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By: 3rd August 2018 at 02:31 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Looks just like Paul Mantz doing his wheels up landing in Twelve O'Clock High. :)
By: 4th August 2018 at 14:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I thought it reminded me of something I'd seen in a film!
By: 10th August 2018 at 13:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-My original comment was a bit tonge-in-cheek, but you're correct, the one wheel landing is similar to the scene in Tora, Tora, Tora which portrays B-17s arrival in Hawaii during the Japanese attack.
During filming, a B-17 had an actual emergency and film of its landing was used in the final production.
By: 10th August 2018 at 21:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Why do model aircraft always seem to have small two bladed propellers? It ruins the effect on otherwise perfect scale models.
By: 14th August 2018 at 02:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-A couple of guesses by a non-RC expert...
-electric motors spin at a very high RPM...higher than a real aircraft engine.
At those RPMs, only a two blades prop is necessary.
-If you look at a real B-17 it has very narrow "toothpick" props...scale items would not work on an electric model.
By: 14th August 2018 at 08:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Thanks.
By: 12th February 2019 at 20:41 Permalink
-That’s more like it.
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By: dominicm - 2nd August 2018 at 17:12
Handled like a full size pilot. Nice skills in a potentially disastrous situation.