Serious Remote Control Planes

[Pfunk]

Originally posted by XtrmeJ
Ive done some of the easier planes. Know a few ppl who have got some high line stuff that ive flown for a while. Think im ready once i scrownge up some mucho dinero.

Well I will tell you one thing if you plan on flying a twin engine plane you might wanna rethink the P-38 and buy a beater twin engine to get practice on it, flying twins entirely different.  Most people train on the Hobbico Twinstar.

[Golfer]

Its just like when you get your multiengine rating add on to your pilot certificate.  anybody can fly it when everythings working, but the reason behind the training is to learn to fly it when your world goes to hell and you lose an engine.  lightweight little buggers with lots of power will Vmc like a mofo and you can easily be disoriented on which way is up if it happens less than "2 mistakes" high in the sky.

[simshell]

i wish you could put BBB guns in it you know like a air gun  in the RC and hunt birds with it


can you think of it

PLANE TO DUCK AIR COMBAT

[XtrmeJ]

some great links and info. gonna look more into it Yah If i were to get one id like to learn the twin engine planes and grab a P38 somewhere. It's just such a nice looking plane

[BGBMAW]

boooo
if you dont mount bottle roktes with model roket eng ignitors on your plane its boring..i have seen dive bome release kits also..now thats fun:)


...btw..I think best thing I have ever seen..especially if you live near ocean..was these guys dogfiting..in these single piece..seemed to be foam rubber...they would try to ram each ohter to get into a spin and crash..

they were pretty much unbreakable...saw about 10 + of them battling..looked sickkkkk

[XtrmeJ]

try and find out what kind of planes they were BGB. Id look to look into those if you can post a link or something

[Arlo]

Big bucks RCs? Hell ... don't stop there!











Turbine power, baybee!

F86-F Pricelist

Wait ... it gets better ....

F4 Phantom pricelist

These jets put on quite a show here once. Dunno if I'll EVER make the dough for this hobby, though.

Oh ...

BVM website main page

[XtrmeJ]

Holy ****! Awesome!:eek:

[Capt. Pork]

Originally posted by Pfunk
Lots of good articles and the most amazing R/C planes you will ever see.



http://www.rcwarbirds.com

For Sale and Trade everything related to R/C

http://www.rcuniverse.com

Awesome crash footage!!

b-25 after loss of power

[capt. apathy]

we put rocket launchers on a friends R/C boat  (was a cheap plastic police boat, we wired the siren to the ignighters) it would launch a salvo of 12 bottle rockets or 2 of the bigger rockets (with the plastic fins and cone).  as a lot of fun.  we would put it in the pond and fire at a cardboard and duct-tape target boat that we'd splashed kerosene on.

if I had a R/C bomber, I'd at least have to figure a way to mount a water-balloon under it.


I've got a trainer kit that my brother gave me that I haven't started on, I hope to get building soon.

I do have a question for any of you who know more than me on the subject.   how hard would it be to have your R/C unit controled by a computer?  what I'm invisioning is maybe a wireless vid camera in the plane, playing on a laptop.  along with being able to use my stick and pedals through the laptop for controls.

it would seem very possible, has anybody tried something like this?

[Tarmac]

Originally posted by BGBMAW
...btw..I think best thing I have ever seen..especially if you live near ocean..was these guys dogfiting..in these single piece..seemed to be foam rubber...they would try to ram each ohter to get into a spin and crash..

they were pretty much unbreakable...saw about 10 + of them battling..looked sickkkkk

Probably ZAGIs.  I own a 400x.  The thing is unbreakable.  It gets dents, but doesn't break even after 80 foot augers straight into the ground or head-on collisions with other ZAGIs.  You just pick up the pieces and put them back into the plane.  Maneuverable as hell too.  An ideal aerobatic/combat trainer.  

http://www.zagi.com/

[BGBMAW]

yes tarmac..thsoe are the ones..they were battling..

Xj...these are grreat for Ocean breezes..

but the bomb package i saw mounts to pretty much any plane that could carry the extra weight..

The bottle roket set up would be designed by you..fairly simple..but does need fabrication..

Bottle-rockets-model engine roket ignitors- and soem some sort of servo that cand send a 9 volt charge to rokets..Dam fun..imagine divin on beach let 'n loose with a salvo of whistlen black Cats:)

[Golfer]

I have plans for a very very simple and effective bomb mount.  Takes 1 servo and 5 minutes to rig.  Will email to serious inquiries only  

Step one, Drill hole (big enough for pushrod to fit through) in side of fuselage
Step Two, mount servo with foam tape on opposite side of hole.
step 3, run pushrod from servo arm through hole, leaving 1/4" of pushrod through hole, cut.
Step 4, fix rubber band to main landing gear strut, wrap band around bomb cradled under fuselage and fix to small bit of pushrod on side of fuselage.

fly, to drop bomb, click the 'flap' or whatever switch you chose and bombs away.  works very well with 3 foam coffee cup bombs filled with flour.
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Bomb will look like so.

[XtrmeJ]

lol this is a sweet thread. Gonna look at those ZAGI's, still have an itch for a P38 tho

[Pfunk]

Originally posted by Capt. Pork
Awesome crash footage!!

b-25 after loss of power

Therin lies the problem with twins, if you lose an engine you gotta be one hell of a pilot to recover