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As someone who has lost a few r/c aircraft...

By The Armorer on September 8, 2004 | | Comments (8)

...my heart goes out to these fellows. Don't forget to watch the movies.

A jet-powered model B-52.

Hat tip to Ghost of a Flea, who has a nice post that neatly encapsulates why I blog - to beard the lions in their den.

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By Jack on September 8, 2004 11:13 AM
Man... they did a wonderful job with the recreation of the plane. It really sucks that all they had left was a small pile of broken parts.
 
By Fred Boness on September 9, 2004 12:17 AM
I flew RC planes for twelve years. Most were my own designs with wingspans from two to twelve feet. Most finished their careers in flights to Valhalla. That's just the nature of the sport.
 
By Justthisguy on September 9, 2004 12:47 AM
R/C? R effin'C? Played with by whiners, sissies, ignorant boneheads who don't know how to design an airplane with inherent stability? Mouthbreathers, listeners to rock'n'roll music, people who, as far as I know, may be sodomizers of dogs? I'v lost at least two dozen hand-launched gliders out of sight overhead, in thermals. Most of them were of my own design, and weighed maybe 5 or 6 grams. Real, creative, human, makers of things design and build airplanes. We delegate lesser folks, or machines, to fly them. The best ones don't need anyone to fly them, they fly themselves. Viva Vol Libre!
 
By Justthisguy on September 9, 2004 1:03 AM
I quit flying R/C models so many years ago that my R/C motors have exhaust throttles. (ca. 1972) You know, before mufflers? Rubber and lightly-doped Jap tissue make no noise, and are fun to chase.
 
By Justthisguy on September 9, 2004 1:28 AM
Ok, now that my head has cooled a bit, I do see yer point there. I don't have a real problem with R/C in SCALE models, if you like those things. I've always thought, though, that if you want a scale model, it should be built at a scale of 1/1, or what's the point? If that model had actual working gas turbines in it, yup, that's cool, but considering scale effects etc, the thing would have probably flown better with ordinary glow motors. When it comes to cool R/C airplanes, I commend to y'all's attention the one flown across the Atlantic Ocean recently by Maynard Hill (A REAL R/C pioneer, from back when you had to build yer radio from components) and his friends. Of course it was really more of a F/F, what with the autopilot, and all. snork.
 
By Justthisguy on September 9, 2004 1:52 AM
Look here. The airplane Maynard and his guys flew from Newfoundland to Ireland weighed about 11 lbs. (
 
By John on September 9, 2004 6:37 AM
Whoosh! Someone feels strongly about things... As for 1/1 Scale... if I could afford a Mustang, I'd buy a Mustang. I'll just settle for a model to play with, thanks!
 
By Justthisguy on September 9, 2004 11:28 PM
John, thanks for being nice to me when I was starting to foam at the mouth. I dang' near got tossed from The High Road for saying lesser calumnies against a Trekky. Thanks for turning my plaintext into a hyperlink. Maynard Hill really is a magnificent cool old guy.