Excellent :D
My James bought an RC Helicopter once and we both thought (foolishly) it would be easy to fly. However they are extremely tricky things to balance and if you smash the blades and bend the main prop-shaft it's expensive to repair and re-trim back up.
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 24 Aug 2012, 13:26,
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my experience with planes has taught me this
fly things made of foam, and glue them together when they break.
best thing is to make it yourself from foam. reinforce everything, build it to survive crashes.
all the "proper" people on rcgroups are always saying build as light as possible to make it fly best- I reckon they are too cautious. Clearly if you're not smashing it in to the ground every other time you try and fly it you're not pushing the boundaries.
Once something's flying comfortably it immediately becomes boring. Time to stick on a bigger motor and make it go faster, find out what happens.
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crab_bloke), Fri 24 Aug 2012, 13:30,
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I like this approach to science.
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 24 Aug 2012, 13:32,
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It is the basis of everything good mankind has ever achieved
people who disagree are worse than Hitler
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crab_bloke), Fri 24 Aug 2012, 13:34,
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Have you looked at Spadtothebone?
Simple Plastic Aircraft Design. R/C stuff made from gutter pipe an plastic sheet. All designed to be cheap to make, fun to fly and easy to repair!
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I follow the same approach...
If it's not on fire or smashed to bits then it's not ready yet! ;-)
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JamHamster My eyes, my beautiful eyes!, Fri 24 Aug 2012, 13:39,
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If it doesn;t come home broken
you haven;t tried hard enough
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crab_bloke), Fri 24 Aug 2012, 13:47,
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