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Warning, Warning, Warning
Playing with these Toys is the start of a very slippery slope down to Bankruptcy.
Sure it looks like fun and is till you very quickly outgrow the low powered short duration flight times and need something longer. This results in the inevitable run to Fully Featured Radio Control Units that rely on Gas Powered Engines and 30 minute flight times.
You then get tired of the slow speed of these units and start drooling over the new generation Jet Engines and being unwilling to think logically you then start to think of True Scale Models that require 4 of these engines.
http://www.kingtech-jet.com/
You start thinking that 17 KG of Thrust would be great but then again wouldn't it be better requiring 4 of these with 17 KG of Thrust and a Bigger Model to play with. The Fuel Consumption of these things doesn't bear close examination either as you need a lot of fuel for a decent Flying Time which just means a bigger plane/helicopter. OH and yes the bigger Gas Powered helicopters do have Gas Turbine Engines and you can fly them inverted or worse.
Col
Sure it looks like fun and is till you very quickly outgrow the low powered short duration flight times and need something longer. This results in the inevitable run to Fully Featured Radio Control Units that rely on Gas Powered Engines and 30 minute flight times.
You then get tired of the slow speed of these units and start drooling over the new generation Jet Engines and being unwilling to think logically you then start to think of True Scale Models that require 4 of these engines.
http://www.kingtech-jet.com/
You start thinking that 17 KG of Thrust would be great but then again wouldn't it be better requiring 4 of these with 17 KG of Thrust and a Bigger Model to play with. The Fuel Consumption of these things doesn't bear close examination either as you need a lot of fuel for a decent Flying Time which just means a bigger plane/helicopter. OH and yes the bigger Gas Powered helicopters do have Gas Turbine Engines and you can fly them inverted or worse.
Col
Moderator Posted by HAL 9000
4th Mar 2012
