Some great RC footage

NARSES2 · January 30, 2013, 06:40:02 AM

Some nice RC footage here with a nice mix of types

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=zYPag3LuKlA

Hobbes · January 31, 2013, 11:22:21 AM

Thanks for posting this Chris. Wow.
Some of those are big enough to sit in! And that jet-powered glider is hilariously overpowered. Great stuff.

PR19_Kit · January 31, 2013, 11:30:11 AM

And only ONE Spitfire! That makes a nice change for sure.

That Me 323 was seriously impressive to me.

rickshaw · January 31, 2013, 10:22:06 PM

Some of them are big enough to fit a small child in!

The jets are seriously fast. I liked the in cockpit scene from the A400.

They all seem to need to work on their landing technique.

perttime · January 31, 2013, 11:42:29 PM

Quote from: rickshaw on January 31, 2013, 10:22:06 PM
They all seem to need to work on their landing technique.

Looked pretty rough. With a R/C plane, judging your speed, attitude, and exact position over the landing area can be harder than if you were sitting in the plane - especially if you have side wind.

Hobbes · January 31, 2013, 11:56:07 PM

I think those landings are due to the lift:weight ratio, which is much higher for an RC plane than for the real thing. Combine that with a lack of flaps, spoilers, airbrakes and you have a plane that doesn't want to come down.

perttime · February 01, 2013, 12:17:58 AM

R/C planes like in the video usually have all the control surfaces that the "full size" aircraft have too. Flaps, airbrakes, spoilers, you name it. There might be something to the wing loading thing, though. I've seen very smooth landings by good R/C pilots - when conditions are favorable: steady wind straight along the runway.

It seemed to me that in the video they were struggling with some side wind.

PR19_Kit · February 01, 2013, 02:35:26 AM

The big thing missing with an R/C model is inertia.

When you tweak the stick on the Tx (transmitter) the model responds right NOW because there's almost no mass to move about compared to that of the real thing. When you do that in the cockpit of a real aircraft it takes a while for things to happen, even in a fighter like a Typhoon, Rafale or F-16. You can see the lack of intertia in the models in almost all of that vid, when they take-off they leap into the sky like crazy, they turn on a sixpence (OK, a dime or a 5P piece....) and the landings are just an extension of that. It does look as if the runway wasn't aligned with the prevailing wind too, they all landed about 15-20 deg across its line.

Just about the only model there that showed some inertia was the yellow Piper Cub, but the darn thing was about 1/2 scale!

aston · April 24, 2013, 06:23:56 PM

Sorry if it is covered elsewhere here but ..... is there a world of RC whiffery? It would be very interesting to see if some of those flights of imagination would actually fly - though seeing what they do make fly, it looks as though anything can be made to get airborne ..... ?

perttime · April 25, 2013, 08:06:09 AM

Quote from: aston on April 24, 2013, 06:23:56 PM
seeing what they do make fly, it looks as though anything can be made to get airborne ..... ?

Snoopy's doghouse, "lawnmower", ...

PR19_Kit · April 25, 2013, 11:39:37 AM

Quote from: perttime on April 25, 2013, 08:06:09 AM
Quote from: aston on April 24, 2013, 06:23:56 PM
seeing what they do make fly, it looks as though anything can be made to get airborne ..... ?
Snoopy's doghouse, "lawnmower", ...

A friend of mine (also a plastic modeller even if he does stuck to 1/48.....) has been doing those for years. He has allsorts, including both those that perttime mentioned, and they are all great hits at ahows.