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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Buckaroo on February 04, 2012, 02:21:34 PM

Title: RC B-29 with a Friend Along (video)
Post by: Buckaroo on February 04, 2012, 02:21:34 PM

Watch the entire video---cool stuff!

http://users.skynet.be/fa926657/files/B29.wmv

4 engines are supposed to be chainsaw motors.

I doubt HiTech will allow an X1 to play with, maybe the training arena?

Title: Re: RC B-29 with a Friend Along (video)
Post by: cobia38 on February 04, 2012, 03:11:54 PM

 
 now thats the most worthy thing i have seen all day on the net  :cheers:

Title: Re: RC B-29 with a Friend Along (video)
Post by: earl1937 on February 06, 2012, 02:30:24 PM

Quote from: Buckaroo on February 04, 2012, 02:21:34 PM

Watch the entire video---cool stuff!

http://users.skynet.be/fa926657/files/B29.wmv

4 engines are supposed to be chainsaw motors.

I doubt HiTech will allow an X1 to play with, maybe the training arena?

In case anyone has forgotten, or didn't know, the X-1 was the first aircraft to break the sound barrier and was flown by "Chuck" Yeager, and was indeed carried aloft by a B-29 over the Mojav desert. This is a fine RC example of that famous flight, including the rocket engine in the X-1!!

Title: Re: RC B-29 with a Friend Along (video)
Post by: Ack-Ack on February 06, 2012, 02:52:13 PM

Quote from: earl1937 on February 06, 2012, 02:30:24 PM

In case anyone has forgotten, or didn't know, the X-1 was the first aircraft to break the sound barrier and was flown by "Chuck" Yeager, and was indeed carried aloft by a B-29 over the Mojav desert. This is a fine RC example of that famous flight, including the rocket engine in the X-1!!

Chuck Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier was the first "official" flight to break the sound barrier when he did it on 10/14/1947.  However, North American test pilot George Welch "unofficially" broke the sound barrier a couple of weeks earlier during a test flight when he dove the XP-86 and broke the sound barrier.

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