B-52 MODEL FLYS

WOW!

Boy you said it, so very cooollllll. rick markle

Awesome!

Looks like they're having trouble with the retracts.

Marty

Thanks for the link.... thats an amazing model... drool, drool.

Reg

The model was featured in one of the Brit mags a while back, and IIRC the issue with the L/G was whether to incorporate the cross-wind function of the 1:1 version. Tricky bit of fiddling, that.

Nice indeed.

Too bad we won't be seeing anything like that flying under the AMA banner.

Another serious model effort is at

Martin

Please explain the retracts problem as you observed.

thanks

Hey guys -- Let it go -- It was the FIRST test flight -- perhaps they didn't want to cycle the gear, huh?

Please give use more video! And does this thing drop bombs? and if so how many? How about a video of it landing?

They didn't seem fully retracted in the video I saw.

Possibly.

But it's fun to speculate. ;o)

It's also possible that they tried to retract the wheels and failed.

Marty

I did notice there were videos of a Taxi test, a take off and fly bys. But nowhere was there a video of a landing. And I agree that in the one fly by it looked like the gear was not all the way in or out! One pass looked like the right rear was up and the door was closed. Another scene, the low pass, looked like both rear legs were almost all the way up while the front were partially retracted.

Again, where's the landing video?

Chuck

Thanks for the update, Richard!

Marty