You can find many videos of a 1/3 scale B-17 undergoing taxi tests. Yes they are incredible, but I want to fly so the RC has no appeal to me. Several times the local RC club guys would come at to my gliderport for some real flying when it was not right conditions to fly the RC. It always amazed me (I have never flown R/C) that these guys always thought they were pilots and flying a real aircraft would be just like the R/C. I usually went about my own business then, have no idea if they are right, but I suspect real pilotage is much different that R/C.




On Friday, October 28, 2016 at 3:11:56 PM UTC-7, Craig Funston wrote:
On Friday, October 28, 2016 at 2:29:40 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Friday, October 28, 2016 at 6:19:14 AM UTC-7, Burt Compton - Marfa Gliders, west Texas wrote:
See it fly:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/vOy_RnaymL0

amazing what those scale modelers are doing these days!

It's pretty impressive, but design is easier when you don't have to carry around a 70 kg lump of meat. :-)

Craig