You MUST see this !!!!

[Just thinking]

Go here (http://www.funmansion.com/html/Airbus-Remote-Control-Plane.html).

Please scroll to the bottom (after being wowed by the photos) and play the video.

Amazing.

[espritch]

That is kind of cool. I wonder if it has real jet engins?

I should note that the Predator is a bigger remote controlled airplane. But I suppose it is the biggest toy remote controlled airplane I've ever seen.

[Donks]

That is kind of cool. I wonder if it has real jet engins?

I should note that the Predator is a bigger remote controlled airplane. But I suppose it is the biggest toy remote controlled airplane I've ever seen.
There's a video floating somewhere of a model F-14 with an actual jet engine on it. Pretty cool, too.

ETA: And here (http://media.hugi.is/hahradi/fyndnar/f-14.wmv) it is.

[BillC]

Where do I get one?

Actually, a model Concorde might be fun. I could fly it at 50 feet over the houses and everyone think that it's the real one returned flying at 3000 feet.

[Just thinking]

My Christmas list has just been changed.

[AK-Dave]

There was also a B-52 with 8 $2000 jet engines in it. It looked really cool, but I heard somewhere that it crashed. There are pictures here http://ehowa.com/features/b52model.shtml but the site is somewhat NSFW.

[c4ts]

My Christmas list has just been changed.

Me too. I want a Predator drone.

[El Greco]

I Want It NOW

[Zep]

It's good, but I still reckon the Predator could take it.

[Soapy Sam]

Misjudging the scale of model aircraft in flight is a good illustration of how hard it would be to describe a UFO accurately.
I once watched, in a quite large group of people, a model glider circling overhead.
Until it landed and a man picked it up, nobody in the group even considered that it might be anything other than a real sailplane.

[MRC_Hans]

There is a video circulating here (it is an advertisement for a bank, but that is another matter). It shows a man standing in a big square. In the background, a low-flying helicopter enters from the right. Only when it passes in front of him, do you realize, with a jolt, that it is a model plane.

Hans

[rwguinn]

There was also a B-52 with 8 $2000 jet engines in it. It looked really cool, but I heard somewhere that it crashed. There are pictures here http://ehowa.com/features/b52model.shtml but the site is somewhat NSFW.

It did, indeed. Quite realistic and scale, including the collumn of black smoke after impact. I'll try to look up a link when I get home and post it.
The little turbines are impressive. About the size of a large "Foster's" beer can, generate 35 lb of thrust, turning 100,000 rpm.

[rwguinn]

It did, indeed. Quite realistic and scale, including the collumn of black smoke after impact. I'll try to look up a link when I get home and post it.
The little turbines are impressive. About the size of a large "Foster's" beer can, generate 35 lb of thrust, turning 100,000 rpm.
As Promised (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.ashley/teambananaracing/)
there are pictures and videos (use "Video" link)

[a_unique_person]

Once a model starts to cost as these would, I might start to think I might just get a real plane to fly in.

[Schneibster]

Oh, man, I already got too many hobbies.

[plindboe]

Those people are huge!!!

[luchog]

So is this how all those Shriners commute to their various conventions?