A pity the landing gear wouldn't retract due to lost pressure, but even so; a stunning aircraft and beautiful aerial shots

This model is truly fantastic, The video too, I can understand about the U/C possible problem, You have a lot to think about when so much money has been spent to please the public, Yes I had to crouch to get underneath the Comet 4c at RAF Lyneham .. Really Really great could watch it all day.. Thank you so much ......

@tbobborap1

4 жыл бұрын

thanks Geoff, check out our vid of the flight where the u/c goes up - kzread.info/dash/bejne/gadhyqqwlbOYhZs.html

Just Wonderful, Takes me back, Thank god we have people who create such Model beauty, I remember taking the tyres from RAF Lyneham , Wilts to Dunlop of Birmingham, Yes for re-tread , They did have remould tyres ... Thank you anyway...

@tbobborap1

4 жыл бұрын

thanks for the memory geoff

Excellent. I watched it at 50% speed and it was almost like watching the real thing. Regards Mark in the UK

@verocimil

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, you are very right, RC-Jets are always way to fast, but even watching at normal speed this one was better than most others. There was a sense of flying that not only resulted from exacerbated power and speed, although still to fast nonetheless.

Absolutely fabubous! The take-off and landing look so realistic! With real working flaps. Other large airline rc models seem to be overpowered, causing them to take off like a fighter jet on the contrairy with this one! Wish you many save flights and happy landings!

Really enjoyed this video. Thanks for posting. I've watched it about a dozen times 😊

@tbobborap1

4 жыл бұрын

many thanks dave, check out out playlist of 7 videos of the comet inc onboard footage - kzread.info/dash/bejne/fpaJpMOIoL2WptY.html

Your videos are really incredible - every one !!! Fantastic, beautiful engineering AT WORK - just amazing views !!!

Very nice video and I'm amazed at the quality of mini video cameras now, it gave the impression of a normal sized Go Pro.

Very nice, beautiful aircraft, authentic sound and takeoff

Very nice! The assembly is spot on. I had to build a 40 model hull of a 1797 Brig of war, built it in 4 sections. Love the on board camaras. I wish more pilots would do that. Would like to see a view from the cockpit occasionally. Thank you for a very nice ride, good job.

Back in '61/'62, Ron Moulton, the editor of a British aeromodelling magazine, was awaiting the issue of the British aircraft-registration letters that matched his initials, so he could build a flying scale-model of the plane that carried that registration. He was left wondering where to go next when his initials appeared on one of a fleet of new "Comet 4B's" (G-ARGM) for the airline B.E.A. (now part of British Airways). Back in the early '60s radio-control was primitive and the available propulsion at that time for a model jet-airliner would be either ducted-fans or pulse-jets. It's not difficult to guess what happened to his plan for a flying-model.

@tbobborap1

4 жыл бұрын

thanks anon

De Havilland Comet Rc!! No way!! I wish they sold these in a micro version!

simply beautiful

Great work Pete & Dean

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

thanks deek - deano

Beautiful!

@tbobborap1

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Fantastic Video.! Thumb up.

Thank you so much for uploading the video. .beautiful plane all great angles but I guess my favorite would be the rear facing underbelly view, just awesome. .

@tbobborap1

9 жыл бұрын

many thanks ronald much appreciated - pete,

VERY COOL!

Amazing talented folks ..........thanks

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

thanks barry

Some shots of the model's assembly suggest that the wing employs an airfoil-section of the sort you'd find on a full-size plane. In my day, flying scale-models were mostly small-scale (a 48" span would have been 'large') and something like a Clark "Y" profile would have replaced whatever had been used on the full-sized aircraft. Let's hope that this smart scale "Comet" ( the real plane would have started flying in '58/'59) has an accident-free career.

@tbobborap1

4 жыл бұрын

thanks anon

The comet always reminded me of the supermarine spitfires landing gear how it retracts

beautiful

Just stunning but with all that cost and no retracts??

@tbobborap1

8 жыл бұрын

+tom12146 its in the description tom !

@ReptileRescue

8 жыл бұрын

+tom12146 [facepalm] Just love when people opine and haven't bothered to friggin read.

@drfiberglass

6 жыл бұрын

Obviously a malfunction... It takes a lot to get that size plane up and running...

Amazing video thanks for sharing

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

Marlon Weekes thanks marlon

You sure it did'nt loose pressure from those square windows?? :P

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

tut tut chris - im sure they sorted that problem out !

@Colin_Yote

5 жыл бұрын

It’s a comet 4 not a comet one so the problem was long sorted out by then

@None-zc5vg

4 жыл бұрын

The fuselage had been redesigned to remove the weaknesses that plagued the original "Comets": the engines were now a more powerful type.

excellent!

where do they sell these? Im really tired of all the battery powered helicopters.

@gr8cescale

3 жыл бұрын

She's a private model, built in 2004.

super real. A mazing

@tbobborap1

4 жыл бұрын

thanks

Nice!!

@tbobborap1

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit

Superior flying Captain... You made it look so easy..

amazing..i wish buy this aircraft

😃 Muy bueno 👍👍👍☝👍😃

Amazing toy

The Comet was the first commercial jet, sadly many died because of them. Beautiful design though.

@johneddy908

8 жыл бұрын

+NaYawkr, a BOAC Comet 4C flew the first trans-Atlantic jet flight between New York and London.

@lowercherty

8 жыл бұрын

+NaYawkr The Brits came so close to getting this right. If it weren't for the fuselage fatigue problem I'm sure there would have been follow on platforms that could have competed with Boeing and Douglas. As it was, by the time they figured it out, the 707 and DC 8 were on the horizon. A fantastic plane for the period when it was built.

