OMGosh! Museum Quality, Half Scale (UAV) Hughes H-1 Racer
Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 10:23PM 
Screenshot from the video below of the Aero Telemetry half-scale Hughes H-1 racer
Wow, this couldn't get much cooler! A half scale flying model of the Hughes H-1 racer... and it has a 35 hp radial engine! Even better, it's being built by the guys at Aero Telemetry for the 75th anniversary celebration of the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) which will take place July 14-17, 2011 at the AMA headquarters in Muncie Indiana... just 2 hours down the road from me! You can count me in : )
You've probably seen the work of Aero Telemetry but didn't even know it. They produced some very large scale RC models/UAV's for the movie The Aviator including an approximately half scale H-1 along with an XF-11 with about a 30' wingspan and a Spruce Goose with about a 25' wingspan. Some serious models! Read more about The Aviator models here. Aero Telemetry also makes UAV's for military and aerospace applications.
Watch the awesome video now, and then read a bit more about it below.
This new H-1 model from the video differs from the movie model in that it's being built to museum quality standards and includes a scale landing gear which the one built for the movie didn't have. That one was designed and built in under 8 weeks and since all the filming was to be done with the gear up, a scale gear wasn't needed.
The new H-1 will also have a Lawrance 5 cylinder radial engine from the 1940's instead of the 30 hp 2 cylinder 2-stroke used in the movie model. There's very little info on the internet about this uber cute little radial engine, and often times people incorrectly spell the name Lawrence, but I did find this pic and this pic to show how absolutely cool these engines are. The engine makes about 35 to 38 hp and was built to be an APU, but they were mounted vertically and weren't designed for spinning a prop. You can get a little more more info from Aero Telemetry on the Lawrance for their H-1 model here.
I also saw some interesting info floating about the net suggesting that these guys are also building a full scale(!) version of the H-1 with an aluminum fuselage and wood wing. Don't really have any details on that yet, but wow, I can hardly wait to know more about it! Stay tuned for more info on the wild and wonderful world of Aero Telemetry and their Hughes H-1 projects : )
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