This week we were lucky to spend some time with Kevin Hetmanski for our Wednesday Interview column. Many of you know Kevin from his days at Car Action, but these days his life revolves around his job in Horizon Hobby’s Pro Boat division. What’s new with Kevin? What’s new at Pro Boat and Horizon? Let’s [...]
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Hello everyone, it’s Thanksgiving week and hopefully you get at least Thursday off of work. The BigSquidRC crew tends not to take any days off, if we aren’t posting we are at the track or in the parking lot trying to break parts. Which brings me to… On the flight back from COTA (outstanding track [...]
The largest surface rc booth at iHobby 2012 was from Horizon Hobby. Horizon is one of our hobby’s largest distributors featuring product lines like Losi, ECX, Spektrum, Pro Boat, and Dynamite. Inside the spacious Horizon booth was a netted area for flying helicopters and a decent sized dirt off road track. Consumers could test drive [...]
If you have been in the rc scene for any time at all, then you already know who Kevin Hetmanski is from all his work over at RC Car Action. The entire BigSquidRC crew are stoked to hear that Kevin is now the Product Developer for Horizon’s Pro Boat line. Congrats Kevin, can’t wait to [...]
Those of us that drive boats have, at one time or another, been in a position where our boat was dead in the water. Either the batteries dumped quicker than we thought, or we cut a turn too hard and flipped the thing. Retrieving the boat has become as much an art form as driving [...]
Pro Boat has a new boat. The Stiletto 29 is an ARTR tunnel hull that is setup for Bind-N-Drive with a lot of Spektrum radios. It’s got a 1800 Kv brushless outboard motor that uses standard mounting hardware paired to a 60 amp marine ESC that’s LiPo ready, and a fiberglass composite hull for strength [...]
Pro Boat‘s new Miss Geico 29 BL is one cool Cat. This 30″ catamaran RTR is built for speed with a 1500Kv brushless motor, 45 amp speed control, and dual 2S LiPo capability. The Miss Geico is fully licensed to look like the full scale version and features a lot of the details you’d expect [...]