Tonar Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 There was some interest in some more photos and video of my other hobby of flying RC Slope. Most of these were from last weekend. Here is a link to a Video from Last year http://s63.photobucket.com/albums/h144/ ... idgeCD.flv Quote
Shadow Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 Way cool! The vid made me want to go downtown and fire a glider off one of the buildings (nearest we get to a mountain in these parts). Quote
Rattler Posted September 22, 2006 Posted September 22, 2006 Way cool!The vid made me want to go downtown and fire a glider off one of the buildings (nearest we get to a mountain in these parts). Way, way cool: you're actually dogfighting them! Expensive? Quote
Tonar Posted September 22, 2006 Author Posted September 22, 2006 Way, way cool: you're actually dogfighting them! Expensive? No, Most of them are built from EPP foam. they are virtually indistructable(except the control linkage and small amout of balsa control surfaces) you can get started for around $200, which includes the Plane(chevron wing AKA Combat wing), Tx, & Rx. but thats just starting. like any hobby it can cost as much as you got. I most likley have around $2000 in slope gliders and around $4000 in powered planes. it is probably more but I don't think about it. that is over the past 17 years. :shock: Quote
Tonar Posted October 7, 2006 Author Posted October 7, 2006 Just finished restoreing My 4 stroke Gasser and wanted to show off a little. Had this bird for over 7 years. Quote
DZ9 Posted October 8, 2006 Posted October 8, 2006 totally cool! how the hell do you get them back from crashes on sheer cliffs? the dog? Quote
Tonar Posted October 9, 2006 Author Posted October 9, 2006 Not too many "sheer Cliffs" we retrieve most of them. the Dog helps find them with her ears sometimes but unable to Retrieve very well. we fly them back to ourselve most of the time. Quote
Tonar Posted October 11, 2006 Author Posted October 11, 2006 here are two shots of a Glider retreval a friend did last weekend. Quote
Tonar Posted January 3, 2007 Author Posted January 3, 2007 Well it ain't Slope soaring, but it sure as shit was fun. Quote
BBloke Posted January 3, 2007 Posted January 3, 2007 LOL.. holy shit thats like a skidu with wings !!! Cool VT.. Quote
Enforcer57 Posted January 5, 2007 Posted January 5, 2007 F-ing incredible! my late dad did RC from the early 50s till just a couple of yrs before he died in June. Ive still got a ton of RC kits, engines, and stuff Im trying to sell. You wouldnt believe all the kits , many of them vintage 60s stuff, many very well built planes, many incomplete planes (he was a true craftsman but had a bad habbit of starting projects w/o finishing earlier ones), radio transmitters, and tons of stuff I dont even recognize. He's got an astro hog plane that he built in 66, and a couple of copters he never finished. He's got several gliders and glider kits, and used a bunjee cord catapult to launch them sometiems, and some had small engines. I used to help him launch and recover them when I was much younger. Where is that range of mtns? And I love that P-38. Is one of those shots from a cam mounted on the glider? Quote
Tonar Posted January 5, 2007 Author Posted January 5, 2007 Let me Know if you want to sell any of it to me! I am always interested in hard to find Kits.takes some shots of the stuff and e-mail them to me. Yes I do have a plane mounted camera, still working out the bugs on how and when to take the shot. the mountains are the Rockies west of denver. Quote
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