Estes RC Plane - First Impressions

Letsee, it's not free-flight, it's not wire controlled, it's not IR controlled, it's not microwave controlled,... yep radio controlled. Just like my garage door opener.

First time on rmr? ;)

Joel. phx

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Joel Corwith
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Chris Taylor Jr

ROFL

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Jerry Irvine

Snip all re Estes plane.

The moment you have purchased it Estes' job is DONE. As far as they are concerned you shuld play with it for a while, enjoy but break it, and buy another. Over and over.

Jerry

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Jerry Irvine

Looks like folks don't remember what model rocket RC was like 25-30 years ago. State of the art was single channel pulse transmitters and recievers. Many of the tiny recievers were handmade by the user. Essentially what this offers today, except the transmitter did the left/right pulsing for you. And it probably wouldn't take much to modify the new transmitters to add that feature to them.

I know Bunny certainly remembers wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka wacka WACK!

:-)

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

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Bob Kaplow

The borken prop problem was true of it's predecessors, too. My flying buddy (Current and 4-time CLPA (Stunt) National Champ David Fitzgerald) got one of the previous "differential thrust" steered versions, and they went through props like they were gojng out of style. Flex-Zap can sort of fix them if they break near the hub. It's not like flying apart under centifugal force is a real danger, no faster than they turn, and no heavier than they are. Between fixing them, and getting handfuls of them from our former Estes engineering chief buddy, he and his 4-year-old got their money's worth.

Sounds like the "control" with the rudder versions is about like the differential thrust versions - vague at best. Doesn't mean it's not fun.

Brett

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Brett Buck

Work for Estes :)

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Jerry Irvine

Can you say Galloping Ghost ?

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Art Upton

It is nothing about this hobby. It is my opinion as an AMA member and a member of an AMA chapter in addition to being a NAR member and NAR section prez.

Yes I do RC also, and never understood the one channel RC thing. If you have fun with it fine. However, I do believe I am entitled to an opinion even if it differs from yours. It is nothing personal as you should know from our conversations.

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Greg Cisko

The use of a rocet motor?

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Jerry Irvine

Did I say "it's not RC" ? I believe I said I don't get the single channel thing. Duh.

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Greg Cisko

Actually, that is pretty much what you said. Not exactly, but if you had another meaning, it isn't clear. The exact quote:

Well, it's exactly radio (though pretty unsophisticated), and it's exactly control (though very limited). Clearly you mean something else, but the rest of us don't get it. Sorry.

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James Steven York

Your actual words, one or two messages up-thread, were:

"That is not exactly RC if you know what I mean."

-dave w

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David Weinshenker

Keep in mind - in the very early days of "R/C", one of the most widely used modes was rudder-only. These planes were basically free-flight models converted for R/C.

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BB

OH 2 messages up :-) Well yes you got me there.

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Greg Cisko

This is a typical deevolution of an rmr thread.

Someone telling someone else "you said X" and therefore your mother wears army boots, when he didn't EXACTLY "say X" in the first place.

Yet the thread went on for post after post as if he had, as usual for rmr.

Jerry

Being an rmr denison is a bug not a feature.

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Jerry Irvine

A rudder controlled RC sailplane made the cover of the October 1937 QST, a magazine for radio amateurs published by the American Radio Relay League.

50 years later, the National Sailplane Museum has an exhibit with Ross Hull's Skyrider. It is on loan from the ARRL--it used to hang in the front lobby for visitors to look at.

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Zack Lau W1VT NAR 80361

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Zack Lau

Leading to the common expression of the day - "R/C allows one to choose the point of one's crash".

Brett

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Brett Buck

False claim! The ONLY thing it allows IF it even works, is return of wreckage to within walking distance.

Jerry

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Jerry Irvine

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