PRE-SHOW TEST FLIGHT ! GIANT B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber

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  • @EssentialRC
    @EssentialRC  Месяц назад +18

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  • @garyk8558
    @garyk8558 Месяц назад +69

    The B-17 was an amazing plane. My dad flew 35 missions to Germany and back machine gunner and radio operator. He was a member of the lucky bastards club. That is one beautiful model rest in peace dad I miss you.

    • @roadking99jokerst60
      @roadking99jokerst60 Месяц назад +9

      My own Father was also inducted into the Lucky Bastards club.Ball turret. He was in the 487bg. 839 bs. Sheldon crew. Near Lavenham

    • @garyk8558
      @garyk8558 Месяц назад +6

      @@roadking99jokerst60 God Bless Your Dad and his service to our country he was from The Great Gereration like my dad

    • @jackquillman7680
      @jackquillman7680 Месяц назад +6

      Mine did 33 missions -went through several planes. With the 303 RD and maybe with 305th .Seldom talked about it. Found some odd metal in our garage -I'm about 12, and asked dad what was this ? " Flack" . Took many years to understand and still don't know the full hell he went through .

    • @tedcolvin8425
      @tedcolvin8425 Месяц назад +2

      If he didn't make it back, you weren't born

    • @mrinnopadnah8316
      @mrinnopadnah8316 Месяц назад

      My wife's gandpa did 35 missions, part of the "Bloody Hundredth." Plane was named "Miss Chief."

  • @rogerdixon3700
    @rogerdixon3700 2 месяца назад +27

    Wonderful airman ship, a kiss my hand hand landing in challenging conditions AND no bloody music!!!!!!!

  • @klassyedward9718
    @klassyedward9718 2 месяца назад +22

    What a beauty of a model B-17!

  • @chuckcawthon3370
    @chuckcawthon3370 2 месяца назад +28

    Excellent model and flight demonstration. He is one with his machine. Well Done Sir.

  • @maxwebster7572
    @maxwebster7572 13 дней назад +4

    Thanks, beautiful job!

  • @vilasbhave5256
    @vilasbhave5256 Месяц назад +10

    As they say Landings are the most difficult. This landing was one of the best I have seen. Great.

  • @PopKombo-v8p
    @PopKombo-v8p 14 дней назад +2

    I was fortunate enough to fly in the 909. I spent most of the flight in the nose sitting in the bombardier's chair. What an experience.

  • @LICobra
    @LICobra 2 месяца назад +25

    Outstanding flight and landing in strong winds.

  • @bryantrockfield9865
    @bryantrockfield9865 16 дней назад +6

    Absolutely Gorgeous B17.....

  • @nuchbutter
    @nuchbutter 2 месяца назад +44

    Wow! That was a gutsy flight in gusty conditions. Well done, sir.

  • @dragonmeddler2152
    @dragonmeddler2152 2 месяца назад +14

    Proof a superior design will fly best. Boeing's nearly perfect bomber often made it home when lesser aircraft couldn't. What a beautiful flight! At scale, the gusty winds were near hurricane strength to the model.

  • @wayneandrus240
    @wayneandrus240 2 месяца назад +13

    Absolutely fantastic. great aero modeling and great flying too!

  • @johnarnold5891
    @johnarnold5891 Месяц назад +6

    Absolutely brilliant great skills

  • @kimrindell6519
    @kimrindell6519 Месяц назад +2

    Tack!

  • @inquirer1016
    @inquirer1016 22 дня назад +2

    Just outstanding! I can appreciate the B-17. I was lucky to tour the inside of one. It was so cramped. Beautiful plane.

  • @lordofglencoeandlochaberkl4804
    @lordofglencoeandlochaberkl4804 Месяц назад +3

    Danke!

  • @felixmadison5736
    @felixmadison5736 Месяц назад +3

    BEAUTIFUL!!! I sure wouldn't want to be the machine gunner in that glass cage under the pilot! That took a lot of guts to do what those guys did during WWII!!! Nice flying by the way! My late cousin loved RC planes and was a club member here on Cape Cod. He built and flew for many years.

  • @stevesmolik24
    @stevesmolik24 Месяц назад +5

    I love these XXL planes. They look so real. Beautiful plane, and thank you for sharing your videos.

  • @robertnolan8240
    @robertnolan8240 Месяц назад +5

    9 o 9...made me choke up at first... Beautiful lads

  • @dw.7655
    @dw.7655 2 месяца назад +5

    Beautiful, excellent, that was great to watch even with the strong winds. Congratulations on a fine flight. May you have many more as you fly that beautiful B-17. From the USA

  • @williamconquest5066
    @williamconquest5066 12 часов назад +1

    Beautiful plane..perfect flight and landing..awesome..!

