Rc Flying!!! Even more fun tha Strikers 1945.

[TWITCHDOCTOR]

Hi all, hope everyone's doing well. I really have been doing some flying lately. Its a lifelong passion from since I was a kid. ( rubberband power/glider etc)

Here's a video of me flying one of my T-28 Trojans. You may also find a video of me flying my P-51 Mustang.

Currently building a nice bi-plane for some true sport flying.

Both videos are about a month old. So, its recent stuff.

Later shmup-os.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuIW5HHBCVQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3wscoHCnn8

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Some time back at a local park, I saw a dude with an R/C gas-powered helicopter doing all sorts of crazy acrobatic moves. It was quite something to watch him pull off some amazing twists and spins with it. As they say, practice makes perfect (especially when you have a $1,000-$1,500+ R/C helicopter, wanna make sure all that practice pays off before flying it and accidentally crashing it -- ain't cheap to fix up).

Finally got my 1st-gen 1/10th scale Kyosho Ultima RB5 off-road buggy (circa May of 2007 when it made it's grand debut in the USA) assembled finally (after much procrastination over the years) and just need to wash the lexan body and paint it, place the decals on it on & it'd be good to go. Using the latest Li-Po batteries and appropiate ESC sure is light years better than those old-school Ni-Cad batteries from the late 1980s indeed. Not to mention the insane adjustable RPMs up to 100,000 easily nowdays. Can such a typical off-road buggy's tranny handle such insane RPMs if cranked up to the max (and with proper gearing, of course)? Or will some major meltdown issues ensue?

I recall that it was possible to buy a modified 6-Turn 540-sized electric motor with a 40,000 RPM limit back in the early 1990s (which was pushing the boundaries of the upper limits with that then-current technology back in the day). The curent-gen motors able to handle such a Li-Po setup, ESCs, and Li-Po batteries used nowdays, really is something (especially with the longer run times easily -- 30 to 40 minutes). Back in the late 1980s, if you could get at least 9 to 10 minutes with a 540 or 600 endurance motor with an SCE or SCR based Ni-Cad battery pack, that'd be stretching it.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[brokenhalo]

That doesn't look very fun. Nothing is trying to hit your plane.

[TWITCHDOCTOR]

Funny that you would mention that. I do often times get into "dog-fights" with the local birds.
I had a small flock of birds attack a small Aeronca Champion that I had. The peck marks were visable in the tail, as well as the fuselage.

A couple of weeks back, I was taunting a couple large hawks with my F4U Corsair. In fact, I was asking for it, (flying aggresively at them) but they simply followed my flight in a somewhat formation. It was weird.

[gct]

I'm hardcore into RC now too, but I keep them on the ground. Mainly micro electric on-road racing with a little bit of micro/mini off-road bashing thrown in.

Thinking of starting to fly helis but I'm way too scared of damaging both the vehicle and walls/furniture.

[Vexorg]

Same here. RC planes seem just a bit too complicated for me, but I've enjoyed doing offroad RC trucks. One of these days I really need to get my Nitro Revo going again.