*Monster* R/C Skyraider ...

[Chicoartist]

My friend Brian O'Meara sent this pic to me. Brian is well-known in R/C Warbird circles. His group hosts "Warbirds Over the Rockies" in Colorado - see http://warbirdsovertherockies.com/

This particular beast sports a 400 CC radial motor, and weighs about 200 pounds. It flies - and flies well, Brian says. 40 inch flying propeller. The plane was built in London by Phil Clark and is owned and piloted by Ali Mashinchy.



Wade

[Holedigger]

WOW, does that come under FAA regulation? That is HUGE!! Add some CO2 BB miniguns and you have a good varmin hunter!

[cozmo]

I salute the the guy.

But as a recovering builder of R/C models, I gotta' ask why?

[Chad Veich]

I salute the the guy.

But as a recovering builder of R/C models, I gotta' ask why?

Why not? Bigger flies better! Mr. Ali Machinchy has, or has had, a great number of very large R/C models including the one pictured below which I think garnered some interest on WIX a while back.

[Matt Gunsch]

this is why not bigger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuawMl4lOo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T6HnDki ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cwmT5hm ... re=related

I felt bad when I crashed my park flyers, I cannot imagine what these guys felt.

[daveymac82c]

That video is really impressive. Ali Mashinchy sure flies it well!

Thanks for posting.

Cheers,

David

[spookythecat]

Dang, that sounds awesome!

Looks real good too!

[Connery]

If anyone is interested in seeing how this was built. Phil did a complete build thread over on rcscalebuilder.com. The plane was scaled up from Ziroli 1/5th scale plans. Phil is currently working a a 1/4 scale Seafury, as well as a very large Spitfire.

[Nathan]

unless your like these guys!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVms5xxwpEE&NR=1

[51fixer]

Add some CO2 BB miniguns and you have a good varmin hunter!

I don't think BBs are to scale.
22 cal is the proper weapon for that one.
Firing Estes rockets would work as well.
Rich

[k5083]

this is why not bigger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuawMl4lOo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T6HnDki ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cwmT5hm ... re=related

I felt bad when I crashed my park flyers, I cannot imagine what these guys felt.

Yep! Sooner or later, there only seems to be one fate for those RC models. And the bigger they are, the more tears are shed.

That's why I stick with peanut scale!

August

[cozmo]

I salute the the guy.

But as a recovering builder of R/C models, I gotta' ask why?

Why not? Bigger flies better!

You will get no argument from me on that. It looks and sounds better too.

A long time ago Johnnie Clemens, a pioneer in flying model aircraft, told me that every model plane will crash someday. I saw a really nice P-38 turn to toothpicks and that is the day I switched to boats.

You can always refloat a model boat. I have done that more than once. Spent an afternoon searching the trash strewn bottom of a creek for my submarine after a seal blew. But it was repairable.

Some of them

[EDowning]

Very Cool. I think I will stick with my 1:1 scale, though. I'm sure it's easier to fly than the smaller scale.

[Connery]

Very Cool. I think I will stick with my 1:1 scale, though. I'm sure it's easier to fly than the smaller scale.

That is very true. Just because someone has a pilots license and flies full scale planes, doesn't mean that they can fly RC planes. I've seen it many times were a hot shot pilot comes out with his new RC plane and refuses help from anyone else because he flies the REAL thing and promptly crashes his model.

[Holedigger]

I'll stick with my flight sim, when I crash I just hit the reset button. Your RC plane have one of those?

I was with a friend when he augered in a brand new RC plane he had spent months building....he was not real happy! The engine was about a foot in the ground!