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Great Planes is bringing back their America’s Best R/C Sale for 2011. Last year’s sale saw a ton of great deals on products all across the R/C spectrum, and this year is sure to be no different. Great Planes is promising savings of up to $50 on more than 100 products from their various brands, which includes DuraTrax, Tactic, Futaba, [...]
We first broke the news on the Thunder Tiger kart back at iHobby, but now it looks like it’s about to start shipping! The Thunder Tiger KT8 Kart is a 1/8th scale kart with a lot of cool features all packed under that kart body. Standard micro-sized electronics, click rubber tires, rear wheel drive with a rear mounting motor [...]
This is something cool at IHobby from Thunder Tiger, being distributed by the fine folks at Great Planes. I totally forgot to write down the info on this thing, but some of the stuff I can recall from the images is that it’s a relatively small, slight larger than a 1/18 scale car or truck. It’s also going to be [...]
New from Tower Hobbies is the Tower Power Vee RTR boat. This boat is completely designed for beginners. If you have batteries and a pond, your ready to go! It has a water cooled 550 motor and 30A ESC with reverse. Price will be well under the $150 mark when it hits the streets! Check out the Tower [...]
Our good friend Scott Cramer of Futaba and O’Donnell fame sits down and shows you everything you need to do some work on your RC Vehicle. All the products he talks about can be found at BestRC.com.
For those looking to pick up some RC products and save a little cash, starting today – April 30th 2010, through June 30th 2010, BestRC.com is putting a ton of products on sale! From RealFlight G5 flight simulators to Duratrax Evaders and everything in between. Sounds good to me! So head over to the BestRC.com website, [...]
For all those that missed E-Fest 2010, Great Planes has a DVD featuring all the highlights! Pylon Racing, Freestyle, Combat, and more! If you are into the RC Flying scene, and weren’t there, you should add this DVD to your shopping list! Here’s a sneek peek from Youtube:Check out the Great Planes website for more info.
Hobbico has announced the new LiFeSource 200mAh 6.6v 1c Receiver Batteries. These batteries are designed to be the receiver packs in your 1/12 scale (and some 1/10th scale) vehicles where you are running a 1S LiPO to power your car. The batteries are tiny and lightweight, so you could even use them in some small gliders and planes. [...]
For those looking to check out some of the action at the Snowbird Nationals, but can’t make it down there personally, Hobbico has been posting some YouTube videos you may be interested in. If you happen to head down there, tell them Big Squid RC say’s hi!I’m sure they will post more as the week goes on. Looks [...]
Wow, talk about a bargain, the new 2.4 GHz Transmitter from Tactic RC has a retail price of only $99, and that’s with a receiver! If you have been looking to ditch the FM and waiting for your ‘clip’ to come back, this might be the jump for you! Here’s the press release: Spread spectrum systems are all the [...]
Hey Aviator’s Love those long run times and lightweight flights? Great Planes has released their 20C 3200mAh Lithium-Polymer batteries for larger scale electric flights. The BP series 3200mAh packs feature Dean’s® Ultra plugs (female) and rated for 20C discharge. These packs are available in 2-cell 7.4V (6.9oz/195 gram) and 3-cell 11.1V (10.1oz/285 [...]
If you listen to the national mainstream media, you’ll hear of more plant closing, cut-backs, and job lay-offs every day. Is the rc community immune to such things, as many “insiders” would have to you believe? Certainly not, as last Tuesday, Horizon laid off 15 workers. After talking with two members of the management staff at Horizon, they stressed that this [...]
This sounds kinda cool. Real Flight and Great Planes are hosting a video contest! Basically, pull off some insane crazy RC stunt flying moves that you could never pull off in real life, post the video to youtube, and hope people vote for your video! The winner gets a $1000 shopping spree! You have till March 1st, 2009! You [...]
Great Planes announced today that they will be bringing the Muchmore Racing product line to North America. The Muchmore products are mostly electronics like charger/dis-chargers, tire warmers, motor accessories, stuff like that. Cub reporter, who is down at the Snowbird Nationals, sent in this picture of a banner that was put up for the official announcement. [...]
