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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Mike Griffin on March 09, 2016, 01:45:35 PM

Title: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line
Post by: Mike Griffin on March 09, 2016, 01:45:35 PM: http://youtu.be/kUiTaYImzyw
Title: Re: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line
Post by: RC Storick on March 09, 2016, 03:28:22 PM: I want one
Title: Re: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line
Post by: Chris_Rud on March 09, 2016, 03:31:09 PM: I want two...
Title: Re: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line
Post by: Jared Hays on March 09, 2016, 05:32:23 PM: I want 2 as well lol... May even have to make a little stunter and pull the radio gear out of one of my crashed ultra micros...
Title: Re: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line
Post by: mike londke on March 09, 2016, 07:18:13 PM: Samuel and I have these. They fly pretty well but are delicate. Mike
Title: Re: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line
Post by: Dan McEntee on March 09, 2016, 07:37:59 PM: These were available at Wal-Mart a few Christmas' ago, about 45 bucks if I remember correctly. I have an old toy that Mattel put out in the 70's that is a bi-plane and is called Barnstormers or something like that. It is actually 110VAC powered and a corded controller. I don't have room enough to try and fly it, but I understand that they did fly and is similar in performance to these but as Mike mentions, it is pretty flimsy and fragile to be light enough to fly at all. What I don't like about these is the dead flat wings, takes away from the appeal of the models to me. And notice the attitude of the fuselage in level flight, both a bit nose high. The models could be a lot more in trim. At the speed that they fly at, I would think anyone younger than 10 or 12 years old would have trouble keeping up with them and the first time out of the box would have the same results most people had with Cox RTF models, half a lap and crash!.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
Title: Re: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line
Post by: Richard Imhoff on March 09, 2016, 09:02:53 PM: Did a search and they are listed at Toys R Us 35 bucks.

Looks like fun.
Title: Re: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line
Post by: Chris McMillin on March 09, 2016, 09:18:22 PM: Dan,
Is yours the biplane called the "Dare Plane"?
Chris...
Title: Re: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line
Post by: mike londke on March 10, 2016, 07:16:03 AM: Quote from: Chris McMillin on March 09, 2016, 09:18:22 PM
Dan,
Is yours the biplane called the "Dare Plane"?
Chris...
There was the Dare Plane and the Hairy Canary. I had them both. They didn't last long. Broke very easily.
Title: Re: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line
Post by: SteveMoon on March 10, 2016, 09:34:30 AM: Those look like tons of fun! I noticed throughout the video
that both guys were constantly laughing and it sounded like
they were genuinely having fun. For something like this
that's all that really matters: FUN!

Steve
Title: Re: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line
Post by: john e. holliday on March 10, 2016, 10:47:16 AM: This might be good when the weather man won't let you fly out doors.
Title: Re: Looks like it might be fun and a way to interest kids in control line
Post by: Shug Emery on March 10, 2016, 06:27:57 PM: Quote from: SteveMoon on March 10, 2016, 09:34:30 AM
Those look like tons of fun! I noticed throughout the video
that both guys were constantly laughing and it sounded like
they were genuinely having fun. For something like this
that's all that really matters: FUN!

Steve

Truth on that)))) I felt the same. They were full of joy and never quit laughing and smiling. Loved it.
I will be getting a set of these planes.
Shug