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Could the Spruce Goose climb out of ground-effect?
Frank N. O.:
Now the Hughes H-4 (or is it HK-1?) Hercules as it's officially called was to my knowledge only ever flown once and only for a very short distance and at low altitude, but has anyone recently tried to make either a scale-model test or computer simulation to see if the design could've worked?
Frank
Oddball:
Have seen photos a Radio Controlled version of the "Spruce Goose" flying on electirc motors.
Frank N. O.:
Any idea if that was made to be comparable to the real thing? A radio-controlled model of Baloo's Sea Duck was also made but that had a much wider wing-span than drawings showed and when I asked about the Sea Duck and showed the drawings here a while ago it was said that the wings were really small so it would've had to have a lot of engine-power to fly as a real full-size plane. Here's the RC model btw: http://freenet-homepage.de/punikaoase/page106349961f3.html
Frank
4X-NTY:
As much as I know,RC planes shouldn't be any help in figuring this out,they're engine is relatively stronger,the fly relatively faster and relatively lighter than the real things,so even if the model is exactly in the shape of the real thing but smaller,it wouldn't fly the same as the real thing.
Louis:
Found this, didn't try it yet:
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=6625
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