@77Neville

7 жыл бұрын

The 4 (and 4B/4C) were the final fixed versions of the 1 which had all the fatigue issues. The 2 and 3 versions resolved the fatigue issues too, but never went into commercial service, the 2s going to the RAF & RCAF and the 3 being a development aircraft. The 4 was too late, too small and lacked the range by then to really have any major commercial impact. It was however, not only the first commercial jet transport to enter service but also the first, by a margin, to run a transatlantic service. Boeing and Douglas learnt from the UK investigation and public enquiry into metal fatigue so the Comet 's legacy, to paraphrase the old quote, was it truly was the giant, whose shoulders the safe development of civil aircraft sits on.

So was this live feeds to more than one video monitor or edited later?

JUST FANTASTIC!!! Was there a problem with the retracts???

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

thanks barlas, steve had a flame out on the ground and the heat melted an airline and he lost pressure but didnt realize until he was in the air - pete,

Great plane from the pioneers in aviation. Unfortunately they paid a big price for being he first.

Where can I buy one?

Did you use Mobius cams for the onboard footage? How did you attach them?

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

yep hd mobius held on with sticky back industrial velcro and sometimes cellotape as well - pete,

I would love to see someone do the Nimrod the mighty hunter

Wow!

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

thanks tommy - pete

Were the landing gear not responding when retracting? I saw a couple gear doors open and close, but no gear actuation. Nice video though.

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

thanks robo, the reason is in the description box - pete,

@RoboTekno

10 жыл бұрын

tbobborap1 Sorry, I must have missed or forgot to look, haha. I'm glad he didn't run out of air pressure mid gear raising. Better to not be able to retract than not being able to deploy :P

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

i think your right m8, wouldn't fancy belly landing that beast - lol

That is cool

Any larger and it would be in the Light Sport Aircraft category. I can fly a C-182 or a Piper Cherokee but R/C is beyond me.

Simply perfect, except, that she doesn't seem to have a retractable gear.

@krotchlickmeugh627

3 жыл бұрын

Red the description dip shit

I would have kissed it on landing , truly wonderful......................Thank you whoever you are.....come a long way from control line flying...

@tbobborap1

4 жыл бұрын

many thanks geoff

nice video, but make another when the landing gear retracts.

@tbobborap1

5 жыл бұрын

already have brian, check it out here - kzread.info/dash/bejne/gadhyqqwlbOYhZs.html

I absolutely love this model. Beautiful model, beautifully flown. One question. How do you build such a model? I mean presumably there aren't any kits.

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

avman180 hi aveman, not sure if steve designed and drew up his own plans for the comet !

@avman180

10 жыл бұрын

If he did he is a very clever man indeed. Wish I had his talent.

@krotchlickmeugh627

3 жыл бұрын

@@avman180 it's really not that hard. There's alot of available plans for the real thing out there. You just scale it down to the size you're attempting to build. Then make adjustments along the way

@avman180

3 жыл бұрын

@@krotchlickmeugh627 It is hard it you're really not talented at building or technical stuff lol

@krotchlickmeugh627

3 жыл бұрын

@@avman180 you what makes talent? The willingness and ability to learn. You can learn right?

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️👌🏻

Very sad about the undercarriage problem - part of the beauty of the Comet 4b was it's very clean lines. It looks like a missile in flight. Let's hope the problem can be remedied easily. I'm loving these early jet airliners - has anyone made a similar scale Caravelle yet?

@77Neville

7 жыл бұрын

It's a 4 - the 4B didn't have those wonderful 1950s Dan-Dare missile appendages for fuel.

@graemeburr6463

5 жыл бұрын

3 prettiest jetairliners, Comet, VC10, Caravelle

Bummer on the retracts. Does the plane have a stabilization system?

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

not that i know of tbird, steve is a full time real airliner pilot so i guess its just down to good old skill - pete,

@66tbird1

10 жыл бұрын

tbobborap1 Thanks, I was just wondering because there seemed to be a small 'over gain' type oscillation at times. I've noticed on a few bigger models and could only conclude one of two things. An over gain on stabilization or an aerodynamic induced oscillation do to scaling. I've kind of ruled out twitchy sticks at this level of the hobby. Maybe it's in the camera system?

set a few seats inside,set up a camera as if a passenger is looking out at the wing thru the window ,rotate the camera,looking at a few seats,tops of passenger heads and then out the window.

SUBLIME !

@tbobborap1

4 жыл бұрын

thanks chris

@christoohunders5316

4 жыл бұрын

@@tbobborap1 Never flown on a comet but am fascinated by these jets, just imagine how different it all would be if the comet 1 had been better engineered.

pretty cool

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

thanks kev

@KevinMillard68

10 жыл бұрын

tbobborap1 :)

Doesn't the gear retract?

@Mikeylikesit1968

10 жыл бұрын

STEVE STILL PUT ON A GREAT DISPLAY AFTER REALIZING HIS UNDERCARRIAGE WOULD NOT RAISE ON THIS FLIGHT AT RAF COSFORD ,

@tbobborap1

10 жыл бұрын

its in the description box ronin

@MAPLERO4D20

10 жыл бұрын

Mike Baltes woah chill out I'm not saying it's shit

@krotchlickmeugh627

3 жыл бұрын

@@MAPLERO4D20 we are saying you're shit.

The jet with an engineering flaw. Lol. Good thing you don't have to pressurise the cabin.

@krotchlickmeugh627

3 жыл бұрын

Wrong version of the plane you're referring to

This is what i call earrape

@tbobborap1

4 жыл бұрын

lol