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Just flew my new RC airplane!
    #5948152 - 08/09/06 05:50 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

And I didn't crash it!! :grin:



Turned out to be MUCH easier to handle than I had expected. Much faster than the last model I flew, and way more aerobatic! Landing was a little rough, though...I clipped the landing gear housing by coming in too hot. No big deal though :smirk:


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5948157 - 08/09/06 05:52 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

::searches for some smartass remark, but fails miserably::

looks like fun?


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5948159 - 08/09/06 05:52 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

How much that put you back ?


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5948168 - 08/09/06 05:54 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

should've built your own


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: TYL3R]
    #5948187 - 08/09/06 05:57 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

About 300 :smirk:


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5948191 - 08/09/06 05:58 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

i like the car versions.. my neighboor like races those little things.. his has like a gasoline motor in it and reaches about 45mph..

what kind of engine does ur plane have? is it all electric?


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5948204 - 08/09/06 06:03 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Looks like tons of fun tren!

Be careful though, my uncle had the prop start spinning on him when he was working with it once... mangled his hand mighty nicely.


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: Banez]
    #5948216 - 08/09/06 06:08 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Yeah the plane is electric.

For planes I think electric is the way to go. WAY less hassle than the nitro engines.

Your neighboor's care is probably nitromethane powered, not gasoline. It'd have to be a pretty big one (like 1/5th scale or larger) to have a gasoline engine in it.

I've got a nitro buggy, too. It does about 50mph on the straights!



Cars are fun and all, but there's a lot more to do in the air in the way of tricks and such. The cars are really only fun for competition racing.


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: Yarry]
    #5948222 - 08/09/06 06:09 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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Be careful though, my uncle had the prop start spinning on him when he was working with it once... mangled his hand mighty nicely.




Yeah that happened to me once with one I was working on at work...took a nice chunk out of my thumb! Luckily it was an electric...the gas ones just take your finger clean off :smirk:


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5948223 - 08/09/06 06:10 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

hell yes.. thats what he has.. i love watching him.. and he goes to like local dirt tracks and actually races people.. its a pretty cool hobby


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5948266 - 08/09/06 06:26 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

That looks like a great plane!
We just bought a small plane for a friend's birthday.



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It's a fun thing to play with for a first timer. The best bit is that it doesn't break. The only problem is that you can't fly on even slighty windy days unless you have a lot of space.

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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: cybrbeast]
    #5948272 - 08/09/06 06:28 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

i need a hobby.


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: Banez]
    #5948294 - 08/09/06 06:34 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Flight #2....not so great :smirk:

Did some nice snap-rolls, loops, and barrel rolls to show drtyfrnk how it flies.

Then I attempted one last barrel roll...and WHAM! into the ground. Looks like I'll need a new fuselage :smirk:


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5948309 - 08/09/06 06:38 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Ouch.

That's the thing i hated when flying RCs, always having to buy new parts.


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: TYL3R]
    #5948321 - 08/09/06 06:42 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Yeah, worst part is the hobby is damned addicting :smirk:

Here's drtyfrnk, admiring my nice new plane:


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5948326 - 08/09/06 06:44 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Any websites on this stuff? How to build your own? Costs? Etc.


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: MrBigStalk]
    #5948349 - 08/09/06 06:53 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Check out http://www.rcuniverse.com/ they've got some good forums on there, too.


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5948612 - 08/09/06 08:12 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

WHOA!?!? You built an airplane out of Research Chemicals?!?!?!  :wink:


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: EndlessNameless]
    #5948641 - 08/09/06 08:21 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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WHOA!?!? You built an airplane out of Research Chemicals?!?!?!  :wink:



Ha, now that's what I call flying.  :tongue2:


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: EndlessNameless]
    #5948650 - 08/09/06 08:25 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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WHOA!?!? You built an airplane out of Research Chemicals?!?!?!  :wink:




that's what i thought at first. heh. then i remembered Rc is remote controlled.


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5948948 - 08/09/06 09:57 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Is that a communist plane?

I don't care much for RC planes but i love nitro racers. The speed on them is really unbelievable. The only thing that i could see getting me into RC planes is the hope of one day getting an RC Jet. I saw one of them at the last air show I went to and it was crazy. Personally I'd rather get an RC jet than my dad's l-29. Hundreds in gas for one hour of flying, no thanks.


