This model 5-52 actually has 8 "real turbines" at about $1500 each .
Unbelievable that someone would make this - all real turbines!
Thats $12,000 just for the engines!
It took over 2 years to build, and has a wing span of about 22 feet. It takes multiple pilots - as there are so many things to control.
There's a crash video for that somewhere too.. very sad.
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We watched with horror from the pylon race line as the 27ft wingspan 8 wren gas turbine model appeared to tip stall into the ground. The pilot has put his hand up and admitted that he became disorientated and banked the wrong way past the point of no return.
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__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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