  • @DadsRCHangar
    @DadsRCHangar 2 месяца назад +5

    Wow what an epic Bird, even with four engine, you could see the wind fighting her all the way, great pilot. Great footage Dom 👍🏻

  • @daveallen8824
    @daveallen8824 20 дней назад +3

    How cool is that! I actually flew on the Nine-0-Nine twice as a passenger before it was unfortunately lost recently.

  • @stevereid8486
    @stevereid8486 2 месяца назад +5

    Well done guys, brilliant work!

  • @johndems8211
    @johndems8211 10 дней назад +1

    Very impressive, it even sounds like the real plane when in the air.

  • @ChrisStrasbourg-p8r
    @ChrisStrasbourg-p8r 2 месяца назад +2

    Nicely flown!
    Dude is a stud RC pilot!

  • @mikereid5264
    @mikereid5264 14 часов назад +1

    My father flew 43 combat missions piloting a B-17-
    Many of those missions were in the ‘909’- quite an aircraft!!!

  • @techlinker
    @techlinker 2 месяца назад +10

    Great tribute to the 909 and the seven soles lost on October 2, 2019.

    • @ChannelGarrett
      @ChannelGarrett Месяц назад

      Souls is the number of living humans on board. I had to look it up just now.

  • @frederickgrassie3383
    @frederickgrassie3383 2 месяца назад +4

    I don’t fly but if I did I’d never fly that much money in that kind of wind!
    Great flying video!😊

  • @jamesschmehl5972
    @jamesschmehl5972 2 месяца назад +4

    That landing was well done. KUDOS!!!

    • @stevekilbon8395
      @stevekilbon8395 2 месяца назад +1

      Thank you

    • @SentTowNg
      @SentTowNg Месяц назад

      Landing is the most critical part for the hobby and not taking off, well done and thanks.... 😊

  • @eburgos021
    @eburgos021 20 дней назад +2

    I love it ! Great Landing. Mr.G

  • @dennispatrick4999
    @dennispatrick4999 2 месяца назад +2

    Flying Art.
    How fantastic.

  • @marvinBrown-y4f
    @marvinBrown-y4f 2 месяца назад +3

    Man I know how tough it is landing in high winds,nice job with that big ole 17!!!

  • @franciscoflores2845
    @franciscoflores2845 Месяц назад +2

    Very good! Congratulations!!

  • @billweston6579
    @billweston6579 2 месяца назад +2

    Beautiful aircraft piloted by a very skilled man.

  • @AndrewJarvis-hn7cc
    @AndrewJarvis-hn7cc 2 месяца назад +3

    Mastery of the air- in miniature!

  • @jeffreyknight3884
    @jeffreyknight3884 Месяц назад +2

    Nicely done, it looks so realistic. Thank you for showing us your nice B 17.

  • @rolacook222
    @rolacook222 Месяц назад +3

    WOW?! What a GREAT LANDING in the wind!!!!👍🏻

    • @EssentialRC
      @EssentialRC  Месяц назад

      Yes indeed!

    • @SentTowNg
      @SentTowNg Месяц назад

      @@rolacook222 My best hobby with me for number of years, till today still keeping my favorite Spit Fire, too bad no more ground for the fun in our country SG...

    • @rolacook222
      @rolacook222 Месяц назад

      @@SentTowNg Thanks for the reply. Yes, all those changes, still you have the right attitude, keeping the Spit Fire and moving on. Best, Rola👍🏻

  • @rondypollard8845
    @rondypollard8845 2 месяца назад +3

    Hey! That was a great! Video I enjoyed every minute of it and I'm sure you enjoy it everytime you fly it fly free and enjoy every minute of it.

  • @RexStewartoriginals
    @RexStewartoriginals 25 дней назад +3

    People raise their glass to my ship models, whether scratchbuilt or kit; but this is a unique build and superb performance. Congrats!

  • @leonardkrauss8257
    @leonardkrauss8257 2 месяца назад +1

    Beautiful landing in that much wind! Well performed!

  • @fandangofandango2022
    @fandangofandango2022 Месяц назад +2

    Lots of Love Here.

  • @noelmccormack1862
    @noelmccormack1862 Месяц назад +3

    This is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Apart from that dude who build a miniature one that he can sit in and fly himself.

  • @terrygrotefeld4814
    @terrygrotefeld4814 Месяц назад +1

    Superb, congratulations to the film maker and to the builder of the B17,the views of the B17 against those lovely clouds were just like the real thing. Having followed the progress of "our B17 Sally B" I
    since she first flew all those years ago the model looked so real and what a super landing ,well done.

