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Giant Scale Model RC SR 71
Posted on 12/8/18 at 8:29 pm
Posted on 12/8/18 at 8:29 pm
This thing looks pretty bad arse. I wonder what one of these goes for?
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Posted on 12/8/18 at 8:30 pm to redstick13
Thought this was that super sonic toy plane. Different one.
This post was edited on 12/8/18 at 8:38 pm
Posted on 12/8/18 at 8:38 pm to tigerbutt
eta - nevermind
This post was edited on 12/8/18 at 8:42 pm
Posted on 12/8/18 at 8:46 pm to redstick13
Looked it up, $350.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 8:48 pm to Splackavellie
That seems low. I was expecting at least $3500. That thing can't be easy to fly either.
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Posted on 12/8/18 at 8:48 pm to redstick13
That's awesome. I would love to get one but I would crash it and frick it up in the first 30 seconds I owned it. Guaranteed
This post was edited on 12/8/18 at 8:58 pm
Posted on 12/8/18 at 8:48 pm to redstick13
That looks fun as all hell.
For scale
As you can see, the man is gigantic.
For scale
As you can see, the man is gigantic.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 8:49 pm to redstick13
That’s freakin cool.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 8:57 pm to Havoc
The thing even has a functioning landing chute.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 9:03 pm to Splackavellie
Read the comments on the video , the builder won’t say the price for fear his wife would find out, conservative estimate of 8K.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 3:32 am to bouefbengal
That's still low. You are talking about somewhere around the $30-50k mark to get something like that flying. Probably about $15k for the two turbines alone. You want two or three separate radio systems for redundancy and that adds up.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 6:55 am to redstick13
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That seems low. I was expecting at least $3500
I think they're more like $30k. It's mini jet engines. Those can't be cheap.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 7:16 am to redstick13
I wonder how many UFO reports that thing has generated.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 8:02 am to redstick13
Have a BIL that’s into RC planes. That plane is from a competition called Top Gun. All the planes are scratch built. $30k is a reasonable estimate. The amount of time spent building one of those is unreal.
There’s a british version of the competition worth searching on YouTube. Those guys tend to make more WW2 stuff.
Edit for link to WW2 planes
There’s a british version of the competition worth searching on YouTube. Those guys tend to make more WW2 stuff.
Edit for link to WW2 planes
This post was edited on 12/9/18 at 8:12 am
Posted on 12/9/18 at 9:04 am to Pvt Hudson
Thanks I'll give it a look. I got caught up looking at the other videos from that same YouTube channel. These plane are pretty incredible. I liked this T38 Talon.
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Posted on 12/9/18 at 9:18 am to redstick13
That’s incredible. I’d be so scared of crashing that thing 
Posted on 12/9/18 at 9:42 am to DavidTheGnome
The copilot in the back looked like he was hungover or rubbing one out the first time they showed him.
Maybe both.
Maybe both.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 9:54 am to redstick13
That was very cool.
Posted on 12/9/18 at 9:57 am to Pvt Hudson
Are those things shooting at each other?
Posted on 12/9/18 at 10:08 am to redstick13
Yeah. The Brits let them do that. It’s illegal in the US to equip a remote control plane with explosives for obvious reasons.
Here, they do dogfights with ribbons. You hook a ribbon to the tail of your plane and the other guy tries to fly by and clip it off.
Here, they do dogfights with ribbons. You hook a ribbon to the tail of your plane and the other guy tries to fly by and clip it off.
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