R/C Airplane Video - Real?!?

[flyingferret 0]

I kind of collect cool r/c videos, like the huge b-52, and its sad crash. This was forwarded to me today...and wow! Amazing...but is it real? It almost seems too good. Anyone know?

http://www.midcountyrc.com/videocorner/AFPD.wmv

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[flyingferret 0]

Maybe:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/Ask_Maarten_DeMoor_-_Setting_Up_AFP(D)_To_The_Max/m_2454105/tm.htm

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[flyingferret 0]

Damn it here I co answering my own questions:

It is fake, kinda....
http://www.aerofly.com/gallery.html

It is in the aerofly simulator, but there is a pilot actually flying it, and it is based on totally legit physics for that model....so...does that make it real?

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[payback462 0]

the plane itself looks fake, parts of it dissapear and reappear when its doing that close helicopter thing.


on a side note, i recently saw a REAL video of an RC helicopter that was mind boggling, basically most of the same stuff just with a chopper.

i cant find it though GRRR

[flyingferret 0]

The really weird part is the auto focus on the camcorder...when the plane drifts, why would a sim video do that?

But it is confirmed AFP is Aerofly Pro, hence the title of the video and thread.

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[JeffD 0]

Theres no pilot in the movie, and the cameraman is awesome. so you know its a sim. Anyway we bought something like this www.realflight.com and it was a great training aid for learning RC. So yes there is a pilot flying that thing, and you can really do that stuff in real life.

[Slappie 9]

I say it's fake because it's computer generated. If you crashed it you just load a new plane. If it was real and crashed it, you'd load up and go home.

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[kallend 2,114]

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I kind of collect cool r/c videos, like the huge b-52, and its sad crash. This was forwarded to me today...and wow! Amazing...but is it real? It almost seems too good. Anyone know?

http://www.midcountyrc.com/videocorner/AFPD.wmv

It is a simulator. I should know, I wrote the world's first ever R/C simulator back in 1983, and sold 50,000 of them.

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[flyingferret 0]

Thanks for the confirmation....I ended up finding that out several posts up, after I had posted the thread.
Still rather intriguing, and pretty incredible piloting.

How accurate are the physics models? And they be modified to that degree that the piloting is easier?

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[freethefly 6]

Really cool video. It was somewhat mundane untill 1:50 and then WOW. Ther is a jumper in K.C. who has an RC plane and can make it stand still on it's tail , also make it dance and walk. Real amazing to watch. Last 4th of July we did a demo into the Joplin airshow, while there we watched a guy inside a glider with two RC jet engines mounted on the wings do the same stunts, blew my mind to watch this big glider stand up on it's tail and dance in place, amazing.

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[bobsled92 0]

VERY nice Sim though.
I flew a Shuttle ZX for years and the guy that got me into it competes with several .60 size Helis. The inverted hovering inches off the ground is something else. I have NEVER flow inverted. I last flew with a full NY State Police body & strobes. I keep my stuff simple but, fun.

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[n2skdvn 0]

Is this the sail plane you were talking about?

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[Guest]

I've recently seen a battery-powered RC plane helicoptered around like that in the waiting line of the Clinton-Mukilteo ferry terminal here.

It was amazing.

mh

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[cvfd1399 0]

This one kicks ass. A flying lawn mower. It is basically either gutted, or built to look like a push mower with a engine on the front. The flap on the back that keeps dog shit from hitting your feet when you run over it seems to be cut in half and connected to servos to fly it.

Is that your lawn mower?

[flyingferret 0]

Yeah, seen pics of it. It is actually built from balsa wood, but very convincingly.

http://images.google.com/images?q=flying%20lawnmower&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi

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[kallend 2,114]

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Yeah, seen pics of it. It is actually built from balsa wood, but very convincingly.

http://images.google.com/images?q=flying%20lawnmower&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi

It's mostly styrofoam. I know the guy that built the prototype, and have seen it fly for real. About 1 minute into the video you can see that the "engine" is fake, because you can see right through it from the front (or rear). The "wheels" aren't real, they are just styrofoam, and it has regular model airplane landing gear underneath. It has a .60 size model plane engine.

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