Another hobby: RC Flight

I've got about 12 birds overall - 4 of which are 6ft plus wingspan nitro planes (A6 Zero, Macchi 205 Veltro, AT-6 Texan, F4 Corsair), and lots of electric jets and seaplanes. I love the hobby almost as much as I love the cars. Lots of assembly/disassembly required to fit the planes into my car though. I just got the camera, among other things, from my GF for xmas so I will have some more exciting videos of aerobatics up shortly, probably some crashes too.

Here's a pic of the Macchi, and another gas trainer in the upper right, this has a wingspan of about 6ft and is built from balsa wood and beech. Evolution .61 NT nitro 2 stroke engine. Attachment browser: macchibigside.jpg - RC Groups
here is the thread I made over on those forums on the build - it has more pics of the build itself Build - VQ Warbirds Macchi 205 Veltro - RC Groups
I'll take a picture of my "hangar" / workshop tonight. It is a fullsize bedroom loaded with fuselages and wings - and a closet of catastrophic failures.

Not bad to land at all. Most of my electric planes (the smaller planes/jets and the float planes) either belly land on the grass or land on pontoons/hull in the water. The gaser's aren't bad to land either. The gears are all retractable on the WW2 giants, and they have spring shock absorber struts so they're more forgiving than one would think. Land too hard though and they'll punch right through the wing.




The Hamster / dustmop is shown for scale - hamster about 10" long

That appears to be a CMP kit, is that right? My zero runs on a Magnum 90 4 Stroke and it's about 7lbs. Not nearly as big as that behemoth. My carrying capacity is limited by the mustang. I can fold down the rears but the wings on my large ones still come into the front seat area and end up past the e-brake handle. Gorgeous plane.

I like the ease of flying electric (toss it in the trunk, batteries in pocket, and go to the field). But the recharging is the biggest pain in the @ss for me. With the gas planes, I bring out a quart of nitro fuel and I could fly 6-8 hours straight, only stopping for refuel and to swap out receiver battery packs. Not to mention, those big warbirds in the pics above will get about 20-30 minutes of very spirited flying before the tank gets light. My 5 foot high wing nitro will fly for 45-50 minutes without a refuel. Hopefully in the future the battery technology will be able to compete with nitro flight durations. I love flying gas and electrics, they each have their own pro's and con's.
The Blade MCX is great fun for indoor flying. The Dx6 is a great transmitter as well. I own one of those as well as a Futaba 6EX. Both transmit on 2.4ghz. I have lost planes due to interference flying on 72mhz and will never fly anything but 2.4ghz ever again.

YouTube - E-Flite F-16 , Hyperion 28-40 BL motor, FlycamOne2
edited with a nice Ted Nugent soundtrack