[lektrik_flyers] Re: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plane
- From: "Lamb, Joe" <joe.lamb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lektrik_flyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:15:56 -0500
I'd like it if fuel cell technology made it into our little hands that quick,
but can anybody guess what happened the last time hydrogen and aviation mixed?
Yep, Hindenburg.
The Christmas Rabbit was pretty good to me this year, and it looks like I'll
have the money to order some fancy micro-RC gear to necessitate the
long-overdue build phase of my still-boxed-up SE-5 project. To further
complicate matters, my girlfriend, in her infinite patience and understanding
of me "playing with toys," bought me the Guillows Nieuport 11 kit.
I don't think it's as good a candidate for R/C, what with it's utter lack of
fuselage forward of the top wing's leading edge and the inexplicably tiny lower
wing. I don't know what those frog-eaters were thinking when they decided their
airplanes needed only token nods to the idea of lower wings, but it can't be
good for flying models. ... makes for a good-looking airplane though.
If my SE-5 suffers an illigetimate landing, I might build the Nieuport as my
next R/C project anyway. If difficult is too tough, go for impossible, I say.
Damn the torpedos. A balsa-sheeted WWII converted freeflight kit is also a
little too tempting to ignore for more than a few years.
Hopefully, I'll start gluing stuff together soon. And this time, I mean it.
Happy new year,
Joe
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> From: lektrik_flyers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Bill Beavers
> Reply To: lektrik_flyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:59 PM
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> Subject: [lektrik_flyers] Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plane
>
> While you are sitting around here this winter trying to figure out how you
> are going to get the weather to cooperate so that you can squeeze a little
> flying in, you might take a few minutes and check out this site. These
> German dudes have put a Hydrogen fuel cell on a flying wing, and it is just
> pretty cool. I think we can expect some of this stuff to start showing up on
> a year or two as alternative fuel sources for our planes, transmitters, and
> who knows what else. This is pretty exciting technology if you ask me. The
> page by the way is in German (http://www.pozefilm.de/wh.html) so you might
> want to RIGHT CLICK on the page and go down the menu to PAGE INFO then scroll
> over to TRANSLATE PAGE INTO ENGLISH to be able to read the contents of the
> page, but even that isn't necessary if you just want to watch the videos of
> the plane. Pretty sweet stuff.
>
> Oh btw, my dreams have come true in that GWS has release a P-38 Lightning and
> it looks pretty sweet. I haven't bought it yet (I have to make some room in
> my garage for stuff first), but plan to at first opportunity. BP Hobbies
> even has a sweet brushless hop up for it that I think if I were to buy it I
> would do just to get the needed power (GWS is notorious for underpowering
> their planes) and just to make it fly quieter than the gearboxes.
>
> Praying that the weather clears soon for some long distance flying! :D
>
> Bill Beavers
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