# Remember That Big Ass B-52 Model?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 12, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-big-ass-b-52-model/299036 "2005-04-12T23:20:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-big-ass-b-52-model/299036/1 "2005-04-12T23:20:21Z")

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Something similar. [Interesting article on the guy who built the models for the movie _The Aviator_.](http://www.designnews.com/article/CA513570.html)

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> For Bok, however, the decision to forgo the obligatory Hollywood crash duplicate was a high-wire act based more on engineering intelligence than guts. Contrary to typical movie studio logic, Bok believed that radio-controlled model airplanes wouldn’t crash if designed according to classical aerodynamic theory and endowed with sufficient size and weight. That’s why he and a staff of six engineers decided to build models considered gargantuan in the world of radio-controlled aircraft, the biggest being a 30 ft wide, 648 lbs version of Hughes’ infamous XF-11 reconnaissance plane. By most measures, even Bok’s “small” models were big: His version of Hughes H-1B racer sported an 18-ft wingspan and weighed in at 450 lbs, while his scale-model of the fabled “Spruce Goose” measured 26 ft from wingtip to wingtip, and weighed 375 lbs.

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**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-big-ass-b-52-model/299036/2 "2005-04-13T00:05:19Z")

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Click [Here](http://www.billhempel.com/planes/index.htm) for the website of one of the pilots. He has an “Aviator” link at the bottom of that page. Be sure to check out the videos, like “Bill Gone Wild”.