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World's biggest RC A380 [video]
- Ecco 6mo agoIt sounds like it's electric powered. As much as I love brushless motors, I think a model of that scale and quality would have deserved actual jet engines.
- JKCalhoun 6mo agoIf it had been gas-powered motors, I would have agreed with you. The electrics sound close enough to my ear like actual jet engines though.
- wazoox 6mo agoAFAIK the only existing small jet engines for RC planes are much too small for this one.
- ncrc74 6mo agoThere are certainly turbines available that could power the model. He chooses not to.
- jcims 6mo agoThey've been scaling these things up over the past decade. The JetCat P1000 can exceed 200lbs of thrust. What they really for this kind of build are RC turbofans, which are extremely uncommon. This thing puts out over 300lbs of thrust at full throttle: https://www.frankturbine.com/en/FT1500.html https://www.frankturbine.com/en/FT1500.html
- ncrc74 6mo agoTyler Perry owns the airplane and the property. He has said that he does not fly turbines due to the fire risk in a crash. His property is surrounded by forest. If he were to cause a forest fire, the negative publicity could have a major impact on his career.
- jcims 6mo agoThat property is gorgeous and Tyler pulls out all the stops for his builds. That channel (Ramy RC) has quite a few of them.
- bombcar 6mo agoThe closeness of the trees to the runway kept giving me extreme pucker ...
- gosub100 6mo agoThank you for inadvertently answering a question I had, which was who owned that estate. I'll preempt future comments that lithium batteries can catch fire too. I agree with that statement but still think the risk is mitigated by not going with gasoline fuels.
- ajross 6mo agoRC-scale tiny turbines are sort of a boondoggle. They are loud, dangerous, and quite frankly reliability disasters. Expected component lifetimes are in the hundreds of hours, most folks overhaul them every 20-50 hours of use, and they fail in the air with shocking regularity (just check youtube). It's one of those "impressive that it works at all" kind of things. If that's what you want to see in the air, then do it. If you want to watch your one-off custom plane that represents hundreds or thousands of hours of labor fly, you push it with a fan.
- rwmj 6mo agoIs that a physics thing, or just jet engines are hard and RC budgets aren't very big?
- dijit 6mo agoI wonder if it's not a: "maintaining this kind of engine is a heck-of-a-lot of work and is why there are so many aviation regulations and the reason engine overhauls are forced and cost millions-of-dollars" kind of thing.
- lstodd 6mo agoMostly physics. It's hard to do small jets, mostly because small things get too heat-stressed I sorta watched a guy trying to build a hoverboard out of 50-kgf jets, it was crazy, hilarious and didn't go anywhere because flying a backpack of kerosene on four totatally unreliable jets ain't much fun in the end. They also cost about $5K each at the time.
- dylan604 6mo agoJust yesterday, someone posted a link to a Veritasium video[0] explaining how a jet engine internal temps of 1500°C work when the components have a melting point of 1250°C. I couldn't imagine doing that at a small scale by hobbyists. [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM
- phyzix5761 6mo agoMy first thought was, "You could probably fit a couple of toddlers in there with cute little pilot uniforms."
- gosub100 6mo agoA bunch of mice to simulate passengers.
- jacquesm 6mo agoOk, who chewed through the rudder control line? No cheese for you!
- i_think_so 6mo agoCutting back on the in-cabin cheese service is what caused this problem in the first place!
- palmotea 6mo agoWhen do they start passenger service?
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- axegon_ 6mo ago...And here I am scouting for remote meadows to fly my 7 and 10 inch prop fpv drones...
- JKCalhoun 6mo agoThe large ones dust crops out here where I live. Pick a field, ha ha.
- mark_l_watson 6mo agoAwesome. I fly very small remote controlled airplanes and a tiny drone. I am a bit nearsighted and I fly my airplanes and drone relatively close to where I stand (10 to 75 feet). A friend flys a few large RCs, but I don’t think that size matters for having fun. I live in the mountains in Central Arizona, and I like to hit the flying fields just as the sun is starting to rise in the morning - beautiful time to fly. BTW, 60 years ago my father and I used to spend a lot of time building our RCs. To be honest, now I buy incredibly inexpensive planes from China.
