Quite a project http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267783/Chocks-away-worlds-biggest-model-aircraft---shame-8-000-B-50-bomber-fly-8min.html
I like scale model airplanes but everytime I see one of the monsters I just have to shake my head. For one thing the big expensive ones seem doomed to live short lives. It seems they all crash in the first few flights. And then this one is electric. 8 minutes and it doesn't sound very fast or powerful. As much as I like model airplanes if I am going to spend that kind of time and money it better be able to carry me.
To say nothing of this little tidbit: 'Because of its size it is classed as a light aircraft and had to be tested by the Civil Aviation Authority and requires a certificate to fly it at public shows.' Apparently the British obey the same rules we have here in the States: when the weight of paperwork = the weight of aircraft, the design is approved to fly.
I saw that. Not surprising. If (when) he lost control that thing could take out a number of people. When that giant B52 model crashed a couple of years ago he just plain lost it. It was just luck it was 1000 yards away from anybody.
I never cease to be amazed at the huge disfigured and misfigured models that so many replicators produce. This B-50 model like the B-29 model a while back are so far from accurate that I wonder where they got or imagined their information. There isn't enough dihedral, the nacelles are all wrong, and the wing is not placed high enough in the fuselage. I worked on B-50's for two years when I started at Boeing in 1950 and I know the airplane. and it was a beautiful piece of machinery. There is still a lot of data available to recreate an exact depiction of it but nobody seems to use it.
