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May 26^th, 2004 at 12:41pm

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B-52 Turbine RC

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

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Reply #1 - May 26^th, 2004 at 1:18pm

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That's serious stuff. Shocked

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

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

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Reply #2 - May 26^th, 2004 at 1:20pm

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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.

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Reply #3 - May 26^th, 2004 at 2:04pm

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

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Reply #4 - May 26^th, 2004 at 2:51pm

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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. Shocked

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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.

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Reply #5 - May 26^th, 2004 at 3:07pm

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

A small child could ride that monster.

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Reply #6 - May 26^th, 2004 at 3:21pm

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50 sec video in WMV Format

Awesome stuff

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Reply #7 - May 26^th, 2004 at 4:12pm

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

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Reply #8 - May 26^th, 2004 at 9:07pm

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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.

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Reply #9 - May 26^th, 2004 at 11:42pm

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awesome plane, great video Shocked

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Reply #10 - May 27^th, 2004 at 6:27am

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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.

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Reply #11 - May 27^th, 2004 at 6:40am

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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. Roll Eyes

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.

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Reply #12 - May 27^th, 2004 at 7:25am

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50 sec video in WMV Format

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".

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Reply #13 - May 30^th, 2004 at 5:40am

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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)

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Reply #14 - Jun 2^nd, 2004 at 2:55pm

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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 Shocked

)! I'm inclined to think that there were better uses for the money that went into that Grin

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