RC Airplanes?

[Guest Nologic]

This may be a bit of a stretch but another one of my favorite pass times is building and flying remote control airplanes. Anybody here share that passion?

Todd

Edited May 25, 2012 by Nologic

[R_Bert]

I don't know much about them, but I have a friend that custom builds them for about $5K.

What kind do you build ?

Edited May 25, 2012 by R_Bert

[TripleDigitRide]

I'm a noob with a NexSTAR Select.

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[dlm37015]

i shot one down one time

[Photoguy67]

I fly when I have time. Have a micro copter and 2 regular nitro planes.

[glowdotGlock]

My father flies. He has been since 1990. He has a trailer and shop full of them. He goes all over the south to fly-ins. I flew for a little while but just don't really get into it. I take out the piper cub still sometimes.

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[Steelharp]

i shot one down one time

Lol! Looks like someone here got shot down, too... I like the big red BANNED deal. Very visible!

[Volzfan]

Lol! Looks like someone here got shot down, too... I like the big red BANNED deal. Very visible!

Yep you sure won't miss that! What'd he do to get the boot?

[Guest Lester Weevils]

I built balsa and tissue gas planes as a kid in the 1950's and 1960's. It was fun. All but one were wire-controlled. Fly round and round and round. The non wire controlled item was about a three foot wingspan "free flight" glider plane with no control at all. You needed a big field and not much wind to fly the free flight planes. They would be trimmed to glide "near perfect" with a permanent slight direction bent into the rudder. If all went well, send em up and they would circle gaining altitude until out of gas, then if all goes well circle gently gliding back down and land somewhere you can recover the plane. There was radio control gear back then but it was heavy and too expensive for a kid to buy on lawnmowing money. At least what they paid kids in my neighborhood. You needed to build planes based on pretty big engines to have enough excess lift to tote the heavy electronics and batteries of the time. The big engines were kinda expensive as were the electronics.

Dunno if I was any good at building them, but was vastly more skilled at crashing planes than building planes. Hopefully fly one a few times before crashing it too bad to fly, and hopefully don't break it so bad that it can't be repaired at least once before starting again from scratch with balsa, glue, tissue paper and airplane dope. The engines were the most expensive part and one engine could outlive numerous planes as long as you didn't let one get away from you.

It would be fun to build a four-rotor electric fly-by-VR-goggles copter if I had the time, which I don't. I tend to like building stuff better than using it, so might spend a lot of time building one then fly it a few times and put it up on the shelf. A big styrofoam VR-goggles plane would be neat also, but with a little bit of luck maybe could fly a copter out of the back yard if I could keep it out of the trees. If I had to go somewhere to fly a plane, the plane probably wouldn't get flown very much.

[Steelharp]

Yep you sure won't miss that! What'd he do to get the boot?

[Volzfan]

http://www.tngunowne...ame-is-nologic/

I saw that thread that just kept going but didn't follow the posts in it.

[RichardR]

I could never get the hang of flying, so after crashing a couple beyond repair, I switched over to playing with RC cars and trucks, I still have several nitro powered ones but I don't get the chance to get them out very often anymore.

[Volzfan]

Been wanting to do that for a long time just never went forward with it.

[RichardR]

Been wanting to do that for a long time just never went forward with it.

It is an expensive hobby, especially if you crash them alot like I used too.