Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The Life And Death Of The Rocket Powered X-Wing Fighter (With Decapitated R2 Unit)

A guy and his friends have built a 21-foot long X-Wing model that can actually fly. It did fly, and some of you probably know how the saga ends.


Image by: Gizmodo

The X-Wing model is huge. At 21 feet long and with a wingspan of over 19 feet it is, in fact, big enough to fly a kid in.

20 people, 8000 man-hours and 6 month to build. It's powered by four Class M rocket engines complete with radio-controlled moving wings (to go into attack position in flight).



Droid casualty.
Image by:
Gizmodo



And the death of the Y-Wing

The force is (slightly) stronger with this one.



The full saga here:

Rocket-Powered 21-Foot-Long X-Wing Model Actually Flies

Video: The Rocket-Powered X-Wing's Flight...and Death

Y-Wing Beats X-Wing, Gold Squadron Finally Kicks Ass

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