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12-11-2005
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Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Warwick,UK Real Name: Barry My Models: Aviation artifacts Visit wonwinglo's Gallery
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| Remote aircraft news.
A new survey reveals that there are now over 1,000 remote aircraft now flying in Iraq and Afghanistan,the small flying machines are crammed with monitoring equipment so tiny, that before it was not possible to carry out missions that these small aircraft are tasked with.
Made from a variety of materials including carbon fibres and foam the aircraft can fly hundreds of miles out at great altitude without risk of being shot down.
__________________ 'And there I was oil on my goggles from a broken pipe,then I looked at the altimeter,all I could see was the makers name !' www.wonwinglo.scale-models.net/ | 
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12-11-2005
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| | All Round Modeller | Yep, very true Barry and some of these machines are not much bigger than our present models but have battery life hours in excess of 12 hours or more.
Imagine the difference to your average day's flying on those sort of batteries !!!
The sooner that technology filters down to the model world the better...!!!
All full size aircraft start life as models so why not put that power in the right hands now and let the model designers come up with the next generation aircraft...probably much cheaper than the full size industry can do......eg. Novatech Stingray anyone...?? Sadly no longer made but what a sleek machine that was...!!! I would love to own one of those.
And for those of you who have never heard of it, here it is...stealth and forward swept wing technology combined !!! The NovaTech Stingray..!! (You will not find this on the official website now by the way !!!)
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12-11-2005
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Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Inverness Scotland Real Name: Iain My Models: i currently have a hpi nitro mt2 and a thundertiger ts4n Visit Phoenix's Gallery
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| i read about those little military planes in a magazine some time ago | |
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12-11-2005
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Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Edinburgh Real Name: Chris My Models: Mainly boats, some cars , but most RC Visit adzam's Gallery
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| do these things use athe Hi frequency bands for control ?
just a query | |
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12-11-2005
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| | one more feather ......!
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Scottish Highlands Real Name: Duncan My Models: HMS Invincible Visit duncan's Gallery
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| Watch one in action. Click on the title above photograph of the Shadow. The quality has been deliberately reduced. Transcript of controllers conversation is interesting. Each Shadow costs $35,000. Frequency used is probably known only to military and will be well scrambled no doubt. http://www.michealyon.blogspot.com/2...dows-of-baquba Edit;I cant get the full address to come up. Try adding /2005/03/ instead of dots. Or Google for Shadows of Baquba and Micheal Yons blog pages will come up
Last edited by duncan; 12-11-2005 at 08:57..
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12-11-2005
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Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Edinburgh Real Name: Chris My Models: Mainly boats, some cars , but most RC Visit adzam's Gallery
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| thnx duncan  | |
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14-11-2005
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| | one more feather ......!
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Scottish Highlands Real Name: Duncan My Models: HMS Invincible Visit duncan's Gallery
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| That has fixed it. Thanks. | |
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14-11-2005
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Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Warwick,UK Real Name: Barry My Models: Aviation artifacts Visit wonwinglo's Gallery
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| Simply awesome,thanks for sending in the details Duncan,what technology. | |
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15-11-2005
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| | one more feather ......!
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Scottish Highlands Real Name: Duncan My Models: HMS Invincible Visit duncan's Gallery
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| More like the models we know are some of the infantryman`s back-pack devices...see "Raven" and "Pointer" at www.aerovironment.com Look for "area-aircraft/unmanned"
Last edited by duncan; 15-11-2005 at 09:13..
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