Hello everyone,
My work may soon be taking me to the Middle East, in the Saudi Arabia, and/or Iraq areas.
Is there any R/C flying planes or helis there? What about hobby shops? Mail order shops that serve the area?
Thanks in advance,
Tim
Your biggest problem will be finding fuel. Unless things have changed drastically, ANYTHING that contains alcohol is forbidden -- and that includes fuel, even pre-mixed. Your best bet would be to think electric.
His biggest problem may be more serious. The CIA may determine he is piloting a WMD headed for the White House and drop a MOAB on his location.
Hell, with the Smirking Chimp at the helm, just talking about this qualifies as "weapons of mass destruction program-related activities"!
You're screwed!
;-)
refer to country list at
Dubai RC Hobbies provides details of the various shops and other items available in the area. All items required by the RC enthusiast, Plane, Heli, car, truck etc are readily available. I suggest you email Dubai RC for details of the clubs in the area you will be residing in, especially the frequencies that you will be permitted to use in that particular area.
regards Alan T. Alan's Hobby, Model & RC Links
Smirking Chimp? When were you elected?
Too bad you don't know what you're talking about!
Gawd, another chimp lover. Here George, have another banana and sit in the corner and be quiet while your cronies run the world.
I spent a while working in Saudi Arabia for Litto in Jeddah and Khamis Mushayt. I had my R/C stuff shipped in with my whole baggage and it got through fine. But this is not always the case. There was a hobby shop in Jeddah and it sold lots of goodies but at extremely high prices. You could find FAI fuel there. I met several other R/Cer's that had stuff and said Riyadh and Damam had hobby stores as well. I sold all my gear to my friends before I came back. I tried carrying a Kyosho electric kit with me on the plane on one of my trips. They confiscated it at customs at the airport in Jeddah along with my battery and charger. The guy who got it was a dick. He took it for his own use as someone told me they saw a guy flying the plane one day after I had moved to a different city.
So... to wrap it up... Yes you can sometimes get stuff... Yes you can sometimes have stuff shipped in and Yes you will be lucky to do it.
FredD
Join the service...all the chances you could want and those MRE's are pretty good too!
FredD
Lots, mainly Tomahawks :-)
Glo engines run on methanol, which is not drinklable if you want to saty alive.
Methanol is used by the medical profession, the building trades, and is of course completely available in anyy reaosnably moderbn country.
Including those of the mohammeddan persuasions.
Wrong.!!!
That should read 'pretend to run the world'...:-)
In the good old days, the food was carried by horses, and when the food ran out you ate the horses.
Can't do that with a HumVee ;-(
They had camp followers too.
No so! Just someone who doesn't want to return to those thrilling days of yesteryear! When the Dems used the same intel, came to the same conclusions and pounded their puds (while raising taxes and dumping the economy)!
Not so when I was there -- we're talking Saudi here, not the other countries in the UAR. We all know methanol is poison, but when some low ranking customs guy sees your "Methyl ALCOHOL", all he sees is the later word and you might just be in big do-do. Unless things have changed -- when were you there?
Hey, Without us Yanks, you would have starved to death. Ed
I didn't mean you could import it, just that it was buyable.
I know for a fact that there are plenty of RC flyers in E.g. Iran.
Without the russkies, we woulkd have been dead already :-)
Not that tere was anything but selfish motives involved...
It was a question fool!
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