Amazing, looks almost the same profile as my Mud Duck Toffee Bomber. Did yours fly? Mine only flies once a year at our clubs Fly In event. If yours flies anything like mine does it flies so slow... Interesting to see one this big.Good luck with your flight. Regards Peter
This is going to be the worlds largest foamy! Documented no...but heck who would claim it if it wasn't darn close to being Legendary! Long live Team Abby Normal!
I thought it was funny they assembled the thing inside that building. Looking at the doors, they would never get it out of there. haha. I guess they had no intention of flying it that day.
That tail wheel....why not just make it standard tricycle gear, if you want the thing to be level on the ground. The tail wheel seriously inhibits the low speed take off, and it's ability to rotate
It's differently not the worlds largest. Big Floyd - 50-foot wingspan pink foamie was built in 2010. All the parts where cut by hand, Built by an aeronautical engineering student in Wisconsin in his dorm!
I was there for the maiden. Crappy day, fog and rain, only cleared just before sunset...it was a race to get the thing to the field and set up before it was too dark to fly! Big Floyd was built in a Bayfield, WI garage. The 27-foot Pink Floyd was built in a dorm on the University of Wisconsin, Madison, campus. The first in the series, Floyd, (the pink was implied by the color of the foam) flew regularly in a golf dome on the south end of town, where the local electric RC guys had weekly fly nights. All three were electric.
It's a giant leap from building a large toy that may or may not fly from sheets of the pink stuff that keeps your house warm to engineering a heavier than air machine designed to sustain powered flight and withstand sustained flight loads in all flight regimes and every imaginable scenario, carrying a human safely and being flight-worthy enough to be certified and given authority to fly but being complex enough to require that it's pilot be trained and licensed - don't you think?
