B-52 RC -- Huge!

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B-52 RC -- Huge!

Post by vulgarvulture » Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:34 am

Check out the size of this B-52 RC model:

http://groups.msn.com/AerialWorld/b52rc.msnw

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Post by aferguson » Tue Nov 30, 2004 9:30 am

wow is that cool.

i think it's 1/10 scale. I've seen it before..

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Post by dangaroo » Tue Nov 30, 2004 9:39 am

It's Huge. I never knew RC planes could be made that large. It's amazing what those little engines could do.
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Post by tmanthegreat » Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:14 am

Someone made a post about this aircraft a few months ago on the old GPXD board. A link to some website was included and it had videos of them flying the plane. It was really crazy as the model had the flight characteristics of an actual B-52. A flying model in 1:18 scale would be a little more "size-conscious". Why did they make the model 1:10 scale? Drop it to 1:6 and they could have crewed it with Dragon or BBI 12" Pilot figures (as well as made the aircraft all the more huge!)

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Post by aferguson » Thu Dec 02, 2004 6:25 am

if they made it in 1/6 it would be about 8 times as heavy, not to mention nearly twice as big, dimensionally. That would be pretty tough to move it around, store it etc and it's possible there would be no engines available that could get it off the ground..

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Post by wise690 » Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:33 pm

Wow, that thing is huge.
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Post by Teamski » Thu Dec 30, 2004 4:10 pm

It was great while it lasted!! My brother sent this url to me today. Check out the sad ending:

http://www.teambanana.co.uk/b52crash2.wmv

Oh the tears must have flowed..........

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Post by aferguson » Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:51 am

And that's why i never got into r/c aircraft...

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Post by Rocky_Road » Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:11 pm

"And that's why i never got into r/c aircraft..."

Even in 1/10 scale..wouldn't that be a tight fit? :lol:

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