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Elwyn at work
PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2004 12:15 pm 
Slightly OT
http://www.scalerchelis.com/forum/index ... 7&t=2382&s



http://www.scalerchelis.com/albums/album129/B_52_d.jpg
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Elwyn at work
 Post subject: Here's the pic, I hope
PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2004 12:19 pm 
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Elwyn
 Post subject: Those are real jets too!
PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2004 6:55 pm 
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$24,000 for eight turbine engines!! That's some serious hobby money!!!



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 Post subject: LInk gone bad
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The site where the story originated was hosting some video of the plane and and it was getting so much attention it was slowing their forum down so they deleted the thread. There was some new links posted for the video clips though. I'll try posting a photo another way. Here's are some specs. B-52 spanning 23' and weighing 300 lbs.
EIGHT Wren turbine motors @ $3k per copy.


http://freecache.org/http://www.wren-tu ... _Test1.wmv

http://freecache.org/http://www.wren-turbines.com/B52 008.wmv


http://freecache.org/http://www.wren-turbines.com/B52 006.wmv




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Damned impressive! How about some more HEAVY METAL. I Found this site a few weeks before the Great WIX Migration.

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Elwyn at Work
 Post subject: IT'S TOAST!!!!
PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:14 pm 
Thank God it didn't hit anyone!!!

http://www.undarc.com/Files/600/60039/b52crash.mpeg
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I assume that was the RC B-52.


Sad. it looked really cool :(

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Elwyn A W
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I believe it crashed during the British National Model Airplane Contest. Looks like it cme close to hitting some sort of building.
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Oink...


That's too bad...


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Looked like they were holding the contest in the midst of a tropical storm. Contest be damned, I wouldn't take the chance of flying a complex $30,000 model in high winds!

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It even burned like a real one!
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