Cheap R/C airplane! I recommend it!

[NPloysa]

Go to your local hobbyshop and pick up a HobbyZone Firebird Outlaw.



This is a small (1/2 pound, 24" wingspan) twin electric. No controllable surfaces, just two fuselage-pylon mounted electric motors that use differential thrust to steer.



Two channel, V-tail, elevon trim tabs, plastic props, foam wings, wire landing gear, it rocks!



Best part about it, READY TO FLY OUT OF BOX for $50. And I mean ready to fly. Wing goes on with rubberbands, gear snaps in, battery charges in 2. 5 hours and flies for 10 minutes. I may go get another one just to have. A new battery is $30, may as well buy a new one and use the old for parts once it craps out.



It's a great backyard/park flyer, slow, can do simple wingovers and stalls. Only con is long charge time and short flight time, but there are two things one can do, #1 buy another battery, or #2 buy a quick charger and convert the battery connectors.



Disclaimer: I don't work for HobbyZone, but am a happy customer!



Nick

 

[AfterBurner]

Dude, you're wierd.

 

[BKenny]

Its good to start with a cheap plane one of my freinds got into RC planes and he whent through a couple of planes. He would spend all kinds of money and time building his planes then he would go out and crash them he had money to burn. He had a cool trick plane for awile one day the servos decided to stop working mid air at over 100 feet up. All he could do was watch it as it decided to nose dive all the way to the ground NOOOOOOOOOOO! :-laf

 

[Sled Puller]

Does it look like this?

 

[NPloysa]

Does it look like this?

No Gene! I would be afraid to fly something that expensive unless it was a full scale B-52!



If that B-52 were an eagle, my plane would be a fly!



Nick

 

[Sled Puller]

I found it!! Easy mistake, confusing the two... ... .

 

[Boomer II]

Which one is which?

 

[NPloysa]

I found it!! Easy mistake, confusing the two... ... .

Yep, 'cept mine is green! Different frequencies.



Very easy mistaking the two!



Flew it today on lunchbreak at work in the back parking lot. Strong wind from the north. Actually had it flying backwards a few times. Then I flew from into the wind, to perpendicular, the cross wing took the upper wing and rolled the plane into the ground. Little glue, electrical tape, and a new solder connection on the motor and she's now back to normal.



I can laugh at crashing this.



If I crashed the B-52 I know I would cry!



Nick

 

[JConley]

The B52 did crash. The video is on the net somewhere. For what its worth, the crash looked like a real one with black smoke and fire. (only smaller) I guess you could say it was realistic to the end.

 

[Sled Puller]

JConley is right, they crashed it. :{

http://www.canamrc.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=MostPopular





Did a search on B52 crash, all sorts of stuff came up, alot of videos of crashes out there.

 

[ShannonHarris]

Flying RC plans is one of the best thing that I have gotten involve in. If any of you are in the Albuquerque area let me know, we have a great RC field.

 

[Todd G]

Check this guy out:

http://www.fan-tasticmodels.com/muller.wmv



Warning - It's a big video file.

 

[NPloysa]

Check this guy out:

http://www.fan-tasticmodels.com/muller.wmv



Warning - It's a big video file.

That is sweet!



Here is the one I just bought. Weighs one ounce, ready to fly!



http://www.redrockethobbies.com/product.asp?ProductID=9616&DepartmentID=373



Haven't flown her yet, too windy! Cool thing about the tail rudder. It's not a servo but an electromagnet that is magnetized and pulled either left or right.



Nick

 

[seagrave2001]

One of my buddies flys RC Planes & I was looking into getting a small RC Helicopter to Mess around with. .

 

[NPloysa]

I have a nitro Thunder Tiger Raptor heli (30 size). It's pretty nice but I am not that good at it yet. Just bought a gyro for it and have yet to try it out.



The little electrics are sweet. Never flown them though. They can be quite expensive too. The Fixed Pitch versions are cheaper, $200-$400, and the Collective Pitch are even more, about $400-$800, but can do a lot more with the FP.