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slickdawg
6/30/2006, 03:09 PM
http://img272.imageshack.us/img272/9049/b52model2fd.jpg

Click on the site & watch/hear it fly on Media Player.

Actually has 8 "real turbines" at about $1500 each!* Took over 2
years to build. It has a wing span of about 22 feet. Takes multiple pilots, as there are so many things to control.

Think they were nervous during the maiden flight?

Unbelievable that someone would make this - all real turbines! $12,000 just for the engines!*

Check out the movie link below to see the first flight.* AMAZING!!!

http://www.mcgirt.net/RC/VIDEOS/Giant_B52/B52_flight2.wmv

it's about 22MB, so don't try it on dialup.
OUHOMER
6/30/2006, 04:54 PM
i wonder if it has to be registerd with the FAA
Newbomb Turk
6/30/2006, 05:03 PM
that is pretty wild.
yermom
6/30/2006, 05:27 PM
what would be really cool is if it had real bombs too :D
SeattleOUstudent
6/30/2006, 05:53 PM
fly that over Bagdad and watch em run! :)
ultimatesooner1
6/30/2006, 06:23 PM
I'd get drunk and then crash it into a car or sumtin and the video would end up on youtube
jk the sooner fan
6/30/2006, 07:02 PM
very cool!
Okla-homey
6/30/2006, 07:06 PM
That would a Bongo five-two Golf. I got me some time in one of them.

"Everybody grab a throttle, we're going around!"
Newbomb Turk
6/30/2006, 07:07 PM
That would a Bongo five-two Golf. I got me some time in one of them.

I thought it was Bravo?
Okla-homey
6/30/2006, 07:14 PM
I thought it was Bravo?

Negative. See the short vertical stabilizer? Everything through the delta model had a tall tail.
Newbomb Turk
6/30/2006, 07:17 PM
Negative. See the short vertical stabilizer? Everything through the delta model had a tall tail.

I have no idea what the hell you are talking about. :O
I just thought "B" was Bravo in military lingo.
Okla-homey
6/30/2006, 07:26 PM
I have no idea what the hell you are talking about. :O
I just thought "B" was Bravo in military lingo.

Well then stay on the porch civilian. Military aerospace vee-hicles is mah especialitie...and stuff.
Newbomb Turk
6/30/2006, 07:29 PM
Well then stay on the porch civilian. Military aerospace vee-hicles is mah especialitie...and stuff.

affirmative - or what ever the heck you guys say. :D
Mixer!
6/30/2006, 08:45 PM
Are they still in service, or is it just B1-B & B2's now?
VeeJay
6/30/2006, 08:54 PM
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/06-98/06-19-98/b52s.jpg

Somebody had to do it...
Newbomb Turk
6/30/2006, 08:56 PM
no, they didn't ;)
WILBURJIM
6/30/2006, 08:56 PM
It crashed!
:(

http://www.mcgirt.net/RC/VIDEOS/Giant_B52/
Newbomb Turk
6/30/2006, 09:00 PM
sweet - now there's the video I wanted to see.
sounded a bit windy out there.

spek to you Jim.
yermom
6/30/2006, 09:02 PM
dang... it HAD to be behind the trees...
noleamite
6/30/2006, 09:05 PM
what a waist of perfectly good turbines!
LoyalFan
7/1/2006, 10:21 AM
Hello? Prudential?

LF
StoopTroup
7/1/2006, 10:53 AM
That was really cool.

Too bad about the crash.
reevie
7/1/2006, 10:57 AM
Are they still in service, or is it just B1-B & B2's now?


Yes, we're still flying all 3. I work in the B-52 Program Office.
mrowl
7/1/2006, 10:57 AM
I can't find an "official" web page for these guys... wonder if there are any pictures of the plane after crashing..