Does Anyone Fly Radio Control Planes???

[Wifey]

I heard the plane costs $120,000.00

 

[Wifey]

My Christmas present

Finally finished and ready to try it out

It went from a box of wood to this beautiful pink and white bird - with the help of a Yettie of course :rock: :marchmellow:

 

[Wifey]

I anyone wants a custom yettie built plane - just let me know :rock: :marchmellow:

Or if any of you so cal guys wanna fly :dontknow: :marchmellow: I'll race ya

Just give me time to install my race engine, this one is a little small:

 

[Wifey]

Hey Brad - how about some live footage of the crash :dontknow:

Maybe even two or three, Jerry has a couple more birds on the table :marchmellow: :marchmellow: :marchmellow:

 

[ccfeyh]

The owner of our local Ford dealership has so many heilos, you can't believe it.

I've seen him stand in a fixed position, turn one upside down, hover it about two inches off the ground and make it circle around him. He has a four car garage that he uses only for his RC planes and heilos.

I used to fly them until some SOB turned on his radio on the same channel I was on and lost about $1,500.00 worth of airplane. Lost all interest after that.

 

[Wifey]

The owner of our local Ford dealership has so many heilos, you can't believe it.

I've seen him stand in a fixed position, turn one upside down, hover it about two inches off the ground and make it circle around him. He has a four car garage that he uses only for his RC planes and heilos.

I used to fly them until some SOB turned on his radio on the same channel I was on and lost about $1,500.00 worth of airplane. Lost all interest after that.

You should try it again with a cheaper plane

They have the new radios now that are 2.4 GHz. The receivers fingerprint to the transmitter and have approx 1.5 million channels that rotate every two milliseconds. They have turned on as many as 10k radios at one time without interference to any other radio in the group - military technology that was used and developed during desert storm for the remote pilot vehicles. The technology was developed by Futaba and have now filtered their way into civilian usage

The old radios are deadly because people now can change the crystals to any channel they want, without re-tuning the radio, so you never really know exactly what freq. anyone is on

FUTABA makes the best, some of the others use two separate receivers to get the same performance. The new receivers are only about 1 1/4 x 1/14 x 3/8 thick :rock:

 

[SrtBrad]

Hey Brad - how about some live footage of the crash :dontknow:

Maybe even two or three, Jerry has a couple more birds on the table :marchmellow: :marchmellow: :marchmellow:

:hmmmm: :hmmmm: :hmmmm: :hmmmm2: :hmmmm2: :hmmmm2: Maybe we can strap on a micro cam and do a Mikey flyby just as he is about to take a drink of coffee.

AwdIsuzu has some choppers that he attached a micro cam too that works awesome.

You're giving me ideas now.........1/4 mile air view cam? How about a road course cam? the ideas are unlimited.:congrats:

 

[Wifey]

:hmmmm: :hmmmm: :hmmmm: :hmmmm2: :hmmmm2: :hmmmm2: Maybe we can strap on a micro cam and do a Mikey flyby just as he is about to take a drink of coffee.

AwdIsuzu has some choppers that he attached a micro cam too that works awesome.

You're giving me ideas now.........1/4 mile air view cam? How about a road course cam? the ideas are unlimited.:congrats:

Sounds good to me :rock: I think they're pretty cheap, too :marchmellow:

 

[Fahrenheit]

I flew control line airplanes in high school. I was the state champ in 92' I couldnt believe it was a project you could do in wood shop....we made everything but the engines.

 

[Wifey]

I flew control line airplanes in high school. I was the state champ in 92' I couldnt believe it was a project you could do in wood shop....we made everything but the engines.

Very cool :congrats: :congrats: You should have taken metal shop to do up the engine

Jerry's brother was on a special exhibition team (control line) with the USAF - although, he didn't get to compete at the nationals while in the AF he competed with the guy who took 3rd place at the Nationals in TX, I guess he cut his streamer off in less than 15 seconds :rock:

 

[Fahrenheit]

OOOOH that sucks. I was really the only one who had experience at flying at the district competition, the kid got dizzy and knocked me down, and I still cut his tail sitting down.

 

[includemeout]

The owner of our local Ford dealership has so many heilos, you can't believe it.

I've seen him stand in a fixed position, turn one upside down, hover it about two inches off the ground and make it circle around him. He has a four car garage that he uses only for his RC planes and heilos.

I used to fly them until some SOB turned on his radio on the same channel I was on and lost about $1,500.00 worth of airplane. Lost all interest after that.

Yes he has used to get parts there for a Cricket egg beater back in the early 80's. There used to be weekend flying in the parking lot too:rock:

Bummer on the radio hit, been there , got to clean a couple of guys clocks after giving me a bunch o crap about putting My plane in the dirt idjut did not even check to see who was on what channel. Just him and his buddy, a big dry lake,and a pissed off Yettie, ah, those were the days

 

[includemeout]

OOOOH that sucks. I was really the only one who had experience at flying at the district competition, the kid got dizzy and knocked me down, and I still cut his tail sitting down.

Kid has to learn not to go in circles, obviously you had :rock:

Never was great at combat u control, slow stunt better, and speed planes.

Did alot of free flight back then also,but I was always amazed watching my brother fly combat, just unbelievable :rock:

 

[Voodoo]

i find this hard to believe but i only have 2 pictures of one of my hellis

found a pic thats blurry of 2 helis and 2 slope soarers

 

[AWDisuzu]

i have 2 helicopters =)

 

[noid]

This thing is bad ass.

http://www.draganfly.com/uav-helicopter/draganflyer-x6/gallery/pictures/

http://www.draganfly.com/uav-helicopter/draganflyer-x6/