1970s Model Airplane Flies Again After 40 Years! | Salvage Hunters: The Restorers
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2020
- Bo Hare spends hours lovingly restoring an old David Boddington RC aircraft he bought at auction for £30, to see whether or not it is worth selling to Drew for a profit.
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It’s probably hard for their pilot to fly it when he’s got someone behind him yelling “FLY FLY FLY FLY FLY FLY FLY FLY!”
I knew David Boddington and I built and flew several of his plane designs. He designed a trainer called the 'Mentor', I crashed it several times while learning and it didn't get damaged. David also built many planes for the film industry.
For sure with the engine, radio and the history, the plane would be valuable. I and many other have spent a fortune on model planes and helicopters over the years. Many outfits today are in the several thousand dollar bracket.
I do like these restoration videos.
Actually built by boddington himself.
Gold!!! Worth more than £1000 to the right enthusiast
Great stuff - I'm in the camp that says keep it. The Tabloid apparently was quite a forgiving aircraft to fly for its time, and the model mirrors that. I believe it was outclassed soon after the start of WW1, although it had one or two military successes to its name.
Incredible. And flight as well 😃👍 unbelievable. Great job
I built and flew a Boddington's Albatros C1. The original model was built by Dave for the BBC WW1 series Wings.
I'm fixing up my quarter scale Miss Circus Circus hydroplane I know how much work goes into these little buggers awesome job my friend
Fantastic work.
As an RC plane flier, I'd be rather apprehensive flying that thing !
I had an SE5 about the same size. I ran a .40 size 4 stroke engine with straight exhaust. It flew like a dream and sounded like a real plane. I sold it like an idiot.
Awesome
The full size was named Tabloid because it was a small aeroplane, like the tabloid papers were small papers.
david boddington not heard that name for long time xx
Beautiful Model and great history behind it is what gives it its value , if i where rich i'd pay the 2500$ for her !
I own a DB Matador owned by David himself and fitted with a small diesel, tissue covered. I really don't have the nerve to fly it free flight and yet, I won't convert it to rc, so she just stays on the ground!
£2.5k? Have you met the average UK model flyer? Of course Boddo is a famous figure, but come on - in general kits are worth more unstarted than partially of fully completed, and the type of person who would be most interested to own this is on a fixed income (pension), so is unlikely to want to splurge. I'd say £500 is more realistic, but even that might be optimistic.
جميل 👍👏👏👏
David Boddington. Did he also build some full scale aircraft of WW1 vintage for the movie industry. I keep thinking Vickers Gunbus.
bfmcarparts: I think he built large models, large enough that they looked real in movies.
R/C lawnmowers fly too.
£2500 no chance in a million years.. £700 tops
Exactly, £2500 is totally ridiculous, or my collection of RC models is worth £500,000
I would have brazed that tank not soldered it, brazing is much stronger.
This is how hobby R/C should be. We had to make our own parts! Now....GET OFF MY LAWN! No, seriously, this is how we made our R/C planes in the 80s.
Nothing stopping you making your own parts these days. If anything it's more accessible. You can even design your own planes rather than just copying other people's designs. There's a tonne of inspiration out there including books on flight principles and NASA type approved wing profiles.
It's nice and all but why the hell 2,5 grand? Looks more like 500 bucks to me.
It's the history and connection with someone (relatively) famous in British aeromodelling.
200 hrs at 30 is 6000 pounds
a joke maybe a £100,,, if they get £400 for it drop me a line I have 40 of these old models.
£300 is more then fair of that model but the fact David Boddington one of the best model plane designers in history built it himself would probably take the value up to £1500 at least
AEROPLANE, not US 'airplane'...
Don't let him by ithe wants it for nothing like everything else he buys.