A Taycan?

That indoor RC stuff has gotten nuts.

Remember my first indoor flying event. Most were rubber powered. One plane hit the roof in the armory we were in and fell faster than it flew. Wasn't until I got out of RC planes they started making indoor RC. Hopefully after I recover from the surgery today will be able to see good enough to fix my little helis and start flying them again.

When in RC planes the Full Size World Aerobatics Competition was held at a local small airport. During a break one of our local RC guys that was a hot shot pattern competitor flew their unknown routine. For fun the competition judges scored his flight. His points would have gotten him second overall. He was really good. Even the full scale pilots were impressed. Then he flew the routine with his plane rolling the whole time.

I did! :D

I believe they are from the grains section of the food pyramid! I don't have them often but today I just coudn't resist. Mountain Dew (Throwback with real sugar please) has orange juice so it has to be healthy too, right?

I think Jacob's 4 engine B-17 could fly in a gym no problem. It is less than half the size of our Corsair.

wow cool 4 engines.

Never did get dad a plane to play with. I think he wanted that Corsair but they are hard to come by now.

They are about the size of the motor in a CD/DVD player. The props are tiny.

I don't get how that plane video Jim posted can change direction instantly.

Very low mass.

Lots of power for the weight.

Welp, off I go.

Good luck Richard!

This is the B17 Jacob bought.

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cool little thing. Soon he will want a 1/4 scale one.

He may and he can buy that one as well. It took him months to save up and buy this one and he is too scared to fly it and wants me to. No pressure dad!

does it have the SAFE technology?

Nope. AS3X but no safe.

I can fly the Corsair just fine on expert (the kids can as well on beginner and intermediate only) but landing the little thing safely may be a challenge. Will have to do a couple test approaches to see how it glides. The Corsair does not like to come down with the low wing loading and has no flaps for drag so it just skims along in ground effect longer than you think it should when you do eventually get it close to ground. Since ground effect is generally 1/2 the wingspan the little one shouldn't have that problem. At least with AS3X small gusts shouldn't bother it.

Ground effect must be a real pain but at height it should drop like a rock with out power. The Corsair anyway.

The Corsair is supposed to be a fighter but identifies as a sail plane. That thing will glide forever with the power off. It does do aerobatics very well though! Maybe I need to attach bombs to it!

I was under the impression that a real one has a glide ratio of 1:1 or roughly a rock. I wonder if a true small scale would suffer the same flight pattern?

With the light foam construction these fly very well but I would imagine if it were scale weight it would glide like a rock. The real one also has a huge prop for a brake when you throttle back. The scale ones windmill pretty freely.

The F-4 Phantom was the same way with the glide ratio. They just put two big engines on it. I can imagine the conversation: Hey, that F104 goes mach 2 with that engine, lets put 2 on our plane and have it go mach 2!

I built a small one in high school. Little balsa thing, Never got around to covering it and it got crushed in one of the moves after college. A Corsair that is.

Survived the anesthesia.
They didn't put me under very far this time.
Only enough that I didn't feel anything, was still awake.
Still said not to drive for 24 hours.