A mans Toy

[c303a]

This takes "model airplanes" to a new level!

http://www.flixxy.com/huge-remote-co...?utm_source=nl

[Fire$torm]

This takes "model airplanes" to a new level!

http://www.flixxy.com/huge-remote-co...?utm_source=nl

Dude! I used to be in the hobby. Even worked in the largest hobby shop in the city, back in the day. Large scale has been around a long time. Real turbine engines included. Back in the mid 80's the now extinct Byron originals offered 1/4 scale kits of planes like the North American P-51D Mustang, Mitsubishi A6M Zero and the Chance Vought F4U Corsair among others. They were absolute beauties...!!!!

anyhoot, do a search on YouTube. you'll find all kinds of stuff like 1/4 scale C130s, SR-71s, C-5 Galaxys, B-52s, etc...

[shralper]

That thing is bad a$$. His landing was pretty epic as well.

[c303a]

Dude! I used to be in the hobby. Even worked in the largest hobby shop in the city, back in the day. Large scale has been around a long time. Real turbine engines included. Back in the mid 80's the now extinct Byron originals offered 1/4 scale kits of planes like the North American P-51D Mustang, Mitsubishi A6M Zero and the Chance Vought F4U Corsair among others. They were absolute beauties...!!!!

anyhoot, do a search on YouTube. you'll find all kinds of stuff like 1/4 scale C130s, SR-71s, C-5 Galaxys, B-52s, etc...

I was in the hobby as well but I never built anything that big or with the jet engines. Biggest I built was a B-25 that had all the options on it. Bomb Bay, Bombs, Gear, flaps, throttle etc. I just got too close to the ground on a high speed, low pass 1 day. I had a lot of balsa firewood after that.

[Fire$torm]

I was in the hobby as well but I never built anything that big or with the jet engines. Biggest I built was a B-25 that had all the options on it. Bomb Bay, Bombs, Gear, flaps, throttle etc. I just got too close to the ground on a high speed, low pass 1 day. I had a lot of balsa firewood after that.

OUCH! Yeah I feel ya. I hate the sound of splintering plywood sheeting and balsa formers. And then there is always that one servo you can never find in the debris.

[c303a]

I taught all my kids how to fly the old U-Controls. Even the girls loved to help build them and then go out and spend the day burning up the Nitro. How about the old Nobler with an Enya .60? O the old flying wings with the Fox Combat .35. The old Enya is still sitting in the work shop along with a German .45 and a couple of Fox .35s.

[Fire$torm]

I taught all my kids how to fly the old U-Controls. Even the girls loved to help build them and then go out and spend the day burning up the Nitro. How about the old Nobler with an Enya .60? O the old flying wings with the Fox Combat .35. The old Enya is still sitting in the work shop along with a German .45 and a couple of Fox .35s.

Honestly I never got past the SIG Kadet Mk. II stage. Had a Webra T4-40 (rotary valve) 4-cycle engine and JR Propo PCM Century 7 radio installed.

Edit: Hot Damn!!!! Just found a T4-40 on eBay New In Box!!!! Seriously, if I had the cash I'd bid whatever was needed to win that puppy. Oh well....

[shiva]

I taught all my kids how to fly the old U-Controls. Even the girls loved to help build them and then go out and spend the day burning up the Nitro. How about the old Nobler with an Enya .60? O the old flying wings with the Fox Combat .35. The old Enya is still sitting in the work shop along with a German .45 and a couple of Fox .35s.

I remember the u-controls, the nobler, 2 of them hanging in the back room, fox 35 got them, 09's .045's and a electric rc. loved flying combat with the flying wings or a buster.

[c303a]

I remember the u-controls, the nobler, 2 of them hanging in the back room, fox 35 got them, 09's .045's and a electric rc. loved flying combat with the flying wings or a buster.

Those where the days. Smallest I used was a Fox .35 and I did have a Nobler with that engine but I also modified one with the Enya .60 mainly because I used the 3rd line with a throttle control on it. Loved the combat with the wings. We used to fly in a large park until the county said no more. Went to a sod farm for a while with the RC models but then I got my pilots license and lost interest in the small ones.

[Fire$torm]

I sorta envy you guys. Flying U-Control always made me dizzy, even on the small Cox .049 stuff. Merry-go-round had the same effect....