That is NOT a plane!!!

What is it with people these days that are calling anything with a prop, that is able to lift itself off of the ground, a plane?

Take for instance the thing in the picture. That is the so called shooting star. See a video of it on youtube They call this "A plane built from trash"

I would offer a contrary opinion. Just because they made some control surfaces, and put enough grunt in the front to get it off the ground does not qualify this thing as an airplane. An airplane as defined as a powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings from which it derives most of its lift. This is not one of those. At best One could call it a Helicopter. (Or rotary wing aircraft, if you prefer)

It does not derive lift at all from its "wings." In fact the wings are little more than immovable control surfaces... anti rotation flaps, even. It derives its lift from an overpowered prop/motor combination. Strapping control surfaces to a toaster, and a huge ass, brusless motor, that enables it to get off the ground, still only makes it a flying toaster, NOT a plane!

A hundred years, of airplane design, is being cut off at the knees, by these so called planes, and their designers, and I just can't frickin' stand it anymore!

Designers? Did I write Designers? Maybe only in the academic sense, that they thought about what shape to cut the foam, and how to rig the control surfaces. I would think a real airplane designer would need to take into account things like drag coefficients, airfoil lift curves, thrust, and gravity, as well as shape and control surfaces.

I have spent many hours, designing and simulating different airfoils, and power to weight ratios and Lift surface area, and I'm not saying I'm better than these so-called foamy plane designers, but I at least know more about what makes a plane work then their simplistic... "it doesn't go in the air? Get a bigger motor! Get a Bigger prop!"

I've also made some of these things before too, it's cheap, and it requires very little thought, and it's fun to mess with, but I knew that no self respecting model RC flyer would dare call these particular type of abominations "planes"

Ugh! STOP IT! if you need a name, stick with rotary wing aircraft... and stop making the Wright brothers spin in their graves!