Quote Originally Posted by Fire$torm View Post
Dude! I used to be in the hobby. Even worked in the largest hobby shop in the city, back in the day. Large scale has been around a long time. Real turbine engines included. Back in the mid 80's the now extinct Byron originals offered 1/4 scale kits of planes like the North American P-51D Mustang, Mitsubishi A6M Zero and the Chance Vought F4U Corsair among others. They were absolute beauties...!!!!

anyhoot, do a search on YouTube. you'll find all kinds of stuff like 1/4 scale C130s, SR-71s, C-5 Galaxys, B-52s, etc...
I was in the hobby as well but I never built anything that big or with the jet engines. Biggest I built was a B-25 that had all the options on it. Bomb Bay, Bombs, Gear, flaps, throttle etc. I just got too close to the ground on a high speed, low pass 1 day. I had a lot of balsa firewood after that.