RC Planes and Other RC Stuff

[OVERLORD_CHRIS]

Don't know how may people that don't have real planes, have RC planes.

But was wandering if any one is in to this hobby?

This Saitek style joystick seems to be the new thing for RC planes, and from what I am reading it looks like you just plug in a regular controller and this becomes the primary controller, and if so it would make flying RC planes much easier for people that want one but could not master the standard RC controller with out crashing.
RC Airplane Joystick Flight Simulative Transmitter System
http://www.nitroplanes.com/88e-joystick-sim.html

The same site: http://www.nitroplanes.com/ has some good planes for sell. I was going to get the SR-71 but, they are sold out of it, so I will look for a B-2 now.

[Hagar]

That looks very complicated & very expensive. I don't think it's the ideal way to start in the hobby. Your first flight is likely to be your last & end in tears. I would suggest doing it the traditional way. Join your local R/C flying club, get a trainer & learn to fly properly first. Forget those high speed jets for now. Some clubs have their own trainers & equipment which they use for dual instruction.

[OVERLORD_CHRIS]

That takes way to much to learn to fly it.

I have herd of people doing there own make shift Joysticks to a Laptop, but that it self will set you back $1500+ just to get that part to work. So if that works the way I think it should I was going to get a regular Electric Plane and play with that.

I just want the SR-71 to hang up on the ceiling until I get used to flying, I'm not crazy enough to have that as my starting plane. After All the planes I want, have to be built be some one: B-1, B-2, B-36, 747, C-5, An-124, An-225, MD-11

[TacitBlue]

If you are set on teaching yourself to fly, then try the Flyzone Playmate. It's electric, small and quiet. You don't need much space either, I fly mine in a baseball field. When parts are in stock, they are cheap too.

[hhomebrewer]

B-1, B-2, B-36, 747, C-5, An-124, An-225, MD-11

You forgot the B-29...

In 1977 I wrote to the Johnson Space Center in Houston and got a 1:40 plan for the scale model 747 a flying models magazine used to lift an unpowered Space Shuttle model into the air and release it for a gliding flight. I still have those plans. I was in college at the time and never got the time to do anything with the plans. I wanted to build a 1:20 model with four gas-powered ducted fans. This was way back before efficient electric motors were available. The wingspan would have been about ten feet, the fuselage about twelve feet long and the vertical stabilizer would have stood right at 39 inches high. Quite a model, huh? I had no idea how much it would have weighed. My plan was to build a hollow box and form the contours out of sculptable foam. I have no idea (even now) how I was going to attach the wing to the fuselage or incorporate retracting landing gear, how I was going to control the engines or engineer fuel tanks into the thing. I have no idea how the nacelles would have been constructed, or how I would have attached them to the wings. It truly was a gargantuan project for a young engineering student, and probably would provide years of love-hate entertainment if I were to pursue it today. But things are so different now. I have so many other things demanding my time, as do we all...

[OVERLORD_CHRIS]

I know how you feel, I wanted a gas powered monster truck, but then I found out I had to build it my self to get it the way I wanted....Then September 11th happened, and I found my self deployed alot.

So I then wanted a RC Sub, but these start off at $1000+ every thing else you need to get it to work, and you are talking about $2500-$3200 real easy....I Want the Red October So Bad!!!

And now that I have a little more time, but no space to Skill or space to build any thing cool, I want to get a plane now to fly around at work or slow days or night time in empty parking lots, since I can"t find the air field that is 30min away...some place.

But also there is a secondary goal I have, Off Shore racing Boat. Since I can't buy one in real life, I want an RC version, but I want it to be real fast and kick up a roaster tail when it goes by.