Author Topic: worlds largest RC plane? (Read 575 times)

Ack-Ack · « **on:** September 04, 2007, 08:21:29 PM »

This is supposed to be the worlds largest RC plane. Sweet looking B-29 but I would think UAVs like GlobalHawk would be considered the largest.

World's largest RC plane

ack-ack

Jack16 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 04, 2007, 09:23:43 PM »

dang!:O

AirFlyer · « **Reply #2 on:** September 04, 2007, 09:30:56 PM »

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Originally posted by Jack16
dang!:O

I second that.

C(Sea)Bass · « **Reply #3 on:** September 04, 2007, 10:50:21 PM »

mines bigger....

Meatwad · « **Reply #4 on:** September 04, 2007, 10:54:16 PM »

Listen to them engines purr

Ghosth · « **Reply #5 on:** September 05, 2007, 06:21:48 AM »

In WWII didn't they have full sized B17s loaded with explosives and wired for Radio remote? Pilots jumped once they were up and away.

Although that 1/5 scale b29 is sweet.

MiloMorai · « **Reply #6 on:** September 05, 2007, 07:05:07 AM »

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Originally posted by Ghosth
In WWII didn't they have full sized B17s loaded with explosives and wired for Radio remote? Pilots jumped once they were up and away.

Although that 1/5 scale b29 is sweet.

Yes and a Kennedy was killed in one.

Some of the UAVs are bigger.

Angus · « **Reply #7 on:** September 05, 2007, 07:06:12 AM »

World's biggest RC would perhaps rather be one of those new spyplanes?

Halo · « **Reply #8 on:** September 05, 2007, 08:03:29 AM »

World's biggest civilian/private RC.

C(Sea)Bass · « **Reply #9 on:** September 05, 2007, 08:35:52 AM »

The site labels it as "World's Largest Model Aircraft". Since they are using the term model, not R/C, it is in a different ctegory than UAV's and what have you.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #10 on:** September 05, 2007, 08:40:22 AM »

I'd like to point out that modern UAVs like the global hawk cannot be "Flown" by a pilot from the ground. They are merely givin instructions by the operator and the computer does the actual flying. Not sure if this makes a difference in the whole "largest" thing or not but it is a little different than an R/C air craft.

Angus · « **Reply #11 on:** September 05, 2007, 11:45:35 AM »

So they don't have anything that can be "flown"?
If they do, I'm applying for a job

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #12 on:** September 05, 2007, 11:57:11 AM »

Joe Kennedy's plane was the Navy version of the B-24: otherwise, yeah it was a very big RC plane.

sluggish · « **Reply #13 on:** September 05, 2007, 12:55:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Ghosth
In WWII didn't they have full sized B17s loaded with explosives and wired for Radio remote? Pilots jumped once they were up and away.

Although that 1/5 scale b29 is sweet.

My grandfather was a crew chief for one of the B-17s that was chosen for "Operation Aphrodite." It was a clever idea to make use of and get rid of aircraft that had reached their operational lifespan. It was considered an operational failure.

http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b17_14.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite

ALSO...

What about that R/C B-52 that some dude built and crashed a few years ago? That thing was huge too and it has eight actual turbojets on it.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #14 on:** September 05, 2007, 01:41:44 PM »

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Originally posted by Angus
So they don't have anything that can be "flown"?
If they do, I'm applying for a job

The smaller UAVs are actually "piloted" but bigger ones like the UCAV or GH are given a flight path or basic set of instructions to follow and follow it, it does.