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mcblink
Ambassador of Riffs & Spliffs
This is going to sound stupid, by my favorite RC airplane of all time is this friggin' thing:
I think I went through 4 or 5 of these specific ones. They would fly for damn near ever. Smash it to the ground, broke a wing? Scotch tape that sucker up, fly it again! They were hard to kill!
This model was much faster and a little harder to control, and the body wasn't quite as resilient for whatever reason. It could be beat up to the point where it wasn't great anymore but still function okay.
There were also multiple Air Hogs planes that used to be a lot of fun, I had a fun one that was great indoors, super agile. Haven't been able to find another like it either. One of them was actually a jet, and was quite fast, but a little harder to get a hang of.
Then I had one of these for a while:
Pretty entry level.
I only got to fly it once. It was fun. Then life happened and it lived in the attic for years, and when I moved I didn't have room for it and by that point my interest had waned a bit. I left it in the attic. Hopefully some kid found it and had a ton of fun with it.
Had a bunch of those little Air Hogs indoor helicopters too!
Finally I got a drone/quadcopter with a VR headset and all that fun stuff, until I lost control one too many times, crashed it high up in a tree, so I hit the kill switch which allowed it to free fall from the tree and smash into peices on the road below LOL
I couldn't fix it. I don't fly anymore cause I got nothing left lol.
That yellow Estes SkyRanger...I can't find them anywhere, I've wanted to get a couple of them and get my boy into it, but I don't think they're made anymore. That was the most funnest plane I've ever flown, even if it was a toy!
I think I went through 4 or 5 of these specific ones. They would fly for damn near ever. Smash it to the ground, broke a wing? Scotch tape that sucker up, fly it again! They were hard to kill!
This model was much faster and a little harder to control, and the body wasn't quite as resilient for whatever reason. It could be beat up to the point where it wasn't great anymore but still function okay.
There were also multiple Air Hogs planes that used to be a lot of fun, I had a fun one that was great indoors, super agile. Haven't been able to find another like it either. One of them was actually a jet, and was quite fast, but a little harder to get a hang of.
Then I had one of these for a while:
Pretty entry level.
I only got to fly it once. It was fun. Then life happened and it lived in the attic for years, and when I moved I didn't have room for it and by that point my interest had waned a bit. I left it in the attic. Hopefully some kid found it and had a ton of fun with it.
Had a bunch of those little Air Hogs indoor helicopters too!
Finally I got a drone/quadcopter with a VR headset and all that fun stuff, until I lost control one too many times, crashed it high up in a tree, so I hit the kill switch which allowed it to free fall from the tree and smash into peices on the road below LOL
I couldn't fix it. I don't fly anymore cause I got nothing left lol.
That yellow Estes SkyRanger...I can't find them anywhere, I've wanted to get a couple of them and get my boy into it, but I don't think they're made anymore. That was the most funnest plane I've ever flown, even if it was a toy!
mcblink
Ambassador of Riffs & Spliffs
My son literally did this to my youngest daughter just a couple weeks ago. Lol
Actually I got a little bit upset with him because he threw it at her from close range really hard, just being a knothead, because he's my flesh and blood and I was a knothead at 10 years old too LOL
She ended up with a scratched eyeball and pinkeye.
Last time I show him how to fold a Kline/Fogleman airfoil!
C-Grin
Ambassador of Wonderland
Oh dang, little sisters get pretty tough that way. My two daughters ended being ass kickers their brothers wanted no part of.
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
OP
Session 5
Ambassador of Strings & Wings
No intentions of building a multi engine Rick, only because I am not interested. And don't have to go to multi engines for this hobby to be expensive. Because I live in a house condo, I cannot store gasoline or kerosene due to the smell of fuel in my home. Otherwise I would be building 35-37% scale instead of 25-27 like I do now. Once you get over 27% scale, I would have to go into gas run engines and turbines for the Jets. I am not an electric guy.
OP
Session 5
Ambassador of Strings & Wings
When you see those large planes , they are usually from Europe, they have no size limits. Here in Canada we have to max out at 78Lbs.
Oh, I know there is. I've seen video of them flying. The things are monsters and sound awesome doing fly bye's.
This was my trainer aircraft (new in this pic).
And this is what it looked like each weekend for a few months until I became proficient at flying and landing. In the end, it had more epoxy by weight than the rest of the aircraft.
mcblink
Ambassador of Riffs & Spliffs
I never had the opportunity to mess up my P47 too bad, as I only got to fly it the once. I did bust one of the elevators but nothing too drastic. I am quite confident that I would have crashed and burned in short order had I had more opportunity.
The thing was stupid cheap and easy to build. Electric motor so no worries about engine issues. I should look into getting another one to delightfully destroy!!
OP
Session 5
Ambassador of Strings & Wings
This is why we always, recommend joining a club, some try doing it on their own become discouraged and get out of the hobby. You join a club and get a qualified Pilot to give you Instruction, at our clubs we give of our time, no charge..
Had them too in my young teens. The Saturn V was the holy grail but I could not afford it. Fast forward to my early 20s, with a real job, and well, I just had to have one. Flew this guy about 20 times back in the late 70s. Its now on a shelf in the living room.
