Albemarle Bomber

RC model of Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle, RAF Medium Bomber, #9 of 297 Squadron as she looked taking off from a grass strip near Oxford at 20 minutes past midnight on D Day to drop pathfinders behind the beach at Normandy. The model was designed from RAF Photos, built, and flown by me. It spans 6 ft and has an operational bomb bay. It flies beautifully.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• RAF
• Albemarle
• Bomber
• WWII
• British
• Armstrong
• Whitworth
• Squadron
• 297
• Radio
• Control
• Electric
• Flight
• Scale
• Model
• Plane

[gwheyduke]

I'm interested in what Esc you use to power both engines and how you handle the hook up with the batteries.

[SmoothLandings]

@gwheyduke

The Albemarle has two 40 amp ESCs, one in each nacelle. Each is connected to a separate battery just behind the cockpit area. The connections to the receiver joins in a Y connector.

I like to use a separate BEC for safety. That way the ESC/BEC doesn't heat up as much, you can use more servos, and you can arm the motors with a blade fuse as a shunt.

On my Caribou, I used 2 ESC/BECs, but wired the power from each to half of the servos to keep from overloading the BECs.

[heidilibby]

My Dad was a test pilot for DH in1945,and flew demonstrations of this plane

[gwheyduke]

Great video. Awsome airplane.  Looks like it flies good too. Congratulations on a great build.

[Cvillemac]

Classy bird.