Crashed the Jet pretty hard this morning.....

[Joe 1320]

How are you going to power the catapult? LOL How about a Co2 cartridge? LOL An air cylinder would work. Hey make the flight deck an RC aircraft carrier. Scaled it would be what 80 feet long. LMAO You could put an LT1 in it. Actually 3 would be better. This is out of control. Come to think of it the air cylinder would have to have a stroke of 20 feet.

Not sure, but it cannot be too powerful. I could see something that shreds the plane the instant the button is depressed. I think the rule of thumb is to create 4 times the planes weight in pulling force. I would imagine surgical tubing stretched to a certain length and measured via a fish pull scale would do the trick.

[JeffM]

Fellow RC'er here

I fly airplanes, and helicopters. I have two nitro airplanes, one highly aerobatic, and one scale P-51 Mustang (still building).

The heli is a Raptor .60 nitro bird. Haven't flown it yet, still building. I sold my Raptor .50 to fund the .60. It's much bigger than the .50, actually, it has a .70 in it..

Here's a couple pics and vids. I've been flying RC's since I was 12 (27 now). Good luck with your new hobby!

My UCD-3D:


This is my old Raptor .50 - the new one I have is bigger


Here's the radio I use to control it all - a Futaba 9cH (heli version, does airplanes too though)


And finally, a couple vids:

No carnage, just some mild aerobatics

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Some mild heli aerobatics.

No carnage.. I can post the videos of me crashing the crap out of them if anyone's interested Actually, just the heli crashing..

[Joe 1320]

That controller is sweet. I remember seeing some of your posts about these. I haven't done this since I was a kid. Now my son is at the point that he can start learning these and I get to experince childhood all over again. I just hope I don't take this to the extreme.