This Stearman is likely my favorite model ever. I love everything about it. Size, engine, sound, power and inflight ability. Better watch those ground loops. Go and take a few hours of flight lessons in a full scale J3 Piper Cub and your abilities and technique will improve greatly. I wish I knew all the details about the cost, build hours, specs, etc involving that Stearman. I once was an avid R/c modeller and full scale pilot owner. 98% of my flight hours were in taildraggers. Love them to death!!!! But all took place many years ago in the early to late 1970s. Too old for either now.
Spectacular, amazing airplanes, but I have one observation...Don't get me wrong, I love radio control airplanes, been flying them since 1976, (and full scale, although I'm no longer current) but "model" airplanes of this size require full scale handling techniques. Both landings were accomplished in gusty, crosswind conditions, although no crosswind handling techniques were ever applied, because most R/C pilots don't practice crosswind landings, because they don't have to. Generally speaking, smaller scale models can be landed successfully in crosswinds without ever lowering the upwind wing to control drift, while utilizing rudder to maintain aircraft heading. But both of these models were in the developing stages of a ground loop at touchdown, while the Stearman, which has a propensity to groundloop, actually swapped ends during the rollout. (Checkout the RU-vid video "Boeing PT-17 Groundloop,") With the current trend towards giant scale models, we R/C pilots need to recognize that models of this size tend to fly exactly like the full scale birds, and must be handled accordingly.
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Yep, below about a 4 foot wingspan, one can fly an RC model pretty much without touching the rudder control except to steer on the ground or do knife-edge flight. I used to fly 2-foot wingspan 2-channel .049 racers with just ailerons and elevator, literally no rudder, just a fixed vertical stabilizer. At those scales, there is really no noticeable "adverse yaw effect", ailerons just make the plane roll. Roll it in the direction you want to turn, then use the elevator to climb into the turn. It starts showing up in the bigger planes, and then you have to learn to use that rudder control. Takes a while to re-learn, especially if you've had a lot of time flying RC, and those learned habits are hard to break. Fortunately, I had read Wolfgang Langewiesche's book, "Stick and Rudder", and that made it easier to know what was going on. I no longer wondered what Wolfgang was talking about. Another effect the small planes don't strongly have is the "elevator is airspeed control, throttle is altitude control". Big RC planes certainly open up new dimensions, as well as being easier to see and sound better. On the other hand, plop an RC transmitter into a full-scale pilot's hands who's never flown RC before, and I bet the learning curve is even steeper to re-learn to fly an airplane from outside the cockpit.
That stearman is one badass scale aircraft. That bad boy looks spectacular and the pilot flies it with absolute skill. Both planes are badass and rock. Those guys have got to have at least 7 to 10 thousand each in those monsters.
Hate to see people so close to the prop during start up. Someone is going to lose an arm or a hand someday. TAIL WHEEL ANCHOR...!!!! That's all you need to get all those people out of the danger zone.
We have all been WRONG in stating that there were ANY errors in procedure here. The only person that made any mistake was the guy who fell. He was walking backwards and not looking where he was going. The bag was necessary equipment that had to be exactly where it was. It was sitting right next to a traffic cone put there to prevent exactly what happened. All of the people around the planes had specific jobs to do (none were spectators) and did them correctly and safely (again aside from the guy that fell). The Stearman pilot adjusted his engine correctly and with due care. There IS no other way to reach the carbs! Safety was properly addressed at this event and nothing in this video shows otherwise. The cone and bag were located such that a trip would NOT result in a fall into a prop which is all you can ask for! The only error was the guy walking backwards without looking while working around fast moving unprotected spinning death swords. The event planners, pilots and all but one of the assistants did their jobs perfectly.
Ryan C Wrong dumbshit. The guy at :40 has his damn arm over the front of the prop while he’s tinkering with the engine. No real world pilot would ever do that, one little glitch electrical or mechanical and that engine could start and take off his arm.
Flyboy BC Wrong. The guy at :40 could lose an arm if that engine decides it’s warm enough and he leans on the prop to give a spark plug just a little spark and a start.
He went down so gracefully, but had a hard time getting up. Also people have been killed by these props. Why in hell do these guys want such large toy planes? Just get a private pilots licence and real aircraft!
