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Posted on 04/21/2010 9:41:57 AM PDT by Stoat
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The Boeing B-50 bomber is so big it holds the title as the world's largest electric model aircraft, It is classified as a light aircraft and is licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority.
Built by Tony Nijhuis in his garage the aircraft is a scale version of the US bomber and has a 20ft wingspan and weighs just over seven stones.
It took Mr Nijhuis, from Hastings, East Sussex, two years to make the radio-controlled plane that he calls the 'jolly green giant' and cost him £8,000.
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t 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. Made from balsa wood and plywood, the plane also has workable bomb bay doors and pneumatic landing gear.
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'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.
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(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
That was a pleasant ten minute diversion from the rat-race. Thanks Stoat!
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Coooool.
This may also be of interest:
The largest electric model in the world - Tony Nijhuis Boeing B50
As with my 12' Lancaster, the B-50 will have an on-board engine sound syste. Thomas Benedini has mixed a 4-engined Pratt & Whittney true sound and it sounds superb....The sound will be amplifier by two 200watt power amplifier driving six 50-watt so some serious but true scale noise will be heard.
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WOW! All he needs to add are some Lynx Jet stewardesses and he'll be all set.....
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I confess I would LOVE to see a B-38 model. I remember as a kid living near Larsen AFB in the late 50’s and early 60’s I’d see those things at high altitude. They looked like little silver crosses in the sky.
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That's about right. The B-29 was rushed into production and had a lot of bugs that what became the B-50 was designed to fix. Passing it off as a 'new' design was fairly harmless, as we needed something to bridge the gap until the new jet bombers came on line and actually building a new design would have been a waste of time.
Thanks for the ping. That was a lot of work.
Also, check out the link at Post # 11.
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