The International Cessna^® 170 Association

This is a very large video and will take phone modem users quite a long time to download but it is awesome to see a model airplane do the things this one (and the model it drops) does. Turn your sound ON.




Ever see a B-29 fly inverted, do a Cuban 8, do a spin, or an outside loop?


Then open this, it takes a few minutes to load, but worth the time.

http://tinyurl.com/dl67m

As long as we're doing links to multi-megabyte aviation videos, this one will remind you why we choose our sedate little 170's.

http://guyrevel.free.fr/WGP/Haute-Voltige_au_Japon.wmv

Miles

Wow, Pure Adrenaline, I especially liked the two in formation. And the big scale B-29 was pretty cool too with it's rocket plane. Thanks Miles and John.

Jody

OK, since we're on this subject, one of my mechanics sent me this the other night - an RC B52 that is huge! The video plays for nearly ten minutes. The sound is unreal. I grew up watching the real things all the time in ND and SD, so this is pretty cool.

Actually has 8 "real turbines" at about $1500 each! Took over 2 years to build. Takes multiple pilots, as there are so many things to control.

http://www.mcgirt.net/RC/VIDEOS/Giant_B ... light2.wmv

kind of blurs the line between RC and homebuilt airplanes

OK, as long as we're doing this, here's another one:

http://www.funmansion.com/html/Airbus-R ... Plane.html

How long before the FAA gets involved? Or do these things still qualify as ultralights?

John

jrenwick wrote:OK, as long as we're doing this, here's another one:

http://www.funmansion.com/html/Airbus-R ... Plane.html

How long before the FAA gets involved? Or do these things still qualify as ultralights?

John

More important do they qualify for a Sport Pilot License?

So far the person flying the B-29 has the nicest landing and the rocket plane looks like the way I do it.

jrenwick wrote:OK, as long as we're doing this, here's another one:

http://www.funmansion.com/html/Airbus-R ... Plane.html

How long before the FAA gets involved? Or do these things still qualify as ultralights?

John

Even if they were under the max ultralight weight in the R/C configuration, the saddle, reins, and stirrups required for a human pilot would probably put them over.

Miles

cessna170bdriver wrote:Even if they were under the max ultralight weight in the R/C configuration, the saddle, reins, and stirrups required for a human pilot would probably put them over.

Oh, I don't know. Slim Pickens only needed a hat and a yell to ride the A-bomb in Dr. Strangelove!

John

Please remember I am only the messenger and not the artist.

This is more my speed, and it's electric!!
http://www.hobby-lobby.com/media/HLA112-12FootTele.wmv

johneeb wrote:

Please remember I am only the messenger and not the artist.

There's something pleasing in that photo for those on both sides!