Please ID this Flying R/C Craft

[moribundman]

This flying wing thing appears top have one pull prop. It resembles a Snowspeeder from TESB remotely.

Does anybody who makes this model?

 

[Shannow]

struggling badly mori...even MarkCs animal game was easier than this.

Came across

http://greyfalcon.us/The Horten Ho 229.htm

 

[moribundman]

Well, this is in fact another one of MarkC's games!

Check out the engine. In the bottom shot the engine projects much farther forward than it does in the other two images. The different point of view and observation angle doesn't really explain this...

This looks almost like a craft that can function as a watercraft and as a plane.

Flying wings are fun. Remember the fictitious flying wing in Raiders of the Lost Ark?

 

[Shannow]

First thought was pontoon, dinner tray, and sled....didn't google me anything.

came across people building remote ROTLA planes, and got diverted in 40s and 50s stuff. (Just like I used to spend a day at the library, walking the shelves)

 

[Pablo]

What are the estimated dimensions? You write "model" - but is it a kit or fabbed?

So you did speak to the bloke flying it?

 

[moribundman]

MarkC took the pictures. I can't even guess the model's size. If that's a landing gear made with wire struts midship, then the model can't be very large. Maybe it has a 2' wingspan? No idea if it's a kit or scratch-built.

 

[Shannow]

Don't think that looks landing gear, but maybe control cables and "pulleys"

 

[moribundman]

Since it's such a fancy design, I'd expect some matching fancy actuators and not cables and pulleys. But who knows? Mark will have to go back and hijack that plane.

I want this.

 

[Shannow]

That B52 "no can do" manoeuver being replicated was the ultimate in youtube experiences.

A bunch of people died doing it live, and they decided to replicate it in cash paid for models.

 

[MarkC]

That last shot shows the top of the thing, the other two the bottom. It lands on those skid things. It's about 20-32" long, I think.

 

[asiancivicmaniac]

Originally Posted By: moribundman
Since it's such a fancy design, I'd expect some matching fancy actuators and not cables and pulleys. But who knows? Mark will have to go back and hijack that plane.

I want this.


I want that thing too. Wonder if there's a 747 model that size.

 

[Oldmoparguy1]

I see it advertised on TV 2-3 times a week. Radio controlled electric motor powered, 3 easy payments of 29.95 + S&H, or something like that. Can't think what it's called now. Operates on water and in the air.

There is also a Helio version. Same company...

 

[chevrofreak]

Originally Posted By: Oldmoparguy1
I see it advertised on TV 2-3 times a week. Radio controlled electric motor powered, 3 easy payments of 29.95 + S&H, or something like that. Can't think what it's called now. Operates on water and in the air.

There is also a Helio version. Same company...


Are you thinking of the Air Hogs Storm Launcher?

 

[Oldmoparguy1]

Originally Posted By: chevrofreak
Originally Posted By: Oldmoparguy1
I see it advertised on TV 2-3 times a week. Radio controlled electric motor powered, 3 easy payments of 29.95 + S&H, or something like that. Can't think what it's called now. Operates on water and in the air.

There is also a Helio version. Same company...


Are you thinking of the Air Hogs Storm Launcher?


Yup. That's it.

 

[moribundman]

Originally Posted By: Oldmoparguy1
Operates on water and in the air.


I was right!

 

[MarkC]

Storm launcher is different from this thing, smaller and no wings. Two props.

 

[moribundman]

The Storm Launcher looks different. It has a lifting body with two engines, dual vertical stabilizers and larger skids.

 

[MarkC]

Yes, and from what I've read it doesn't fly particularly well.
Saw one on sale for about $35.