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sdowney717
December 16th, 2010, 04:24 AM
http://www.wimp.com/mphplane/

Listen and watch that thing fly.
wewantutopia
December 16th, 2010, 05:54 AM
Awesome!!!! Thanx!
smellyman
December 16th, 2010, 07:11 AM
You need some good eyes to fly that thing.

Is there a camera on it maybe?
handy
December 16th, 2010, 07:19 AM
Wow!

The remote pilot was good, what a great landing.

I guess the engineer will be aiming at being the first person to break the speed of sound with model plane.
mips
December 16th, 2010, 09:57 AM
It's not very pretty though, a scale model of a F-18 or something would make me smile even more :D

Love the sound of the turbine engine!
Evil-Ernie
December 16th, 2010, 10:05 AM
With Christmas approaching I was wondering what present I would like... I am wondering no more ;)
cascade9
December 16th, 2010, 10:16 AM
It's not very pretty though, a scale model of a F-18 or something would make me smile even more :D

Love the sound of the turbine engine!

OK, 'not pretty' I can sort of see, but an F-18? One of the ugliest fighters of the last 20 years.....Though the F117 is uglier.
NightwishFan
December 16th, 2010, 10:32 AM
su-47 > all. :) I would like a model of that.
mips
December 16th, 2010, 10:41 AM
OK, 'not pretty' I can sort of see, but an F-18? One of the ugliest fighters of the last 20 years.....Though the F117 is uglier.

Anything is better than the way it currently looks. F-18, F-16, F-14, Mig-29, Mig-35, Su-27, JAS 39 Gripen, Dassault Rafale, SR-71

Pick anyone you like. I would like to see it as a twin engine SR-71, probably my favourite plane of all time even though it's not a fighter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0dT6-aGZTk&feature=watch_response
handy
December 16th, 2010, 11:10 AM
Maybe he'll make a four jet engined nitro boosted supersonic dart of thing to get into the history books.
cascade9
December 17th, 2010, 10:29 AM
su-47 > all. :smile: I would like a model of that.

IIRC forward swept wings are more inherently unstable than normal/rear swept wing, so flying one without a flight computer could be.....tricky.

Then again, the nazis made a forward swept jet bomber that AFAIK flew (ju-287) so it might not be as bad as I have been led to believe.



Anything is better than the way it currently looks. F-18, F-16, F-14, Mig-29, Mig-35, Su-27, JAS 39 Gripen, Dassault Rafale, SR-71

Pick anyone you like. I would like to see it as a twin engine SR-71, probably my favourite plane of all time even though it's not a fighter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0dT6-aGZTk&feature=watch_response

Not my list of 'good looking fighters' (though I think that the su-27 and mig 35 look pretty good). If was going to make a new body for it, I'd go for some exotic, older and swoopy. Maybe a draken or even a horten 229.