Surfing for Model info I came across this site.
http://www.bvmjets.com/KitPrices/F18_qs.htm
You don’t need to join the Navy to fly a Super Bug… you just need $6000.00 dollars to build and fly your own![8D]
Air Master
Ummm. Don’t think the wifey would let me trade in the car for that. THe commute to work would be short tho.
My practical side hates to say it, but that’s pretty frickin cool! Thanks for sharing that bad boy!
Try more like $10-12K with radio equipment, turbine, turbine electronics, etc…
Now that is “a very nice piece of kit” [tup][8D]. Does it come with an optional weapons system?[}:)][:D]
Tango, as matter of fact it does have weapons you buy seperately for it and they are to scale.
Air Master
hmmm im suddenly picturing how you could get your road rage out with that baby and it’s weapons systems.
Another slight speed bump to flying this baby is getting qualified to do so. You have to learn to fly basic RC at some point, then how to operate and fly turbines, (Academy of Model Aeronautics certification required), buy, operate, crash, buy, operate, crash, several prop trainers and several jet trainers before you stand a chance of flying something like that F-18. I don’t mean to be a wet blanket, but you can’t just walk into your local RC hobby shop, plunk down a whole bunch of money, take one of these out to the local model flying field and put it in the air.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
I hear you Yard but, it would be a heck of a model to add your collection. Can you imagine hanging that from your cieling or the size display case you would need for it? LOL, It would be the ULTIMATE model for me. [:D]
Air Master
Much like model rockets, you have to get certified to fly the big boys, buy the engines, and such things. There is good reason for this, and I’m sure if I was spending that much money on it, I wouldn’t want to learn how to fly with it, cause smashing it into the ground would be bad… very bad… but it would be so cool to fly though!!!
If you crash it you’ld at least have to have it on film so you could put it on youtube, though I don’t know which attract more attention, the distruction of that thing, or the grown man crying hesterically after.
LOL, thats true Toomanyslurpees! There are a couple on youtube and one on the link I saw where they did crash them, man, a couple went into a big fireball real fast! It would have been a real nasty deal if it were real, bad enough that several thousand $$$ went up in smoke!
lol…
Anyone see the model B-52 crash? It’s on YouTube.