1/9th Scale B-17G Bomber.
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boatman
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HI Steven i forgot you was building this BI7 G an wow what a plane how big will it be wingspan an lenght ? an its gonna be R/C yea ? will you have to have a licsecne to fly this plane of this size an can you fly ok as i used to fly planes some freeflight an some controll line planes with a third line for throttle controll but i nr always crashed them sooner or later as everything happens so fast thats why i went into model ships things happen slower so gives me time to avert disater if possible an my brother is a real pilot on light aircraft but he does a lot of stunt flyin with his R/C planes an crashes now an then an even crashed in the tree tops lol but this model will be a whopper an more pics please as she is bein built
chris
chris
StevenRB
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The wingspan is 138" inches, the fuselage is 100" inches. I'm still a dunce when it comes to metrics. Go figure. No special license will be required. When I was a kid, we had some of those plastic fantastic Cox airplanes. I had a Sopwith Camel which I had hell to go a full circle. It went up, then down, up then down until I at least completed a full circle. Chucked it out within a month or two. Later in my 20's in the 80's, I talked a friend of mine into buying a P40 while I purchased a Stuka. We went to the local park at night and used the parking lot as our flight area.
Jim seemed to crash his early on while I had several laps on my Stuka. During this something weird happened. I heard a buzzing sound and the plane pretty well stopped going round in circles. My line had either broke or became untied and the plane took off on a beeline and hit a light pole dead center. I swore I had a free flight model. It was the most bizzare thing in modeling I had seen. Damn planes. Thank you everyone for your input. It's always nice to hear from you.
Jim seemed to crash his early on while I had several laps on my Stuka. During this something weird happened. I heard a buzzing sound and the plane pretty well stopped going round in circles. My line had either broke or became untied and the plane took off on a beeline and hit a light pole dead center. I swore I had a free flight model. It was the most bizzare thing in modeling I had seen. Damn planes. Thank you everyone for your input. It's always nice to hear from you.
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That’s an incredible project! Looks great so far!
scottie3158
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Steven, That is Outstanding
StevenRB
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I'm just going to stand on my roof and hand launch the 'sumb!tch'.
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That's gonna be a monster!
Looking good so far.
Looking good so far.
Very impressive