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I used to be into RC planes, sort of. I would build them from the wood kits....hours and hours gluing and sanding and painting and measuring. It was detailed painstaking work. Then I would take them out, fire them up and instantly crash them into a million little pieces. Did that four or five times never having anything even close to a decent flight. 45 seconds tops of out of control straight into the ground. Took me awhile to understand that it was a hobby I was not capable of doing.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNGi9XMAU8Y

Get a Stryker. I got one. Beginner to expert. I would suggest buy the foam body ($30?) then a good radio and motor so u can swap it out easily. Can fly super slow or screams. No landing gear will take off and land easily.

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these newer engines are not the earlier ducted fans. They are real miniature turbine engines.

Dude that sat next to me at Rockwell was a RC pattern champion. He was good.

And it is quite expensive, but lots of fun.

There's a RC runway up at Alum Creek. I stop there on weekends to watch.

North on Africa from Lewis Center. Left side.

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my Rc car.. has a range over over 1/4 mile.. i have strapped a live wireless camera to it and just "gone driving" at the local park. they use 2.4hz signals not FM/crystals like they use to.

that thing looked like it was covering a quarter mile in about 8 seconds.

How can you see the damn thing to turn it around???

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Never got to mess around with the old ramjets and haven't seen the newer turbine toys.........But, I used to be into RC when I was a teen......I raced electric buggies and my Dad built us boats and planes to play with. Those planes take some skill and patience to fly -- we had some small gas trainers and a couple low-winged craft ( F4U Corsair, PT40 ) that were a blast to fly but F4U and PT took STEADY hands to keep off the ground ;)

There was a fella back in the late 80's at the local RC Hawks air field that built a 1/10 scale P-51 tankbuster with a serious engine "upgrade" ( more lke overkill ) and was pulling a low altitude, high speed flyby when it tore a wing clean off - so from sweet scale-model to a lawn dart in less than a second! Sad sad sad thing to see........especially for the owner that had tons of hours and thousands of bucks in building it.

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that thing looked like it was covering a quarter mile in about 8 seconds.

How can you see the damn thing to turn it around???

most of those higher end RC have 5-10mile radius for their radio.. and most have a pin camera in the nose cockpit area with the reciever/vid screen in the controller or i have seen "sun glasses" with HUD

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They use spectrum radios now. No more tagging the radio with a flag of the channel your on. Spectrum searches for a unused channel in seconds and locks on. U can have a hundred flyers in one spot and not worry. Ok radio is about $300, cheap radio $50. You can get a stryker, screw painting it and have fun for little money. Litho batts are a little expensive. u can buy a Stryker ready to fly with everything under$300 but radio and components will be junky but suitable for a monthly flyer.

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