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Title: worlds largest RC plane?
Post by: 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 (http://www.break.com/index/worlds-largest-model-air-plane.html)


ack-ack
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Post by: Jack16 on September 04, 2007, 09:23:43 PM
dang!:O
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Post by: AirFlyer on September 04, 2007, 09:30:56 PM
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Originally posted by Jack16
dang!:O


I second that.
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Post by: C(Sea)Bass on September 04, 2007, 10:50:21 PM
mines bigger....:D
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Post by: Meatwad on September 04, 2007, 10:54:16 PM
Listen to them engines purr :)
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Post by: Ghosth 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.
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Post by: MiloMorai 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.
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Post by: Angus on September 05, 2007, 07:06:12 AM
World's biggest RC would perhaps rather be one of those new spyplanes?
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Post by: Halo on September 05, 2007, 08:03:29 AM
World's biggest civilian/private RC.
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Post by: C(Sea)Bass 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.
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Post by: Gunslinger 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.
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Post by: Angus 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 :D
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Post by: Holden McGroin 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.
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Post by: sluggish 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.
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Post by: Gunslinger 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 :D


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.
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Post by: MORAY37 on September 07, 2007, 12:20:03 AM
I'll put it this way...nice plane...

BUT...

Why put the time and effort to build it, as well as the money...... AND NOT BE ABLE TO GET IN IT... and umm, well, FLY.

For the money they put into it, they prolly coulda bought a great kit aircraft and actually flown in it.
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Post by: evenhaim on September 07, 2007, 01:49:19 AM
search google for gaint scale Rc there is a competition in france every year, and some of the planes are quite literaly almost full sized