A380 Crashes into giant runway sign

[xrtoronto]

[Kaw1000]

hope all the small sheep are ok!!    

[xrtoronto]

Has anyone here seen RC planes this big flying?

How much do they cost (approx)? and how hard are they to fly?

I can't imagine they'd be easy to control?

Before I moved in 95 I used to live about a half mile from an RC field, but never saw anything like these.

[Stringer]

Is that an RR on the engine nacelles?

[skernsk]

Both right sides engines are toast ... the sign was sure owned though.

[Chairboy]

Xtoronto, the bigger planes are usually easier to fly.  Built correctly, the added size makes them less twitchy with wind, and a bit more predictable in responding to inputs.

The hard part is actually working up the courage to put your $20,000 in engines + $10,000 in everything else super planes (like that A380, that was a wild bellybutton guess on the costs) up in the air, not to mention the added penalties for a poor landing.

[GtoRA2]

What I do not get is why someone would build a remote controll airliner? That would be like making a remote controlled bus?

To each his own, but still.

Why not a bomber of some type that would not be lame?

[Chairboy]

Just because YOU have become desensitized to the amazing engineering that goes into every 737/A380/DC-10 doesn't mean WE have to.  These planes climb at thousands of FPM, through any type of weather, at the edges of the stratosphere, and do so thousands of times EVERY DAY around the world.

A B-17 is beautiful, don't get me wrong, but when the ratty old Southwest 737 on the other side of the Tarmac that has tens of thousands of flying hours, has brought families together and made the whole world a little smaller and is ignored because familiarity breeds contempt, well...  I just think it's a little sad.

Kinda like everyone hanging on every word of grandpa's highschool football story while the son works 60 hours a week to keep his family fed, sheltered, and living well.

[FUNKED1]

IF IT AREN'T BOING IT AREN'T GOAN!!!

[Pooh21]

Originally posted by Chairboy

Kinda like everyone hanging on every word of grandpa's highschool football story while the son works 60 hours a week to keep his family fed, sheltered, and living well.

Grandpas football story is more interesting then listening to some schlub tell about his " do you want any fries with that day"

[Pooh21]

Originally posted by xrtoronto

 

that is why the port deal needed to be killed!!!

lookit them UAEans martyring themselves on a giant tent!!!111

Boosh is selling us out to the terrorists!11

[dynamt]

I would of spent the money on a real airplane. 30K for some stuff from Garmin and S-Tec would be nice.

[dynamt]

Originally posted by Chairboy
A B-17 is beautiful, don't get me wrong, but when the ratty old Southwest 737 on the other side of the Tarmac that has tens of thousands of flying hours, has brought families together and made the whole world a little smaller and is ignored because familiarity breeds contempt, well...  I just think it's a little sad.

Well said.

[nirvana]

on the other hand it might be obscene to muslims to have a plane with THEIR writing on it crash into something.  It may also be obscene to Americans, but I digress...