More funny RC stuff

Some funny stuff happens with RC don't you reckon - like beyond the looking back on the destruction of your pride and joy and being able to have a hearty laugh about how maybe if you hadn't been trying to buzz a mate's head at mach 3 in 400km/hr winds you might not have nosed in your stryker. But other stuff - everyday stuff.

Classic case in point - instructions from all those Chinese model manufacturers - it looks like the model factories get the translators who weren't good enough to work on the IKEA instructions.

This was spotted in the instructions for a small electric heli:

"DO FLY NEAR LOOKERS TO INJURE THEM" - I guess ugly people are spared the inconvenience of helicopter blade lacerations.


And check out the reassuring brand name of this LiPo:

Will it fly or fry? Will it give good output, or just go kaput? Who knows - it's a mystery...

Of course who can forget the ground glider made by aluminium alloy.

Then there are all the funny RC stories like when my semi-expensive, gutless (before the upgrades) GWS Zero collided with DJs ElectraFun crippling the Zero but leaving the EF flying with no problems despite a huge gash in it's wings (it's always the beautiful who suffer most between the ruggedness of ugly planes and killer electric helis).

Ground Dancer ran his HobbyZone Super Cub into an electric light pole, and still pulled of a landing even with the wings offset at 30 degrees.

The madness of the indoor night as a ten brave people demonstrated the concentration to focus on only their model knowing that at any moment a plane may collect them from the side as circuits were flown in the tightest imaginable space. This unwritten contract of grim determination only broken by the fits of laugher and cursing as planes went in - one guy's StevenAero diddle rod only had one wheel left making every landing a crash landing - watching the little thing settle in to line up - knowing that a good outcome was never going to happen.

So much fun..., so - do me a favour - keep the spirit going and post your own funny RC stories, things you've seen etc as comments.

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Oz.