Radio Controlled B52

Fukushima's chilling lineage

In the Three Mile Island nuclear power station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on March 28, 1979, the nuclear physicists'  nightmare scenario  nuclear physicists was about to unfold. Employees in the control room noticed the failure of a pump in the reactor's water cooling loop. When a bypass valve failed to trip, water stopped flowing to the steam generators, resulting in an emergency reactor shutdown. Sadly, though, disasters like Three Mile Island and Fukushima are not as rare as one would hope. There have been plenty of atomic accidents resulting in significant radioactive leaks, spills and explosions. And the Chernobly Exclusion Zone, for all the attention it gets, is far from the only nuclear no-go area on the planet. A look at some of the worst incidents is enough to demonstrate just how high the price of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons truly is: On July 16, 1945, at 05:29:45 local time, the atomic era began as the first ever nuclear bomb, called "The Gadget", was detonated at the White Sands missile testing grounds in New Mexico. A similar device exploded over Nagasaki just a few weeks later. The 18 kiloton-bomb created a 12-kilometre-high mushroom cloud and a blast heard 320 kilometres away. Sand at the site of the explosion turned into green, radioactive glass -- also called Trinitit. Fifty-two buildings at Hanford remain contaminated to this day, and 240 square miles are uninhabitable due to the radioactivity that has seeped into the soil and ground water: uranium, cesium, strontium, plutonium and other deadly radio-nuclides. Altogether, more than 204,000 cubic metres of highly radioactive waste remain on site. In one area, discharges of more than 216 million litres of radioactive liquid waste and cooling water have flowed out of leaky tanks. More than 100,000 spent fuel rods -- 2,300 tons of them -- still sit in leaky basins close to the Columbia River. Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, now known as Semey, was host to the main nuclear test site of the former Soviet Union. Some 506 nuclear tests were carried out there during the Cold War. The Kazakh government had hoped to make the site available for agricultural use once again. But some areas are still so contaminated with plutonium that they have to be covered with huge, two-metre-thick steel plates to contain the radiation. On May 18, 1974, a new member joined the global nuclear family.

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Like the title states, this is not a B-52 Stratofortress. It is a B-29 Superfortress. It will not perform a slow taxi, the lowest speed would be a high speed taxi (scaled 100+ mph). The B-52 uses drop-down engine pods under the wings, each pod housing twin turbine engines, so it’s an 8-engine bomber, not a 4-engine, mid-wing mounted prop plane. This IS a good price for the plane, but it’s not for the inexperienced. It does not have rudder, elevator, or aleron control, it steers using the differentiating prop control.

Whatever you do, don’t get this piece of junk. If you never flew before, or are considering this as a gift for someone who is learning to fly rc, find a hobby store with knowledgeable people who can help you get started. It is made from very rigid foam that will break at the slightest impact. The motors are very poor quality. The radio works intermittently. And when it does, control is poor. Trying to fly this piece of junk will just leave you frustrated. And, of course, it is not a B-52, but a representation of a B-29.

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