Concorde model maden flight

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Saw this on youtube. Thought some forum members would appreciate this.

Concorde model 1st flight

Steve.

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

This one has the red arrows with it.

Amazing.

Air display

Steve.

[DanielParticipant @daniel]

Hi Steve,

It truly is amazing stuff.

Really good video, thank's for posting it

ATB,

Daniel

[DanielParticipant @daniel]

Hi Steve,

It truly is amazing stuff.

Really good video, thank's for posting it

ATB,

Daniel

[Cornish JackParticipant @cornishjack]

The Concorde gets full marks for the build quality but Trubshaw and Turcat might have a word or three about the take-off rotation!! The 'Sparrows' formation flying was very impressive.

Brought back memories of the first public demonstration of a model gas turbine powered aircraft at an R/C model meeting we organised at RAF Abingdon. The builder was Gerry Jackman and he had previously demonstrated a sound recording of the original exploding at 120,000 rpm! The demoflight was watched with much interest! Such progress!

rgds

Bill

[Trevor Crossman 1Participant @trevorcrossman1]

I missed the Abingdon debut of model gas turbine engine when the Service had other plans for me, but I remember having long conversations with Gerry Jackman about his engine building when we met a couple of times in the Reading model shop while buying stuff. These model engines have really come a long way, much aided by the development of micro electronics.

Trevor

[DrDaveParticipant @drdave]

I used to work just down the road from Mühldorf am Inn, so I let out an involuntary “oh!” at the start of the video!

The airfield has seen other exotic aircraft, such as the Me262. There is also the site of a WWII vintage underground hanger that was being built for Messerschmitt in the woods nearby.

[Enough!Participant @enough]

(Within reason) there doesn't seem to be much limitation on how far you can scale down a propeller aircraft but I'd always imagined it was more difficult with a jet.

So how small can you make a (flying) jet model?

Apologies if it's a dumb question – not my scene.

[Nigel BennettParticipant @nigelbennett69913]

Very impressive indeed. But what about those utter lunatics who were standing at the side of the runway within feet of the thing taking off and landing? It would have done a lot of severe damage indeed to the aircraft if it had crashed into one of those onlookers. At 1/6 full size, that Concorde is about the same size as a typical light aircraft…

[Dave HalfordParticipant @davehalford22513]

Posted by Nigel Bennett on 13/04/2020 16:33:52:

Very impressive indeed. But what about those utter lunatics who were standing at the side of the runway within feet of the thing taking off and landing? It would have done a lot of severe damage indeed to the aircraft if it had crashed into one of those onlookers. At 1/6 full size, that Concorde is about the same size as a typical light aircraft…

Those lunatics are called pilots

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Amazing

Are there any pictures of him taking it home in the hatchback?

[J HancockParticipant @jhancock95746]

As the previous few posts , I was invited to one of the early demonstrations of miniature gas turbines in flight

at the ex-RAF Hucknall/ Rolls Royce site in '94.

A prime example of 'amateurs' achieving what the 'professionals' said could never be done.

To end the day, we were treated to a display of ground level flying by the in-house, full-size, Spitfire.

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