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Offline Dago

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« Reply #15 on: March 16, 2006, 06:23:34 PM »
As mentioned here, do not buy a P51 for a first plane.  Buy a trainer.  You will crash it.  A trainer is much more stable, and you will not be a hot stick right off the bat.  Work your way up to the flight modeling of a warbird.  You will not start there.
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Offline Golfer

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« Reply #16 on: March 16, 2006, 06:48:24 PM »
JK Aerotech's trainer is as good as they come.  Small engine and sips fuel.

I have a P-51 that was radar gunned at over 150mph.  The airplane weighs less than 4 pounds with a .60 motor up front with a custom muffler/tuned pipe.  That'll put a hole in a roof :)
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« Reply #17 on: March 16, 2006, 08:17:50 PM »
There's only one thing you really need to know - stay away from electrics.  They suck & batteries are for suckers and fancy lads who fluff about on sailboats.





























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« Reply #18 on: March 16, 2006, 09:28:49 PM »
LOL...

I haven't a single gay electric toy. I don't even have an electric shaver. The smallest plane I own has a 7 foot wingspan, weighs 18 pounds, and swings an 20" prop with a GAS engine. These are AIRCRAFT. Not toys. And certainly not shake 'n bake pre-built cookie cutter stamped toys for the 'gee, i'm tired of video games and want to go outside and play' crowd.

After making batteries all damn day the last thing I ever wanna hear is the shriek of an electric powered DF or prop pushing a freaking packing peanut refugee around a soccer field or (even worse) some myopic tree hugging liberal twit with more money than time or brains asking "is the red wire important?".

pfffft.
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« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2006, 09:39:22 PM »
LOL, so what yer saying is that I don't know what the **** I'm talking about.  OK, well maybe.  :D
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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2006, 09:59:01 PM »
... and I had ta sell the boat to buy the welder.

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« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2006, 10:52:16 PM »
LOL @ elec comments...

I'm a "real" RC flyer/modeller (at least I was a few years ago) and I'm seriously considering getting an elec helo and maybe even an elec plane to help keep me in the hobby until I have the time / workspace to get back into the hobby.  I can't spread CA and model fuel/oil all over my wife's $5000 antique dining table but I sure as heck can tape up a foamy model and do some minor wiring work on that table, so the gas planes stay boxed up for now.

In case you're wondering, when it comes to antiques a blob of CA glue on a table is "destruction" and a minor soldering iron burn is "adding character" :)

The RC engine purists can shove their tuned pipes up their ***.  Been there, done that, it's fun and I have the .70 surpass to prove it, but it's not the only game in town.  :huh
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« Reply #22 on: March 16, 2006, 11:06:52 PM »
I got an Aerobird challenger, according to squaddy (Hawk68, guy has some NICE planes) they are pieces of ****.  It's a trainer though and it took probably 10 nose dives before i started chipping away at the wing.  Wings are relatively inexpensive though, so no biggy.  That plane can take a pounding but can't fly for ****.
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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #23 on: March 16, 2006, 11:39:49 PM »
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Originally posted by eagl
LOL @ elec comments...

I'm a "real" RC flyer/modeller (at least I was a few years ago) and I'm seriously considering getting an elec helo and maybe even an elec plane to help keep me in the hobby until I have the time / workspace to get back into the hobby.  I can't spread CA and model fuel/oil all over my wife's $5000 antique dining table but I sure as heck can tape up a foamy model and do some minor wiring work on that table, so the gas planes stay boxed up for now.

In case you're wondering, when it comes to antiques a blob of CA glue on a table is "destruction" and a minor soldering iron burn is "adding character" :)

The RC engine purists can shove their tuned pipes up their ***.  Been there, done that, it's fun and I have the .70 surpass to prove it, but it's not the only game in town.  :huh


Gawd, I'd rather fly electric than glow. (I'd wear shades and a hat, walk with a limp and borrow my wife's volvo so I'd not draw attention) Flying GAS on the other hand is an absolute joy.. no messy glop on the plane, sounds like a real engine (not a dremel) and no starter, glow driver or constant fiddling with the mixture. Just gas it up, flip that massive prop and it coughs to life, just like a real gawdamned airplane engine should.

Here's my SE5a, 19 pounds of pure joy. 56 minutes on a tank of gas (32oz tank)





Get REAL. Fly Gas. ;)
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« Reply #24 on: March 17, 2006, 04:05:37 AM »
Wow I've just falled in love with an RC plane! Terrific build, Hang.


(Just a question, tho: how many 'Curse you, Red Baron!!' moments have you had while flying it  ;)  ?)
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« Reply #25 on: March 17, 2006, 07:59:11 AM »
Electric RC = Terrarists have won!
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« Reply #26 on: March 17, 2006, 08:14:56 AM »
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Originally posted by Hangtime
sounds like a real engine (not a dremel)


So, instead of a dremel, it sounds like...a lawnmower.  Looks like we need some testosterone injected into this here thread. :D
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« Reply #27 on: March 17, 2006, 09:09:23 AM »
Hows this?



That's Yuri Higuchi.. nut job of a pilot. Does aerobatic manuvers that ain't even named yet. Cost me about a grand in sponsorship money and packs to get that bird set up for him. And it takes plenty of testosterone and a healthy dallop of skill to do the **** he does with that plane. DA150 for power, and it sure don't sound like any lawnmower you ever saw. ;)
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Offline phookat

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« Reply #28 on: March 17, 2006, 09:24:50 AM »
Cool planes, Hangtime.  I like the Spad better myself, a very nice looker.  But that's not what I was referring to. ;)
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« Reply #29 on: March 17, 2006, 09:28:31 AM »
That's entirely too big for my taste. What makes rc toys cool is the miniaturization.  I think that guy wants to fly real planes or something.
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