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This Radio Controlled airplane is a scratch built 1936 Lanzo Record Breaker with an eight foot wing span. It is about 12 years old & has seen many configurations from gas powered tow plane, camera ship, autonomous test platform, to video transmitting search plane. In its current configuration, it is a Night Nite flying rc airplane with 30 meters of LED lights.(I know I said 6 meter in the video, but I was nervous) Thats a total of one thousand eight hundred individual led lights The motor is a Hacker B-50 L-13 with gearbox, prop is 20X10, thats a 20 inch diameter, with a Castle Creations 80 AMP speed control and a six cell 5000 Mah Thunder Power Extreme V2 li-po motor battery. The LED are powered by three separate 3 cell 2100 Mah li-po batteries. The ship was flown at the SCCMAS facility in Morgan Hill, California by Walter Colby. Don't complain about the camera work I found the camera guy in the home depot parking lot. wcolby HD www.sccmas.orgThe LEDs draw approximately 1.2 amps for every 5 meters at 11.1Volts.I have 5 meters of red & 5 meters of green in the wing run by a single 2100 Mah 3 cell lithium polymer battery.I have 5 meters of blue on the tail & 5 meters of white on the sides of the fuselage run by another 2100 Mah 3 cell lithium polymer battery pack. And finally there is 10 meters of white LED on the bottom of the fuselage run by a third 2100 Mah 3 cell lithium polymer battery.I am not an electrician but the lights run for about 50 minutes, the part I appreciate is that when one battery dies the others continue to operate.The airplane motor & servo control is powered by a 6 cell 5000 mah battery that should fly the plane for about 45 minutes.This was the first flight for this configuration so the flight was made after sunset,.this aircraft is a night flyer but no claim is made that it is flying in the dark. granted it is not pitch black sky , that is not my fault, if you feel cheated, that's not my fault either.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: wcolbyHD

Length: 03:12
Rating: 4.731928
Views: 168183

Tags: RC  Radio  Controlled  nitefly  flight  Night  flying  airplane  LED  Light  ufo  sccmas  wcolby  HD  no  crash  landing  

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radampl (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
SUPER model and video
jmoney1095 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
that things got A LOT OF LIGHTS
BrotherBloat (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
this is one cool night flyer bird!
bradrnstyle (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Ha! That is one the coolest things I have ever seen! I bet those people on the highway think its martians haha!
MrJacobbbo (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
REALLY COOL.
wcolbyHD (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The name of the aircraft is "the Record Breaker"It was named that by the designer & builder Chet Lanzo back in 1936, it broke the record for weight lift & duration in 1936. I built a copy of the plane & put 1800 LEDs on it. Walt
warderseeker (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
very cool. You said it's a record breaker with an 8 foot wingspan. What record was it, that it broke? Just curious
wcolbyHD (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
There is a product, its a dynamo spun up by a gas motor that can run electronics on an aircraft, think its called aurora, but this airplane is powered by an electric motor so its not efficient to put another load on that motor, thats why the lights are powered by their own batteries. Walt
onlinesniper (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
just curious but could there be way to hook up a high gear generator (for lack of another word lol?) to the propellor to slow charge the lights batteries? eg iv got a torch that you wind up to charge the 3 volt battery pack theres hardly any resistance and i was wondering, if the internal was mounted to the fuselage somehow then linked to the batteries and prop would this serve as a viable in flight charger? sory if this is a silly suggestion.
onlinesniper (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
That is Awesome mate 10/10, if he would have flown it in pitch black he would have to have a top notch camera to put here for us to watch, it doesnt state that it is being flown here at night the title says night flyer anyway awesome job mate.

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