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Very entertianing giant scale F-104 flight


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Guest Smitty44

I used to build and fly balsa gliders. It just hurt too much to watch one of those things pile into the ground after so many hours of work. I used to use a high start, which is a long bungee cord staked into the ground on one end and a hook on the other that attached to the glider. You pull it back and shazaam off you go. Well once my glider did not disconnect so not only did the cord pull it straight into the ground it drug it about 30 yards leaving a trail of wreckage all the way. All I got back on the cord was the hook from the glider and a small section of plywood reinforced balsa.  The humanity!

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Honestly, you NEED R/C ships that fast to be THAT big! 1/4 scale R/C ducted fans and pulse jets are SO fast that they get out of sight before you know what happened.

 

Really cool to see in the air!

Pulse jets in RC? I saw them ages ago in control line speed. They were unbelievably loud. Never saw a pulse jet RC, though I think it's been done a time or two.

 

Ducted fans are almost gone except for electrics, which tend to be the smaller ones. They are fast but not tremendously so.

 

RC jets nowadays are exactly that: genuine turbojets. And, yes, they get out of sight in a hurry.

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