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Remote Controlled; Scale Jets

Discussion in 'The Ten Mile High Club' started by Jet News, Feb 27, 2018.

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    Not a jet but found this one interesting of a Cessna 421C

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    A SR-71 Blackbird RC model.

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    1/9 Scale Gulfstream G-IV RC... its not the best video at all but its from around 2014.

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    Small F-14 Tomcat flight.

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    SU-27 in action.

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    RamyRC G650 build progress.

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    Next segment of the G650 build by RAMYRC.

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    For the F104 Starfighter fans out there...

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    Mission accomplished Ron, You have really reached me with that one. The German Navy F-104 G shown in this video was an aircraft of my former wing, when I was still in the German Navy. The aircraft 26+66 is even in my logbook several times.

    And the RC pilots show the aircraft with what it do best, flying low and fast. Skimming the waves at 10 to 15 ft above the water at 450 to 500 Kts GS. Very stable, when sitting in the ground effect. But low altitude acrobatics were not really favored by us. Bloody dangerous! An the "two tanker" with two tip tanks only was the best config for our daily flying. I remember us young pilots bagging the ops officer for an aircraft to fly as much as we could.

    Again Ron, You have raised some great memories, many thanks!!!

    HTMO9
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    As I am totally unable (two left hands with only thumbs on both hands :p) to build one of those grat RC planes or do any RC flying, I am a big fan of full scale models, both display only and really flying onces.

    The Fiat G-91 R3 in this video is nicely built and flown great but it is not really to scale and realistic. The landing gear is far to high, as the G-91 was originally designed for soft field operations with dragged gear and low pressure tires and most of all no nose gear steering (differential breaking only). It was sitting much lower on its main gear with higher pointing nose. The shown external tanks are unreallistic. The aircraft was flown with two different types of external tanks, with 2 x 260 Ltr tanks, which looked simillar to those on the model but were a lot smaller and 2 x 520 Ltr external tanks. The small tanks were only used on the double seater and for short air to ground range missions, all normal flying was only done with the 520 Ltr tanks for better endurance. The RC model is shown with the camera nose and the 4 x 0.5 inch machine guns. This type of G-91 was called the R4 and was never operational in the German Air Force. This version was only flown by the Italian Air Force. By the time the German Air Force changed the aircraft registrations from letters to numbers, only G-91 R3 and T3 (the double seater) were in the inventory. The G-91 R3 had only two 30 mm DEFA 553 guns (actually the WW II Messerschmidt Me-109 centerline gun produced by the French after the war for the Mystere and Mirages.

    The German Air Force had hundreds of this type of light air to ground attack and close air support aircraft in the inventory. Innitially 5 FBW were equipped with the "Gina". Our neigbour wing, the 43 FBW in Oldenburg had more than 130 aircraft in stock but only about 60 Pilots to fly them. The double seater, the T3 was used for check rides and shuttle missions. I have had many missions both in the back seat and in the front seat of T3. The 91 wings were very helpfull with recovering pilots from diversion and broken aircrafts.

    But the G-91 T3 was a real pig. Due to the added forward fuselage for the forward cockpit, the a/c was much less stable and the the elevator was not effective enough. Therefore an electric motor was added to the fixed part of the elevator (the so called tailplane selector :() which trimmed the fixed horizontal tail up, when You pulled on the stick. What a nightmare during instrument and most of all formation flying. WW II instruments only, one old unreliable UHF radio and a TACAN which had to be removed, when the guns were loaded. The G-91 was replaced by the Alpha Jet, a very nice flying machine but as a combat aircraft as useless as the Gina.

    The good old times but at least we could fly as much as we wanted.

    HTMO9
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    I can imagine you can easily take the drink flying at such low altitude. This was to avoid radar right?
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    Officially we were suppost to fly our sea low level missions at 100 ft ASL. But very low in the ground effect the aircraft was much more stable. Flying over open sea, there is not very much to hide behind. But in my time, doppler radar were not very common, neither with NATO nor with the WP. So you had a pretty good chance to hide in the ground clutter and catch the ships by surprise, when popping up for your final attack. At 540 Kts and 1.5 NM out or less, there is not much reaction time left for the target. You could tell, when at the optimum altitude above the water, the a/c produced a pretty nice wake on the water.

    When firing guided Anti Radar Missiles (HARM) or Anti ship Missles (Kormoran), You had to be at a specific min altitude when firing those missles, because the missles dropped some feet before the rocket motor developed its full thrust. But this were stand-off attacks pretty far and safe distance out.

    Doing the same thing on the F-4 Phantom, scared the hell out of the navigators :). But as we said, no mercy!!
    And the wake was much bigger, like a destroyer at 30 Kts.
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    Very nice PC-21 Advanced Trainer RC model.

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    Part 5 of the RAMY RC Gulfstream 650 build.

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    Part 6...focusing on making the gear for the G650 build.

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    Pilatus PC-12

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    10-meters? Wow.

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    Installing the electronics on the RAMY RC Gulfstream G650 build.

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    Test run of the RAMY RC G650 build... first flight will perhaps be soon after this.

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    F-104 Starfighter trio flying together.