ORIGINAL: turbofan
ORIGINAL: ZepPilot
Hello
I am trying to find out the world model speed record, I think here would be a good place to start but, now a days, we see gliders doing 232 MPH so Im not sure anymore!
Happy flying..
Zap
Due to the intriguing fact, that R/C jets simply don´t exist for the FAI (see
http://records.fai.org/models/), there does not exist any official world model speed record any more. Not even in the Guinness Book of Records. Therefore, we are forced to go by unofficial and therefore unconfirmed data that can be found on the web.
The highest speed of a model aircraft (i.e. not an UAV built by professionals) about which I have heard so far has been flown at
571 km/h = 355 mph. See
http://www.hessenbruch.de/niels/ (in German).
Peter
Interestingly, if you go check the FAI records the top speed for a glider is, if I remember correctly, well under 200 mph, yet over 20 years ago some one made a claim of something over 260 mph and tried to claim the FAI record. Goes to show the claims you hear do not always measure up to the truth when they are measured carefully.
Steven