ARF or FULLSCALE?

Which is which?

(took these both today, one is my ARF and one is a real cessna, both at the same airport.)

I gotta say they look real close. Nice pics btw.
But the arf is..........the red.
Just because you can make out the antenna from the body to the top of the rudder.
Very nice looking bird. BG

The blue one is the 1-1 scale the red one is the ARF. It was easy. Don't make me say how I could tell.

Both rc.

If one of them is full scale you got some mighty big trees in New Jersey

The one on the left is the real deal.... nice try though.


Manufacturer: Cessna
Model: 172P
Year built: 1981
Serial Number (C/N): 17274945
Mode S Code: 51561350
Aircraft Type: Fixed wing single engine
Amateur-Built: No
Number of Seats: 4
Number of Engines: 1
Engine Type: Reciprocating
Engine Manufacturer and Model: Lycoming 0-320 SERIES

Registration Type: Co-Owned
Address: 4 Karen Pl
Budd Lake, NJ 07828-1014
United States
Region: Eastern

Certification Class: Standard
Certification Issued: 2002-06-18
Air Worthiness Test: 1981-05-01
Last Action Taken: 2004-08-31

The blue one is full scale, landing on the runway in the background.

The red one is the GP 182 ARF, landing on the tarmac taxiway in the foreground.

Easy ways to tell, are the antenna, the hole for the rocker cover on the OS .52, the glow plug hole.

Here's the proof:

That was easy.Do you know of anyone who builds a 172 arf? I only know of the 182.

I'm with you.

The runway is too wide for the blue model to be full scale, unless it is going to land in the weeds.

As pointed out, the red model's receiver antenna is visible.

As I said earlier if the blue one in the first pic is full scale there is something wrong with the picture. The airplane is much too small in comparison with everything else in the picture. Call in CSI

The blue one had dirty wheels.....

Jerry

PS VERY nice pics by the way!

And if your letting your daughter (?) fly the ARF....Well your crazier then I am.....And thats alright in my book!!!

No need for CSI, just look more closely.

The 172 is not yet quite over the runway. You can see the runway in the right side of the photo, the 172 is about to come over the numbers. The runway is not in the foreground, it's about 200 feet away in the background.

The foreground of the picture is the taxiway/tiedown tarmac where we fly the models from. Not the runway.

By the way, this was completely accidental. I shot the pics of the 172 landing from a distance. Then my wife later shot the pic of my 182 next to me at the flight line. Looking at the pictures later, it was just pure luck that the two were so similar.

The red one looks like an ARF. (you can't see any epoxy fingerprints on the monokote.

Lot's more to that comment than the non-fullscale people might realize...

And then there's Countryboy digging out the "N" number for the FAA data...

But the first thing that caught my eye was the cowl cutout and no flaps down on the 182 landing. While you've done a nice job on the model and it does have flaps, one doesn't usually land a 182 without flaps unless there's some sort of problem.

Great pics tho!

Nice pic of you holding your Tx.

Who's the ugly guy with you?

Teaching her to fly: you are one cool dad! Keep it up kid.