RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted September 30, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 30, 2019 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 They crash as realistically as they fly, don't they? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Alex TM Posted September 30, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 30, 2019 I hope the commentator doesn't give up his day job ........ 1 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dungrange Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 At least when our model trains derail, they tend not to end up in a pile of broken bits. It could be an expensive hobby if you were to crash too often. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted September 30, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 30, 2019 (edited) My brother built one; he spent so long building it with so much care that he wouldn't fly it in case he crashed it. PS: he later bought and completely rebuilt a Fowler ploughing engine, with even more care, but he does at least use that one. Edited September 30, 2019 by rab 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted October 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2019 2 hours ago, rab said: PS: he later bought and completely rebuilt a Fowler ploughing engine, with even more care, but he does at least use that one. Does it fly then ? 2 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Quite a few of those have the air of owners whose ability to afford models has significantly outstripped their ability to fly them. Some were unfortunate, but a few seemed to be the result of the sort of rookie error that should have been eliminated by lots of practice with smaller, cheaper, less time consuming and, frankly, less likely to kill bystanders when you cock it up, planes. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kylestrome Posted October 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 1, 2019 10 hours ago, Alex TM said: I hope the commentator doesn't give up his day job ........ But, he was what made me laugh! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyC Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 (edited) The commentator's voice on that video is particularly annoying. There are quite a number of these videos on Youtube, but this one is quite spectacular. Think I'll stick to railways! Edited October 1, 2019 by JeremyC 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted October 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 1, 2019 11 hours ago, Dungrange said: At least when our model trains derail, they tend not to end up in a pile of broken bits. It could be an expensive hobby if you were to crash too often. Having watched a complete train arrive at an open fiddle yard, while the cassette was missing, I'd disagree, the whole lot arrived on a tiled exhibition hall in lots of pieces. Right in front of the guest of honour who'd opened the show a couple of minutes earlier.. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Gravity wins! C6T. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 7 hours ago, PatB said: Quite a few of those have the air of owners whose ability to afford models has significantly outstripped their ability to fly them. Some were unfortunate, but a few seemed to be the result of the sort of rookie error that should have been eliminated by lots of practice with smaller, cheaper, less time consuming and, frankly, less likely to kill bystanders when you cock it up, planes. A chap at a company I used to work at was into R/C aircraft, and he said similar; they may be models, but the principles of flight are exactly the same as with the 'real thing', so you really do need to learn how to fly 'properly', albeit watching a model from the ground, rather than sitting in a real plane. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted October 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2019 I remember going for a walk in Concord Park in Sheffield when I was a lad and seeing a guy with RC helicopter. After watching him set it all up, it got about 10ft in the air before a gust of wind tipped it sideways and it plummeted to the ground. It wasn't going to be flying again anytime soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 I suppose that's the risk with such models. I did hear a story a few years ago about someone spending years building a live steam model boat which sank on it's maiden voyage in a boating lake, never to be seen again. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiles Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Having spent the greater part of my life building and flying R/C planes and helicopters I can only say........been there and have several T-shirts. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted October 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2019 12 hours ago, Classsix T said: Gravity wins! C6T. Gravity sucks... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted October 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 1, 2019 There is no gravity, the Earth sucks. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted October 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2019 Friend of mine from Caerphilly was walking his dog on the mountain some years ago when he came across a chap with a very finely detailed R/C Spitfire, 1/6th scale. This even sounded like a Merlin engined aircraft. It was on it's first test flight, had taken 8 years to build, cost the earth, and was magnificent. It's owner explained that this was it's first test flight and that all he was going to do was see that it could fly straight and level, so a few hundred yards and back. It took off, and instantly flew in a perfect straight line, climbing slowly. It kept going. And going. Still in a dead straight line, climbing slowly. And still going... And as far as my friend knows, it's still going! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Some of those incidents are quite instructive though. The big, twin engined thingy, for example, seems to have been the victim of a classic stall-spin situation, that's killed an awful lot of pilots of full size planes. Tight turn at low speed and low altitude, inner wing stalls because it's travelling slowest, aircraft starts to enter a spin and there's no room to correct and get both wings flying again before hitting the ground. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted October 2, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 2, 2019 On 01/10/2019 at 01:15, chris p bacon said: Does it fly then ? No, but it's a bit more tolerant of mistakes not that he ever makes any, he treats it rather carefully! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted October 2, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 2, 2019 My mate witnessed this - Gas Turbine powered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n63lfsXp998 Cost? The wrong side of 20K, apparently.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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