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Take a trip to Paradise Falls with this remote controlled balloon house

If you’ve always wanted to relive Carl and Russell’s magical journey in the Disney and Pixar movie Up, and don’t have the technical (and magical) skill to build a flying balloon house to take to Paradise Falls, there is good news. Josh and Peter from YouTube’s FliteTest have built a remote-controlled version of that very flying balloon house.

Okay, granted, you won’t be able to fit anyone into that tiny lighter-than-air remote-controlled balloon house, but it is a working, flying, miniature replica of that very house from Up.

In fact, they printed the paper cutout from Disney’s website and strapped some salvaged propellers from a previous X-Wing flying toy to allow it to be controlled. Then, they hooked everything up to a set of helium balloons and voila a house big enough to carry the little kid inside you to an imaginary Paradise Falls.

Although this RC house is pretty cool, unless you’ve got some spare RC propellers lying around, it’s going to be rather hard for the average person to build this themselves. So, someone please come up with a pre-made kit?

Besides the flying balloon house, FliteTest also featured a pair of remote-controlled gliders carved out of balsa wood and controlled by some salvaged RC parts from other planes.

The gliders fly remarkably well, even getting up to a pretty decent speed while maintaining a stable glide. Very impressive considering both the planes were constructed  by a 15-year-old out of leftover parts from old toys.

Pretty cool that what some people consider broken toys, others can reuse to build their own flying machines. One man’s trash is another’s treasure?

Have any of you made some cool DIY remote-controlled flyers? Do drop us a comment down below or tweet us a picture of your cool creations.

[SOURCE, VIA]

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