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This page was last updated on 06/26/2007 |
| Radio controlled flight has come a very long way in the last few years, with jet engines and composite materials replacing glow plugs and balsa wood, and prices matching -- or exceeding -- the cost of full-sized aircraft. |
| 747 Indoors! A remarkable video of a large-scale electric Boeing 747 being flown indoors -- in a none-too-big warehouse. |
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Airbus -- The R/C Version It's amazing what they can do with those little jet engines... It sure LOOKS like the new super-jumbo A-380! |
| B-24 Liberator Crash Heart-breaking video of a beautiful, giant-scale B-24 entering an uncommanded bank and crashing. |
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B-29 and the Bell X-1 An R/C reenactment of Chuck Yeager's famous flight. After release the SuperFortress does some maneuvers that the Boeing version never attempted, I suspect!
(A note from the contributor of this video: "This is Mac Hodges big B-29. He owns a hobby shop in Americus, Georgia. He, and his friend who built this beast, travel around the country attending radio control shows and put on an amazing show.") |
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B-52 Test Flight -- The R/C Version This isn't as lame as it sounds. This radio-controlled Stratofortress has 8 REAL jet engines, and is nearly big enough to carry a passenger! This is an early (and successful) test flight of this awesome radio-controlled bomber. (Click here and here to see close-up pictures of the tiny-but-real jet engines that powered this incredible aircraft.)
For more information about this amazing R/C aircraft, click here. |
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B-52 Crash -- The R/C Version The crash itself is eerily similar to the "real" one, depicted in the Military section, below.
For information provided by Paul Metcalf about this crash, click here. |
| Bad-to-the-Bone R/C 'Copter Just when you thought you've seen everything, someone puts guns (real, big ones!) on an R/C helicopter. Don't mess with these guys! (They're for real, by the way. See more at www.MetalStorm.com) |
| Bird Attack! Set to music, this video shows what happens when an R/C plane invades a large bird's territory. Contributed by Scott Poelstra. |
| BiPlane Crash Anyone who has ever crashed an R/C plane knows the stunned silence that follows the crash. This video depicts the agony in living color. |
| Concorde Flies Again! -- The R/C Version This keeps getting better and better. Little jet engines + a large scale Concorde model + Lots of $$$ = an AWESOME flight... |
| New 11/27/06 Dewoitine 510 A lovely video of an R/C Dewoitine 510. It has a wingspan of 2.2 meters, weighs 4.7 kilograms, and has a 15 cc motor. The Dewoitine D.510 was the latest of the D-500 series of all-metal open cockpit fixed-undercarriage monoplane fighters used by the Armée de l'Air in the 1930's. Designed by Emile Dewoitine, it was based on specifications issued in 1930 by the air ministry, and was to be a replacement for the Nieuport 62. The prototype first flew on June 18, 1932. Kindly contributed Serge Londero. |
| Dog Chasing Plane! I didn't know you could put video cameras on such small planes -- but the second half of this video shows the pilot teasing his dog by hover-flying his R/C plane *just* out of reach. |
| F-14 Tomcat -- The R/C Version It was only matter of time, I suppose, but this radio-controlled Top Gun clone is remarkable... |
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F-102 Explosion -- The R/C Version This video shows what everyone *thought* was an F-102 R/C model (actually, some folks said it was a Mirage III, some called it an Israeli Kfir) exploding in mid-air after colliding with power lines. Read on...
Contributed by Ed Rapoza: "First I want to say I really enjoy your site. I have been a fan for over a year now. I am an avid R/C pilot and have flown for about 10 years. I currently fly turbine powered model jets and am very familiar with this video. This is not actually an F-102, it is a plane modeled after the Eurofighter called a Eurosport." "Most model jets that use turbine engines have an FOD screen in front of them to protect from foreign objects from being sucked into the turbine. In this instance the FOD screen itself came loose and was sucked into the engine resulting in a "flame out". You can see when this happens by the short burst of flame that comes out of the tail just before the plane goes vertical. The loss of power caused the plane to glide a little to close to some high voltage power lines and, well, you can see what happened." |
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Flying Witch! Yes, it's a flying witch that flew during "Spadfest", an R/C event held annually at Chanute Air Museum in Rantoul, IL.
No, we don't know why they did it... |
| Mowing the Lawn Most people have difficulty hovering an R/C helicopter. Watch this video to see why Alan Szabo is the absolute, undisputed champion of R/C helicopter aerobatics. |
| Off We Go! Into the wild blue yonder. This artfully edited black & white video sure LOOKS like a real P-51 -- but it's all R/C. Contributed by Scott Poelstra. |
| P-47 Crash A beautiful P-47 R/C model impacts the runway. |
| R/C Crashes This video shows those incredible R/C jet fighters -- all crashing. At $3K apiece for the engines alone, we stopped counting at $70,000 worth of damage -- and this was all supposedly shot at a single meet in South Africa! (This is a huge file, so be patient.) |
| R/C Skydiver! Now THIS is different! Watch as a remote controlled, 1/4-scale replica skydiver is dropped from a standard .60 size Thunder Tiger R/C trainer! The body of the skydiver is composite fiberglass and special plastics for the arms, which move like the real thing. |
| Sailplane Diving Into Slope Lift This video shows an R/C sailplane flying into slope lift generated by a ridge next to a reservoir near Omaha, Nebraska. |
| Spectacular Flight Demo Yet another unbelievable demonstration of radio-controlled flight. |
| Unbelievable! This remarkable display of indoor, electric-powered flight must be seen to be believed! For those who can read German, see more at the website, http://www.mamo-models.com/ |
| Unbelievable II Another video of this same pilot (see "Unbelievable", above) flying his electric-powered R/C aircraft in a routine that appears to be aerodynamically impossible. |
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