Any RC Aircraft Enthusiasts?

[togor]

This is taking it to another level.

[PWC]

Thanks for that, along way frpm the lld ducted fan models. I'm a control line guy eversince my first Ringmaster.

[dryheat]

I like to watch that stuff. I watch a lot of it on utube. I have a tiny toy helocoptor but that's as much as I've flown. Some of the jets are really fast and realistic. The Virgin Atlantic is huge. I wonder what the size limit is.

[Sunray]

The RC guys have been playing with stuff, jets included, like that for eons. Some models can drop bombs. Think it was a B-52 I saw in some magazine. Might have been a 17 or 29 though.

[bdm]

Thank You for posting amazing think of the cost of this hobby and i thought my military gun collecting hobby cost a lot

[JB White]

There is a flying field nearby and every so often I pull into the lot and watch. Haven't flown anything myself in several decades. That was a p38 lightning that flew around in a tethered circle and I crashed that a few times.
On the field near me I have seen some pretty sharp RC craft. One of my favorites is a jet powered F4 Phantom. About half the size of the 747 in the video.
An uncle once built a PBY which was nearly as large having a 12' wingspan. On its maiden flight he set it down on the Fox River and taxied it into the boat ramp. The authorities showed up and issued him a warning ticket. Informed he needed an Illinois boating decal on it due to its size.
It was out of place but he pretended it was nose art.
Overall I find it a fascinating hobby, but I already have hobbies I can barely afford.

[kj47]

That was great, thanks for posting.

[togor]

In the description it says that a German man named Adi Pitz spent 10 years building that bird. It must have been a great feeling to see it go up and come down, but man, 10 years on that would just be too long for me, except maybe as a on & off background project in spare time.

[dryheat]

There's a display or competition in Bavaria or Switz, not sure where exactly, but some of the best flying I've seen. No amateurs.

[bdm]

I just purchased a Syma S107G Helicopter nice Helicopter for $20.00 you can sit in your living room and fly it around

https://www.amazon.com/Cheerwing-S10...A1IED1Q3HGQJQ1

[dryheat]

I just purchased a Syma S107G Helicopter nice Helicopter for $20.00 you can sit in your living room and fly it around

https://www.amazon.com/Cheerwing-S10...A1IED1Q3HGQJQ1

My brother took his outside but it was a failure. The small radio signal needs to be enclosed.

[JOHN COOK]

My brother took his outside but it was a failure. The small radio signal needs to be enclosed.

LOL, my son gave me his and told me to have fun ... I also took it outside and never had any control of it what so ever.. Called him and he had a big laugh. Stated " you can only fly it in doors that is why I gave it to you." He took it to his daughters gymnasium at school and it flew fairly good. I'll get him back for that one..............

john in SC

[Griff Murphey]

image.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgI have been into park flyers for the past 7 years, both pre made foam ones and stick and tissue but all electric RC. My stick and tissues don't fly as well as the Chinese foam ones but I enjoy building them.

L-R Pfalz XII, Sopwith Pup, BF-109

[lyman]

Thanks for that, along way frpm the lld ducted fan models. I'm a control line guy eversince my first Ringmaster.

I have a control line P47 kit that I have yet to finish,

had it since high school,,,,,,


balsa plane, cannot remember what motor


i did however, finish and fly a lot of Estes rockets

[dryheat]

I remember control line. Seemed very fast but repetitous. I wasn't interested. Remember those little balsa wood planes you could buy at the grocery store for about ten cents? I flew them a lot. I liked the control. You could throw it almost straight down and it would come out of the "dive" and go straight up and loop. I taped a Estes motor on one once with a backstop of aluminum taped on so as not to burn off the vertical stabilizer. I don't recall that it worked all that well, but it didn't burn off the tail. I put Estes B's in a plastic model of an F-4 Phantom. It moved about 1'. I did build real Estes rockets. I took one to school when I was about 11 and the class went out in the field with me and we set it off. Thinking back on that, that was pretty cool of my teacher. I actually spent weeks building a balsa and tissue plane. I used to know what it was called. It wasn't a bi-plane or a Cessna. It used a rubber band(internally) for a motor. It flew one time and I wrecked it. But what kid doesn't like planes, rockets, explosives, guns, land mines(I found one once but left it). I don't have the skills to fly a Very Expensive turbine powered 1/16th scale jet, but I used to think about it. I guess I grew up in the space age. I have liked everything about it(well, except for the Challenger, that black mark).