Now THAT is a model ...

Now THAT is a model ...

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daveake

Original Poster:

687 posts

233 months

Thursday 16th April 2009
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A 1/19th scale C-17 Globemaster

Boggle!!! I wonder how much public liability insurance he's got!

Dave


thompp

66 posts

188 months

Thursday 16th April 2009
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Have you checked out some of the related videos - especially the mini-concorde.

matmoxon

5,026 posts

225 months

Thursday 16th April 2009
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Thats fantastic, I have seen (in a magazine) a large scale ducted fan AN225 (6 fan units) and that was impressive, but this is on another level.

I do wonder what I'd spend my money on if I didn't have a car to run and pay for scratchchin

On the public Liability side of things I would imagine it is the same BMFA membership and insurance for any other model, though places you could actually fly something like that safely will be farely limited.

Matt

Edited by matmoxon on Thursday 16th April 22:55

Nicholas Blair

4,109 posts

291 months

Friday 17th April 2009
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Crikey!

Impressive stuff - wouldn't attempt a vertical climb in the real one though, and nice landing in the cross wind.

tr7v8

7,307 posts

235 months

Friday 17th April 2009
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Counts as a Large Model over 20kg or in this case probably 80kg so subject to completely different rules as a normal model (under 7kg). Will have been inspected during build & certified as safe to fly & that certification carries on for the life of the model. Not sure if they are insured through BMFA or Large Model Association (LMA) without looking it up. More details are here:- http://www.largemodelassociation.com/index.html
Als been flying for years, owns a chain of model shops & is a well known display pilot,

Moreymach

1,029 posts

273 months

Friday 17th April 2009
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Wasnt that the one built on a modelling tv series ? A few years back now and on one of the sky channels.

Bit of googling and here http://jets.alshobbies.com/prod_c17.php for sale too !