Posted on 04/21/2010 9:41:57 AM PDT by Stoat
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The Boeing B-50 bomber is so big it holds the title as the world's largest electric model aircraft, It is classified as a light aircraft and is licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority.
Built by Tony Nijhuis in his garage the aircraft is a scale version of the US bomber and has a 20ft wingspan and weighs just over seven stones.
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.
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t has 96 batteries that power four electric motors which drive the aircraft to 40mph along a 50m runway before it takes off. It can then fly for eight minutes in the air before it has to descend so the batteries can be recharged. Made from balsa wood and plywood, the plane also has workable bomb bay doors and pneumatic landing gear.
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'It weighs just over 100lb and is powered by four, four kilowatt electric motors and each motor has 24 batteries powering it. The propellers have a 2ft diameter.
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Built by Tony Nijhuis in his garage the aircraft is a scale version of the US bomber and has a 20ft wingspan and weighs just over seven stones
It has 96 batteries that power four electric motors which drive the aircraft to 40mph along a 50m runway before it takes off
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7. (plural stone orstones) U.K. measurements unit of weight: in the United Kingdom, a unit of weight equivalent to 6.35 kg (14 lb). It is used especially for expressing somebody's weight.
He's trying to get down to 12 stone.
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That my be why the real things use avgas IC engines and APUs.
That is really cool.
Awesome
The Large Model Association (LMA) is based in the UK. Its members are interested in the designing, building and flying of large model aircraft.
It is the Daily Mail’s requirement to be excepted.
Sneaky War Dept guys looking to extend procurement of the cancelled B-29 by calling the upgraded B-29 a new aircraft.
Or so says Wikipedia and I dont trust them very much.
Someone needs a girlfriend.
The first model airplane I tried to broke into several chunks about 5 seconds after launch (which way is up?). I still find pieces of it more than three years later. Thankfully, it was one of those electric motor styrofoam jobbies that was under $100 bucks. My dad augered his much more expensive model into a wheat field at full throttle. Poor pilot was decapitated by the wing and the plane was buried up to the cockpit. It took us nearly an hour to find it. I finally spotted what was left of the tail and rudder assembly sticking up above the wheat.
Boring.
Go to YouTube and type in B-29 model. There is a HUGE one out there as well as one that launches an actual rocket propelled X-1 controlled by a separate pilot.
Actually, YouTube has an amazing number of model airplane and Model Helicopter videos.
...except the B-29’s are not electric. They are actual gas powered. The “smaller” one actually has four blade props just like the real thing. The larger one is so big that they said the four blade thing would not work and they had to go with two blades. It may be why this B-50 has two bladed props as well.
Oops. I see you are ahead of the curve on this... ;)
“Among the injured were.........”
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