• Audbol@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I remember when I was younger RC plane and helicopter community was all about doing night flights with lots of lights and other things on their vehicles. I remember seeing tricking stuff on the fronts of RC hobby magazines with guides on how to do it.

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      1 year ago

      Around 2018, I built an 8” scale model of the flying saucer from The Day The Earth Stood Still.

      Trolling alien buffs with that thing was fun. Also the cop that lined to sit in a park’s lot across from my apartment building.

      (It had a stack of 4 175mm x 15mm EDFs that I printed inside. Attitude was controlled by counter rotation for yaw and bypass air being throttled pitch and roll. It had no external moving parts and the duct was all “hiden” inside curves