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Fighter jet ride is probably the top of mine buddy!!!
I still remember that smell as well. It was something kinda special every time we flew ours. We used to fly til we got dizzy.
Going back to WW2 the Brits had wired mini tanks used to clear mine fields and then there were the early RPV target drones for Military gunner target practise training. Wireless- look up Nikola Tesla's 19th century RC BOAT! My first RC was a replica BIG GUFF with a radio tube transmitter and receiver; one channel with an electromagnetic ESCAPEMENT. If you ran out of turns on the escapement rubber band, you lost control, and your plane just flew away ! ( https://www.rfcafe.com/references/r...d-model-airplane-radio-news-february-1939.htm ).
Isnt this the same people that built the 1/3RD scale truck, the Mammuth Rewarron, that never got sold and disappeared from their site? https://www.gadgetking.com/2017/04/20/13-scale-rc-truck-the-mammuth-rewarron/
This is my first time hearing of them. I dont think it will sell, yet atleast. It would not surprise me if they go this route one day because lets face it we are being pushed to a lazy and tech infested society. People seem to lack the tuning skills we once had.
Wow! What a keeper!I had this as youngster…just retrieved it from moms attic today …I believe it’s from 1975 which would’ve made me 7yrs old
In the near future, YES VR/FPV with hand-held transmitter replaced by a realistic driving "cockpit". Next will be Nikola Tesla's wireless power tech. A Tesla Coil Generator will produce the electricity which you only need to pick out of the air with a low powered receiver in your RPV. Oh, and cheap, easy to fabricate, safe, reliable, 100 percent efficient electrical materials ( i.e. SUPERCONDUCTORS ).What is next is a great ? Never had the wired RCs but do remember them. At this point can only get bigger and faster one would think. Some will do a VR RC car or truck..we all can only hope for better stock plastic parts
I agree. But the last guy I saw playing with Tesla's wireless power technology got a visit from the Canadian government. He had some cool vids out years ago. He was floating bowling balls in the air like they were under some sort of witchcraft or something.
The debate will always rage on. I don’t necessarily believe that They take our freedoms just for grins, at least not in this case. I believe rapidly advancing tech creates some pretty crazy unintended consequences. What if a noob with more money than brains or experience lost sight of his new giant scale drone and inadvertently crossed into airspace loaded with passenger air traffic? We have the FAA for a reason. Remember when all of a sudden GPS started getting crazy accurate and reliable a few years ago? Gov had to almost immediately limit the tech so Joe Piglet couldn’t use it as a hyper accurate bomb delivery/targeting system. As for the hobby, who knows? It’s astounding how far things have advanced in so little time. Civilization was entirely analog not too long ago. It really is crazy reflecting on the speed of advancement in the last 50 years.As for range, I am fine with what we have now for our cars. I can drive farther than I can see with the awfulest of Chinese offerings, and that becomes a shorter distance every day. Pretty soon the old cheap FM transmitters will seem to be way over-engineered for my eyesight
And as far as the FPV stuff, the government is not content with civilians having any kind of flying devices, and I believe they will slowly take away freedoms of people until the only place we can fly them is a tiny spec of land in the middle of Kansas off I-70. Oh, and mind the encroachment of the endless line of grass on fire heading your way, being driven by the wind. And the flaming tumbleweeds which are moving at speeds that are often seen outrunning cops in a high speed chase.
This alone makes me think the future tech we see in the RC world may start to slow down if the governments have their way. RC fanatics of the aerial nature were marveled by technology that allowed us to build drones that could fly many miles away from us. And you can still build them and buy them. You can fly DJI drones for miles away from you. But that is now illegal in a lot of places. So before long, they won't need to add that kinda range. That's like "Reverse Technology of the 2nd kind".
And before long (if they haven't already started the process), the electronics will likely be required by law to shut down once they are out of your line of sight, or won't be allowed through customs. Just speculating here mind you, and yes I am reaching, but something like this could affect a lot of things in this hobby. Not just drones, in the very near future.
I find it kinda tragic that we finally reached a point where we could see so much of the world through the help of RC and FPV technology, and before long they could take it all away. They are doing it slowly, right before our eyes. And most people don't see it. And without advancements in our hobby, the lack of joy will be leaving my kiddo to find better entertainment staring at a screen in his hand versus going outside and driving an RC car. Because by law maybe it can't be more than 50 feet from you traveling at a maximum allowed speed of a whopping 15mph.
Or maybe we will all have rocket ships!
Yeah, I may have been under some form of influence when I wrote that
But I had just been reading up on some of the newest drone laws. And I totally get the reason for them. I have a cousin who has a couple video drones, and my first thought was - oh gawd no... not him LOL. Just kidding of course But my cousin just didn't put me in mind of the kinda person that would be piloting a drone around. But he has put out some really cool footage with it in an area here that can be pretty boring. But you do see videos of idiots on Youtube that go out of their way to push the laws to their limits, just to get on the nerves of the authorities. Those kinda people need to be ejected into space. Which by the way, we need that technology - an Earth eject button.
