The center section of each airplane is a composite made of Aero-Mat, covered in fiberglass, and reinforced with carbon fiber in key areas. Six, minutes you crash.” Better remember to turn on the timer! Because of the airplanes’ glide characteristics (or lack thereof), they say, “Four minutes, you land. Together they produce a total of 24 pounds of thrust and provide 4 minutes of flight time.
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They started with plans for an 82-inch version provided by Wings on the Web and scaled them to 150%.Įach airplane is powered by two Jet Fan 90mm units using two six-cell 5,000 mAh batteries in series for each fan. The most unusual of the German aircraft were the two 123-inch Horton Ho 229 flying wings built by Thomas White IV and Tom Hernandez. Thomas White IV and Tom Hernandez decided to build two 10-foot Horten 229s, one of which is pictured. Also included in the club’s squadron were two American airplanes in historically accurate German livery, an L-4 Cub flown by “Stuka Barry,” and a P-51 Mustang flown by Rich Schaffer.Ĭarl Bachhuber’s Convair 580, also known as the Canadair CC-109, looks and sounds stunning. Many of these came from members of the Tidewater Radio Control club, based in Chesapeake, Virginia, who brought an impressive 26 models to the event, including five Ju 87 Stukas to fly and a sixth that was for sale. This year, we saw a significant rise in the number of airplanes from the Third Reich. It’s interesting to see what types of airplanes pilots bring. No sooner did they arrive than they began helping the Delaware R/C Club prepare for the event, working for hours in the blistering sun. Pilots Steven Kochinskas and Jim Bumpus may have set a record for arriving early-traveling roughly 300 miles from Massachusetts to arrive on Saturday morning before the event. This year’s gathering began on Tuesday, July 9, and ran through Sunday, July 14. Pilots come from as far away as the United Kingdom and each year they seem to arrive earlier. Now in its 22nd year, Warbirds Over Delaware attracts more than 200 pilots and thousands of spectators.
Warbirds Over Delaware began in 1992 as a handful of friends getting together to fly their Scale military airplanes for a couple days. Read the entire article in the January 2014 issue of Model Aviation. Relive War Birds Over Delaware with bonus online photos.
Military aircraft celebrate the event’s 22nd year.
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