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Originally Posted by Dave P
That's heart breaking. Enough to make a grown man cry.
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Dave, are you referring to the crash of this magnificent model? I hate to break this news if it's not known, but this incredible scale B-52 crashed (and yes burned) not too long after that movie was filmed.
It took a team an incredible amount of time, work, and $$ to take the project to the flying stage. It used 8 small turbines of about 10 lb thrust each. IIRC the model weighed about 200 lb, which still gave it a very good 0.4 thrust/weight.
The turbines looked like this:
The last I heard, the team was going to try again. I don't think anything was salvaged from the first crash. Guys that do this have real guts, to put their work at risk every time they fly.