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Old 2005-11-14, 01:51 PM   #4
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At the field I used to go to back when I was a kid, there was a guy w/ a B-17 replica about the same scale as that B-52. It had four 4-stroke .30 motors, and he limited himself to about 20% throttle for scale power output. That thing sounded awesome making low passes of the runway with all for motors rumbling at partial throttle!

Also, there was an RC airshow out there one weekend. Some guy had a beautiful 1/4 scale F-4 Phantom. He was making an inverted pass of the field and it lost radio comms and went into fail-safe. Normally that's a gentle upwards spiral, but when you're inverted, it's a quick lawn dart into the ground... the crash looked very similar to that B52 crash. Poor planes!
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