Oct 8 2007UPDATE: Life Size X-Wing Flight Video

Lmao even has R2D2

That is so damn awesome.

I'll be waiting for the show "Pimp Your X-Wing".... Awesome.

WonderNerd power....ACTIVATE!

Form of......X-Wing Fighter!

sorry, i only think the naboo fighter is even remotely exciting!

omg omg omg omg........i think i feel funny in my pants....

HAHAH half of those guys are the epitome of the nerd, shirt tucked in fat people who love star wars. and i htink that one has a fanny pack. or is a asian family going to disney land

That... is... awesome! Please have footage of when it launches! Even George Lucas would wet himself seeing it on YouTube...

i wouldn't be surprised if George Lucas was there at the launching...
i would so totally volunteer to fly in it...after all, who gets killed while flying an X-wing?

Wow

i'd love to see that fly. wouldnt mind a TIE either?

Sorry, but this this is not gonna fly.
I'm a pilot. The center of gravity is way off.
He needs to put a canard on the front to
hold the nose up. Otherwise as soon as
it leaves the launch pad the earth is going
to rise up a smite it.

Remember---STARWARS is a MOVIE.

Dude. It's a rocket, not an airplane. You strap enough thrust to its ass and point it straight up, and you even make an elephant fly. There are four solid fuel rockets on that thing. It'll fly for sure. A wobbly, crooked, painfully short flight that will culminate in an end over end disintegration into the earth. But it will fly. And that's cool as shit.

O_o

#12 is dead on, it's not meant to fly it's meant to get shot up in the sky. Center of gravity doesn't much matter when there's 5,000lbs of thrust backing it. It'll just go.

My husband just creamed in his jeans over this thing, yeah it is pretty awsome, but whats going to be more awsome you ask???? When it bursts into flames and kills all the Star Wars nerds who come to watch it!

No offence Star War lovers, there all my husband's favorite movies and I have seen them so much I know them all word for word too!

Well, your husband sounds like a lucky man to have you there to pee on what he loves. Why don't you show up at the launch with your husband and a bazooka so you can kill everybody's dreams when it fires up...

Anyway, X-Wing, still awesome!

Hey, I took a video of the launch of this today...

I posted it on break

http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=378238

oh dear, little to no experience flying rockets then?

aww darn. That wasn't too spectacular... It was a cool Idea anyway. I bet they were really disappointed after that esp. since they wanted to try and recover it in one piece.

Man, that video is priceless. I love seeing the people run away from the falling debris.

I did not see that coming!

Am I sure glad they didn't respond to my email where I volunteered to sit in the cockpit!

Im sure they ran back to their mothers house (where they live) and cried themselves to sleep in their mother's beds (where they sleep/masturbate).

The force is weak with that one.

wow look at that someone with creditable info was right that comparied to speculation and assuming that if i put a rocket on anything it will fly.

ps i did this once with those model rockets and the same result ended i thought it was just the weather or mabye high winds but, to my RESEARCH found out theres a thing called gravity and balance.

true you slap a rocket on anything chances are it will lift off the ground but doesnt mean it will go up.

way to go buddy this beer is for you.

the crash had nothing to do with center of gravity or the lack of a canard. It had to do with structural integrity. The construction of whatever held the wings on was not strong enough to handle the thrust of the rockets. It was flying just fine till it started coming apart.

hey, just like the movie itself!

That flight so a metaphor of the Star Wars Series;
Starts off as 15 tonnes of Awesome, only to self destruct half way through due to poor craftsmanship. It all ends with a sicking thud while fanboys scream "NOOOooooo!!!!". ; )

Gold Leader. I'm Hit! I'm Hii......
HAHAHHAHAA. End over end disintegration. I called it in #12 earlier. So the beer does go to me. I'm just sad that those dudes didn't put some god damn metal in that thing. Oh well. I guess the Dothans died for nothing.

I have one, cept it runs on 2 "D" sized batteries. It doesn't fly, its more of a tunnel diver.

It's Bothans... not Dothans

That's a shame. For a brief, shining moment, though, they were gods.

Dang it! They didn't have the wings turned properly.! Gravity pulls downward people and balance has little to do with it unless you're carrying bowling balls! Forget the naysayers, they don't know what they're talking about...

If the air resistance causes it to curve, it will do just that. It's like with a paper airplane and other model rockets, the wings have to be a certain way.

I hope they try it again in the future and next time, cover your butts! Don't design it like an airplane unless you want flaps on it. Design it like a rocket ship...

Peace.

Batman

i don't know what's more funny...

the fact that it blew up... which was sooo obviously going to happen...

or...

the nerds on here arguing over what they did wrong and how to do it better.

it's a frikkin' X-wing. they did it wrong when they pressed pause on the DVD and thought, "we could build that!" game over.

They killed R2! Those BASTARDS!

Let's all remember the back story to this video...can't have this piece o'shit becoming our generation's Roswell event...remember, no aliens, no weather balloon, just a couple of nerds snuggling up with a bad fuggin' idea...

And #20 was dead on, the real climax of this little flick was definitely the "Flight of the Nerds" scene as they tore ass away from their own crash and burn creation. Lohan's mom could learn a thing or to from these people

lol. the flight looked cool i would pay 50$-100$ for that model it was so cool i'd love to have it.