Anyone into R/C Planes, boats, cars??

[Airborne]

this was the last plane I was flying before I got out of it. its a 1/4 zivko edge 540, set up to fly 3-d, US engines 41cc gas burner, never ran right tho.


some of the wing rack.

[DY]

I was thinking about picking up one of the cheap choppers from Wal-Mart the hassle my cats with :lol

JM

those cheapo choppers are surprisingly easy to fly... only run for a minute or two before the battery drains, and can only do right hand turns.  But cheap thrills, and definitely worth the 20 bux. 

[Latinbalar]

Well a few months ago i stopped racing my 1/10 scale rc car.  I have an AE buggy and a sport maxx- (Tmaxx sportier brother).  Since i moved i haven't been able to find anybody to race here.  They race a bit off road but i race onroad.  So till it picks up again it is a shelf queen now.  Oh and Electrics are back, thanks to Lipo batteries and brushless motors they fly like nothing else.

[Heath]

I used to have a Losi XXCR Buggy and was pretty good with it.  Used to go to the local track and race quite a bit.  Then they closed the track so I sold it.  Years later I bought an 1/8 scale 4wd gas buggy which was fun but no real off road place to mess with it.  Ended up putting that one up for consignment and taking a pretty big hit on that.

I would love to get back into it but have too many other things I want to spend my money on now.

[BumpaD_Z28]

My 1/10 AE RC10GT

I used to run it all the time, but since the DUC  ... not so much







~DaVe

[bigiain]

I used to fly slope soarers and small electric pylon racers (speed 400 motors with 7 or 8 cell nicad packs). I stopped doing it about 10 years ago (pretty much when I took up riding motorcycles).

Just in the last few months I've been considering getting back into it - I've bought a few small brushless motors (cd rom based ones) and some modern speed controllers and lipo batteries - it seems I can get around double the power and 75% of the all up flying weight on some of my little pylon racers - I've got a Simprop Raz Faz:



That used to be heaps of fun @450g and ~70W (7 nicads @ 10A), with the new gear, I should be able to get ~150W with the weight down under 380g, and I'll get 20mins of runtime at 70W (what used to be full throttle) instead of 4 or 5 minutes...

I _really_ ought to get something a little easier to fly back in the air first though - it's been a long time since I've flown _anything_, never mind a tiny little ~100mph racer...

big

[motogpfan]

Skilz,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi7G-VzU2r4&feature=related

[Statler]

re: skillz 

holy shit.   I bet he crashed a lot of hardware getting thst good.

That was awesome.

[DY]

re: skillz 

holy shit.   I bet he crashed a lot of hardware getting thst good.

That was awesome.

Haha, i saw this video and went out and bought an E-flight Blade CP pro.... took it to the local park and flew it straight into the ground.  Best 250 bux I ever wasted!