RC Aircraft...The big ones...

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Very impressive...and there are lots of them. Here are three RC F-104 Starfighters in Germany doing an Airshow. I was fortunate to see a real Italian Air Force F-104 doing a low level strafing run to kick off a NATO Exercise... right over my head...pretty cool.

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Those are some high dollar toys there. I fly radio control planes, helicopters, quads/drones. Race radio control trucks. Turbines are awesome but very expensive. I will stick to my prop driven planes. Not as fast but 110-125 mph fast enough for me. For where I fly at. I just enjoy flying

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Looks like a whole lot more fun that flying a drone around. Those have got to be expensive. I'd be afraid of crashing! Nice choice on the sound track, by the way.
 
INCREDIBLE! They're so fast I'd be scared to death of loosing one in the clouds and having it fly out of radio range. That would be bad.
 
That was BEAUTIFUL.......

shouldazagged said:
Love that B17G.

Some very nice flying of the Starfighters, especially the solo plane.

All the big RC aircraft fascinate me.
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Those planes were handled like the Thunderbirds doing an air show. It's amazing how well those those fly. The real thing could but it looks like lower speeds would be tough to stay in the air. They didn't look like they were struggling one bit. Nice flying planes.
 
rwsmith said:
How in the world does a pilot control that stealth job without the computer and software controls?He must be REALLY busy at those controls. I guess Kelly Johnson's Flying Wings were flyable, just unstable.
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Wrong genius. :p

The flying wings came from the fertile mind of John (Jack) K. Northrup. He's the one behind the American efforts at the flying wing. He designed and built the N-1M, N-9M, YB-35 and YB-49 aircraft. Of them all, only the N-1M and one of the N-9M aircraft still survive.
 
This is at a rc event couple years ago, not me flying but this is the type of planes I fly. You can expect to have about 3000-4000 in a plane like this if you buy it all brand new. I like to buy used and get better deals I just purchased plane in picture for $300 new everything would been about $1000 it's 6 ft long and 74 inch wingspan

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