Finished this up today :)

[TAftonomos]

I should have been working on the monster, but instead:








Anyone else into RC?

[RAT900]

Electric Lawn Darts!!

[Triple J]

Very cool. I had a plane once...crashed it on it's maiden voyage! 

I was into boat racing for quite a while though, as well as cars. Tons of fun. I'm sure I'll get back into it when my son is old enough. 

[Goat_Herder]

LOL, same here.  I crashed my first RC plane 5 seconds into its first flight.  I got into RC cars when I was in high school with my room mate.  RC10 was all the rage.  But then I got lazy and started playing video games... 

[cbartlett419]

awesome, some friends and I bought EFlight Blade MSR's. 7in. rotors, 4 channel, 1oz. those things are super resilient, for the first couple weeks it looked like a mosquito hawk bouncing around the room. It's a great way to  into heli's cause it's tough and parts are cheap.

[extra330]

I haven't flown RC for a few years not but still have a few laying around. Here's a pic of my 3.1M Extra 330 that I used to fly IMAC with back in the day. The big ones fly so well that once you try one you'll have a hard time going back. It's like moving up to an S4RS from and first gen. M750   



Mike

[extra330]

Here's a little video my flying buddy put together of me having a little fun with the Extra.



Is is possible to embed videos from photobucket to the site?

[Monster Dave]

Very cool! My grandfather spent about a year slowly building this:



In the end, after considering how many hours of work he put into it, he decided to keep it as a trophy of his effort rather than ever fly it. I think it would have broken his heart to crash it.

I know that helicopters are much harder, but I've always wanted one of these big boys:

[mitt]

Here's a little video my flying buddy put together of me having a little fun with the Extra.



Is is possible to embed videos from photobucket to the site?

that is cool

mitt

[extra330]

Here's one of my 3.3m Yak 55sp from a a couple of years ago. She's powered by a 212 cc 4 cylinder boxer engine running on full lenght tuned pipes. At idle it almost sounded like an old KZ1000 Sadly I lost interest in flying (after a 30 yr RC habbit) and have sold of all but a few smaller models.

[Jarvicious]

We did a build project back in high school when I was in scouts.  Had I not gone off to college soon after, RC would have been a major money pit for me. 

In regards to the big ones, I got bored pretty easily by them and eventually had to start making them do things that learner planes weren't designed to do .  I almost got a chance to fly one of those thousand something dollar stunt planes, but the owner wrecked it doing a botched low altitude loop-de-loop  .  It was both exhillarating and painful to see that little bastard fly into the ground at 80 miles an hour

That little guy you built looks kinda delicate, Taft.  What kind of flying do you do?

[orangelion03]

Nice to see so many DMFers are involved in RC!  I dont partake, but I do take an interest... I grew up around it as my father has been flying models since the early 40s.  Both my brother and I tried our hands at it, but we didnt appreciate the whole build-it-crash-it-rebuild-it philosophy.

Yesterday I was out riding near Lake Casitas when I noticed a side road I hadnt seen before.  After a few corners, it had a long straight that a couple of locals were using as a model runway.

Here's some of my Pop's work.  The Beriev is his latest, 1/5 scale (electric power):
Flight of the Beriev

[iRam]

Very cool

[Heath]

So I take it you're going to be your own air traffic controler?

[Latinbalar]

Back in college i used to race on-road cars and made the gradual step into the brush-less li-po setups which causes a $200 car to go 70+ mph.  That was a blast we actually had transponders and a computerized lap counter. 



...Umm gotta go see if there is a track around me.