Re: Transatlantic Model (it's on it's way)

Rob - I think you got some sand in your vagina... I was simply saying that going forward with a project after a failure without a good understanding what caused the failure is not good engineering practice...

what you need is a douche bag, douche bag !

Lets get this back on a good note...TAM 5 is still going strong.

For the record the guys only got on garbled signal from the plane before it was lost. As far as I know they do not know what happened........Haven't we all had an engine quit for a reason that we have never found out.......How many aviators were lost in the early days trying to cross the Atlantic....not too many people knew what happened to them....but we kept going....

Go TAM 5

Craig

understanding

project......

I recall Maynard Hill flying down route 81 here in central Pa. years ago on one of his teams record attempts. I believe that model is in the Smithsonian. I have been watching this for a while and checking the updates on the model. This is exactly why the web is so fantastic. Were else can so many interested parties around the world watch as the attempt unfolds. 20 years ago we would have read about it a few months later in a magazine. Simply put, this is good stuff:) rick markel

Ditto!

To answer your question - transatlantic has already been crossed by a fully automated unmanned model RC airplane in 1998. That plane weighed about 30 lbs. The Spirit of Butts Farm is much smaller at ~11 lbs and its made mostly out of Balsa. I suspect it is just a matter of time (and luck) before one of the models makes the crossing.

The significant difference is that the TAM planes meet the FAI definition of a model plane. The earlier 30lb planes do not. The FAI weight limit is

Over half way!

Hmm. Not now I suspect. The web site says 20:16 GMT and its past midnight now :(

I wonder if it hates rain? There's a front where it seems to have died?

I guess you guys know that it made it by now! Totally awesome!

-- downeym - Electric Addict

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