Jim Walker began building radio controlled cars back in 2003 as a hobby. It quickly developed into a Saturday job and has since become a full time occupation with a factory based in an 8,000-square-foot building, near Washington Township School and employing five full time workers.
Not bad for a hobby mucking about with toy cars.
“I […]
Steve Bess, of Gaston County USA, takes his hobby of racing radio controlled cars so seriously that he started his own business for the ’sport’. Steve managed to acquire funding to the tune of $25,000 for the C&S Raceway from Gaston County.
Steve says that racing model cars isn’t just for kids, it’s for people of […]
This advert should take you back. It’s from 1984 and is a Christmas ad for Toys R Us, containing toy products such as Rainbow Bright and the Ertl A-Team radio controlled van.
I pity the fool that didn’t have one of these. Actually, that would be me. I never had one, though I’m pleased to say […]
Amateurs and professionals gathered together in March for the Remote Control Pro Series competition, which was held in Avon Park in the United States.
Over 120 of the best RC car enthusiasts gathered to take part in the competition, which featured RC car racers from across the United States and Canada. The contest was held over […]
Sailing radio controlled boats isn’t just for amateurs, it’s also for professional sailors who want to keep their sailing skills sharp during the off season. At least that’s what Stuart Sinclair, 58, has been trying to convince his old sailing friends of.
Sinclair encouraged his fellow sailors in the Astoria Yacht Club to consider racing the […]
A man entered a hobby store in Ohio and left with a $600 radio controlled car stuffed up his jumper.
Finally, when the coast was clear, he took a remote-control car that was valued at well over $600, stuck it under his jacket and then walked out the store,” Columbus Police Detective Gerald Milner said.
The full […]
This will cost you a few quid. It’s the biggest radio controlled plane in the World, or as the news item correctly states, the biggest ’surviving’ radio controlled plane in the World.
The website features a 10 minute video of this plane in action, as it took off from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, based in […]