RC plane/heli/gliders thread...

[george graves]

I haven't messed around with the RC stuff since I was a kid.

But the prices on hobby stuff is amazing now-a-day (thanks china!) The cost of a receiver, and transmitter when I was a kid, was more then a used car - in today's dollars a 4 channel FUTABA radio cost something like $1500. Now, less then a $100.

I'm really tempted to build this:

[e30trooper]

Needs more low..


JK, looks cool. To bad a hobby like that can over cross the cost of a e30 anyday lol
rc jet place would be so cool

[Shangsta]

yeah its crazy how low the price of entry has become into the rc stuff.

[bmwstudent]

i had a Sturdy Birdy II when i was a kid. Its in the attic right now. I built it myself a age twelve. I don't think i got it together until i was like fourteen. It was really fun to fly, until i crashed it into the ground one to many times. Now you've got me thinking about fixing it.

[Kershaw]

skynet is coming..... we are doomed.

haha, this looks really cool.

[jaywood]

That is very cool! I wouldn't mind building one.

You guys should sell it as a kit!

[Farbin Kaiber]

In for GB.

Oh and, e36 spotted in the garage.

[AbeSonic]

That thing is bad ass! Kinda scary the sound it makes when he's ripping on it. Do ett George! If you build it, they will come

[Turf1600]

I've been looking for an awesome glider to throw off of my roof.

[M-technik-3]

Brushless motors and ESC's have come down so drastically thanks to the lack of copyrights as well.

That's a cool cheap bird.

[george graves]

Brushless motors and ESC's have come down so drastically thanks to the lack of copyrights as well.

The cost has gone from $200 for a speed controller to $10, but they are all PWM'ed mosfets with a mass manufactured chip(or something - I haven't opened one up) - I don't think it's a matter of copyright infringement.

As chips like that get used in LED christmas lights and stuff - china can make they for next to nothing.