Thread: How do YOU pick your next plane?

Is your car a "Speed-T"? If so, let it be known that I've been wanting to purchase one for over a year now. I have a bit of sticker shock when it comes to the cars -- I don't understand why they're so darned expensive when compared to our airplanes!

Originally Posted by Cdr. Instigator For me.. The model must be Electric running on 3 Cells. Must have a very kool look in the air.. No flying pancakes for me thank you. I'm so with you on this. Once invested in 3S ~2100 - all my small stuff must use these packs. I can't really get into flying pancakes myself. Originally Posted by Cdr. Instigator The most money I will spend on building a model must be around 0 dollars as I have...

Max is correct on heat forming. A heat gun will test your patience, but there are two types of plastic that respond very well: your normal 2 liter soda bottle and the amber tinted apple cider bottle. How do you get the bottle to sit tight? It has to overlap the mold. You essentially melt the back end of the bottle to the mold (it's a good idea to use vaseline or other release agent prior to all of this). Once you have a tight fit on the...

Originally Posted by Lieutenant Loughead Is your car a "Speed-T"? If so, let it be known that I've been wanting to purchase one for over a year now. I have a bit of sticker shock when it comes to the cars -- I don't understand why they're so darned expensive when compared to our airplanes! It is not a Speed-T, I believe that is made by Losi. I have the Traxxas Rustler VXL which is the brush less version of the...

Originally Posted by Lieutenant Loughead Is your car a "Speed-T"? If so, let it be known that I've been wanting to purchase one for over a year now. I have a bit of sticker shock when it comes to the cars -- I don't understand why they're so darned expensive when compared to our airplanes! they are expensive because they are full of machined parts made of exotic alloys that is very hard and slow to machine....

Ok, so I have officially retired my Funtana Clone FFF and as I always do... I now will replace it with another model. The way I picked this next one was, I knew I wanted something more stable I could use as a key chain video camera platform. I needed something less edgy and more stable in flight. Something that was a pusher, so I don't record the prop in flight and have to look at the interference it causes. What I found falls just into...

This sounds a lot like what goes through my head at times - so, are you renting a storage unit for planes, or what do you do with existing models as you add new ones? LOL! Well, Max, it does get crowded at times! But I have given planes away, especially after I try upgrading a particular type. When I got into more advanced gliders I gave my rudder/elevator ones to new flyers (except my favorite, an Olympic) and all my trainer planes were...

Is the Rustler nitro as well? It was totally unintentional, but I completely stopped driving my RC car when I got back into planes. I find them quite a bit more interesting, and they don't need nearly as much routine maintenance. Plus they're fun to build, and I can more easily justify a large number of planes than a large number of cars; the cars always seemed too similar to each other.

Well for me it all started 2 years ago when a mate took me flying one lunch time and I was hooked, as for the process I go through in deciding what to buy: 1). Always electric, nice a clean and fly anywhere...almost 2). Less than 1.1meter wingspan due to size of car 3). Power plant in the 2-3 cell lipo range, i hold 2S1800, 3s1500 and 3s2200 4). I am also one of thse people who enjoy the build as much as the flying, so all planes are ARF or...

For me, the decission has been very easy for the past year or so. The plane must be electric and must be a parkflyer size: large enough to handle some wind yet small enough to share the space in the trunk of my car with at least two other planes. It must be brushless and Lipo powered. I have batteries in three sizes: 1300; 1800; 2200; so it must use one of these. I've done balsa and won't do it again; the plane must be foam....