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Wow this thread brings back memories.
Here it is 2008 and I'm into Electric airplanes Hard Core. I sold all my Glow stuff many moons ago on ebay and the Glow airplanes I gave away minus Electronics and motor. As of today I currently have several Electric Airplanes and two are glow .40-.50 size glow conversions kit built. I have another Glow kit build conversion on the table that I should have completed in a couple of weeks. Im getting into larger Electric Airplanes and slowly selling off my smaller stuff. Bigger Flys Better!! I'm glad I got into electric flying at the time I did in 2002 because I have seen Brushless Motors and Lipos changed this hobby like night and day. On my bigger airplanes I'm using A123 Cells. Oh let me not forget that 2.4Ghz spectrum was introduced to the Hobby and that is the best thing since slice bread IMHO. |
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(Jul 10, 2002)***
Hey fly4fun, Good to see that the Addiction continues! When I moved out of Vegas two years ago, I took the plunge and sold all my gas stuff at Nice Twice Hobbies. Even dumped my original trainer from 1975. A CG Falcon 56. Best move I ever made!!! I just wasn't getting enough stick time with the 30min. drive to the dry lake bed. Set-up, Adjust, Adjust, Clean-up, Take-down! Half a day gone!!! No thanks!! Now it's...fly on a moments notice, planes that are always ready to go, Lipos, Brushless, Berg, Micro gear, 2.4G.& Stick Time!!!Give me one hour and I'm in the air for 50min. of it!! There's just nothing like that roof-top flight at dusk in your underwear! Fly More, rc |
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I'm not torn... I fly both. AND gasoline power too.
ANd...I just built an AMA Cub (little rubber power FF...) No reason to segregate based on power system... unless the field requires that no internal combutsion engines be used due to noise... Fly them ALL TOGETHER. |
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There will probably be much more important things in your life to stress about later on.
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If you seriously want to get into electrics....what about converting both of those planes over to electrics.
It would give you the electrics you desire, and valuable electric building experience. Just go with some E-flite park series brushless outrunners or Hyperion gear would work well. Ive totally converted to the electric side. All my glow planes are gone...and never will return. I went from goofing off indoors with electric foamies to just finishing a electric pattern plane. I have no regrets on switching. Its just so much easier to build them, and the benefits of working with clean power is fantastic. No more taking 40lbs of gear to the field, no more 409, and slime in the car. No more runs to the hobby shop for fuel. No more planes ruined by fuel soaked balsa. No more worrying about fuel proofing, no more tuning engines, no more break-in cycles, no more throttle servos, no more dead sticks. No more grumpy neighbors from evening run in sessions., instant throttle response, no noise........ahhhhh the joys of electric flight |
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Last edited by Bryan Davison; Mar 19, 2008 at 03:02 PM.
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No more taking 40lbs of gear to the field, no more 409, and slime in the car. No more runs to the hobby shop for fuel. No more planes ruined by fuel soaked balsa. No more worrying about fuel proofing, no more tuning engines, no more break-in cycles, no more throttle servos, no more dead sticks. No more grumpy neighbors from evening run in sessions., instant throttle response, no noise......
So true, So true, But there are times when I long for the past. The smell of fuel, the satisfaction of a single flip start, the exhaust trail of piped motor on step and covering sky so fast it looks as if its skipping frames in a movie, to dive your own design to its limits without fear of shedding and the ever so sweet roll up to your feet from a dead stick that happen at that ever so unexpected time. To be the master of your hobby. I fly only electrics now, and though the stick time/field time ratio is greater I just don't get the rush like I used to. And yes I've gone stick pinching fast in electrics. Left me more worried about the battery or motor than going faster again, and again, and again. |
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