Terbough Bob

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So we're all flying scale models of real airplanes around... has anyone thought about scaling up a model to be large enough to sit in and fly? Something like maybe a Rascal scaled up to a 35' wingspan, or a Super Sportster bipe scaled up to a 20-25' span? Maybe a Dualist with a couple O360's, or maybe a a Hotts scaled up?

Aerodynamically speaking, how would these things fly?

simmo8

LOL i have thaught about it many many times lol i think it would be easier to go buy a cessna 152 and a bunch of servos a few good radio systems and hope for the best lol but that would be AWSOME. would it be leagle to sit inside with your TX on your lap and take off LOL HAHA ??i duno lol

Terbough Bob

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No man, I'm not talking about a 35' span RC plane... I mean scale them up so you can actually sit in them and fly them.

simmo8

lol yeahh i no wat ur gettin at lol that would be crazzyyy funn

im getting ideas now lol

i dont think they would fly any diferent to the real thing because it basicley is the real thing lol

Campgems

A couple planes come to mind one is the Cri Cri

http://frederic.secchi.free.fr/PHP/i...?/category/368

The other is the Beach Boy,
http://www.arkiesairplans.com/A-17R.html

Neither of these had a wing span of 35 ft, more likely less that 20 ft. Both are human piloted. The Cri Cri is aerobatic. There is even one that is jet owered.

Don

Campgems

Here is a better link for the Beach Boy

http://www.arkiesairplans.com/beachboy.html

Don

BMatthews

The outlines would likely fly just fine. However the materials and building methods would be both too heavy and too weak all at the same time. There's a reason why full sized structures are greatly different from what we use in models.

Also if you scale up a lot of models you'll find that the fuselage is still only big enough to get a 7 year old to fit. This is why so many scale models of full sized planes look like they have way too fat a fuselage by model standards.

Brokenprop

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Think I read the Ultimate Bipe was developed as an R/C model and then scaled up to full size after the performance was what they wanted.

simmo8

wow now that is interesting cool
im gona wikipedia that up :-)

w8ye

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The old light planes like the Piper J-3 Cub and Aeronca Champ as well many others are a lot like a model airplane when you completely rebuild one.

Hang out with someone recovering one of these at the local airport. You will be pleased.

TFF

For years I have threatened to make a full scale Ugly Stick so everyone would have a scale plane! Top Gun won by an Ugly Stick!

Rodney

A great many of Burt Rutan's designs started out as models. He was an avid modeler and often proved his theorys with his models.

Jim_Purcha

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Ugly Stick. Speaking of Phil Kraft. There was little difference between Phil Kraft's full scale Super Fli and the model.