Very cool! As a pilot also, I really enjoyed the presentation, thanks for sharing, additionally, to the man that stumbled, I am glad that you're okay, that there wasn't an incident! We up trip up at times, ignore the ignorance of so many commenting out their toothless wonders, they don't have much of a clue or somehow they believe their perfect, never acknowledging that they themselves are also stumblers, we all are from time to time, we can only hope that we won't get hurt or hurt another when we do trip up somehow some way! May the Peace of our Lord and Savior be with you and to all, and Happy Landings always! Mike
Everytime I watch this Stearman I am more and more impressed! Has to be my favorite model airplane ever! I imagine this owner would never sell this airplane but it is likely worth $30,000 USD.
OH MY GOD DUDES WHY AREN'T THEY JUST GETTING IN!!!!!!! Wait that one didn't have a doll in the front, and the otherone had the cockpit covored. hummm. tee heee heee. ;0)
Unsafe as no eye wear, and if that guy had fallen onto the ladies they would have been pushed into prop. People should not be anywhere near a moving prop of models of this type. Risk assess it I recommend.
I love giant models. The sound of the Valach radial is fantastic. Thank you for sharing this great video. Well done !!! *liked and shared* _best regards, Horst_
RCScaleAirplanes Two lovely miniature planes indeed, a great sight. At 38 seconds, if that ignition was ``live`` and that prop kicked it would have taken his arm off!! Never move, or put your hand on, a live engine prop unless you are in the starting sequence. Even turning it the other way may cause a kickback. These are full scale sized props. Never-the-less a great vid.
I wish I knew why, at EVERY SINGLE AIRSHOW, real or RC, there's always gotta be an announcer that blathers on and on endlessly through the whole show, despite the fact that you can't understand a word they are saying between the engine noise and the amp distortion and echo...but it does create just enough useless noise to detract from just being able to enjoy the sounds of the machines?
Watching these amazing RC models fly 5-7-10 years ago I always wonder if they still exist, or if they crashed years ago and ended up in the garbage bin. Let's face it, even the best RC planes piloted by the best pilots have a high probability of crashing. They always fly low and often slow, with very little altitude and time available to recover from problems.
Lmao, , The 1st guy who's got his plane running could've taken a couple of flights around the park bout time the guy that fell got his ass back up lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love both these planes, but that Stearman is absolutely beautiful. Yeah.. if she were mine.. I would jump in front of a truck to save her. :-) Or, _if I were still married_, I would have thrown the wife in front of the truck to save her. But that's not really saying much.. XD
I know what you mean. some builders can build amazing planes but really don't know anything about skid and slip or making a coordinated bank turn. they just bank and yank . you can get away with that on a small model but when they get this big,... whew it could just be a matter of time before disaster.
When last one landed started to spin thought rudder shoulda been cranked over to stop spin.but ive never run a model or flown.maybe it jamed or some malfunction
Have you flown large scale RC? Its not that easy to see if the aircraft is tracking straight when your looking at it from side on. It's MUCH harder to fly a model from the side of the runway than it is to fly a full size aircraft from the pilot seat!
the thumb and first finger stick hold causes you to move your arms but the more comfortable thumb on the sticks works best. I have a 1/4 scale tiger moth and have flown big scale when we had to made do with underpowered 2 st's using belt drives..things have really gotten better...! beautiful planes guys.
I dont get it? The second plane landing the plane take off to the right. Watch the rudder. He never touches it???? Why? When I'm coming in I don't touch the elirons 1. I dont want to kill what little lift I have and 2. Rubber is for yaw....use the rudder and save your wing tips.
Great models!!! Riddle me this: if there are 86% models, why not go all the way to 100% models? For the pilot figure, just get a posable mannequin, or better yet a real human pilot. And a stick and throttle to fly it with.
Both of these models flew very well. Big models of small prototypes always look the most convincing. The Stearman sounds like a full-sized aircraft, - very rare for any model. The Pitts flew well, but sounded like it was powered by any old small two-stroke, which was a pity, as it was obviously light and handled well. As someone who has built and flown model and full-sized a/c all my life, I must say that, splendid though these models are, the work involved, not to mention the cost, begs the question as to why not put the effort into full-sized aircraft. ....? That's not in any way to demean or diminish the achievements, but when models get to 86% of full-sized, the question really does have to be asked...! Where does it stop? A 99.9% scale model..? Have to say I cringed when that fool tripped-over right by the propeller. ......!
