Large 747
 

Check this out guys
Wow
http://www.michel-concorde.de/milh001.htm

RE: Large 747
 

Scale Jr
Do you know If It's flyable ? power source ?
Semper Fi
Joe

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Wow.

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There are some pictures of it flying on the same site:

http://www.michel-concorde.de

It states it is powered by 4 x Sky-Pipe N80 below is the rest of the info (sorry don't know German)

Typ: Boeing 747-400
Masstab: 1 : 16
Länge: 498 cm
Spannweite: 450 cm
Höhe: 155 cm
Gewicht: ca. 60 kg
Triebwerke: 4 x Sky-Pipe N80
Lackierung: Lufthansa
Sonderzulassung am 02. Juli 2003 erhalten.


Turbulence

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Hello!

Well, it flys great. I saw him flying at the recent Jetpower event here in germany. It is really stunning. And he build it in 1 year I think. The big Concorde for two 80N turbines he designed will be available fully molded in the near future. Let me translate the technicals:

Typ: Boeing 747-400
Scale: 1:16
length: 196 inch
Span: 177 inch
height: 61 inch
weight 60kg (approx. 140 lbs)
power-plant: 4x Skypipe with 80N thrust

peter has a special waiver to fly this big sucker. If the planes are over 25 kg (55 lbs?) and under 130kg you need a licence to fly them and the modell is checked before it gets registrated (as real planes..). They have to fly two times the same pattern to see if it was luck or skill :D

Best regards,

David

RE: Large 747
 

This guy is freekin awesome!!!!!!

If you haven't, check the website above...

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This is the same guy that lost the big Airbus at Top Gun 2001, isnt it?
Why exactly did it crash. I've heard that it was because of the crosswind at the Polo grounds, but i've also heard diferent.
Rusty

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Check out this image

I can hear it from here!!!

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I was there taking part in 2001 and saw it first hand. (got it on video too)

The Airbus was powered by 2 turbines. It was on finals to the polo field comming in over the trees beside the BIG flag pole.

Low airspeed (as it was on finals) combined with the fact that the left hand turbine had just gone silent, ment that it yaw'ed left when the pilot applied a bit of power to clear the trees. Rudder was applied right, but as it is not in the airflow of the LIT turbine the enevitable happened . . . . . . . CRUNCH.

Was a lovely model and a sad loss.:(

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AMA would have a conniption.....

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Yeah - that's probably part of the reason why Reggie hasn't converted his 747 to turbine power... he has one that is bigger that the one seen here - he's got it in a hangar up at Palo Alto if I recall correctly.

Gordon

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The next time germany having a big airshow i will be there. The usa model airshow have nothing compary to you guys

I love those big models

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What a beautiful job. Would like to see it fly in person.
I had to check my video archives to see if this plane was the same or not.
It isn't but hope you enjoy the show.

[link=http://www.cloud9aircraft.com/landing.mpg]Landing[/link]

RE: Large 747
 

hehe...who needs an arrestor hook aslong as there are bystanders :-)

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I've seen that video far too many times.

I think that the 747 that this thread concentrates on is quite a bit larger and a lot more heavy. If the 747 in the video were this one, that guy would be toast.

Nice sense of humor SJN
Rusty