O/T. Model radio controlled helicopters

[LotusSevenMan]

Keeping amused in this cr*p weather by flying a Blade CX2 and now the tiny, weeny Blade MCX. Rotor diameter of only 190 mm but no way a toy like the infra red ones are. Wow, micro electronics and batteries.
The Blade CX2 has a 340mm rotor blade diameter so more damage to light fittings LOL.
Anyone else fly?

[DPR11]

I bought something similar for my boy for x-mas.................its for him honest

Danny

[Seeker 77]

I have one of these



and am building a balsa and fibreglass one of these

[LotusSevenMan]

Timbo.

raced cars in the 1/8 Off-Road IC Nationals

So did I !!! Was sponsored by then by PB Racing (Keith Plestead was the Guv'nor).
Still cost me an arm and leg. Had the 4 wheel drive, 4 wheels steer, twin disc braked twin diff XI/2. I drove better when I locked up the rear steer and drifted it!!!
Also raced a Prestwich model centre Jantar 3.5cc multi boat with a converted Rossi oil cooled car engine to fifth in the nationals first year in the sport; south midlands 3.5cc southern round champion and first in Nationals pairs racing!!!

Great fun at the time.

[Seven Of Nine Firestorm]

Does having a Tamia Fox count with a double wound race demon engine, ate batteries tho. had a Nitro kinda custom car after that started on the wheel petrol damn that thing flew, days of the old crystal swapping and coloured ones.
One thing I always wanted was a remote control sub with camera on and working darts

edit:- reminds me did have a sun-runner boat lol, also a very old wooden boat which I was given got run over by a car but managed to save the ickle "frog" engine, loved starting that up in a vicewith pull courd around the pulley, hard to get going but when it did chug chug lol.

[LotusSevenMan]

Se7en of nine.
Ah, the old (compression/ignition) Diesel Frogs. Getting the contra screw set right was the answer, but not always easy!!!
Excuse the shorts etc but this picture was taken a while back of me with Surcouf.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81476041@N00/2246733063/
Model of a French submarine. This one has blank firing two two guns but no torpedoes. Geez, it is hard enough to keep an r/c sub this size trimmed anyway!!!!!!!!
I still have it though not used for about five years now.
Length? 2200mm (7'2"). Pic taken alongside HMS Alliance at Gosport.
Also have a 6' U-boat with r/c sat in the garden at present. Well hasn't everyone?

[Seven Of Nine Firestorm]

Damn........... wow, i've seen smaller ones but never one that size (im' on about the submarine BTW), need a big deep duck pond for that so to speak .

Ah you remember the frog engines too, classics.

edit:- LSM can't believe your better half lets you out with legs like that lol

[Jbrebel]

How weird is it that we are/have been into RC?

I used to race 1/10 Electric and now have a 1/8 nitro Truggy. Also have a Tamiya Bullhead The big feck off thing with a truck cab.

Love planes and heli's too.

Strange world...

[tony.mon]

Got a remote-controlled telly, but the battery went flat and now I have to ask the wife to change channels whenever she walks past it to get me beer.

Oh, and there's a remote-controlled hovercraft 6ft down in the mud at the bottom of the Koi pond somewhere, after that was bladdered by one of the ducks.

If you had a big enough warehouse with lots of people lying on the ground with hair-dryers, you could probably keep a paper dart going roughly in the direction you wanted, with a bit of practise.

Is that the sort of thing you meant?

[Seeker 77]

Got a remote-controlled telly, but the battery went flat and now I have to ask the wife to change channels whenever she walks past it to get me beer.

Oh, and there's a remote-controlled hovercraft 6ft down in the mud at the bottom of the Koi pond somewhere, after that was bladdered by one of the ducks.

If you had a big enough warehouse with lots of people lying on the ground with hair-dryers, you could probably keep a paper dart going roughly in the direction you wanted, with a bit of practise.

Is that the sort of thing you meant?

Have you been at the Christmas Sherry Tony?

[AMCQ46]

John,

Was chatting to someone the other day and another that seems to go hand in hand is Riding Bikes and playing video games of some sort. Most bikers seem to own either a PS3 or Xbox 360. The guy who serviced my boiler had an R1 and was into his video games, specifically MW2, bet he had some sort of R/C hobby too

I am going to test the theory with a poll.

Or is it just that blokes like toys, adrenalin & hobbies [or TV & beer in tonys case]., and having a bike shows that we are in the more extreeme end of the toy / adrenalin loving population so we have the best collection of toys?

why do women not have proper hobbies? shopping isnt a hobby!

[tony.mon]

Got a remote-controlled telly, but the battery went flat and now I have to ask the wife to change channels whenever she walks past it to get me beer.

Oh, and there's a remote-controlled hovercraft 6ft down in the mud at the bottom of the Koi pond somewhere, after that was bladdered by one of the ducks.

If you had a big enough warehouse with lots of people lying on the ground with hair-dryers, you could probably keep a paper dart going roughly in the direction you wanted, with a bit of practise.

Is that the sort of thing you meant?

Have you been at the Christmas Sherry Tony?

Intravenous.
Hic

[LotusSevenMan]

See here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2onq5VAjgrc

Grrat little helicopter and I Lurve flying it around my small sitting room!!!