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Samson Switchblade: A 200-mph Flying Car You Can Build
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (132+ words) The Samson Switchblade, a 3-wheel, street-legal vehicle that transforms into an aircraft in under 3 minutes. Built for aviation enthusiasts, Switchblade blends driving and flying with a hybrid drive system, regenerative braking, and even reverse thrust in flight mode. Specs at…...
Alberta Mechanic's Grounded VW Bus Helicopter Is Pure Scrap-Built Art
1+ week, 1+ day ago (468+ words) Most rotten split-window Volkswagen buses meet one of two ends. They get a six-figure rotisserie restoration, or they slowly sink into an Alberta field. One got a third option: it became the cockpit of a helicopter that will never fly....
He Built an 18-Foot RC Battleship Out of Plywood—And Yes, It Actually Fires
1+ week, 1+ day ago (571+ words) When you think of remote-controlled boats, you usually picture a foot-long plastic speedboat buzzing across a local pond. You generally don’t picture an 18-foot, meticulously detailed military replica that requires a small crew of people just to carry it to…...
Tyler Perry Takes the Controls of a 630-Pound Model Boeing 777X | VIDEO | EURweb | Black News, Culture, Entertainment & More
1+ week, 3+ day ago (300+ words) The filmmaker took control of the scratch-built jet after YouTube creator Ramy RC and his team prepared the aircraft for takeoff. MotorBiscuit reports that builders constructed the fuselage and wings from CNC-shaped EPS foam. They reinforced the aircraft with carbon…...
YouTuber Built a 20-Foot RC Plane for an Aerial Battle—Then It Turned Into a Pile of Foam
1+ week, 3+ day ago (667+ words) Every year at Flite Fest, remote-control aviation enthusiasts gather for a chaotic event known as “combat.” Three times a day, the sky fills with hundreds of foam-board RC airplanes, and the sole objective is to crash into each other and…...
YouTubers Bought a Giant "Flying Car" From Temu, And It Actually Flew—Until It Didn't
1+ week, 5+ day ago (541+ words) Designed to lift a human being up to 200 pounds into the air using eight massive carbon-fiber propellers, the giant quadcopter drone is essentially a budget knockoff of the $130,000 Jetson One. “I know what everybody’s thinking right now. We’ve actually told…...
YouTuber Builds a Jet-Powered RC Car Worth More Than His Actual Car
1+ week, 5+ day ago (663+ words) In the world of high-speed radio-controlled cars, 94.76 mph is a serious benchmark. It’s the official Guinness World Record for a jet-powered RC car, set back in 2023 by James from the YouTube channel ProjectAir. But setting that record came with a…...
YouTuber Built a Giant RC Boeing 777X From Scratch—Then Let Tyler Perry Fly It
1+ week, 5+ day ago (566+ words) When you think of Tyler Perry, you probably think of his massive Hollywood studio, his long-running film franchises, and his status as a billionaire entertainment mogul. What you probably don’t think of is a guy standing on the edge of…...
YouTuber Builds and Flies an Airplane Made Entirely of Cardboard: “Is It a Good Idea? Absolutely Not”
1+ week, 5+ day ago (616+ words) Building an experimental ultralight aircraft usually requires meticulous engineering, high-grade aircraft aluminum, and thousands of hours of safety testing. Or, if you are YouTube creator PeterSripol, you just need a few massive stacks of cardboard, a hot glue gun, and…...