You have to check this out!

[slopegod]

WOW, Fantastic. Retracts, Lights, Flaps, and indoors... Very Nice.

All that & it only weighs 10.5 ozs.

 

[colorex]

Where did you see all that?
I can see the dihedral but the angle of attack?

Just a suggestion. It will fly slower with a bit of attack. You can curve the balsa sheets to have a high lift high drag wing for a slow airplane.

 

[ananas1301]

Just a suggestion. It will fly slower with a bit of attack. You can curve the balsa sheets to have a high lift high drag wing for a slow airplane.

I just thought... But now it seems reasonable. So what you can basically do is try and take a 3mm balsa sheet or even a 5mm one and sandpaper it to a airfoil looking like to one from the Bixler and make it a heavy lifter airfoil. But with the low weight, It will just fly suuuuuper slow nice idea

 

[Pilot-294]

that large airliner. is it helium filled?

 

[Klonas]

that large airliner. is it helium filled?

Yes.

 

[flylow]

or you can try something like this since everybody's doing it

 

[SkySlayer]

Why small?

That thing is just a engine attached to a blown up plane

 

[bonfirey2k6]

Why small?

That looked pretty damn cool.....

 

[Cyberspy]

A hybrid, half balloon/plane. That's a neat idea. Bet its not very hard to fly.

I want one.

 

[SkySlayer]

Don't we all Cyber

 

[thercmaster]

They are cool but like hamdhan said they do cost an extreme amount of money for the cost of small electronics.

 

[randall_l]

You should search youtube for "iac aso". Truly amazing what they do in small gymnasiums.

Looks like mostly Plantraco 900MHz stuff.

Cheers!
Randall

 

[xuzme720]

Props to the pilot though for keeping the airliner completely scale flying. Nice job on both building AND flying!

 

[Johan]

Why small?

Wow, whatever is the technique behind that (helium or otherwise), it really 'flies to scale', very natural movement....

Just saw xuzme720's reply: agree fully: the pilot is one major factor in this (I'm too focused on technical stuff )

 

[xuzme720]

That's what struck me the most was just how scale it looked! In fact, on climb-out it almost looked more like a 747 than an Airbus A310. So slow and smooth...That slow on such a good looking plane makes it look so much larger.

 

[MountianFlyingWV]

Why small?

helium has to be involved XD