Two of these just flew over me---I'm in the far north, which has fires every summer. They have a dragonfly appearance--- don't look as though they could hold any water, so the capacity is a surprise.
They are such amazing Aircraft and very popular in the firefighting world. You can imagine all that weight put to the front of the Aircraft how precise the weight and balance must be to climb out with all that water at the front. Thanks for watching my video.
Yeah, I don’t think it would take much. Pretty large control surfaces and a powerful Jet engine. Add the power to weight ratio and I think that is why it’s such a manoeuvrable Jet. Thanks for watching my video.
@@BeSnappy Sounds about right! A Year ago, I was working near the Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland and me and my coworkers saw two F/A 18's fly overhead. Later that day I went to a Starbucks not far from the base's main entrance to get a coffee and saw a man in a pilot's uniform. I introduced myself and I asked him what he flies (my opportunity). He told me he usually flies the P-8 Poseidon, but on that day it was his first time flying the F18. He was smiling from ear to ear. I told him I saw two F18 flying hours earlier and it turned out to be him. Crazy! He said the F-18 is easy to fly and doesn't need much persuasion to rotate due to its auto trim for 1G flight. Thought I share that and thanks for sharing your video.
From a military standpoint, this could be done with a proper manufacturing line for about double the price with the right anti-EW. It flies almost as fast as an A-10's top speed of 420mph, as-is with a single turibine. I am confident it could carry legitimate ordnance and aux fuel tanks that could double as a guided mortar, or GPS for joint-strikes on the ground. Spamming these would be worth it for how many could could build for $45,000,000.
nice take off great job on the build and wonderful pilot skills but then again i would expect nothing less when the plane cost is $25,000. though there is the occasional RU-vidr that knows nothing and builds a expensive jet or has it built for him only to crash it 30 seconds into the flight lol. glad that was not the case here! awesome job!
@@BeSnappy it's faster than most modern helicopters too and put that next to an A-10 I kinda wanna see who's faster since the A-10 isn't a fast jet since it's primary roll is ground support
Cool thing is I have seen these aircraft in first person I was stationed on a USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 for 5 years I know the armerment systems of this aircraft inside and out the Super Hornets are even cooler
Sounds like you know the Aircraft well! I’m sure you would be impressed if you saw one of these flying based on all of your knowledge on the aircraft carrier. Apparently there are some faster RC aircraft around, which I’m sure it would be on RU-vid somewhere. Thanks again for watching.
I used to be heavily into RC flying but now can never justify the embarrassing cost for the return. These days I'd rather put aside $25k towards zero timing a Lycoming engine.
So absurd how the perceived costs of these have become so high when they aren’t near that..! There are some out there built by the Scale competitors that get seriously expensive but $25k No!
Could an airtight exhaust be manufactured? Attach to the annular exit of the turbine. Then split and the two Cs go stream lined into tubes. The engine could drive a fan to press cooling air through a double wall. Likewise airtight intake ( the real intake ) should be attached to the fan. Fresh air for the turbine coming from there. Do hushkits even work? RC jets don’t have an afterburner. So instead there could be a Venturi: jet exhaust and cold fan air are accelerated to sonic speeds. Then they mix. Then there is the diffuser section. Somehow this would result in more thrust?
You can have an inclosed system where the intake directly feeds air to the inclosed turbine. This is good for top speed but it also force feeds air into the turbine and can affect its ability to decelerate. I prefer an open installation where the turbine can pull whatever air it requires from within the fuselage and the residual passes over the turbine and out of the jet. It’s also easier to extinguish a fire in an open set up.
@@leviwagner790 interesting. So with the large surface friction seems to be very important. With an engine inside a nacelle ( tear drop shape ), theory says that the intake converts velocity to pressure, and the nozzle converts pressure to velocity. Now when the turbine blocks air, .. ah I see. Then the mixture gets lean . Piston engines would then drop to zero fuel injection abruptly. So low compression engines need a bypass just like the Concorde, to not overfeed the engine. The Concorde has a active ramp almost like throttle plate / blow off valve combination.
Agree it does look better, but in model form without a computer stabilising the jet dropping the ailerons as flaps is more likely to promote a tip stall
