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Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:23 am**

http://kitesplus.com/newsite/video/Descent.htm

Kudos to Liquid Fire who posted it over at PD. Sorry if it's old news, missed that one.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:41 am**

That is badass!!!

The video is cool.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:51 am**

Holy crap that thing is the ★■◆●.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:11 am**

I want one!!

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:56 am**

Aus-RED-5 wrote:I want one!!

X2!

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:39 am**

now that beats the heck out of those lego pyros anyday!

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:02 am**

Wow, that's cool as hell! I'd buy one!

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:49 am**

Kind of neat. But... can it trichord?

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:46 am**

Cool!

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:25 pm**

Thanks a lot for posting that. I never though the model would fly, but then again, who would have thought a lawn mower would fly..

Thanks for posting this

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:37 pm**

That is awesome!!

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:55 pm**

No working weapons? Blah.

A helicopter (representation of a Descent ship) would be better.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:13 pm**

Picky picky picky...

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:21 pm**

Does any one know what screen name he played under.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:59 pm**

very cool.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:46 pm**

Hattrick wrote:
Aus-RED-5 wrote:I want one!!
X2!

X~ !!!

Dedman wrote:Kind of neat. But... can it trichord?

HAHAHA!!!

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:07 pm**

That's awesome, looks like it takes some skills to fly it because the forward swept wings would make ultra responsive.

Did you guys notice the poster named Techroscope said he helped design the game ?

Just an observation.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:14 pm**

wow, this is amazing work. (ps: there are 5 pages of photos, click the nachste Seite button on the lower right)

weird we havn't heard of this before now - according to that thread it is over 2 years old.

Erich Preitler wrote:And I'm also thinking about making kits

this has got me all interested in making RC planes outof foam now.

Posted: **Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:13 am**

now *that* is cool

i think it is the single most awesome thing i have seen in my entire life
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Posted: **Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:22 pm**

Looks skippy to me

Posted: **Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:17 pm**

XeonJr wrote:Looks skippy to me

Bwhaha

Posted: **Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:34 pm**

woodi wrote:Did you guys notice the poster named Techroscope said he helped design the game ?

i noticed that also........anyone know this guy?

Posted: **Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:21 pm**

Interesting, I missed that the 1st time 'round. Even has his pic as an avatar

techroscope (Mar 12, 2003, 04:09 PM) wrote:Hey,
You know what, I worked on that game, in fact I was the assistant producer on the first descent. And I can tell you I don't think we ever gave a thought to the arodynamics of the main ship. But it is totaly cool to see that thing fly.

I no longer work for interplay, but the original producer of the title still does. I am going to send this link to him, I know it will get a smile. If you had the plans, I would love to build on of these things and give one to him, and keep one for myself (like I had to say that). That is so great, I am glad that so many people liked the game. I know that we a blast playing it, and making it.

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:47 pm**

Man that is totally impressive! I am amazed!
I think I will post this at my team's Website for them to enjoy.

Fus

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:31 am**

looks like he had to do some serious work on those airfoils to make them aerodynamically stable. especially with those laser cannons sticking out over the leading edge

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:51 am**

Wowie Zowie! ^_~

Posted: **Fri Apr 29, 2005 2:27 pm**

TigerRaptorFX wrote:Does any one know what screen name he played under.

Preitler Erich (ezone nickname)

Yes and that is awesome and if you want a helicopter Tri-cord than your just funny cause a ship like that with chopper blades would look gay. But I think its the closest youll get to D3 in flying like that.

Posted: **Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:33 pm**

Badboy wrote:Yes and that is awesome and if you want a helicopter Tri-cord than your just funny cause a ship like that with chopper blades would look gay. But I think its the closest youll get to D3 in flying like that.

instead of rotors, you could use directional lift fans, like the new F-35 JSF, for when it its in V/STOL flight modes.

Posted: **Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:13 pm**

Yeah that would take alot of power though....I think what he made is what I would of done too.

Posted: **Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:22 pm**

for such a light weight, i dont see all that much powe.......................well nvm.

it would add that much weight to get the batteries to power those fans, then the added structural points.......ETC ETC ETC..

your right, bad idea

Posted: **Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:23 pm**

hehe

Posted: **Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:53 pm**

AceCombat wrote:your right, bad idea

Not a bad idea at all. With todays electric model building materials and techniques, as well as the electronics available today, it could be done very easily. You would be amazed at how much power you can get out of the right type of batteries these days. Add a couple of gyros in there for stability and you could have yourself one cool little mochine.

Posted: **Sun May 01, 2005 9:39 am**

well, now hearing that coming from you Ded, i guess it could be done with the proper electronics.

maybe we should write to him and convince him to make a tri-chord capable RC-Pyro

Posted: **Sun May 01, 2005 9:18 pm**

regarding a non-chopper VTOL RC craft:
i've been mulling over the idea in my head, every now and again when i think about it, for over a year now.

atm my idea involves rockets

perhaps peroxide.
you could have many little outlets all over the ship, with a centralised (or not) computer controlled valving arrangement to control their firing.

it's more suited for pitch/roll/yaw than actual THRUST, so the idea is more suited for a lander type craft (with a single non-gimbaled bottom mounted main thrust source) than a pyro (in which you'd need to be able to thrust downwards no matter what orientation the pyro is in. that'd be hard.)

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