+HeavensGremlin I see your point about taking it all the way. Heck, there are smaller percentage copies being flown by people all the time. Now, as to "why not put the effort into full-sized aircraft...?" I can give you a number of reasons. One, health- you take certain medications or have certain health issues and it's no pilot's license. Then, maybe there's a fear of heights or other applicable phobias. Anyway, you get the picture. Then, one more thing and it's really reaching. Maybe he just kept building models bigger & bigger and got to here w/out thought of making a sit in and fly plane occurring to him?
+HeavensGremlin In a word, cost. There are additional safety and maintenance regulations to comply with, cockpit instrumentation, and a pilot who needs special training.
Getting a pilots license? Let's see, written test, dual time, check ride, hourly rental, passing the medical, plus, plane costs are absurd these days to own. Maintenance, annuals, and A.D.'s. Everything is extremely overpriced. When a fuel switch valve should cost no more than $50, but costs $900 because of FAA BS, and then have to pay an obscene amount to an A&P to install it, I can see why RC looks so good.
If you would gut the two compartments and turn it into one, then convert the control to manual, you would be able to sit in one of these and fly it in the cockpit as an ultralight.
I've got nothing but respect for this hobby. I drive Hobby Grade R/C trucks, which can be expensive. However, the money that goes into this side of the hobby, well ... You could purchase a high end automobile for the price of one of these things (then there's all the work that goes into fabrication). With that being said, when the scale is this large why not go a little further and build a plane you can fly?
This always been my dream to have a large scale aircraft because I loved it since I was a boy always growing up in the B 47. And the Sabre jet. And always admiring the TV shows I used to watch with my friends when I was young especially my friend Dino I wish I could get something like this and do something Fun like a model like this my favorite is a Gloster gladiator I never been able to get around to building one I had a similar smaller scale of aircraft the first generation of the Dr1. But coming from Greece somebody stole my airplane it was designed exactly as the owner of a great grandfather Who flew and all engineers at that time before the German more beautiful airplane now it is gone. I really wish I could be at this Scale again cuz its so fun To spend hours building it in all the times of putting things together and making it work.
For the ones saying why not just get a real plane? These are real planes. Flying real planes has two very enjoyable viewpoints, one from inside looking out and the second one, from the ground watching a plane manuever. larger scale models fly and move visually more realistically due to the scaling up in size. The bigger, the more realistic. Plus in in exterior view you get to watch the plane manuever and you are the controller, can't do that with 'real' planes unless you make them a rc plane. RC pilots like exterior view, watching their beautiful plane while being the controller. How beautiful is your plane while you are sitting in it looking out the cockpit? you don't get to see it! :(
david curry, Sir., A Fair & Reasonable statement by a man with a head on his shoulders! Thanks! As a scale pilot now on my 39th year of planes from 10th scale to 1/3rd scale, a 5'8" Heli, (Align 600n 3D nitro with flybars and no governor, Note: way more challenging to control/fly this old heli than even the real thing, this told to me by a RC and Cert. full scale heli pilot, telling me also; if able to fly a RC heli of the type I fly, a real, or full scale would be a piece of cake for me as an RC pilot to fly! Perhaps someday?!!), ..anyway additional various mini quads, I can truly say that you're spot on! Though I enjoy flying full scale, (the size you get into), with a certified F.A.A. flight times of more than 20 hours, in either of an Cessna 150 or 172, and once for two hours in a Cherokee, as I said you have the jist of it. I really enjoy flying period! However, as so many that have made comments in this string, seeming that they don't understand, or have a perspective as evident of, it seems they're speaking out their toothless wonder.. lol R.C. allows those who don't have the doe to pay for a full scale, the insurance, maintenance, FAA annual inspections, license, taxes, all adding up very fast to be BIG bucks! Not to mention price of fuel!!! "OUCH"!!! So RC gives us much the same, but as you stated directly, provides an actual and realistic view as a pilot can get while controlling the aircraft! Besides as you likely know or do understand, many flying attributes can be done with RC that shouldn't, ..Can't be done in a full scale aircraft, i.e., inverted flight, rolls, knife edge, loops, both inside and outside variety, or straight up crazy fun flying things one can't do even if having a stunt plane & licence to do so! Some people need to put up or shut up, not understanding what's going on, additionally, I've never seen or even heard of a heli (full size!) hovering inverted, doing windshield wipers actions, (tick-tocks), or various other flying skills, maneuvers! I am taking the time to write you sir, to exclaim my respect for you, folks like you that seem to be able to see a bigger picture, grateful I am for folks like you that do take a moment to think before commenting as I stated; talking out their "TOOTHLESS WONDER"! I still have hope that ignorance and arrogance is overcome, folks like you show me the reason to keep the faith, that hopefully, some read comments like yours and get a clue, or hope that at least one person does. ( If their ego's aren't so big as to be able to admit their idiocy! Yes Sir, a reasonable man you are, thanks for being such! May our Lord & God almighty bless you and yours and to all! Peace & Kind Regards, Mike
Why are they standing so close to the prop ? You clearly see a gentleman in the background trip a struggle to get back up. There is no regard to safety.
