With advanced and sophisticated technologies developing by leaps and bounds, a great wealth of high-tech and thrilling products have hit the market and gained immense popularity, such as vintage Remote Control Helicopter. Well, indoor RC helicopters are awesome fun when flying from the comfort of your own couch! You can pilot these amazing remote control (RC) helicopters indoors as they are easy to control. Choose from one of the largest selections of indoor RC helicopters offered to suit all levels of pilot experience. RC helicopters make great toys and hobbies for all year long and can be flown outside on calms days. Toy helicopters are electric powered and are some of the hottest remote control toys to choose from. As far as toys go, these remote control helicopters have a fun factor of 10 and are huge hits for kids and adults. Each toy helicopter comes assembled with remote control in order to get you flying as quickly as possible. Did you know that most of our toy helicopters can be flown indoors? A flying helicopter toy has never been easier to operate. These RC (remote control) toy helicopters incorporate state of the art electronics to help everyone fly like a pro. While some may like vehicles such as RC cars and others like boats or planes. Our favorite toys and the hottest trend are toy helicopters. These remote control helicopters are so much fun as you can fly them indoors or outside. That’s right, due to state of the art electronics being employed on all these toy helicopters. You can fly them inside your living room, bedroom, or even your office. Kids love them, but try not to let them bring these toy helicopters to school as they are known to compete for the attention of teachers. Please do not blame us for your employees or co-workers not doing their jobs because they are busy flying toy helicopters. By the way, the Radio Control Helicopter sought after on the Online Marketplace are also cool and thrilling. If you are in the market for a cool RC toy or gift, then toy helicopters will fulfill your needs. Anyway, what’s better than a RC helicopter? Ok, let RC helicopters perk you up and enrich your life. Source by http://blog.topons.com/index.php/2010/08/rc-helicopters-perk-you-up/
While RC drift and touring cars are not known for getting covered in mud and filth it is undoubtedly worth cleaning them on a regular basis to ensure they remain in tip-top condition. Fortunately, drifters are on-road cars and don’t get plastered in mud. However, over time, the build up of dirt and grime can affect your cars performance.
We recommend that you clean your vehicle after every time you take it out. Mostly because we just like tinkering with cars! You can get away with cleaning your drift car after every other run. It all depends on the weather and how dusty the track is you have been racing on. Just remember, if you are a professional RC drifter, make sure you car has been cleaned well BEFORE a race event.
Useful tools for top maintenance: A pack of hand wipes – If you’re messing with you car then you’re going to get your hands dirty. A Brush – Either a standard paint brush or specialist RC brush is great for removing dust. A Towel – Emergency towel for soaking up spillages. Pit Mat – Rubber or plastic pit mats can help prevent lost parts or ruining the kitchen table. Tooth Picks – Great for scraping dirt out of those hard to reach places. Cotton Buds – When soaked in white spirit these are perfect for cleaning specific areas of you car. An Air Compressor – Blast away the dust and dirt with this amazing tool. Also available in a can!
If you’re like us, your drift car body shell is of extreme importance, as we all know looking the part is key to drifting. During your drift career you are likely to scuff your car on many occasions and maybe even crash your car during a race! Your shell will show the marks of these accidents so it’s vital you keep it clean. Most marks will come off with white spirit and a bit of elbow grease. Most dust and dirt can be washed off with a wet towel or a dry brush.
Occasionally you may hit a large puddle when you are driving in the rain. It’s important to remember that your car’s electronics will cease to work when exposed to too much water. Your motor, receiver, speed controller and servos can be costly so avoid placing these parts in contact with water. Should you get any of your electronics wet remove them immediately from the car, use a towel to wipe off any excess water, and place them in a warm, dry environment such as your airing cupboard. Leave the parts there for 24 hours and they should be safe to use again.
TOP TIP: If you will be racing on a wet surface spray the chassis and other parts of the car with WD-40. This will waterproof your car and prevent mud from sticking. Don’t do this on a dry dirt track though, as the dust will simply stick to the WD-40!
If you are fortunate enough to own an air compressor then cleaning your car can be extremely fun. Remove the body shell and all major components and set to work with the compressor. Just be careful not to blow excess dirt and dust in to parts of the car that can be damaged such as the motor or servo joints.
These simple tips can help you to maintain the performance of your RC drift car. By cleaning regularly you will be able to prolong the life of your parts and prevent any unnecessary accidents caused damaged components
Mexican Military to use armed UAV’s to track and kill the Mexican Drug cartel’s leadership
By Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative Reporter.
During the recent three amigo’s meeting held in Mexico between the three heads of state a secret plan was hatched. The Journal has learned from a high ranking Mexican military officer who says he must remain anonymous reports that Mexican President Calderon asked President Obama for armed drones to track down and kill the MDC’s leadership and to help in surveillance of norco-traffing and have scensors on board that will be able to track targets as small as a human carrying a weapon. The Mexican president indicated it should be part of a new effort to a lot more money and resources for Mexico. The Merida Initiative, a three-year, $1.4 billion assistance program passed by Congress to help Mexico fight drug trafficking.
The Merida Initiative is expected to be increased to help Mexico to fight the out of control civil war which is responsible for so many deaths. Since January 2007, a staggering eleven thousand people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico. That’s more than double the number of Americans killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Savage gunfights among heavily-armed drug cartels have spiraled out of control and has spill across the border into the U.S.
Nearly all the world’s cocaine originates with coca plants grown in South America — and ninety percent of the “coke” that ends up on our streets travels to the U.S. through Mexico. Eighty percent of the methamphetamine consumed by Americans is produced there. Our southern neighbor is also the main foreign supplier of marijuana. According to Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora, “at least $10 billion in bulk cash” related to drug trafficking “crosses the U.S.-Mexican border each year” — meaning that narco-dollars are nearly on par with tourism which produces about $13 billion annually for Mexico.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, narco-terrorists connected to Mexican drug cartels have already infiltrated 230 American cities. The Journal has also learned that Canada had already asked for unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as UAV’s or drones and at that same meeting details of that purchase was discussed. What many people don’t know is that the Canadian military already operates the Sperwer UAV’s in Afghanistan and so far has spent around $250 million on that system. It also operates smaller drones for use with army units, similar to the types that Mexico wants.
On the first of April, in a tribal area of Pakistan not far from the Afghan border, a small missile screamed through the sky and exploded into a house where a band of suspected Taliban militants were camped. The assumed culprit: a Predator drone aircraft controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency.
To fight its wars this decade, the U.S. has increasingly relied on unmanned aerial vehicles, for tracking and hunting down insurgents, drones have become an invaluable asset for the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan. ICE now operates UAV’s along the U.S. Mexican border.
While the military uses UAVs from a variety of contractors the current king of the armed drone makers is a private San Diego firm, General Atomics. Its subsidiary, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, makes the Predator and Reaper drones that comprise the U.S. Air Force’s entire armed UAV fleet, according to an Air Force official.
Attorney General Eric Holder said the cartels “are lucrative, they are violent, and they are operated with stunning planning and precision.”
DEA Acting Administrator Michele Leonhart said the Sinaloa cartel has become one of the largest organized crime operations in the world.
The same military officer said that Mexico is currently in talks with contractors one of which he believes is Blackwater, now formally known as Xe (pronounced Zee) Services, New York Times reported Friday that the company that used to be known as Blackwater has taken over from the Central Intelligence Agency the job of arming the agency’s Predator drones that patrol over Afghanistan.
It stands to reason if Blackwater, now formally assemble and load Hellfire missiles and laser-guided bombs onto the pilotless aircraft in secret bases in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan forn the U.S. Government than it stands to reason that Mexico would want the same services. Although CIA employees fire the drones’ weaponry from the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Va., the Times reports this development reflects how much the agency “now depends on outside contractors to perform some of the agency’s most important assignments.”
Current and former CIA employees told the Times that Blackwater’s assignment of assembling bombs for the drones led to disputes between the company and the spy agency. If a Predator missed a target, CIA employees would sometimes blame Blackwater employees for the mistake, the Times reported.
“In one instance last year recounted by the employees, a 500-pound bomb dropped off a Predator before it hit the target, leading to a frantic search for the unexploded bomb in the remote Afghan-Pakistani border region,” the Times reported. “It was eventually found about 100 yards from the original target.”
This article builds on the Times stories in Thursday’s editions that the CIA hired Blackwater for a secret program to find and kill high-value targets in al Qaeda. The program did not lead to the deaths of any Qaeda operatives and CIA Director Leon Panetta ended it shortly after learning about its existence. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, immediately south of neighboring El Paso, Texas, is arguably the most dangerous municipality in the Americas. The mayor, José Reyes Ferriz, told me that in the last twelve months more than 1,600 of his citizens have been murdered as his city became the epicenter of a vicious “turf war” among rival drug cartels vying for a larger slice of the lucrative “drug delivery business.” When he called for help, President Calderon sent in the only force he could trust: the Mexican Army. Retired military officers now run the city police force and joint military/police units patrol the streets. Even this hasn’t stopped the bloodbath. Last month more than 240 people perished in this murderous metropolis. The Mayor says something drastic needs to be done and he supports segments of the proposed UAV’s program.
Sources:
Forbes Washington Post Brian Wingfield The Ottawa Citizen September New York Times Oliver North Ciudad Juarez Mayor, José Reyes Ferriz Open source Mexican newspapers Mexican Military
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i would like to make it fly. I was wondering if their is a place that sells the motors and remote control for the plane.Also if their is a website that has the design on how to make it.Best answer gets 10 points and the designs to a boat or a car
Hi Chef,
There are TONS of places that sell parts and accessories. The field is so wide open that a single suggestion is not enough.
What type of plane?
Nitro powered planes are most often flown outdoors at a club operated fields.
Electric planes can be just as big and fast as the nitro, or they can be smaller, lighter and flown at local parks, or they can be tiny and flown indoors.
I have listed just a few sites you might look through, but in reality you need to choose an area to start out with. This is easiest to do in the RC forums, also linked below.
Good luck!
TXP Purpleline Enduro – Remote Control Caravan Mover
