Has this site been posted yet?
Sure is amazing how good the guy is, even in a gym:
http://www.geek24.com/g/2006/06/03/amazing-r-c-airplane-flying-what-a-pilot
Wow!!!
i see stuff like this all the time and acassionally(sp) something that good.
ps:me and my dad fly rc airplanes
You as good as that guy, lucky?
HAY oldfatboy is back!!
ive been wondering where youve been
that plane must have been expensive to have the control to do all that
Amazing you can do stuff with a remote plane you cannot do with a real plane. Looksl like fun, and practice! Mad skilz!
Billy
habbywall, I be here
I didn’t do any unicycling during the winter so didn’t have much to talk about.
Lately been working on curb-mounting, turning around, and just riding for a mile or so to start building up stamina/endurance.
Cool flying! Cool plane
Definitely mad skilz, it’s Freestyle for RC airplanes! It does seem kind of like cheating if the plane can “hang” from its propeller thrust, but I guess that just opens up new areas of tricks you can do.
Yes, a plane that doens’t need to carry the weight of, or support for, a pilot and passengers can be a lot more power-efficient!
That was sweet!!! I have never seen anything like that! Is that model battery powered? I didn’t hear any noise from the engine.
Really looks like a fun hobby! I tried to fly a beginners R/C plane when I was a kid but it didn’t do so well, it was destroyed on the first day. Kind of discouraged me from trying again, those things ain’t cheap ya know!
Here’s one with a helicopter:
http://www.geek24.com/g/2006/06/04/amazing-r-c-helicopter-flying
It looks like a dragonfly the way it zips around so quickly!
I pulled the link off of the airplane page…
hang on why doesn’t the helicopter just fall when flying upside down
surly the force that got it in the air would be upside down, so pushing it down
can someone please explain to me please
It’s quite possible if it’s a sufficiently complex model that it can adjust the pitch of its blades during flight. If they adjust far enough and the blade profile is correct you can effectively flip the rotor upside down mid-flight and get down thrust, which when in normal flight would pull the chopper downwards, and obviously when it’s upside down pulls it upwards. I believe there is only one real chopper that can do this (they all adjust blade pitch, but not usually enough). Having watched the video it seems unlikely that this is the case as the switching between inverted and normal flight happens too fast, I don’t think the pilot could alter the pitch setting that quickly. Circulation generated lift as used in aerofoils is quite a complicated subject and it’s conceivable that there are profiles that create lift whichever way up they are.
cheers kington
Another thought, it’s possible that by adjusting the helicopter’s angle to its direction of movement the correct circulation could be caused, which on a symmetric aerofoil profile would cause lift the same as when it was the other way up, similar to the way in which a pilot flying a plane upside down has to push the stick forward thust lifting the nose to keep the wings at an operable angle to the airflow. I’m pretty sure that’s it. Nice trick tho.
Another thought, it’s possible that by adjusting the helicopter’s angle to its direction of movement the correct circulation could be caused, which on a symmetric aerofoil profile would cause lift the same as when it was the other way up, similar to the way in which a pilot flying a plane upside down has to push the stick forward thust lifting the nose to keep the wings at an operable angle to the airflow. I’m pretty sure that’s it. Nice trick tho.
Woops double post.