Archive for April, 2008
I just saw this and proclaimed it the greatest thing I’d ever seen. I was immediately shot down, but stand by my excited claims. These video glasses, together with a camera mounted on the radio controlled car, allow the driver to see through the car in a first person point of view.
Coupled together with a […]
April 29th, 2008 | Posted in RC Cars | 1 Comment
This video sums up everything I’ve always loved about radio controlled trucks. Cars are fun, they’re fast, they look great… but you just can’t do some of this stuff with them. You need an RC truck to power along the beach, tear up the sand, bound over the hills and do wheelies on both your […]
April 27th, 2008 | Posted in RC Cars | No Comments
It seems that more and more across the US in particular, radio controlled car racing is becoming an accepted sport. Texas news network ‘News 8′ recently covered N-Control Raceway’s Off Road race event that took place in Round Rock.
At this specialised off-road track RC enthusiasts race cars that can travel on the faster side of […]
April 26th, 2008 | Posted in RC Cars | No Comments
Dr. Khoi Tran and Dieter Mahlein are model RC airplane enthusiasts from Oregon. They pilot all manner of radio controlled flying models from helicopters to planes to gliders.
The beauty of flying RC models is that you don’t have to worry about crashing, at least in the sense that you’ll die in the process. Though crashing […]
April 25th, 2008 | Posted in RC Planes | No Comments
The Americans love things that are big. They also love planes, particularly military related planes. At Lakeland in Florida, you can find many Americans with some incredibly large RC planes, and naturally being Americans they’ve called it ‘Top Gun’.
So take the highway to the danger zone to Top Gun 2008, and celebrate the 20th anniversary […]
April 24th, 2008 | Posted in RC Planes | No Comments
If you think paddling pools are for kids, you’d be right, but this isn’t an inflatable paddling pool. It’s an inflatable radio controlled boat racetrack. Perfect for those hot Summer’s days in the garden (if we ever get any in the UK?) or if you happen to have a big conservatory.
The set comes with two […]
April 23rd, 2008 | Posted in RC Boats | No Comments
Radio controlled car meets are becoming more and more common of late, with the scale getting larger every time. By scale, obviously we’re not talking about the scale of the cars, we’re talking about the scale of events. The cars remain quite small.
This weekend just gone saw the Western Slope Challenge at the High Desert […]
April 22nd, 2008 | Posted in RC Cars | No Comments
A new radio controlled car video game is coming to Xbox 360. Things On Wheels, where players can race RC cars on Xbox LIVE Arcade promises to afford game players the opportunity to control fully functioning RC cars across many different environments, playing directly against players from all over the world.
Herve Nedelec, Art Director of […]
April 21st, 2008 | Posted in RC Cars | No Comments
The gorgeous Vicky Butler Henderson (mmmmm) met her match in a bunch of radio controlled car nerds when she took them on in a race. Vicky was driving a Mini GP while the spotty kid who’d obviously never spoken to a girl before (let alone one quite like her) drove his radio controlled car around […]
April 20th, 2008 | Posted in RC Cars | No Comments
There was a time when going to the Antarctic was something of a trek. You’d have to prepare for months beforehand, raise funds and convince your loved ones that it was a worthwhile cause.
Those days are gone however as now you can just pop down there with your radio controlled plane and potter about as […]
April 19th, 2008 | Posted in General | No Comments