Nice. Also, all videos I've seen so far of big RC events, it always seem there's this "standard" lineup; there's always the old-as-dirt+1 guy who either built the model or is walking it around, with a somewhat younger (and usually fatter) guy in shorts with white socks and sneakers who flies the damn thing... it's a freaking pattern...
I think the pattern is as the old as dirt guys die out, so does the super scale part of the hobby. The fat guys in shorts and white socks don't care what they or the planes look like, then as they have their early heart attacks, the hobby of mostly drones dies out too.
My favorite Russian bomber, of them all. Hail Tupolev👍. And the United States, spitting out crap like the new, B-21 'Ghost', which is nothing but, a ramped-up version, of the old, B-2 Spirit. Not to mention, the billion's, upon billions of dollars more, for a failed dream😴. Kinda like, our newest crap jet, the F-35 'Lightning ll'. 1.9 'TRILLION' (that's nine 000,000,000's people), for research and development, for only a 9 year old program, that's already surpassed by the Chinese J-37?, and the Russian Su-57. You can house/feed 12 million homeless and/or starving people/children, in the United States, for 19 million dollars, for the rest of their lives. Shameful, SHAMEFUL time, to be an American😔…………
The Bear is absolutely Gorgeous, but missing something. The Tomcats to escort her home. ;) Meant as humor. :) Excellent job to the artisan that built her, and the pilot. Cheers!
In real life, to protect the northern tip of the Atlantic, Iceland's air force flies F15 sorties and have intercepted the Bear on numerous occasions. I've heard a rumor that they lost one Falcon when the pilot got too close to the Bear's propellers but I have no idea if this is true.
Kids and RC planes Don't mix! Too many times I've seen some unruly kid run up to an RC plane, trip and fall on the plane. There goes many months of hard work and thousands of dollars. Then you hear "Sorry".
I have been to bombers field and seen the Bear, it was early to mid 2000s I was there, the commentator was talking about he had to special-order the engines from England and it took two people to fly it. I'm 5'9" and the tail section came at chest-high on me, that Bear is huge!
In the late 1960s I was on a aircraft carrier half way across the Atlantic when a Bear flew several low passes across our ship. The sound and the plane, Incredible, I'll never forget it.
I also was in Soviet Navy in 83-86 on ocean rescue ship for submarines in the far East and saw many times US Orion plane - very good one! Nice to meet you!
The Orion, another very old plane probably still bugging Soviet ships. I have a picture of a Soviet destroyer very close to our carrier for several days, but I could not put the photo here.
Counter-rotating four bladed ptopellers would have been the icing on the cake for this model. Don't know if it is possible on models yet. Nice,nevertheless though👍
Harry Balsark contra rotating refers usually refers to multi engine with props turning opposite to each other to avoid torque and p factor imbalances. Also does away with the critical engine problem too. The props this article is discussing are in reality, a coaxial contrarotating type.
I saw an RX Tu-95 at a show in Texas. In was in a hangar. It had counter-rotating props ! The real Tu-95, the props spin faster than the speed of sound.
The full-scale one does. To replicate that in a gas or fuel powered model however would be an engineering nightmare. Ironically, it would be much easier to do if he went to electric power.
Some of these r/c birds are large enough to put a pilot in them (almost). This is scary when I think of the impact one of these rascals can have if it goes rogue on them.
If I had the money to build any of those planes, I would also be putting in my own runway. I wouldn’t want my model anywhere around idiots I had to tell more than once to GTF out of my way!
Got old and worn out. A couple years ago I ask if they plan to fly it, and was told that the structure had problems. I don't think that it has ever flown again, and the owner of the field has died, so the events there are not as grand as they used to be. I think that the Bear and some the other multi engine giants are display models somewhere in the Houston area now.