- JKCalhoun 6mo agoYeah, I think I lean toward simplicity as well. I would be way too anxious trying to fly that work of art the guy built. I am glad someone out there does it though—it's a joy to watch. On the other end of the spectrum is probably this guy's slope soaring videos: https://www.youtube.com/@SlopeRCGliders https://www.youtube.com/@SlopeRCGliders
- jacquesm 6mo agoI built a glider and flew it exactly once because I was too scared of crashing it after all the time that went into built it. The whole RC industry has made massive leaps, the first time I saw a modern radio I thought I'd received an empty bag...
- richwater 6mo agoFor anyone not familiar, most of this channel is funded IIRC by Tyler Perry who absolutely loves the RC hobby. You can see his estate in some of the wide shots (especially in the air). He had a custom made RC plane runway and workshop built on the property.
- dcrazy 6mo agoI assumed this was a case of name collision but no, this really does seem to be the same Tyler Perry who created the Madea movies.
- ambicapter 6mo agoI wonder at what point you put in a flight control computer. I could imagine with a plane that size it's easy to put some big forces on it with heavy inputs.
- zero_k 6mo agoIt essentially already has one. Probably only self-levelling, but has some extra programming like delayed flaps, wheel-up sequence (first up the wheels, then close the doors), blackbox feature, etc. Likely using a version of Ardupilot [1] that's already in use by everyone. Maybe INav [2], but I'd wager on the former. There's more than one computer in there, too. The receiver is likely double-redundant (2 receivers, each with 2 separate receiver circuits, one 900MHz, the other 2.4GHz). I have planes costing 400 EUR that have dual-bandwidth redundant receivers (costs 40 EUR, a joke). ELRS (radio), Ardupilot (Flight Controller), EdgeTX (Radio OS), and Mission Control (Ground Station SW) are serious tools used by many in the hobby. Them being open means there's a lot of competition and a lot of features. But also not amazing UX :) [1] https://ardupilot.org/ https://ardupilot.org/ [2] https://inavflight.github.io/ https://inavflight.github.io/
- ambicapter 6mo ago> But also not amazing UX :) This sounds exactly like the sort of business I would want to build :D
- jacquesm 6mo agoINAV is a hot mess, I would recommend against it unless you like beta testing stuff in flight. They don't really have a good SW development process, which kind of surprised me. Betaflight is good for Quads (it nominally also supports some other vehicle types but it is pretty clear where the focus is) and for fixed wing or more complex or strange vehicles I'd use Arducopter or dRehmFlight.
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- mrweasel 6mo agoWould there technically be any issues with remote controlling a real A380?
- pants2 6mo agoThere's definitely some overlap in size between this and some real airplanes
- perilunar 6mo agoIt is a real airplane. Remotely controlled, but still real.
- janlaureys 6mo agoBeen following this channel since the very early days and it's honestly mindblowing the scale and attention to detail of these models.
- yjaspar 6mo agoThe size of that thing! And what a landing...
- hybrid_study 6mo agoAprox how much does something like this unit cost?
- qingcharles 6mo agoI wouldn't want to imagine, but it's funded by a billionaire, Tyler Perry, so I'm guessing the cost wasn't an issue.
- thebruce87m 6mo agoFirst of all you need a house with a runway…
- jeffbee 6mo agoIt looks like the airstrip is attached to the servants' mansion. In parts of the video you an see the aircraft overflying the main house. It's the Temu Versailles.
- dylan604 6mo agoDefinitely falls into the "if you have to ask" category
- selectodude 6mo agoApparently the real big ones are like $100k.
- jeffbee 6mo agoYou rarely see advertisements for confiscatory income taxes quite as effective as this one.
- nickmcc 6mo agoFun fact: He builds these with / for the actor Tyler Perry, whom has a hanger and RC airstrip at his home.
- MisterTea 6mo agoHe also learned to fly as in obtaining an actual pilots license to over come the fear of flying.