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: d33p]
    #5949790 - 08/10/06 06:15 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Is that a communist plane?

It sure is red, anyway.... :smirk:

Hundreds in gas for one hour of flying, no thanks.

That's why electric is so nice! Charge the battery and away you go!


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: d33p]
    #5949799 - 08/10/06 06:26 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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Is that a communist plane?

I don't care much for RC planes but i love nitro racers. The speed on them is really unbelievable. The only thing that i could see getting me into RC planes is the hope of one day getting an RC Jet. I saw one of them at the last air show I went to and it was crazy. Personally I'd rather get an RC jet than my dad's l-29. Hundreds in gas for one hour of flying, no thanks.




Your dad has an actual jet?


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: Twister]
    #5949852 - 08/10/06 07:41 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

BHA! HA HA HA.


When i was 10 years old, what i did with my radio controlled cars, i would build a car myself and then install real (toy) rocket engines on that thing, then fire that thing up. I think it reached the speed of sound...


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: Jalruza]
    #5949916 - 08/10/06 08:41 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

WHOAA!!!! That's 761 miles an hour.


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5949988 - 08/10/06 09:44 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Just curious: how much weight can your plane lift?

It would be über-cool if you could rig a mobile phone to function like an onboard camera, yielding spectacular .avi movies of your RC arial acrobatics.


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: Asante]
    #5950052 - 08/10/06 10:20 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Yeah it could easily lift a small camera. Lots of guys do that, you can find videos around the net of such a thing.

I think most guys use small "security" cameras that send the video signal to a base station via radio.


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    #5950260 - 08/10/06 11:39 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

If you're a tech wizard you can take a mobile phone, use the cam function for live footage and relay the plane's controls over the phone line, so that your RC plane's controls have a lil TFT screen (from the RC phone, its just dead weight there) that shows the view from the plane as if you're flying it, taking the distance limit off your RC gear.

Then at night men in black will thrash your house and homeland security will take the fun away.


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5950282 - 08/10/06 11:44 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Just watch that breeze. I was told if the trees are moving, dont fly.


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: Corporal Kielbasa]
    #5950404 - 08/10/06 12:17 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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Just watch that breeze.  I was told if the trees are moving, dont fly.




Yeah wind is always an issue with model RC planes...but much less of an issue when you get into larger, more powerful models.

The ones I've been flying up until now are made entirely of foam, and don't have very strong motors or anything...so they are pretty much limited to under 12km/h (about 8mph I think). Anything over that and they just don't have the power to push through the wind - you can end up with the airplane flying "towards" you...but it'll still be moving backwards because of the wind. Or worse yet, a nice big gust comes along and smashes it into the ground :smirk:

The one I crashed last night can easily take winds over 20km/h though. It definitely gets harder to fly in higher winds...but as long as the motor is strong enough and the control surfaces are large enough...no problems!


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: Twister]
    #5950423 - 08/10/06 12:23 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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Your dad has an actual jet?




Yea, its a '68 Russian experimental fighter jet. Its actually really cool it has switches to drop bombs and also buttons on the joystick to fire missles and machine guns. In the 70s in checkoslavakia the guy who my dad bought the plane from was an jet mechanic who wanted to escape so when one of the jets was ready to take off he jumped in the back seat and held a gun to the pilot's head and got him to fly into western europe. He kept the plane and ended up in America eventually where he had to sell it for money years ago.



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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: trendal]
    #5951095 - 08/10/06 04:37 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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Flight #2....not so great :smirk:

Did some nice snap-rolls, loops, and barrel rolls to show drtyfrnk how it flies.

Then I attempted one last barrel roll...and WHAM! into the ground. Looks like I'll need a new fuselage :smirk:




Proposed solution: reinforced body, and some armor.

If you'd been flying a scale model of a Sturmovik, the ground would have been what wound up being damaged :tongue:


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Re: Just flew my new RC airplane! [Re: Konnrade]
    #5951128 - 08/10/06 04:44 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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Flight #2....not so great :smirk:

Did some nice snap-rolls, loops, and barrel rolls to show drtyfrnk how it flies.

Then I attempted one last barrel roll...and WHAM! into the ground. Looks like I'll need a new fuselage :smirk:




Proposed solution: reinforced body, and some armor.

If you'd been flying a scale model of a Sturmovik, the ground would have been what wound up being damaged :tongue:




True, but I'd probably still lose my gunner :smirk:


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