Giant RC B-52 Video

[crobertson1]

I apologize if this has been posted before, but it's worth seeing if you haven't already.



http://www.mcgirt.net/RC/VIDEOS/Giant_B52/B52_flight2.wmv

 

[klenger]

Someone had way too much time and money on their hands. I am impressed. I wonder what the payload is.

 

[AMink]

That was definately very cool. I bet one of those jet engines would spool a big turbo... hmmm

 

[jwilliams3]

It eventually crashed.



Very impressive doesn't do that thing any justice.



R. I. P. working scale B-52

 

[rubberneck]

It eventually crashed.



Very impressive doesn't do that thing any justice.



R. I. P. working scale B-52

ouch, I can only imagine the price tag on that bad boy. Heck i have enough trouble driving my T-Maxx :-laf , no way i would step up to something like that

 

[EricBu12]

Heres the video of the crash



http://www.mcgirt.net/RC/VIDEOS/Giant_B52/b52crash.mpeg

 

[AMink]

KACHING$$$$$ That sucks!

 

[kelly4463]

thats not right ,all that money :{

 

[crobertson1]

Here's a website with more photos and a better video of the crash. Crashsite photos included!



http://balsabusters.warp0.com/B52.html

 

[hammersley]

Well that probably cost more than

a new mega cab

 

[Byershome]

That's a hobby that get's real expensive real fast, I have several thousand dollars worth of planes and materials in the shop I have not used in about 5 years just because I have not had the money (kids cost even more) to maintain them. I build them myself but if you buy them almost ready to fly, it cost even more, and beast like this B-52 are for people with more money than they know what to do with. :-laf



It is also a lot harder than it looks, crashes are all to common. Flying a real aircraft is much easier. It looked like they were fighting a pretty stiff crosswind which means he did a great job sticking that landing (Until you have actually done it you can't imagine how difficult landing is with one of these things). They have scale shows all over the country, the top show being the one on South Florida called "TopGun".

 

[Woodenhead]

I'm another sucker

Yeah I'm a sucker for RC as well. I thought about getting into planes but I'm pretty sure I'd crash and burn real fast. I've got a Savage Nitro truck that's been to hell and back but seems to keep running just fine. I got into boats a while ago and have a 55" offshore with a 23cc gas engine. Was thinking about bombing the boat which is easy enough to do and go even faster but 35mph out of the box is fast enough for now.



Here's another toy for someone with too much money. 84" Apache offshore boat which you can get with twin 2cyl gassers to run over 75mph.



Everyone's gotta have some toys :-laf

 

[JApol]

A buddy of mine was messing with his gas powered RC truck outside the barracks and the chip got knocked loose at WOT. It went screaming across the parking lot finally hitting a tire of a parked car. It got muddy side up and with no load on the engine it popped big time. Ventilated the engine, destoyed the reduction gears, bent the frame. But the body was still good Ne never got a new one, it was to big of a hit the pocket book.

 

[Byershome]

" I thought about getting into planes but I'm pretty sure I'd crash and burn real fast. "



It's all about finding the right place, the right type of plane and finding someone with enough experience and an extra radio to buddy up with. That way if you mess up he let's go of a switch and takes over (hopefully with enough altitude to save it :-laf ) I helped several people learn this way. If you can fly enough times, without having to land, it will make that first landing a lot easier. I taught myself but I would not recomend that to someone without the room and the patience to fix a broken airplane several times. I destoyed my first 2 planes more times than I can remember but I loved the challenge of fixing them as much as flying.

 

[WDixon27]

when you go extreme the cars are not much cheeper, in baton rouge we have a 1200' velodrome to run on so a buddy and me built (at the time) a couple of the fastest 10th scale 4wd nitro cars around, we had a police radar mounted over the track and i busted 65 mph, the problem was gearing nobody made anything taller so we started with taller wheels/tires, the sustained high speeds were a new problem too id sling kevlar caps apart in a few hot laps and the belted radials handled good and made realistic screeching sounds would also blow up after about 5 hot laps, solid foam was the only thing light enough to not be flung off the rim. i got my 8th scale up to about 75 mph before we got burned out on racing, 65 with a 10th was way more impressive then 75 on a 8th