[Ice]

 Lately we have been flying R.C.Helicopters/ driving R.C. cars on our breaks at work,,,, great fun.


 I can't be the only one here.

Who else ?

[REpozer]

Few years ago , many of my coworkers were into RC airplanes. I never dove in to the hobby, but enjoyed watching them fly.

It makes me feel guilty having a nonpaying hobby.....My RE saves me gas, right?

[Lahti35]

I was until i crashed once too many...... All my airplanes are static now

[jdrouin]

Was into RC cars as a kid. We used to swap and sell parts in school. Working on all those cars and monster trucks was how I learned to solder. Definitely some skills that come in handy with the Bullet.

At Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn there's an RC car drag strip and RC plane field. That's where we shot the video of Chumma's Fireball #1. After Chuck left we spent a lot of time talking to a bunch of guys running gas-powered cars while planes did aerobatics above us. Perfect space for man toys.

You can see them in the opening sequence here:

http://vimeo.com/11816016

I used to ride to Floyd Bennet all the time and would sit and watch the guys fly their planes for a while. There's something calming about it, like watching fish in an aquarium.

Jeff

[Chuck D]

Oh... I thought you meant RC (Royal Crown) cola. I was into that...
Hey Jeff!!

[robbw]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tc9ECA0T9s

I want one of these 

[Anon]

Oh... I thought you meant RC (Royal Crown) cola. I was into that...

Me too! That was my favorite cola when I was a kid.

[Ice]

R.C. Cola and a moon pie.

Food fit for a king ! ( to an eleven year old )  

[redcat]

My son is into RC Helos in a big way. He has three of the things that he spends as much time working on as flying but I think he likes repairing them as much as flying them. He had a small helo he was flying in the house but it totaled out his Mom's favorite lampshade so hes been banished to a large warehouse where I work till the weather improves. I'm Into keeping bees,ahalf dozen chickens, a medium sized garden and an RE.

[single]

I would enjoy this,I think.When I was delivering cars,a few of the drivers had r.c. cars and they would get them out and fool around when the rest of us were waiting in line for one thing or another.

[PhilJ]

The Astro Hog was my fovorite for years. It was such easy flying, while being quite aerobatic. Lazy touch and goes, a few barrel rolls , loops and such. But, alas, one must choose, as too many hobbies are waaay to costly. Guitar, golf and motorcycles won out. 

[Ice]

Xtreme 330's and Syma s-107's are the ( ineexpensive) Heli's of choice at my work.

Small, light, indoors only.

[RBHoge]

I have been flying Radio Controlled airplanes since the mid 1960's. My favorite Plane back then was a Carl Goldberg Falcon 56. I liked it so much that when I heard that the Kit was going to be discontinued I searched like a mad man till I found one.  I also fly a Scale F-4-U-4 Corsair (modeled after the fashion of the VFMn 534 airplane that my Father-in-law flew in W W II.)  I took a blur ribbon at our local club's scale meet with a 68 inch wingspan Super Cub. Modeled after my Brother-in-law's plane.

The sad thing is that just before I finished the Corsair, My Father-in-law passed away Shortly after I presented the Super Cub to my Brother-in-law,  He crashed and burned to death.  I have not done much with the R.C. planes since then.

[redcat]

Sorry to here that RBH

[Rick O'Shea]

My son, UNCWVINTAGE has been into this hobby since he was 9 or 10. My dad started a R/C club in upstate S.C. & brought my son up with the hobby.Tyler has developed into one of the best R/C pilots I've seen; practice makes perfect.