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KC

On 1/25/2014 9:18 AM, wrote:
On Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:22:04 AM UTC-5, John H. wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:43:48 -0800 (PST), wrote:

From a casual look at the plane you linked, it comes with a charger that has large alligator clips for hooking to your car battery. An AC charger would be another extra charge option, although if you wanted one (and it sounds like you don't) I'm not able to recommend one right now. I'd have to do a bit of research.

My planes (and expertise) are gas and glow powered. I do have a couple of small, electric park flyers but they are older nicad powered models. Nothing with LiPo or brushless. There is some cool stuff out there in electrics, and many people are moving to that, but I still love the smell and mess of internal combustion RC. :-)

The glow is what I was into many years ago. The Ringmaster was my favorite, and I had a few of them.
Crash one, buy another. They were all u-control. Haven't had a plane for about 35 years now, and I'm
astounded by the electric technology out there. My first was a Cox .049 on a plastic P-51 that I won
by selling magazine subscriptions in 7th grade. That plane would barely get off the ground, but it
was loads of fun.

That's too funny! The first U/C plane I had as a kid was a Cox P-51 too. I had never flown and had never seen it done. It didn't make it around once before I crashed it. I rebuilt it, then one day I heard someone flying in the ball park near my house. It was two brothers that had some small .049 powered stuff and a large McCoy .40 powered Ringmaster. They had a trainer and I learned to fly it. Found out balsa flies much better than plastic. Dad set me up a table in his shop with a piece of cellotex ceiling tile on it, I bought some exacto knives, fuel-proof dope, borrow some of my mom's straight pins, and I was hooked.

I think I did get a string controlled plastic plane at one point as a
kid, but it crashed the first day and it never really ran right after
that...