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10-16-2020, 04:41 PM #1
Cheap fun
I love RC stuff!!! Too much maybe!
Trying out a different brand, Dynam. 48" Waco. Plug and Play. Just add a receiver and a battery, and your off. The price was a big factor coming in at just $189. Not much money for a lot of plane. I will post when I have it put together and how that goes later.
The only downside is there are no floats. Ya have to get a Beaver or Cub for that.
EDITED to add link.. duh... https://www.bitgohobby.com/Dynam-Waco-Yellow-SRTF
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10-16-2020, 05:07 PM #2Banned
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The thread title is very misleading.................
Nice plane, looks like fun.
Make sure you do not skimp on the receiver. Buddy of mine put one together a few years back. He was a real cheap skate. So he gets the plane together, flies it around for a bit. At one point he had the plane going away from us. He tries to turn it around and it did not respond. We all stood there and watched it fly into the horizon. Never to be seen again.
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10-16-2020, 05:31 PM #3
Well the 78" Beaver was a lot more...? Add floats and cameras?
And I use the 2.4GHz DSM, and DSMX transmitters. No more analog stuff. Plus they have a fail safe in the RX that you program in. Loose signal, throttle will go to the off position, and control surfaces will go as programed. Usually best glide.
I have a drone on the same type frequency and flown over a half mile away... Screen on the TX allowed me to see exactly where I was, along with GPS, etc.
The video transmission technology had grown exponentially in the past few years. I have seen fixed wing drones fly a 10 mile round trip with no issues.
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10-16-2020, 05:44 PM #4Banned
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I doubt this guy had anything digital. For one, this was almost 20 years ago, and two, this guy bought the cheapest stuff he could find. He was so tight with money, it is part of the reason I haven't talked to him in over ten years.
He was fun to hang out with back in the day. Crap like that would happen to him all the time and it was funny to see.
He had this snow mobile that was an absolute piece of crap. Always breaking down. Total POS. So he gets the idea to tape the throttle wide open, point the thing towards a snowbank/ramp, start the thing up and let it finds it way to its destruction. So he starts the thing up, it takes off towards the ramp, gets a good 30 feet of air, and then lands perfectly!!! It took off towards the treeline and made it a good half mile until finally crashed into a tree and died. We even filmed this, but it was on VHS and I do not have a copy anymore. Good times, man, good times.
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10-16-2020, 05:59 PM #5
I used to be in to Ultralight airplanes. Believe it or not, we had a cheap skate dumbass like that. Usually when he flew his $hit, I would leave!!! LMAO!!! If he wasn't flying, he wasn't crashing! It was like clock work.... AND I even flew some of his "planes"!
This just something to do... and I have gotten lazy. Easier to charge batteries than to deal with a nitro motor! I have one and it is a bad MF, but a pain in the ass!
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10-18-2020, 05:24 PM #68000 RPM
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A Helicopter would be a challenge.
I remember a guy, that use to bring his little helicopter (conventional not a quad powered drone).
And when he got bored playing pool in the community center, he would fly and hover his copter inside the building. The advantage of a copter over an airplane, flying indoors.
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10-18-2020, 07:22 PM #7
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10-19-2020, 06:18 PM #8
Come on Paul.... not flybarless.....
You never know what your faith is, until your faith has been truly tested.
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10-20-2020, 01:44 PM #9
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10-25-2020, 10:38 PM #10
That plane has a 4' wingspan?
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10-26-2020, 03:02 AM #11Screaming And Flying!
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I new a guy that for Cheep funnnnn....... jumped off his dads garage roof......young n dumm......years latter.......kneee surgery.......GF........
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10-26-2020, 12:23 PM #12
Yep. And I am not sure that what the ratio of bi-wings to mono wings are, but a shorter bi-wing is equal to at least a 20% larger mono wing.
BTW right now I am putting together a C-188 Cessna crop duster with a 5' span by the same manufactures. They are cheap but use EPO foam and seem to fit together nicely.
https://www.bitgohobby.com/Dynam-Ces...ge-1500mm-SRTF
I did add a link to my first post... My bad.
There are build and flight videos of the Waco.
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10-26-2020, 02:59 PM #13
That is a bargain for a plane that big.
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11-13-2020, 08:21 PM #14
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11-13-2020, 09:08 PM #15
Love me some RC! Lots of cars over my life, mostly nitro stuff once I got a bit older. Was out of cars by the time LiPo and brushless was a thing. Started with flight with a few of the small hell's and then those began to grow... I picked up a used T Rex 500. Looks like its never been crashed but who knows. I've got it in the air a few times but just don't have the time to dial it in. So it sits, thought about selling it a few times cause I got a decent deal on it and could get my money out of it. Other than the LiPo charger and the DX8i I bought because the DX6i I had wouldn't really fly it properly.
Been thinking of getting into some of the smaller cheap planes, that thing looks tempting. But not sure I want one that big to start.'78 Hydrostream Viking/'98 225 ProMax
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