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you can't really "buy" that thing right off of the shelf. stuff like that is handmade.
the last time i looked into that stuff, the turbine engines are about $2k each, for a little one. that box could be about the same. i would be willing to bet that the body is carbon fiber. i wouldn't be surprised if that guy has $25k or more in that thing including actual man hours. ETA: its cool as shit, thanks for the vid. |
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Quoted: That is one of the most amazing things! I had no idea they made RC' s like that. I wonder how much those babies cost? Thanks for posting All scratch built. MAJOR EXPENSE. That had to be in Europe, given the transmitter style they prefer. Not only is it a major feat in realism, it is a MAJOR PAIN to scale it to make it fly. The engines are horribly inefficient, requiring huge amounts of fuel and most modelers here in the states are limited to weight and fuel, making these models impossible to fly unless you have your own field. Yes, retracts have been around a while, much longer than turbines in the model crowd. Still, not as much of a feat compared to autonomous crossing of the Atlantic by a plane launched and initially radio controlled, then switched to autonomous control and then reaching Ireland, switching back to radio control for the landing. |
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The music was worth it , that is a fucking RC pilot !!!!! |
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Thats is badass!
I like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPTlzZ110Ks If anybody built one of these and used it to shoot down police UAVs thats would be wrong. |
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He's got $10k worth of engines on that airplane and he operated it off of grass. What an idiot... Must have missed the part about FOD..... Turbines large enough to push a model that big thru grass suck a lot of shit up being that close to the ground.
The other cool thing about Turbine models is they crash and burn like the real ones too. 
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Quoted: Quoted: My old man told me that it was originally called the RS-71 but when the President at the time (Carter?) misspoke and said SR71 everything had to be changed. True? Not Carter. LBJ. Air Force Chief of Staff General Curtis LeMay preferred the SR (Strategic Reconnaissance) designation and wanted the RS-71 to be named SR-71. Before the July speech, LeMay lobbied to modify Johnson's speech to read SR-71 instead of RS-71. The media transcript given to the press at the time still had the earlier RS-71 designation in places, creating the myth that the president had misread the aircraft's designation |