OK you fly boys - check this out

[Keith]

I guarantee that at one point in this video you will laugh out loud as it does look quite comical, but then...

Amazing.

Archaeopteryx Demo-Clip from Ruppert Composite on Vimeo

 

[Al Wohlstrom]

Looks like a lot of fun, and quiet too!

 

[Robert May Eng.]

What awesome piece of kit. I am not so sure about the landing though .

Bob

 

[Ian Anderson]

And if you scare yourself tooooo much you have an easy poopa dumper!
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

 

[Marcus]

Fantastic thing but at a cost: Base price 73K Swiss Franks.

For a bit more you can get this:

FK-Lightplanes

 

[Jeff Young]

Balls seem exposed.

Other than that, wow. Cool toy.

 

[Keith]

Fantastic thing but at a cost: Base price 73K Swiss Franks.

For a bit more you can get this:

FK-Lightplanes

Very very nice and I was quite intrigued until I got to the part where they have a "sound system to replicate a Merlin starting and stopping" (presumably, only in the pilots headphones) and a "smoke machine to generate white smoke on starting through the right and left hand dummy exhaust stacks"

Now we've all sat in cars and made brmmm brmmm noises but never ever in public, and this...

Honestly, I would feel a complete fool in that thing. What was it made for, 12 year olds?

And have they made a Focke Wulf 190 version yet? :evil:

 

[Marcus]

One can certainly order one without these childish things.

FW 190 kit here:

Flugwerk

 

[Keith]

Well that's good to know.

I'll take a squadron of each, and to spice things up, a Regiment of 88mm Flugabwehrkanone please

Can you gift wrap them?

 

[Marcus]

Can you gift wrap them?

...and deliver them right to your doorstep :thumbsup:

 

[Keith]

As long as it's TO the doorstep and not 500 feet above, that's ok.

Deal.

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

Early on I was reminded of the Flinstones, but it certainly is a well thought out piece of kit.
Looks like fun.

 

[Grady]

Very very nice and I was quite intrigued until I got to the part where they have a "sound system to replicate a Merlin starting and stopping" (presumably, only in the pilots headphones) and a "smoke machine to generate white smoke on starting through the right and left hand dummy exhaust stacks"

Now we've all sat in cars and made brmmm brmmm noises but never ever in public, and this...

Honestly, I would feel a complete fool in that thing. What was it made for, 12 year olds?

And have they made a Focke Wulf 190 version yet? :evil:

Or a TA152...

 

[Graham T]

Very very nice and I was quite intrigued until I got to the part where they have a "sound system to replicate a Merlin starting and stopping" (presumably, only in the pilots headphones) and a "smoke machine to generate white smoke on starting through the right and left hand dummy exhaust stacks"

Now we've all sat in cars and made brmmm brmmm noises but never ever in public, and this...


I was at a large scale model aircraft event last year and one outstanding ver scale Mosquito had an onbourd sound system replicating start up, idling and variable speed twin Merlin engines.

In flight, scale speed and a still day you were completely fooled.

FANTASTIC.

 

[Keith]

Oh dear......

 

[Mike Drew]

Early on I was reminded of the Flinstones, but it certainly is a well thought out piece of kit.
Looks like fun.

Looks like a one-way ticket to the emergency room to me! :laugh: