![]() It must have worked, because there remains an unbroken P-47 Thunderbolt in my basement just waiting for the good weather to return. ![]() Having not flown R/C for years, and recognizing that the ability to fly a full-size plane most certainly does not imbue the skills used in flying models, I invested in a PC-based R/C airplane simulator. Note that “more affordable” does not necessarily equate to “cheap.” While you can get a lot for your money in the Styrofoam airplane era, it is still costly enough that you want to avoid breaking things. Eventually I got into real airplanes, even going so far as to build one of my own, so R/C flying became something of a nostalgic memory.Ībout two years ago, I tried to get back into R/C flying, mostly because it has become very easy and much more affordable to get an airplane and a radio. I had an interest in them, of course, but there were only so many things I could buy as a teenager with a part time job. It took the advent of electric power and cheaper radios for those to become common. ![]() ![]() In the beginning it was all about airplanes for me - everything was powered by nitro-fueled engines and the radio equipment was pretty expensive, so it wasn’t until a few years later that R/C cars started to appear. I have been involved with radio control (R/C) airplanes off an on for almost four decades. ![]()
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