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A flying boat

Postby Madcat » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:07 pm

My old man sent me this link and I rolled!!! And it was not what I thought it would be.

http://www.graupner.de/fileadmin/images/hydroplane/HydroPlane_A.wmv this is for media player

http://www.hobby-lobby.com/media/GR9556-HydroPlane.rm this is for real player
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Re: A flying boat

Postby Felix/FFDS » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:14 pm

VERY interesting model!
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Re: A flying boat

Postby Hagar » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:39 am

Neat. ;)
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Re: A flying boat

Postby littleport2003 » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:36 pm

ahh, those thinks have been around for years, there called hydrofoams, do a quick google.
Now the thing you want to look at is the flying lawnmower (skycutter)!
http://www.3d-nut.com/videos/skycutter40.wmv
http://www.flyingthingz.com/
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Re: A flying boat

Postby Cobra » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:24 pm

Looks cool, how can it flip like that without loosing any altitude??? Amazing pilot!
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Postby Scorpiоn » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:44 pm

ahh, those thinks have been around for years, there called hydrofoams, do a quick google.
Now the thing you want to look at is the flying lawnmower (skycutter)!
http://www.3d-nut.com/videos/skycutter40.wmv
http://www.flyingthingz.com/

Oh man, how I would love to fly that little thing around the neighborhood.  Talk about some flipped out neighbors!
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