    • @stevekilbon8395
      @stevekilbon8395 Месяц назад +1

      I’ve got some great photos of her parked next to sally b at duxford.

  • @scottgorman7166
    @scottgorman7166 Месяц назад +1

    Considering the wind conditions beautiful job of flying and greasing that landing

  • @pietrocalcioli8169
    @pietrocalcioli8169 Месяц назад +2

    Bel modello e bellissima esibizione

  • @emanuelmota7217
    @emanuelmota7217 Месяц назад +2

    Gorgeous., impressive plane and nice landing. (I would paint those props silver or grey).

    • @stevekilbon8395
      @stevekilbon8395 Месяц назад +1

      They were painted but a few weeks earlier I had a wheels up landing which broke the original props. These were new and they’re now painted👍

    • @emanuelmota7217
      @emanuelmota7217 Месяц назад +1

      @@stevekilbon8395 Nice, thanks.

  • @alanknoll5540
    @alanknoll5540 26 дней назад +1

    That rc b17 is a really good r c airplane

  • @gusdoodle
    @gusdoodle 21 день назад +2

    My Dad and I used to fly RC planes. He had a cadet that he put floats on and we would fly it on Lake Harding on the Chattahoochee. A friend of mine had a ducted fan F-16 and I was at the time, a F-16 crewchief in the USAF. Was so much fun

  • @orcaloca5733
    @orcaloca5733 Месяц назад +1

    IT'S AWESOME. THANKS "RED BARON"

  • @JDspeedandFab.
    @JDspeedandFab. Месяц назад +1

    NICE!! Job!! I always use to say wind most of the time Is your FRIEND👍🏼🚀🏁 with Take off and landing and most fun is that Down wind rush of MPH 😎, Wind makes you a way better Pilot as well, thank You For Sharing and again great Job 👏💙👏

  • @peterhanson3391
    @peterhanson3391 Месяц назад +2

    Have to compliment the cameraman.
    Nice work.

    • @EssentialRC
      @EssentialRC  Месяц назад

      Thanks a lot. Appreciate the feedback 🙏

  • @smokeyray5017
    @smokeyray5017 Месяц назад +1

    We had a real one come to our airport here in Burlington NC. The 909 I believe. It looks so huge from the outside but once you got in it there wasn't any wasted space. You could imagine the bombs in that thing. Man it was awesome. Then you think about the crew and pilots. Hell they were kids really. The old guys ,the pilots probably weren't more than 24 or so. You know, the old guys. With the crew being teenagers really. We owe a lot to them.
    The greatest generation? You damn right they were!

  • @disseminationnetwork
    @disseminationnetwork Месяц назад +3

    Wow! Great pilot and plane!

  • @graemejohnson4388
    @graemejohnson4388 Месяц назад

    Gusty!! I reckon it was gutsy to take that beautiful model up in that wind. 👏👏👏.

  • @stevenrafters7817
    @stevenrafters7817 Месяц назад +1

    Well done

  • @jimwhitsett4736
    @jimwhitsett4736 Месяц назад +1

    Great job!!

  • @RB-xj5zv
    @RB-xj5zv 2 месяца назад +1

    Excellent job

  • @sadierun1795
    @sadierun1795 Месяц назад +1

    Nice landing cool plane

  • @Larry-jv6he
    @Larry-jv6he Месяц назад +1

    awsome.what a beauty.

  • @aguilacalva2625
    @aguilacalva2625 Месяц назад +1

    Wonderful 👍👏👏

  • @DanielMigneault
    @DanielMigneault 2 месяца назад +3

    An ace!

  • @JimMcDonald-k2h
    @JimMcDonald-k2h 2 месяца назад +1

    All I can say is, WOW, WOW!!

  • @davidbrodie9353
    @davidbrodie9353 Месяц назад +2

    Awesome 👌 my FATHER FLEW 61 missions in 5th Air Force out New Guinea in Pacific , he switched back in forth between waist & tail gunner he's credited 1kill Zero

  • @enriquecancino7519
    @enriquecancino7519 2 месяца назад

    Fantastic flight in very difficult circumstances! Bravo!!!

  • @Azzty45
    @Azzty45 Месяц назад +2

    Perfect ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @billuricoli5267
    @billuricoli5267 2 месяца назад +1

    So freaking cool sounds just like the real thing

  • @manueltubens535
    @manueltubens535 Месяц назад +3

    Excellent flight. Great landing considering the weather condition.

  • @gustavocastro7339
    @gustavocastro7339 Месяц назад +1

    Que. Bonito....hermoso...
    Felicitaciones...

  • @peterjones4621
    @peterjones4621 14 дней назад

    Beautiful!!

