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Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:01 pm

Useful load = limited

I think I just stumbled onto a way to get beer down to those guys at the far north end of JC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrOZsQRkFL4

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Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:07 pm

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Nice attention to detail. Even appears to have deployable flaps!
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Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:16 pm

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very cool rc
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Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:33 pm

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The sound of that engine is excellent! Five cylinder four stroke?
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Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:53 pm

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Better than the 4 channel R/Cs we used to fly in the '70s. Used a "ton" of five minute epoxy keeping them flying!

The guy in the video just needs a Park Ranger doll to put inside the beaver. :lol:
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Sat Mar 23, 2013 5:42 am

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From the comments off the Youtube link

Scale: 1:2.5 (40%) Wingspan: 5.85 m Length: 3.69 m Height: 1.10 m Empty Weight: 87.1 kg Takeoff Weight: 91.3 kg Speed range: 20 to 60 mph Radio: Futaba FX-30 2.4 GHz Engine: Moki S400 5-cylinder radial (4-stroke gasoline engine) The engine develops 23 hp @ 3,800 rpm, turns a huge, custom-made 40-inch propeller. Aluminium construction throughout, ...
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Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:03 am

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Z:

By the size of the guy's gut in coverall's, I suspect that any beer available for transport is long since gone!
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Sat Mar 23, 2013 10:46 am

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Scolopax wrote:The sound of that engine is excellent! Five cylinder four stroke?


I think that's my favorite part too.

88H... not much else to do I guess while building one of these. I'm at high risk too since my kegerator is about 15 feet away. 8)
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 1:39 pm

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Plenty cool. I like the Salt Spring Air paint job--saw a bunch of their Beavers out in BC last year, all on floats, of course, and I still have their 2012 picture calendar, which I got at one of their "end of the dock terminals"--a shack about the size of the average tool shed.

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