The best helicopter pilot in the world!, rc at least

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stev0

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bookmarking till later... don't have any codec's installed nor a media player :p

[hijack] i've always wanted an rc heli, never really had the motivation, or money :p [/hijack]
 

JustinSampson

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Originally posted by: 3point14
Originally posted by: NFS4
What kind of fuel delivery system does that heli have? I would have thought that all of that flipping and spinning would have starved the engine at some point.

From what I know about these things (which is very little), they use a standard two-stroke glow engine with a pressurized fuel delivery system. Hope that helps :beer::D

That is correct. I fly R/C planes which basicly have the same engine/fuel system. The tanks are pressurized either by a seperate fuel pump (rarely) or more often by simply tapping into the muffler at the correct position and getting a little bit of positive pressure. I'd estimate that heli is going through between 1 and 1.5 ounces of fuel a minute. When you feed that through 1/8" tubbing that's little more then a constant drip.
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: WannaFly
Unfortunately most of his "moves" just seem like spurratic movement followed by a quick recovery - but nevertheless, nice video.

Your 'website' is what seems <sporatic>....however for typical n00b pilot trainee remark...thumbs up! You go Girl!

&Aring;
 

OREOSpeedwagon

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Originally posted by: stev0
bookmarking till later... don't have any codec's installed nor a media player :p

[hijack] i've always wanted an rc heli, never really had the motivation, or money :p [/hijack]

I've heard they're REALLY hard to fly. I used to fly model airplanes and was really fun until they crashed =/ RC helicopters cost like 5x more so you'd have to either be rich or talented to fly em like that :p
 

Pliablemoose

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I the AF doesn't have him in the UAV program, they should have their asses kicked.

That's incredible.
 

flxnimprtmscl

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Holy crap! That's insane :Q Wonder how much time he spends with that thing every day to be able to do that.
 

slick230

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Originally posted by: WannaFly
Unfortunately most of his "moves" just seem like spurratic movement followed by a quick recovery - but nevertheless, nice video.

You are a jackass. Let's see you do any better, dumbfvck.
 

bozack

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very impressive, like others here I also used to fly planes and wanted to go into choppers but heard they were very very difficult and expensive to fly...ironically I was just talking to a guy at work about this today when I was looking at RC Tamiya and Associated cars on Ebay.