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Toronto Electric Model Aviation Club (TEMAC) => General Discussion => Topic started by: Michael on December 20, 2016, 10:44:00 AM

Title: Gigantic indoor airliner
Post by: Michael on December 20, 2016, 10:44:00 AM
Wait until the end of the video to see just how large this model is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kk5EGpYuck

Title: Re: Gigantic indoor airliner
Post by: piker on December 20, 2016, 01:00:10 PM
That's very cool.  And probably the closest to scale airspeed I've seen...
Title: Re: Gigantic indoor airliner
Post by: Candu on December 20, 2016, 03:01:21 PM
Cool. That's the type of flying speed I enjoy,
Title: Re: Gigantic indoor airliner
Post by: BJROB on December 20, 2016, 04:33:46 PM
Wow that was so cool.
it was still flying even after it hit the pole..... :-\
I think I need that plane...
Title: Re: Gigantic indoor airliner
Post by: Ededge2002 on December 20, 2016, 11:14:03 PM
the debate of if this is an airplane or a blimp starts now!
Title: Re: Gigantic indoor airliner
Post by: deltawing on December 20, 2016, 11:33:46 PM
This balloon Air Bus is cool.
I think this one is a bit more challenge to scratch build. I love the shark one.

https://youtu.be/HaQ6VH2DB58 (https://youtu.be/HaQ6VH2DB58)
Title: Re: Gigantic indoor airliner
Post by: deltawing on December 21, 2016, 12:46:22 AM
If you want to see excellency, how about this Yak-130 jet.

https://youtu.be/BzHZfujKbHA?t=20

Title: Re: Gigantic indoor airliner
Post by: piker on December 21, 2016, 01:30:50 PM
Quote from: Ededge2002 on December 20, 2016, 11:14:03 PM
the debate of if this is an airplane or a blimp starts now!

For sure a blimp, but it looks cool  :)
Title: Re: Gigantic indoor airliner
Post by: pmackenzie on December 23, 2016, 11:17:36 AM
I don't think it is a blimp. :)
It is not lighter than air and flies on the lift from the wings.

They might be reducing the weight by filling the fuse with something lighter than air :)

There was an earlier smaller one of these by Martin Mueller (inventor of the shock flyer and indoor aerobatic flying as we know it) that flew both with air or helium filling it.
Just flew slower when filled with helium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvs5WYYlw_8

At the end of the video in the first post it looks like it might be Martin Miller who is flying this new bigger one. Hard to tell because there is only a brief shot of him from the side.

Pat MacKenzie
Title: Re: Gigantic indoor airliner
Post by: piker on December 23, 2016, 10:28:35 PM
Hmmm...  I agree.  After I made my firm statement above, I thought about the "lighter than air", or at least neutral buoyancy, aspect of a blimp. As you say Pat, even though it's VERY light, it's still flying on the wing.

Airplane!   ;D
Title: Re: Gigantic indoor airliner
Post by: Ededge2002 on December 30, 2016, 12:33:27 AM
http://tinyurl.com/h3urypw

It weighed a couple grams but there was a lot of air movement in that room!