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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Dennis Leonhardi on March 11, 2019, 07:05:04 PM

Title: Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!
Post by: Dennis Leonhardi on March 11, 2019, 07:05:04 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=459s5GrXr8Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=459s5GrXr8Q)

Dennis

Title: Re: Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!
Post by: Gary Dowler on March 11, 2019, 07:13:41 PM

Ok, now THERE is some R/C I could get into.

Gary

Title: Re: Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!
Post by: Skip Chernoff on March 11, 2019, 07:15:34 PM

Totally nuts! I bet the building owner didn't know there was an open flame in that model?

Title: Re: Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!
Post by: JoeJust on March 11, 2019, 07:31:14 PM

I kept thinking that it would make a great "Lawn Dart!" y1
Joe

Title: Re: Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!
Post by: Dave Hull on March 11, 2019, 09:02:45 PM

It must have weighed next to nothing to be able to fly that slow. Anyone have any idea what the like engine system was, and its weight?

There are a lot of jets that fly at our flying site. When they crash, they always burn. Several wildfires have resulted....  This one was so slow, it might not rupture fuel lines and fuel tank in a crash. Might not. There might have been some scorched floor paint in the takeoff area.

Dave

Title: Re: Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!
Post by: pmackenzie on March 11, 2019, 10:58:34 PM

If you go to the Youtube page they say that it is a Kolibri T20.
I figured it had to be, it has to be the cutest and coolest turbine there is.
Also the only one I have ever wanted to get ;D

http://www.turbinenshop.com/epages/61996464.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61996464/Categories/Turbinen/%22Lambert%20Microturbines%22

Title: Re: Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!
Post by: John Rist on March 12, 2019, 08:04:16 AM

Would it be legal in a AMA insured USA control line scale contest?   ???

Title: Re: Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!
Post by: Jim Damerell on March 12, 2019, 09:04:18 AM

Charlie Bower has flow a turbine powered U2 control line scale entry at the NATs.

Title: Re: Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!
Post by: John Rist on March 12, 2019, 10:14:10 AM

Quote from: Jim Damerell on March 12, 2019, 09:04:18 AM

Charlie Bower has flow a turbine powered U2 control line scale entry at the NATs.

Doesn't it require a special training and a jet endorsement of some kind for the insurance to be good? 

Title: Re: Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!
Post by: Gerald Arana on March 12, 2019, 12:08:58 PM

Quote from: pmackenzie on March 11, 2019, 10:58:34 PM

If you go to the Youtube page they say that it is a Kolibri T20.
I figured it had to be, it has to be the cutest and coolest turbine there is.
Also the only one I have ever wanted to get ;D

http://www.turbinenshop.com/epages/61996464.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61996464/Categories/Turbinen/%22Lambert%20Microturbines%22

And did you happen to notice the price of those things?  %^@ Yikes!

Jerry

Title: Re: Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!
Post by: Steve Helmick on March 14, 2019, 02:45:55 PM

Quote from: John Rist on March 12, 2019, 08:04:16 AM

Would it be legal in a AMA insured USA control line scale contest?   ???

Um, is it flying on one or more lines, with all the control input via those lines? No. Is it "scale"? No. Therefore, it wouldn't be legal.

I was shocked at how slow it flew. Also dismayed that it didn't crash. That's what I go to the R/C field for...  LL~ Steve

Title: Re: Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!
Post by: John Rist on March 14, 2019, 03:45:47 PM

Quote from: Steve Helmick on March 14, 2019, 02:45:55 PM

Um, is it flying on one or more lines, with all the control input via those lines? No. Is it "scale"? No. Therefore, it wouldn't be legal.

I was shocked at how slow it flew. Also dismayed that it didn't crash. That's what I go to the R/C field for...  LL~ Steve

I was referring to the jet engine not the airplane.  Would like to build a F16 with that motor.  Cost seems to be down from the 3 to 4K they used to be.  Scale does require the UP-DOWN be via flying lines.  All other functions can be RC.

Still wondering what it takes to fly it in an AMA sanctioned event.