An enormous x-wing fighter from star wars

[CoolRockets]

Over the last year or so, I started a project that I was set to actually finish, now it is flight ready, takes a 24mm E engine, and probably dwarfs the Maxi-brute one from the 80s. People of TRF, may I present... THE 34.5 INCH TALL GIANT X-WING FIGHTER!!!!!!!!!!!! with a dual deploy system and taller than the Estes doorknob, this is the only project I have ever finished to the point of flight readiness.

 

[rharshberger]

Hopefully it flies better than previous attempts at larger than Estes scale X-wings, all of those ended in shreds as the fin flutter ripped the wings off.

 

[hobie1dog]

it doesn't look real

 

[CoolRockets]

I promise it’s real

 

[smstachwick]

Very nice! I do hope it goes better than this one powered by a quartet of AeroTech M motors.

 

[neil_w]

Very nice! I do hope it goes better than this one powered by a quartet of AeroTech M motors.

That thing was more like a sculpture that the shoved rocket motors into....

 

[CoolRockets]

It will probably fly straight for a longer time than that x-wing, I am expecting the same outcome, it will either fly up and the wings fall off and it comes down slowly or it flys like a brick and falls like a brick.

 

[CalebJ]

Is it... stable? It's a little hard to get any sense of the construction from the photo.

 

[hobie1dog]

Very nice! I do hope it goes better than this one powered by a quartet of AeroTech M motors.

now that is what I would call enormous

 

[dr wogz]

This Incredible Full Scale Lego X-Wing Is the Largest Model In History

This is truly unbelievable: Lego has built a 1:1 scale model of the X-Wing fighter using an astounding 5,335,200 bricks! It's as big as the real thing, capable of fitting the real Luke Skywalker—and Porkins.

gizmodo.com

 

[CoolRockets]

Is it... stable? It's a little hard to get any sense of the construction from the photo.

Yes it’s stable, I just took a picture of it within 20 seconds of finishing it

 

[lakeroadster]

Yes it’s stable, I just took a picture of it within 20 seconds of finishing it

How did you determine it is stable? Swing test, or .

Are you punking us, or is this legit?

 

[les]

Unless there is a cardboard shell over plywood or fiberglass those fins are going to fold within 50'

 

[hobie1dog]

after looking at it closer, you made the entire thing out of cardboard, correct?

 

[rharshberger]

We are being trolled.....

 

[dr wogz]

Andrew 4.0?

 

[hobie1dog]

We are being trolled

I would bet the entire Farm on that

 

[KenECoyote]

We are being trolled.....

I dunno... it's consistent with the other builds done and in the pic.

 

[hobie1dog]

I dunno... it's consistent with the other builds done and in the pic.

if that's the case, then it would be advisable not to fly it on anything more than a B engine

 

[Pappy]

not seeing a single spiral... nice work

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

Have a fire extinguisher and shovel ready, and please post the video.