Indoor flying

Peter Dohm wrote:

"Dave" wrote in message
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"Richard Lamb" wrote in message
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Eye of the beholder, I guess.
Richard

and

ChuckSlusarczyk wrote:
"A small object, usually built to scale, that represents in detail
another,
often larger object." rather fits the bill.

I disagree about that.

1.. An object for children to play with

Barring the notion of children, This looks good to me.

As I said to the indignant OP, it's a silly arguement. I think they're
toys,
and I don't think they are models of anything except perhaps in the most
general terms. I think they are an interesting curiousity, entertaining.
The
operator is clearly talented. I offered up "miniature aircraft" as
appropriate. So, as soon as I see a full size aircraft that is a copy of.
I'll change my opinion.

It does remind me of the paroxysms of rage that came from the character of
the German engineer in the original "Flight of the Pheonix" and that image
came immediately to mind whan I read the original complaint.


When I was a kid, our U-control models were called "models", and the
precision replicas that people of all ages bought or built were also called
models. And it seemed that all of them miraculously became toys when you
were yelled at.

Clearly, however, if a "full size" copy of one of the smaller aircraft was
built, then the larger craft must be the "model"...

Just my 2¢

Peter

Interesting perspective, Peter.

There is an RC model (!) called Lazy Bee.

It's so ugly it's actually cute, flies so slow you can easily
circle in the back yard.
The big on has about 4 foot wing span.

But for my models (!), I prefer rubber band powered Peanut scale.

I built a 1/4 scale "Peanut" version (13 inch wingspan).
I've had flights over a minute with it, but haven't
entered it in competition yet.

I would enter it as a scale model(!) of a radio controlled
model(!) (with full documentation - it might work(?).
an clean up on scale points!

But also, this thing could scale UP nicely too.

Single seat with 503 at about 400-500 pounds?
The "original" is powered by a a Cox .049, so an exposed
503 would be perfectly in order on the "scale model"(?).

That would make the "full sized" one (to my mind a toy!)
a model(?)
of a model(!)
of a model(!)???

All I would need then is a troop of midget clowns to secretly
meet me at the end of the runway when I land.


That ought to give the rubes something to talk about after the
airshows...



Richard