has selected a channel and dedicated to it Is it smart enough to switch at that point? (Message edited by Delta_one on November 19, 2010) | ||
| Gohot |
That things flipp'n deadly.It has to be orange or some color that is highly vissible just to see it at those speeds. The fuselage must be aluminum to hold up to the stresses and surface tensions of the wings and body. One miss-step and someone could die..... if it crashed I doubt you'd find much, and if you did, it would be over a couple football fields length or more. |