  • @andrewchristian1052
    @andrewchristian1052 Месяц назад +1

    Beautiful

  • @Wyatt-x2z
    @Wyatt-x2z 2 месяца назад

    Well that was a true test of the planes capability and the pilots. Nice flight.

  • @andrewhull7296
    @andrewhull7296 2 месяца назад +1

    That is awesome!

  • @musiclistener-dr3wo
    @musiclistener-dr3wo 15 дней назад

    Nice landing!!!

  • @FernandoEvaristoChávezJuárez
    @FernandoEvaristoChávezJuárez 18 дней назад

    Excelente trabajo amigo.. saludos Tampico México

  • @iflytango
    @iflytango 16 дней назад

    Nice landing!

  • @starpawsy
    @starpawsy Месяц назад +1

    Wow. A perfect bounced landing. Just like the real thing. LOL.

  • @jamesjunod4933
    @jamesjunod4933 13 дней назад

    Great landing.

  • @theflash0815
    @theflash0815 2 месяца назад +1

    Bravo!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @Nel33147
    @Nel33147 Месяц назад

    Beautiful landing !

  • @what1864
    @what1864 12 дней назад

    best part about this rc plane is the sound ....

  • @TedB1800
    @TedB1800 2 месяца назад +1

    Very nice!

  • @derrickgreen9020
    @derrickgreen9020 2 месяца назад

    That would look fabulous on a calmer day..

  • @RobertClolery-h5r
    @RobertClolery-h5r 18 дней назад

    TOO PERFECT!!!!!! Please don't break it!

  • @RobinHarper-tv9ih
    @RobinHarper-tv9ih Месяц назад +1

    Needs a camera filming from inside plane ✈️ 👍👍

    • @EssentialRC
      @EssentialRC  Месяц назад

      Maybe I'll persuade Steve to put one of my FPV setups in it next year 🤔

  • @williamb.9110
    @williamb.9110 2 месяца назад

    The wind is your friend :-) Gorgeous model!

  • @00fluxone
    @00fluxone Месяц назад +1

    fpv ball turret for a ride along would be sweet

  • @Kickinpony66
    @Kickinpony66 2 месяца назад

    What a gusty day! I do love the sound of petrol engines, on an RC aircraft. I dislike electric with a passion. Real jet turbines are very cool as well! Man, he pulled a Greaser, when he landed! Well done!

  • @rolfagten857
    @rolfagten857 Месяц назад +1

    Usethem in the wideshots for "Mastersof the Air"

  • @МихаилФедотов-й1ц
    @МихаилФедотов-й1ц Месяц назад +1

    Хороший готовый беспилотник.

  • @roscoejones4515
    @roscoejones4515 20 дней назад +1

    I wish I was a pilot on a steam-powered aereoplane.

  • @chuckhoward3626
    @chuckhoward3626 2 месяца назад +1

    Wow!

  • @bradfordthompson8326
    @bradfordthompson8326 Месяц назад +2

    Oh Wow BEAUTIFUL ITS too bad Boeing never built REMOTE CONTROL B-17 BOMBERS DURING WW2,?? HOPE HOLLYWOOD SEES YOUR BEAUTIFUL PLANES AND ASKS YOU TO USE IT IN A MOVIE..HOW EXCITING 😊😊😊MANY GOD PRAYERS 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @kantpicnomor
    @kantpicnomor 15 дней назад

    SWEEEEEEEET 👍

  • @ОлександрХудишкін
    @ОлександрХудишкін Месяц назад

    Красивая модель, браво, а если бы ещё рули были более плавные, чтобы самолёт не так дёргался, то он выглядел бы в полёте как настоящий В-17.

  • @김천카우보이
    @김천카우보이 13 дней назад

    😂❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉😅방가방가 화이팅 입니다 최고 하이 클라스 따봉 👍 ✨️ 😍 💕 🙌 😎 👍

  • @carmelonold1090
    @carmelonold1090 Месяц назад +1

    Ut would be cool if you could offer some data as weight, span, motors details and aprox building time.
    Anyhow nice video and plane.
    👍💯

    • @stevekilbon8395
      @stevekilbon8395 Месяц назад +1

      21ft span
      70kg all up weight
      Zenoah 38cc x4
      Built in 1990 from the Richard Rawle moulds that were used for the Memphis belle film.

  • @markk3652
    @markk3652 13 дней назад

    Absolutely outstanding looking aircraft, I salute you and your work in the careful crafting and build quality. One question I ask is why are there the two blade propellers? Are the accurate four blade propellers not available, or is there a reason for the twin blade?

  • @earllsimmins9373
    @earllsimmins9373 Месяц назад +1

    The farm across my flying field had a wind indicator. If the roof got blown off the the chicken coop fly with caution if it flew off the barn come back tomorrow.