My father owned a super stearman flew a lot of air shows with him as a kid (early 60s) now you could not do that with out some do Gooder throwing a fit .
Where the Pitts still sounds like a moped the Stearman has the sound of a real airplane, it's the model I like the most of the two, by looks and sound.
You know, after watching these weekend warriors fumbling around these giant planes (mark 1:04), and I am sure I don't want to be anywhere near an R/C field with these guys flying... just way too dangerous for casual flying sake.
we have all been WRONG in stating that there were ANY errors in procedure here. The only person that made any mistake was the guy who fell. He was walking backwards and not looking where he was going. The bag was necessary equipment that had to be exactly where it was. It was sitting right next to a traffic cone put there to prevent exactly what happened. All of the people around the planes had specific jobs to do (none were spectators) and did them correctly and safely (again aside from the guy that fell). The Stearman pilot adjusted his engine correctly and with due care. There IS no other way to reach the carbs! Safety was properly addressed at this event and nothing in this video shows otherwise. The cone and bag were located such that a trip would NOT result in a fall into a prop which is all you can ask for! The only error was the guy walking backwards without looking while working around fast moving unprotected spinning death swords. The event planners, pilots and all but one of the assistants did their jobs perfectly.
I have been flying giants for 10 years now… To all new flyers out there a piece of advice (please no offense by any means!)Practice your starting prop movement, this is a way of how to get injured! It must be a single motion movement that leave your hand out of prop´s path. About your landing. especially when the models are getting bigger and heavier. When the wheels are almost touching land, pull elevator a bit, this will soft things down, your landing gear and fuselage will appreciate it!
I know a guy who built an actual flying 50% scale Stearman. He flew it for several years and I have no idea what became of him or the airplane. Even though it was enlarged some in the cockpit area, it was still so small I couldn't fly it. He was about 5 feet nothing and a perfect fit.
Why is it that when rolling out on landing they start turning while still at speed. I've seen plenty like this Stearman that drag a wingtip or collapse a gear strut because of the side forces. There's plenty of room to slow and then turn.
OK I went back and watched all the preflight operations again. I made a negative comment below about safety and that bag on the ground but after reviewing the footage carefully I have concluded that we have all been WRONG in stating that there were ANY errors in procedure here. The only person that made any mistake was the guy who fell. He was walking backwards and not looking where he was going. The bag was necessary equipment that had to be exactly where it was. It was sitting right next to a traffic cone put there to prevent exactly what happened. All of the people around the planes had specific jobs to do (none were spectators) and did them correctly and safely (again aside from the guy that fell). The Stearman pilot adjusted his engine correctly and with due care. There IS no other way to reach the carbs! Safety was properly addressed at this event and nothing in this video shows otherwise. The cone and bag were located such that a trip would NOT result in a fall into a prop which is all you can ask for! The only error was the guy walking backwards without looking while working around fast moving unprotected spinning death swords. The event planners, pilots and all but one of the assistants did their jobs perfectly.
I know walking backwards was a mistake but the bag was left by a photographer next to the cone after the assistant, who was in charge of the ground start equipment, had previously gone by it when the bag was not there.
