Anyone on here fly RC?

[RV4ker (RIP)]

Beat me to it... Hobby Lobby, but it very expensive IMHO. Shop around..

[Quentin Ferreira]

I am flying for 10years now and love it!!
Sat mornings after flying trike we join the r/c models....
My baby that i fly is a Katana 2m wing span with a 32cc engin she looks great!!!

Quentin Ferreira
ZU-ATP
Newcastle

[John Boucher]

When wings are in your blood, it's in your blood....

I built a flying wing wing called L'll Satan powered by a baby B (control line) Crashed it big time and then built a mean mother called VOODOO - also flying wing & control line but with a FOX .35 engine up front. Was about to progress to R/C but discovered motorbikes. I have been tempted now for 25years to pick up where I left off!

There's a club at John Weston Airfield - Kimberley. Whenever I land there or just pop over for a visit, I glance over to the R/C guys with glee!

BAD NAV

[Aerosan]

Badnav, if you know Fox .35 then you are definately showing your age!!

I still have two of those in running condition which came from my dad

[John Boucher]

My lord Aerosan or should I say AeroSON? Just kidding!!!

Born is 1964 s0..... knocking 43. They were good engines. Reliable if I remember correctly and were not so expensive back then!

Good Times!

[Gyronaut]

I was forced to take possession of 2 stunning RC helicopters in about 1991 in exchange for an upaid debt.

After reading EVERYTHING I could find and trashing the second one, (Big Schloeter .??'s [.60? .30?] can't remember correctly) They had 10cc alcohol engines and were finniky as hell, no didgital-frequency selecting radios so interference was a problem and they had a way of taking off without you. 2m lead-tipped rotor could be scary.

I drove off to Rand Airport to go see how the real ones stay in the air!....

The rest is history....

One flight with Buzz Bezuidenhout and I signed up. I was an instant convert!

In June, 1992, after 42 hours of training I was signed out and went through the normal initiation ceremony. (I still dont know if this ever happened to anyone else but I do recall Ralph and Nick of Buzzair throwing me in the fishpond at Rand and convincing me it was traditional... wtf?)

15 happy years of intermittent flying later I have just under 500 happy helicopter hours and roughly 160 gyro hours. I am now a converted Gyronaut.

Thanks to Radio Controlled aircraft, I discovered an enriching hobby that I enjoy fully @ roughly R320 an hour! Viva flying, Viva Gyro's!

[Gyronaut]

...oh, by the way, both my son and I still fly R/C heli's around the house. Little Llama V3's at the moment. He's 14 and far better than I am (the little shit)