R/C Model Airplanes
 

Model airplanes have a rich history in ham radio according to this article:

http://www.eham.net/articles/18218

I can verify that :D
I own 13 myself
Biggest one is 11 foot wing span. Piper J3 Cub.

My former next door neighbor was a General Class ham and the only transmitters, receivers and transceivers he owned were all for RC aircraft and boats. He had some AWESOME toys. I asked Mike why in the world he didn't at least get an HF rig and work a little DX....... he asked me what I got out of talking to people I didn't know and wondered why I didn't get into RC modeling. :) Well, that wasn't exactly what he said, what he said was, "Why would I want to sit around talking to a bunch of old fat white dudes like you?" :4:

He was as smart as they come........ he drowned in Lake Hartwell while retrieving a boat that had failed. I miss Mike, he was a great neighbor and as far as hams go, the most different of us I have ever met.

A neighbor of mine and his son are into planes pretty big. I know nada about them, but he claims that the one his son has cost over 5 grand. All I know is that they are really fast, and he is good with the controller. Give that baby to me and I promise you some quick kindling. :)

My nephew is into model planes big time. He has scratch built a few. His biggest one is a DeHavalin (sure I butchered the spelling) Beaver. Its got a 6 foot wing span. It is awesome to see it fly. I used to have a little glider that I flew. I wasn't a great pilot. It died when I hit the barn with it wide open. :jammin: I leave the flyin to my nephew now. I just found a smiley on here making an obscene gesture! Did you guys see that? Good thing they don't have that on QRZ. It would get used daily.

73,

Chris

I've always wanted to try out model airplanes, I've just never had the money :(

The little glider I had was about 80 bucks. It was made out of foam and plastic. It came with the controller and batteries. I crashed it 100 times at least before I killed it. I know $80 isn't chump change but compared to expensive ham equipment it isn't too bad. If you ever get one I highly recommend one of these because they can be crashed a lot while you're learning to fly. Just don't hit the side of a barn at full speed or it will look like this:blowup:

73,

Chris:whoopie:

:band: :band40:

Thanks Chris,

I'll seriously look into it.