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18-06-2005
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Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Edinburgh Real Name: Chris My Models: Mainly boats, some cars , but most RC Visit adzam's Gallery
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Originally Posted by joshleafe there all really cool, i like the vid on the boat! you can just hear the power as it fly's by.
I am looking for the fastest model of r/c vehicles so i can build/buy one to have as my own. I look at the giga crusher, does anyone know anything about it??? |
the giga crusher does not qualify as one of the fastest rc vehicles, there are electric cars that will out run and out handle it ! 
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28-06-2005
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#12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Check this out: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...2&page=2&pp=15
Josh, as you seem to be a noobie, I think, if you want something that fast, you had better get a reality check check first!!(Up until your last post I was taking the request as a genuine enquiry for information) | No, it is just a general enquiry, i just want to know what rc models are about nowadays. I just brought that up because i like the look of it. | |
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28-06-2005
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#13 (permalink)
| | Scale Model Member | Quote: |
Originally Posted by adzam the giga crusher does not qualify as one of the fastest rc vehicles, there are electric cars that will out run and out handle it ! | What models are they then? | |
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28-07-2005
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#14 (permalink)
| | Scale Model Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Leeds, God's own! Real Name: Steve My Models: Nieuport 11 Bebe, (actually I've been working on it that long that it's more like a Nieuport puberty Visit bartley's Gallery
Posts: 66
| Hi joshleafe, one of the early Nieuports is what you're looking for if you want speed, providing you fly it when the clouds are moving reeeeeally slowly! (It's all relative after all?)
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01-08-2005
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#15 (permalink)
| | Scale Model Member | Cool, do you have any pictures or links???
cheers
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20-08-2005
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| | Scale Model Member | I saw a video on the internet a few months ago (though I can't remember where now..) where they rigged up an R/C car on a wire, similar to the technique for wire-guided R/C planes, and had it run round in a circle, held by the wire. They got over 200mph (though, again, as it was a few months ago I can't rememeber exacly how fast). | |
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20-08-2005
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#17 (permalink)
| | one more feather ......!
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Scottish Highlands Real Name: Duncan My Models: HMS Invincible Visit duncan's Gallery
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| At the risk of giving my age away (again !) RTP (round the pole ) powered car models were all the rage in the post-WW11 era (no pun intended, ERA !). RTP hydroplane racing is still going on in the UK. Both fast but not in the same league as the 4 ft. span R/C glider-from-the-baloon folk. Their speed was well above 400mph from 80,000 feet altitutde. Dont know details of radio but suspect it would be similar to industrial standard stuff, GPS and high-power tracking systems etc. Might have been a university team.
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24-08-2005
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| | Guest | Im new too i know, but have raced quite a few fast rc craft from planes to cars and i can quantee that if you get some silly fast rc truck or car, within its second run it will be in thousands pieces and you wont be very happy :-(
Why not start with a small electric one, and then slowly "do it up" or "pimp" it over time, that way you will learn the basics and still have fun! Remmber the people who build these sort of extreme craft have been doing it for years! | |
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25-08-2005
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Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: thames valley Real Name: Guy My Models: model boats, subs, and N scale railways, but all types really! Visit new to trains's Gallery
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| i think some of the tethered hydros can travel at pretty high speeds too, and then there is flash steam models .....
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25-08-2005
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#20 (permalink)
| | Scale Model Member | Theres the rocket-launched R/C gliders that Estes make. They must reach a fair speed on takeoff. | |
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