http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=5617

My favorite
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6305005745584564974&q=flying+lawn+mower

-Robert

Gary Drescher wrote:
> http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=5617

I'm as awed now as I was when I first saw it months ago.
How much would such an airplane, together with it's R/C cost
approximately?

Ramapriya


Robert M. Gary wrote:
> My favorite
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6305005745584564974&q=flying+lawn+mower
>
> -Robert
>
> Gary Drescher wrote:
> > http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=5617

> wrote in message
ups.com...
> I'm as awed now as I was when I first saw it months ago.
> How much would such an airplane, together with it's R/C cost
> approximately?
>
> Ramapriya

Hard to say, exactly. With transmitter, charger, spare batteries, from $500
to %1500.

The real trick is the person wiggling the control sticks. That kind of
skill? Priceless! <g>
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
>
> Hard to say, exactly. With transmitter, charger, spare batteries, from $500
> to %1500.
>
> The real trick is the person wiggling the control sticks. That kind of
> skill? Priceless! <g>

'course mate :)

But why is it that *anything* aviation-related has to be so pricey? :(
Not for Americans' per-capita earnings, I imagine...

Ramapriya

> wrote in message
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> I'm as awed now as I was when I first saw it months ago.
> How much would such an airplane, together with it's R/C cost
> approximately?

Which, the flying lawn mower or the more conventional-looking plane?

Personally, I'd like to see them flying together in formation. :)

--Gary

>
> Ramapriya
>
>
> Robert M. Gary wrote:
>> My favorite
>> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6305005745584564974&q=flying+lawn+mower
>>
>> -Robert
>>
>> Gary Drescher wrote:
>> > http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=5617
>

> wrote in message
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> Morgans wrote:
>>
>> Hard to say, exactly. With transmitter, charger, spare batteries, from
>> $500
>> to %1500.
>>
>> The real trick is the person wiggling the control sticks. That kind of
>> skill? Priceless! <g>
>
> 'course mate :)
>
> But why is it that *anything* aviation-related has to be so pricey? :(
> Not for Americans' per-capita earnings, I imagine...
>
> Ramapriya

"American's per capita earnings" ??

WTF does have to do with anything..? Sour grapes there "Mr Wannabee?"

By the way, did you happen to note the pilot and videographer's names at the
start of the video??? Benoit and Jurgen ... straight outta Compton, Yo...
Not.

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL
Chandler, AZ

Jay Beckman wrote:
> >
> > 'course mate :)
> >
> > But why is it that *anything* aviation-related has to be so pricey? :(
> > Not for Americans' per-capita earnings, I imagine...
> >
> > Ramapriya
>
> "American's per capita earnings" ??
>
> WTF does have to do with anything..? Sour grapes there "Mr Wannabee?"

You should not only not drink and drive, you shouldn't post either -
certainly not if you can't tell where the original apostrophe was.

*Plonk*

> wrote in message
ups.com...
> I'm as awed now as I was when I first saw it months ago.
> How much would such an airplane, together with it's R/C cost
> approximately?
>
> Ramapriya
>
well.....a ready to fly gas kit can be found for under $300, and you can
even find some non-aerobatic electric kits for under $100.

of course to get as skilled as the dancing plane you are gonna crash about
$1500 worth of those kits :)

the flying lawnmower will be a bit cheaper, as the lawnmower is not an
aerobatic kit, and "should" be less crash prone.

Tater Schuld wrote:
>
> of course to get as skilled as the dancing plane you are gonna crash about
> $1500 worth of those kits :)


And will these thingeys get destroyed on a crash too or are they kindly
towards learners? I ask because where I am, I might just find one of
these in a store somewhere but will certainly not find an instructor
and I'll have to teach myself :)

Ramapriya

> wrote in message
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> Tater Schuld wrote:
>>
>> of course to get as skilled as the dancing plane you are gonna crash
>> about
>> $1500 worth of those kits :)
>
>
> And will these thingeys get destroyed on a crash too or are they kindly
> towards learners? I ask because where I am, I might just find one of
> these in a store somewhere but will certainly not find an instructor
> and I'll have to teach myself :)
>
> Ramapriya

In which case you want to look for what the models guys refer to as a
foamie. The fuselage, wings, and stabilizers are molded from rigid
polystyrene(sp?). Almost indestructible.

> wrote in message
oups.com...
> Tater Schuld wrote:
>>
>> of course to get as skilled as the dancing plane you are gonna crash
>> about
>> $1500 worth of those kits :)
>
>
> And will these thingeys get destroyed on a crash too or are they kindly
> towards learners? I ask because where I am, I might just find one of
> these in a store somewhere but will certainly not find an instructor
> and I'll have to teach myself :)

the sub- $300 ones (sometimes sub $100) are the foamies casey talks about in
the other reply. usualy on a bad crash the bust a prop (a $3-5 item) or
maybe crack a wing (fixed with packing tape)

talk to the saledroids and see if there is a club nearby. an hour of
instruction can save hundreds of hours of self teaching.
also a club can make sure you do not learn bad habits.

also go check rec.models.rc.air and see. smaller planes, same politics.

one added issue to RC is that you need to mentaly reverse half the controls
when the plane is coming towards you. that and being hamfisted at the
controls are the two biggest issues about flying rc planes