Towing A ROCKET Glider

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Did I just smile for 17 minutes straight ?? 😆

"Crappy cheap glider that flies like ass" 😂😂😂

RCPowers! Shout out to RCPowers for single-handedly getting me back into RC flying after a 14 year hiatus. By showing me what modern brushless motors, lipos and depron foam could do, I was back in 100% and haven’t stopped since. They really shed light on the lowered point of entry into designing rc planes and inspired many a one-off scratch build for me. Gone were the days of spending 200 hours sanding balsa just to have a damn tip-over that sends you back to the building bench, and breaking in and tuning engines all day while a propellor spins at 10k RPM 1/4” from your radial artery instead of flying. I wonder what they’re up to these days.

Anything + rockets = adult anything

That was fun! I enjoyed hanging out with you all.

a better way to launch a rocket glider is to launch it just like a model rocket, using a guide rod and a couple of guide tubes glued on the fuselage, guide rod set at 45 degree angle. I've done it before, the plane will stay straight during the rocket thrusting stage. 👍

I grew up in NH and flew at the Concord Skyhawks field often. In fact, I had my first and so far only mid-air collision there with my father. He was in a Hobby Lobby .40 trainer (the name slips me), and I was flying my Hobby Shack Right Flyer 40T (which was in the same exact scheme as the Hobbico Flight Star 40 scheme). My father ended up the Victor, his engine went through my fuse just behind the wing. Back then, we flew south of where you do now at that sod farm, but I went down in the woods across from you. My father went down in a flat spin on the field. It took two visits to recover the parts, and I remember the firewall forward was in a puddle! It's been fun watching you go from Western Washington where I was stationed (NAS Whidbey Island) on the local aviators pages out there to your success with RC, and of all places, near where I grew up for over 20 years in New Hampshire, and you visit old stomping grounds. I appreciate your content, Zach! It's a shame we never met in Washington, but I also was one of the guys to shove blowflies into the FATPNW bs. That's a whole other story, and why there are Facebook groups all about using the FATPNW letters that aren't exactly groups.

thank you for getting me into this hobby, i started last year and was on and off of it. i am a younger member of the hobby and this is the type of stuff I saw y'all doing that initially caught my interest and introduced me to the hobby. So i just want to say, from the bottom of my heart, thank you

Well done KC. “Like a kid with a glider in the face” 😂😂😂😂🤣 The attention to detail on that yellow plane is ridiculous. Stunning! Also love the Mail plane (with the nuts)…

Shockingly all of us in my club flew our sailplanes to 399' AGL today also.

Greetings from Australia, keep up the awesome work folks, love the shenanigans!!!

I am reminded of when I was a youngster, and we would buy the little balsa gliders. After a week or two of flying them and getting bored we would attach bottle rockets to them. Squirrely as all get out, then they would blow up. Best couple of dollars ever spent.

Now that the gear is broken semi permanently, why not try one wheel, centerline like the old penguin trainers that were not meant to leave the ground. I think that could be a valuable training device for the new RC pilot.

A good mod to stop the gear on the turbo timber from breaking, remove the wire stops in the springs. It works. I broke the gear 3 times the first 4 months of flying it. Not once in the 3 years since I removed the wire stoppers. I've also never broke any props like many people claimed removing the stoppers would do. You guys keep having fun.😎

I was actually shocked at how well that thing held up haha

I know that 74" Edge... Good times, Good times...

Rc superpowers was my childhood

Only you can prevent forest fires... ...by crashing the rocket glider away from the trees! 😅

I have rigged up an RC ignition system that i use to fire little bottle rockets instantly. It will work to light anything that uses a fuse. Would be awesome to play RC Combat!