Completely OT: Look Ma! Flying in Circles Without Lines!

[Dennis Leonhardi]

Dennis

[Gary Dowler]

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

Gary

[Skip Chernoff]

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

[JoeJust]

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

[Dave Hull]

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

[pmackenzie]

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

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

[John Rist]

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

[Jim Damerell]

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

[John Rist]

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? 

[Gerald Arana]

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

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

[Steve Helmick]

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...  Steve

[John Rist]

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...  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.