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[link=http://www.scalerchelis.com/forum/index.php?&act=ST&f=17&t=2382]B-52 Turbine RC[/link]

There are also some videos of this beast. OMG the money invested in that bad boy.

That's serious stuff. How does he transport that beast? It would look a tad silly on the top of my little car.

I would be scared to fly it anyway. We would need a special licence for something that size over here.

There is a 50 second flight video of it on that thread I linked to. Its really REALLY impressive, and sounds out of this world.

That is seriously Bok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holly crap! I bet the money he spent on that, you could buy a pretty decent new car. I know thoes engines are about $2000 each and he's got 8 of em.  :o

How does he transport that beast? It would look a tad silly on the top of my little car.

A lot of people with the big birds use the U-haul style trailers attatched to the back of their cars. It probably comes apart too.

Sweet God...at what point does one need a license to fly these things?  lol

A small child could ride that monster.

[link=http://www.scalerchelis.com/albums/album129/B52_Flight_1.wmv]50 sec video in WMV Format[/link]

Awesome stuff

If there were some suitable mini-nukes for it,I'd order one immediately.

I have a pic somewhere, of Wendy standing beside an 18  foot long Concorde....with four turbines, .....engine price was about $5000 CDN at the time.....model had droop nose with visor and scale landing gear, I believe.

awesome plane, great video  :o  ;D

impressive!!! during taxiing it goes a bit too fast to be realistic, but in the take off video, you can hardly see it's 'just' a model.

the world champion of building/flying RC models is my flight instructor...i have to show this to him!  ;)

Now thats really getting serious. I can't even imagine to think of putting a price on that.
He must have insurance, and boy I wonder how much that would cost.
A multimillionaires toy perhaps. What about if the engines failed in the air and it crashes into some house?
I'd be far to scared to touch that.

Ben

[link=http://www.scalerchelis.com/albums/album129/B52_Flight_1.wmv]50 sec video in WMV Format[/link]

Awesome stuff

Ditto - I can see where that model can be used in a movie!  To the uninitiated, without knowing such, it could pass "as the real thing".

http://www.wren-turbines.com/pictures_planes.htm

Has more shots of the thing, and a few other nice things (Scale turboprop, a turbine driven helicopter)

Wow! And I the rc A330 I saw a few weeks ago was big(it was 12 times the size of my largest rc plane )! I'm inclined to think that there were better uses for the money that went into that But without foolery life would be dull.