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I wanna see pics of the weirdest planes you guys have built AND FLOWN! i think landing safe is a must to, but if it didnt fly, crash pics are good No real reason, just for my own perverse pleasure lol a couple of pics to get you going, first a Astron......
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This one wasn't too crazy, but was a good use for some stuff I had laying around.
Fuselage was a simple "lost foam" method fiberglass shell, wings were from a previous pattern plane, vertical fin was sticks, sheeted, and power was an OS .40 Control was via elevons, rudder, and throttle.
It had a fun, but brief career. (My first scratch-built flying wing design)
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i like that i got a pair of delta wings im thinking of doing a SU-27 mvvs 40 pusher, mid mounted sommit thing with.......
KEEP THEM COMMING
also if you've built planes from films, i'm gonna go find a pic of a plane a club member has built from the film Things To Come
There it is, shame hes holding it like that, its got a gull wing shape, power is 2 540 motors and 2 480's, all on for lift off, and just the 480s for crusing
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And i HAD to add this, again from out club, this is Dan's (aka Cartman) $h*tHopper, think it was a limbo dancer rib, reduced to the tips, we aero towed it till we couldnt see it then droped it, it survived 2 of these drops lol And if you goto the correx fun page on this site [url]www.rcflyers.fsnet.co.uk[/url] you'll see his attempt at a combat delta
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Here's my disk. I have a ball flying this thing. It is the easiest hovering plane I have ever seen. I can barely hover my GP Giles and my wasp. This thing lets me hover out a tankful if I want to without any problem. It also does some of the strangest maneuvers I've ever seen. The coolest trick is a 45 degree nose high spin/piroette. It hangs and spins with the center of rotation at the prop. When I first started flying it, it went lean in a hover about a foot off the ground. It sagged and sat down square on it's tail and stayed there. I shut down the engine and went out to pick it up. I got a round of applause from the pits. They thought I did it intentionally. I haven't been able to do it again since then. I've gotten it to sit down but I can't get it to stay. It usually falls over one way or the other. It's also the cheapest plane I have ever had. About 8 bucks for the coroplast and a couple for the ply inner cradle. Later,,,basmntdweller
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Ok here's another Ninja Star. I framed it up and my friend Chris talked me out of it and finished it. I figured if he can fly an MD-80 for Alaska Airlines he can handle this one!!
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Dons site was great, seen all the flying witch, panda bear, superman, lawnmower. Now if only i could get a pic of the thing on BBC's Tomorows World that had a rotor wing, now that did look like a lawn mower think i'll go have a look in a mo.
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