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2005-09-30 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Steve 2005-09-30 08:59|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 $55? I want one!

Posted by Chuper Whegum3442 2005-09-30 09:46|| 2005-09-30 09:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Chuper: Start at Tower Hobbies then modify. Or if you like older prebuilt running ones including jets and choppers there are a few hobby shops around that have them. A certain shop in a downtown Chicago suburb has a very nice selection of these in its basement. (you have to open a door that looks like a shelf to find them in the store. Oh and there are lots of cameras watching while you are down there.)

Posted by 3dc 2005-09-30 10:25|| 2005-09-30 10:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks for the link, I didn't realize how inexpensive free flight electrics had gotten. Ima order thisn.

$55 buys a lot of balsa... I'm tooo olde for that. :)

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-30 13:51|| 2005-09-30 13:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Aha! The secret about Iranian UFOs is out!
They must have come from Afghanistan...

Posted by BigEd 2005-09-30 14:50|| 2005-09-30 14:50|| Front Page Top

#5 3dc: Do you know if that shop in Chicago you mentioned will do works-for-hire?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-09-30 17:22|| 2005-09-30 17:22|| Front Page Top

#6 There's a guy in Denver that retired from running a hobby store that sold RC kits. He has a scale model Lockheed "Constellation" hanging in his living room (14-foot ceiling) that can take off, land, retract its landing gear, and fly for about 45 minutes before running out of gas. The darned thing is almost nine feet long!

There's not a lot of difference between small UAVs and remote-controlled model planes except the purpose they're being built for. Wonder who's going to get credit for the first "kill" in Afghanistan?

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-09-30 19:56|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-09-30 19:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Now, this is an RC model!

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-09-30 20:43|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-09-30 20:43|| Front Page Top

#8 And this is that model crashing:
Take off and crash (4 MBytes)
http://www.teambanana.co.uk/b52crash2.wmv

Posted by ed 2005-09-30 21:05|| 2005-09-30 21:05|| Front Page Top

#9 My dad was into that stuff big-time. I've seen that death spiral too many times...

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-09-30 21:56|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-09-30 21:56|| Front Page Top

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