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Bud Brewster
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 Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:24 pm Post subject: Radio controlled helicopter - Outrageous Acts of Science |
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I had a toy helicopter when I was a kid that I could fly around my room -- by turning a crank on a hand-held device that was connected to the helicopter by a sheathed cable which spun the blades.
If was fun. For a while.
The toy helicopter in this video is better. Way better.
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Krel
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Back in the 90s, I watched a guy fly a RC Helicopter in the local park. His didn't fly so well upside down. But it did a pretty good impression of an auger.
A lot of the flying scenes in "Airwolf" used a large RC Airwolf helicopter. this was due to FAA regulations on how and where you could fly a helicopter.
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Bud Brewster
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Hey, that's cool! I didn't know that about Airwolf. I imagine the producers were delighted to have a miniature of their super-copter that could fly around without wires!
That has to be a unique situation in Hollywood FX.
Based on what you said, and the way the RC copter in the video is equipped with a camera, a film crew could actually control a miniature of a supposedly full-size aircraft for a movie --- and film it in the air with another RC copter! 
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A few months back, one of the building's maintenance guys was complaining about new government regulations. He flies RC planes that are equipped with a camera in the cockpit. He says that it is great, he wears video goggles, and it is like being in the cockpit of the RC plane. The U.S. government has now banned that.
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trekriffic
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: Radio controlled helicopter - Outrageous Acts of Science |
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| Bud Brewster wrote: | I had a toy helicopter when I was a kid that I could fly around my room -- by turning a crank on a hand-held device that was connected to the helicopter by a sheathed cable which spun the blades.
If was fun. For a while.
The toy helicopter in this video is better. Way better.
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I didn't have a copter but I had a tethered prop plane that was powered the same way. The handle held a couple of D cell batteries. |
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Krel
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:51 pm Post subject: Re: Radio controlled helicopter - Outrageous Acts of Science |
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I didn't have a copter but I had a tethered prop plane that was powered the same way. The handle held a couple of D cell batteries. |
I had the helicopter version. That power button was hard on the thumb.
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trekriffic
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| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 1:16 pm Post subject: Re: Radio controlled helicopter - Outrageous Acts of Science |
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| Krel wrote: | | trekriffic wrote: |
I didn't have a copter but I had a tethered prop plane that was powered the same way. The handle held a couple of D cell batteries. |
I had the helicopter version. That power button was hard on the thumb.
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Yeah. You had to keep the pushbutton depressed or the propeller would stop. I grew to have a very strong right thumb in my youth. |
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