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Chocks away for world's biggest model aircraft ... shame £8,000 B-50 bomber can only fly for 8min
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^
| April 21, 2010
Posted on 04/21/2010 9:41:57 AM PDT by Stoat
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To: Stoat
That was a pleasant ten minute diversion from the rat-race. Thanks Stoat!
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posted on
04/21/2010 10:00:11 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Stoat
Dorfmann approves this thread.
To: Stoat
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posted on
04/21/2010 11:16:25 AM PDT
by
El Sordo
(The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
To: GeronL; KMG365; corkoman; Joe 6-pack; IYAS9YAS; RobRoy; DuncanWaring; rockrr; All
I'm delighted that you've found it to be worthwhile :-)
This may also be of interest:
The largest electric model in the world - Tony Nijhuis Boeing B50
As with my 12' Lancaster, the B-50 will have an on-board engine sound syste. Thomas Benedini has mixed a 4-engined Pratt & Whittney true sound and it sounds superb....The sound will be amplifier by two 200watt power amplifier driving six 50-watt so some serious but true scale noise will be heard.
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WOW! All he needs to add are some Lynx Jet stewardesses and he'll be all set.....
YouTube - LYNX JET
YouTube - Lynx Jet
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posted on
04/21/2010 11:18:46 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
04/21/2010 11:19:16 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Live jubtabulously!)
To: Stoat
I confess I would LOVE to see a B-38 model. I remember as a kid living near Larsen AFB in the late 50’s and early 60’s I’d see those things at high altitude. They looked like little silver crosses in the sky.
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posted on
04/21/2010 11:27:18 AM PDT
by
RobRoy
(The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
To: zot
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posted on
04/21/2010 12:09:29 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: corkoman
Sneaky War Dept guys looking to extend procurement of the cancelled B-29 by calling the upgraded B-29 a new aircraft. That's about right. The B-29 was rushed into production and had a lot of bugs that what became the B-50 was designed to fix. Passing it off as a 'new' design was fairly harmless, as we needed something to bridge the gap until the new jet bombers came on line and actually building a new design would have been a waste of time.
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posted on
04/21/2010 12:14:51 PM PDT
by
Grut
To: GreyFriar
Thanks for the ping. That was a lot of work.
Also, check out the link at Post # 11.
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:59:32 PM PDT
by
zot
To: Stoat
It took Mr Nijhuis, from Hastings, East Sussex, two years to make the radio-controlled plane that he calls the 'jolly green giant' and cost him £8,000. (batteries not included)
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posted on
04/21/2010 2:50:30 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(great thing about being a cynic: you can enjoy being proved wrong)
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