91 KG GIANT AVRO VULCAN! 🔥 Twin Turbine RC Jet at JetPower 2026

Hi my name's Steve Kilburn, welcome to JetPower 2026. I'm here to present my Avro Vulcan. This Vulcan was built a couple of years ago, took two years to build. Rich Hull and his team helped me build it, he was the main builder. This is a blown up plan, it's blown up from a Tony Nye house plan from 98 inch up to five meters. The total weight of it is 91 kilograms. We're flying two Jet Italia 220 turbines, which gives us 44 kilograms of thrust. That gives us a 50 to 1 thrust to weight ratio. She's a big delta, so it flies really smooth, quite easy to land and yeah it's fantastic. We do a roll with it, we do a couple of aerobatic maneuvers with it, but not too many because we try and keep it in keeping with the original one. This particular paint scheme is XM607. XM607 was made famous in 1982 with the Falklands War, where she flew over to Port Stanley runway and she dropped bombs on Port Stanley runway, which effectively changed the course of the Falklands War back in 1982. The pilot who flew this actual Vulcan was Commander Martin Withers and if we walk over here now, what we have under here, and this happened a couple of weeks ago, we'll just take this hatch off and the very man who flew it to the Falkland Islands, there's his signature right there. So the man came over for me, shook hands with him and he signed my aircraft. So to me that is a complete honour. So moving around a few more technical details with the model, we're running four batteries in the front here, two batteries for the undercarriage and the working air brakes, two batteries underneath for all the flight systems. We're running AR Smooth Flight 16. We run a GPS black box so we can record every flight with it and all this was all set up by myself. Most of these parts here are 3D printed and then we move around to the other side here and all the construction is wood with glass covering. The paint on it is the correct colouring. It took a lot of work to get the paint right and then under this hatch here we have fuel tanks, turbine GSU and the turbine batteries there with the UAT. These air brakes are fully working. If you see later in the video you'll probably see them working as well. The undercarriage is custom made. It's all custom made by a gentleman in the UK which is a screw jack electric undercarriage. We're going to re-strengthen the undercarriage later this year because the wheel axles are just not strong enough for the grass so that's something we are going to improve on. If we come around the back of the aircraft we can come around here. We have a full set of elevons so each one is independent. We've got there and there so we've got four servos per wing and they're 1280TG Savox servos and then under this hatch here there is the business end with the turbines. So again they're Jet Italia 220 turbines. We did originally start with 160s but there just wasn't enough so we got it onto 220s and that gave it enough go to get it in the air. We suffered an engine fire last year so we were flying around and one of the fuel pumps failed which sprayed fuel in the back of the model. The model caught fire in flight and we had to land it very quickly put the fire out so we had to redesign all the back end and solve that problem as well. So it's been a work in progress as it's all gone along. We're the same on the other side. We've got two outlets there and then the outer two are dummy outlets. To transport the model it comes apart, the tail comes off, the fin comes off, the two wings come off and the nose comes off. So although it's very heavy and very big it will fit into a long wheelbase van so there's no sort of real special transportation issues we have with it. We have a working bomb bay underneath but I've not yet put the actuators in there so the bomb bay is all scale, the gear doors are all scale as well. Things I want to add to the model later down the line is I want to get all the navigation lights on it. We're going to be looking into a smoke system for the back so we get the black smoke on takeoff and then we've got other little tweaks that I want to do to it. Maybe a deployable parachute for slowing down on landing and there we go. That's my Vulcan and hopefully you'll see it fly later and thank you.