Cotton Eye Joe

[mattdavis11]

If you hate country, blue grass etc... turn the volumn off. Holy flying lawn mowers, Batman! http://www.pureesoiree.be/Post/?P_ID=6420

[tabs]

I don't know whether it's moving to LV or my conservative political stance...but I find myself watching the CMT...especially the OUTLAWS Concert....

But nothing ever can take me away from my Beggars Banquet.....

[island911]

Oh man . ..that is great

only in America.

Here's a more direct link: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/video/skycutter.wmv

[Erakad]

Where do people come up with this s**t???

[Zeke]

I'll say this, the camera person was spot on. Hard to video stuff like that.

[M.D. Holloway]

Thats great! Love the hillbillie jams. Thanks for the laugh!

[bluebullet]

lol a flying lawnmower. The sad part is I went to the airshow in greenville SC when I lived down there every year..and a guy flew one every time and won the most unique model airplane award. Its very weird seeing it in person.


The B-29 was one awesome sight....$6000 project that was flown at the very end of the day, and the dude flying it had it upside down, flying it on the deck the entire length of the field at about 2 feet off the ground. one false move and you have a pile of balsa wood sitting on the field.

He rolled it a few times too....an airplane with a 9 foot wingspan and 4 engines is some feat.

[mikester]

Yeah - there is a guy at our flying field who makes models like that and at the most recent event he had one of those. I hear he's also got a snoopy's dog house.

[Overpaid Slacker]

Next time you see something on the Internet out of Japan or somewhere and it's weird as ***** and you think "Man, those freaky Japanese", just remember that they see this stuff too.

JP

[304065]

That is fantastic.

I am amazed that it flies on a .40 engine.

Whoever flew it sure knew what he was doing re: energy management. Three loops, progressively slower airspeed to a hammerhead out.

I still think those things are dangerous, JP. I will NEVER own one again.

[Joeaksa]

Anyone see the model B-52 in England? Flew with 8 tiny engines. Sad to see but they crashed it recently and nothing left but small bits of wood..

JoeA

[304065]

I HATE these things. When I was in law school, in an effort to avoid any serious academic exertions, I went down to the hobby shop and bought a beginner plane with a four-channel radio, .40 engine, electric starter, all the garbage you need to get started. Lovingly assembled the thing in about three hours and took it out to fly. First flight, PIO, nosed it in, broke the prop. Put on new wooden prop. Second flight, stalled it just out of ground effect, must have been a rigging problem. New prop on that flight too. Last prop in the box, airborne, crash, this time broke the engine mount. Finals came, had to put hobby on hold.

Next spring I get a "dura-plane" which is basically a square-section PVC tube with an aluminum C-channel tail boom, spring gear, engine mount made of out Kydex so you could jump up and down on it like that ape from the Samsonite commercial. The whole job held together with rubber bands and thick ACC. You see, somebody figured out that beginners to model aviation do nothing but crash their planes, so this is built for maximum durability.

First flight. CG out of limit aft. Climb under power to about 100' and stall. A/c coming STRAIGHT down toward parking lot. Friends, JP included, dive for cover. I stay at the stick and ride it in. A/c hits the pavement, narrowly missing JP, at approximately 130 MPH. Pieces of magnesium muffler, bits of wooden prop, hunks of square-section plastic tubing go flying EVERYWHERE.

I pulled the remnants out of the engine out of the wrecked fuselage, and threw the entire assembly, dripping with a pink mixture of nitromethane and castor oil, into the nearest trash barrel. Gave all the stuff, radio, engine, starter, hobbyist box to my brother-in-law along with a new airplane Kit for Christmas.

He's an engineer, but I think he's had the wisdom to leave it in the box.

Flying one of those dangerous, high-pitched toys is WAY harder than flyign a real airplane. And a lot more dangerous.

You can have 'em.