15 reasons why our hobby is cheaper than RC planes

[jarndice]

I always get annoyed when people speak of the Bismark and HMS Hood in the same sentence,
HMS Hood was built at a time when the navies of the world had just gone through a negotiation to reduce the number of Battleships in the larger navy's and the financial state of the world was looking rather rocky,
The combination of the two produced as Roy said the "Battlecruiser" Which had the Ordnance and speed of a "Battleship" but the Armour of a "Cruiser",
Bismark was a Battleship and I don't mean a "Pocket Battleship", He (German fighting Ships are called He) was the real thing.
So that while it took just one shell through the thin armour of the deck into HMS Hoods forward magazine to finish her it took repeated attacks from torpedo bombers and other Battleships and Cruisers and destroyers to sink the Bismark,
It is not a fair comparison.(I am not sniping at you Roy I was expressing my annoyance to the world of so called naval experts who constantly compare the two as though they were equals).
Shaun.

[jarndice]

And that my Canadian friend is why they invented rechargeable battery powered drills to start the engines in R/C Aircraft.
Shaun.

[43rdRecceReg]

H...I wonder what happens when one of our pond and seafaring members builds a large (and expensive) model of HMS Hood? Is it supposed to sink every time it's launched?

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H.M.S. Hood was in service for a few days over 21 years before she was sunk, so I guess that means the model would be safe, unless, of course she came across a large model of the Bismark.

Richard, dear old chap, I was referring to the launching of the RC version on pond, or convenient stretch of model-friendly H2O...
I'm only too familiar with the Hood's long peacetime career, as well as her untimely demise in the Denmark Straits. If only the Ammo had been shielded in a more disciplined manner . Ah.. well, there's no way to rewrite
that historical event. Many others are being 'massaged' (pun on 'Medium is the message') to suit contemporary 'Liberal' standards ..though..

[971wright]

Hi It should be 16 reasons you don't need to buy a load of big black bags to put tanks in when you finish playing, also less strain on your back picking up one tank over a few hundred bits of a plane.Just had a thought 17 reasons you don't need buy a box of tissues to wipe tears away, if you crash your tank it looks better lol.

regards pete

[PainlessWolf]

Good morning,
I know better than to buy and build expensive aircraft and try to fly them. Still, I did get a very nifty micro-drone as a Birthday present a couple of years back. When the wind is still around here ( rarely ), I take it out and give it a spin. Each time has resulted in me pointing out the spot where it fell to the Mate and toggling the power so it makes a buzz so as to be easily found. ( Always lands way outside the fenced in area of the lot where our office and living quarters are... ) Nothing broke so far as it weighs nearly nothing. I can get it up and even have it loop around but invariably the wind or a heavy finger on the left stick sends it zipping away. I watch a You Tube channel of fail type videos on RC aircraft sometimes and know for a fact that if I got a bigger or more expensive flying gadget, I would wind up on there. Tanks and other AFVs are my bread and meat and I'm happy to say so. *chuckles* ( I've got a couple of large scale ships to build and RC but no water for miles around, fortunately ;o)
regards,
Painless

P.S. I feel for those fellows on that video. You can see 'it' written all over their features at what has just happened to their pride and joy.

[wibblywobbly]

I have a friend, we used to be neighbours, and he was always outside testing his RC helicopters and kept telling me to get one. In the end I ordered one, about £400? He set it all up to perfection but I was terrified of the thing, the worst thing was getting it airborne and watching as it floated 100 yards away, at which point it was impossible to see which way it was facing. This then became a guessing game as one false move trying to get it back and it was either going into the ground, or even further away.

Then landing it was a game of Russian Roulette...I snapped so many rotor and tail blades at £20+ a throw that I gave up. At that point I bought my first £50 Heng Long Tiger tank. By the time I sold it it had cost me around £800 and there was nothing of the original tank left on it!