RC Radio Controlled Night flyer airplane LED flight Light ufo sccmas
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.org
The 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.
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April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Awesome plane, Did …
Awesome plane, Did you used led stripes ?
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
@robotalex12 You …
@robotalex12 You buy the wood at your local hobby shop. You do some research, you can find plans from sources on the internet. Lights from eBay, you take the wood, glue it together over the plans, ask a bunch of questions on the rcgroups forum.
if its your first plane plan on about a month to build, while practicing on a flight simulator, go to your local RC club & have an instructor help with your first flight & you’re golden. This is not a short attention span endeavor.
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
where do you buy …
where do you buy that plane
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
we could trick …
we could trick people into thinking thats a UFO!! nice! xD
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
FELICIDADES – …
FELICIDADES – EXCELENT -
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
cool plane
cool plane
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
it looks so …
it looks so beautiful.
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
are you flying a …
are you flying a weather balloon or something in san jose? i’ve seen a glowing orb go from stationary to moving in the sky looking west from san jose, it was pulsing red and blue. can you identify this? if you search youtube for ufo in san jose there are multiple videos uploaded over the past year or so, apparently it was seen in south san jose in 2009, i just saw it last night in west san jose.
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
UFO
UFO
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
thats awsome i grew …
thats awsome i grew up in fairfield, Ca. just out side travis afb dad was a b52 mech back when it was a sac base. i got introuble flying rc to close to the base when i was in highschool!
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
@psyk0diver This …
@psyk0diver This flight was made in San Jose, California the highway in the background is US 101. This aircraft has been flown at many locations, in Reno Nevada the police showed up.
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
where were you …
where were you flying at? I used to live near an air force base, and how meny UFO reports did the local law inforcement receive that night? I ask because you can see cars driving by on what looks to be a highway in the background.
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
UFO
UFO
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
That would be an …
That would be an awesome advertising tool. Plus it looks like it would fit right in flying in downtown Vegas at night.
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
SUPER model and …
SUPER model and video
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
that things got A …
that things got A LOT OF LIGHTS
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
this is one cool …
this is one cool night flyer bird!
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Ha! That is one the …
Ha! That is one the coolest things I have ever seen! I bet those people on the highway think its martians haha!
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
REALLY COOL.
REALLY COOL.
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
The name of the …
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
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
very cool. You …
very cool. You said it’s a record breaker with an 8 foot wingspan. What record was it, that it broke? Just curious
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
There is a product, …
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
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
just curious but …
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.
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
That is Awesome …
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.
April 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
omg that is soo …
omg that is soo cool i want one!! should try flying over the highway to scared people :]