Any experience with one of these?

[sleepless_red]

Who has flown one? I want to at least see them up close. I heard these guys have been flying these things for like 20-30 years. I saw them on TV one time and one of the fastest one can go over 240mph. I forgot the name. I think it's the High Speed Bandit. Pretty neat.

 

[MO-BUSA]

cant see it have to wait till i am at home...

 

[DEMMYM]

Awesome

Ive seen some guys fly some pretty big Choppers

 

[Phil96]

Impressive, good landingI want to give my Siamese kitten
a ride.

 

[BA BUSA]

 

[badazgtp]

That's pretty bad @$$

 

[Haya01B]

I have enough experience to know that they run in the several thousands and chances of someone with one letting anybody else fly it....Slim to none. I was looking at ducted fan rc models and while researching the cost I came across some of those jet engines. Try $3k or more per engine plus you still have thousands more to spend.

 

[Fastfrog007]

I have enough experience to know that they run in the several thousands and chances of someone with one letting anybody else fly it....Slim to none. I was looking at ducted fan rc models and while researching the cost I came across some of those jet engines. Try $3k or more per engine plus you still have thousands more to spend.

Beat me too it, trade the Busa and fly, fly ,fly

Awesome machines

 

[Blanca BusaLess]

Can that engine be strapped to Blanca's seat and how much thrust would it give us ?

 

[Takeuon]

Who has flown one? I want to at least see them up close. I heard these guys have been flying these things for like 20-30 years. I saw them on TV one time and one of the fastest one can go over 240mph. I forgot the name. I think it's the High Speed Bandit. Pretty neat.

Dude~! That is seriously bad azz! I wonder what kind of fuel that thing runs on?

 

[jdsbusa]

I flew R/C (all props, never got into ducted fans) for about 6 years in my early teen through teen years. Very expensive hobby! One of the guys we flew with had a very very rich pop who got him a Viper (at the time a 200mph jet, said to be one of the fastest around) only to watch it destroyed as he came in for a high speed pass and clipped a fence about 150 yds out. He salvaged only a single servo out of the crash! I still have some video of me flying them on some old VHS tapes - really should get them transferred onto the computer and converted over to VCD or DVD. One of my favorites was one called the Hots - very small but nimble stunt plane - it could accelerate going vertical which is very rare (or was back then 20+yrs ago) in the R/C world.

 

[Takeuon]

Impressive, good landingI want to give my Siamese kitten
a ride.

The picture going thru my mind is hilarious.

 

[jdsbusa]

Dude~! That is seriously bad azz! I wonder what kind of fuel that thing runs on?

Depends, if it's a ducted fan they run on a Nitromethane based fuel - anywhere from 20-30% nitro, if a true turbine it would run on something similar to kerosene I believe. The turbines have gotten very small and efficient. 20 years ago they were dinosaurs that were far underpowered compared to their ducted fan counterparts.

A little more info for you - http://www.hooked-on-rc-airplanes.com/rc-turbines.html
From the sounds of the F-16 in the video that's a real turbine. The ducted fans were much louder as I remember them. Engines spun around 30,000 rpm vs 17,000 for a high performance prop engine and about 13-14k for the average prop engine. I still have some of my old .45 engines laying in boxes....somewhere in the garage.

 

[J'Man]

That is freakin awesome! Brings back a bad memory from last Christmas though. I bought my son a R/C helicopter. I flew it for him on the first flight so I could "show him how to fly it". I went up about 50 ft in the air then "mayday, mayday," straight to the ground in a million pieces!! I'm not sure what I did wrong, but the look on my son's face is something I'll never forget.

That definitely sucked and was an expensive flight for one run! Done with the RC crap!

 

[Phil96]

The picture going thru my mind is hilarious.

Me too

 

[Takeuon]

Depends, if it's a ducted fan they run on a Nitromethane based fuel - anywhere from 20-30% nitro, if a true turbine it would run on something similar to kerosene I believe. The turbines have gotten very small and efficient. 20 years ago they were dinosaurs that were far underpowered compared to their ducted fan counterparts.

Very cool. Thanks for the answer.

 

[majestic12]

Impressive, good landingI want to give my Siamese kitten
a ride.

Don't tell PETA.

 

[Haya01B]

From the size of it looks like a Yellow Aircraft model but not 100% sure. They make some pretty awesome stuff.
Linky:Yellow Aircraft: Jet Models

I saw a guy on youtube wreck a 8 engine B52 RC jet. Thing looked like a real jet down to the smoke and fire. So lets see $3k per engine times 8 equals a change of underwear!
Linky:

- RC B52 bomber crash[/url]

 

[Phil96]

Don't tell PETA.

Ain't tellin' them jack st

 

[ibified]

wow, 22 lbs of thrust at 125K rpm. For an R/C engine, thats SICK power...