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OFF TOPIC F 16 1/6 scale

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:23 pm
by skorzeny

Re: OFF TOPIC F 16 1/6 scale

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:46 pm
by snake
That is one F%&$#ng awesome toy! 8) 8) 8)

Can't imagine how much that would cost, and would hate to see it crash. :shock: :(

Very, very cool!

Re: OFF TOPIC F 16 1/6 scale

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:44 am
by gburch
snake wrote:That is one F%&$#ng awesome toy! 8) 8) 8)

Can't imagine how much that would cost, and would hate to see it crash. :shock: :(

Very, very cool!
Speaking of crashing ... as usual, when I clicked on the links for the video of this plane, I subsequently spent way too much time watching videos of amazing scale RC birds and, inevitably started watching crash videos ... which made me wonder why someone hasn't come up with a panic button/D-Ring device for these kinds of birds.

I can imagine a small explosively-ejected chute module, mounted to fire upward out of the fuse. Cover it with a scale hatch. Mount an "arm" switch somewhere in or on the plane. Cover the button for that channel on the transmitter with a hinged guard to avoid accidental deployment. I'd say half the terrible RC crash videos I've seen could be made at least much less terrible with something like that ...