Big R/c job

[PoorOldSpike]

Radio-controlled flying boat test model of XP4Y-1, San Diego July 1949

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/385/47048193.jpg
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3088/22984747.jpg

[razorboy]

How many D-Cell batteries do you reckon that controller takes?

[PoorOldSpike]

Dunno, but what a glorious flying site, America's a big beautiful country..:)
I was on the verge of building a smaller r/c flying boat a couple of times years ago but there was a chronic shortage of lakes and wide rivers round where I lived (cramped, crowded central england), and the only decent ones were fenced off from the public or patrolled by shotgun-toting gamekeepers, so I dropped the idea..

[PoorOldSpike]

I got one now though (below)..:)
Admittedly it's only in my Flight Sim X program but i'm not picky..;)

Short Empire Class flying boat
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/FSX-ShortEmp.jpg