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Old 05-03-2010, 12:00 AM   #1
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May 3, 2010: Big Boy, Big Toy

Brit, Tony Nijhuis, like a zillion other people, built himself a model airplane.
But his 1/7th model of a B-50 bomber is so big... how big is it?
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...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.


It's not only capable of carrying mini-bombs, it's sneaky quiet.

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'It's a model of the Boeing B-50 bomber that was used from the 1950s to the 1970s. It's all scratch built and has a wingspan of 19ft. 'It weighs just over 100lb and is powered by four, four kilowatt electric motors and each motor has 24 batteries powering it. The propellers have a 2ft diameter.
It has 96 batteries that power four electric motors which drive the aircraft to 40mph along a 50m runway before it takes off. It can then fly for eight minutes in the air before it has to descend so the batteries can be recharged.


I wonder if having to assemble a crew, and get government permission, takes some of the spontaneity from playing with this toy?

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Old 05-03-2010, 04:09 AM   #2
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What would propel a man to build that?
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Old 05-03-2010, 05:10 AM   #3
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Quite electrifying.
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Old 05-03-2010, 08:33 AM   #4
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I'm up in the air on this one.
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Old 05-03-2010, 08:39 AM   #5
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What would propel a man to build that?
- Umm... Propellers? 4 of them.

In any case this is a 100 times cooler than the half a boat from the other day.
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Old 05-03-2010, 08:49 AM   #6
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Building it spanned 2 years, a departure from the norm. I'd rudder it didn't take so long.
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:16 AM   #7
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:37 AM   #8
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What would propel a man to build that?
The answer seems plane enough to me.
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:49 AM   #9
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Clearly he just wants a little lift in his life.
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Old 05-03-2010, 09:53 AM   #10
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It has 96 batteries that power four electric motors which drive the aircraft to 40mph along a 50m runway before it takes off.
What? No treadmill?
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Old 05-03-2010, 11:57 AM   #11
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Well, there goes my plan to build a scale model of Nagasaki.
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Old 05-03-2010, 12:24 PM   #12
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OK that takes care of what my 11yo son is going to be doing for the next two years....

....building a 1/7 size treadmill


Nobody tell Spirit or they might start trying to cram ua all into one of these to further reduce costs.....
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Old 05-03-2010, 03:50 PM   #13
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Built from scratch?

That means...








Wait for it.....








...he was winging it.
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Old 05-04-2010, 08:35 PM   #14
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24 batteries...for each motor? And each motor consumes 4k watts? WTF kind of batteries is he using so that the whole plane only weights 80#? Nuclear?
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Lithium and NimH are very light
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