who built this Boeing B-50 Superfortress, most probably the worlds biggest electric powered model aircraft, it is so big in fact that it has to be licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority, the aircraft is a scale version of the US 1950s bomber, has a 20ft wingspan and weighs just over 100 pounds, it took Mr Nijhuis, from Hastings, East Sussex, two years to make the radio-controlled plane that he calls the 'jolly green giant' and cost him £8,000,
it has 96 batteries that power four electric motors which drive the aircraft to 40mph along a 50m runway before it takes off, it can then fly for eight minutes in the air before it has to descend so the batteries can be recharged, made from balsa wood and plywood, the plane also has workable bomb bay doors and pneumatic landing gear, the B-50 was an improved variant based on the B-29, it was larger, had more powerful engines and a bigger tail and rudder section, well done to Tony, just think for a few days it was the only plane in the air over the UK.
Thursday 22 April 2010
I Get A Lot Of Pleasure From Building My Model Railway,
I guess that the same applies to Tony Nijhuis,
who built this Boeing B-50 Superfortress, most probably the worlds biggest electric powered model aircraft, it is so big in fact that it has to be licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority, the aircraft is a scale version of the US 1950s bomber, has a 20ft wingspan and weighs just over 100 pounds, it took Mr Nijhuis, from Hastings, East Sussex, two years to make the radio-controlled plane that he calls the 'jolly green giant' and cost him £8,000,
it has 96 batteries that power four electric motors which drive the aircraft to 40mph along a 50m runway before it takes off, it can then fly for eight minutes in the air before it has to descend so the batteries can be recharged, made from balsa wood and plywood, the plane also has workable bomb bay doors and pneumatic landing gear, the B-50 was an improved variant based on the B-29, it was larger, had more powerful engines and a bigger tail and rudder section, well done to Tony, just think for a few days it was the only plane in the air over the UK.
who built this Boeing B-50 Superfortress, most probably the worlds biggest electric powered model aircraft, it is so big in fact that it has to be licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority, the aircraft is a scale version of the US 1950s bomber, has a 20ft wingspan and weighs just over 100 pounds, it took Mr Nijhuis, from Hastings, East Sussex, two years to make the radio-controlled plane that he calls the 'jolly green giant' and cost him £8,000,
it has 96 batteries that power four electric motors which drive the aircraft to 40mph along a 50m runway before it takes off, it can then fly for eight minutes in the air before it has to descend so the batteries can be recharged, made from balsa wood and plywood, the plane also has workable bomb bay doors and pneumatic landing gear, the B-50 was an improved variant based on the B-29, it was larger, had more powerful engines and a bigger tail and rudder section, well done to Tony, just think for a few days it was the only plane in the air over the UK.
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