What's next from Motion RC?

[Valkpilot]

Well, that would suck, but it wouldn’t kill the hobby for me. I love kit building and scratch building. It would not take long for an American FreeWing/Fliteline to produce the planes we want, here. We could maybe finally get them painted in primer only. It might even make getting past some trademark issues easier.

The biggest trademark problem is getting permission from the people who produced the original aircraft. And that can be a problem if the companies no longer exist, or were merged into a bigger company.

[rifleman_btx]

Glad we're a few months out.Just dropped a tidy sum on some scale mid powered rockets I've wanted to build.

Mike

Indeed, if they pushed them out back to back we would be on the corner holding signs! :Scared:

[lmramos44]

But there is another "wild card" to this equation. If a major trade war breaks out between the US and China, we may not only b e out of luck in the hobby completely. Just think if the price of a Freewing 64 mm f-86 shot up to the price of it's 80 mm brother.

Well the fact is even in the worse case scenario would be a 15% increase, thus a 500$ jet would go to 575, yes this may slow sales down but that particular market would hardly be touched. If I am spending 500, 575 would not stop me. I don’t see it happening, much too much to lose by adding tariffs. Lots is posturing right now. Anyway, back to Foil.....F-100 Super Sabre please.....

[Grossman56]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roQxxC5TAco

Sorry guys, but nothing gets Ol' Grossman drooling faster than an original polished DC-3. One of only 28 DC-3D models, this 1946 Doug has never been rebuilt.
Ahhh, what I wouldn't do for a 2000mm Flight Line RC DC-3

[rifleman_btx]

If they can add a c47 variant color scheme to it, I'll bite

[TomPatton]

Oh yeah, I want one in the Yankee Smuggler paint scheme used in the movie, High Risk!!!
An early 80's movie with James Brolin, and a DC-3 with a huge green leaf on the vertical stab...
Just curious, anyone else seen that movie???

[Valkpilot]

Well the fact is even in the worse case scenario would be a 15% increase, thus a 500$ jet would go to 575, yes this may slow sales down but that particular market would hardly be touched. If I am spending 500, 575 would not stop me. I don’t see it happening, much too much to lose by adding tariffs. Lots is posturing right now. Anyway, back to Foil.....F-100 Super Sabre please.....

Dammit Jim I'm a computer technician, not an economist! BTW the plane in the picture. How difficult is it to fly? I was thinking about one of it's little brothers, but thought it would be hard to fly.

[AirHead]

Hell, If you're going with 4 EDF's, why not go big and make a big, bad B-58 Hustler with 4, 70mm EDF's ! That ought to turn a few heads and send them right to the chiropractor....

[AirHead]

Hell, if you're going with 4 EDF's, why not a big, bad B58 Hustler with 4, 70mm EDF's! That ought to turn some heads and send them right to the chiropractor.....

[dahawk]

Looked like a Air China landing- LOL HSD is on the move . New T-33, a big F86 (105mm) and this seven four.

[Valkpilot]

Hell, if you're going with 4 EDF's, why not a big, bad B58 Hustler with 4, 70mm EDF's! That ought to turn some heads and send them right to the chiropractor.....

Actually, if I'm reading the title right is using 4 90 mm But I' d be more conservative and go with four 64 mm. The true problem would be the same with the actual airplane, the nightmare of the "stilts" landing gear.

[TomPatton]

OHH ALPHA....:

Really, if that is one of the offerings, you would be better off putting your money on Maxine Waters becoming the next president with Madonna as Vice President... Just saying, maybe I am wrong in this melinnial world we live in...
I sure hope not!!!!

[fhhuber]

Actually, if I'm reading the title right is using 4 90 mm But I' d be more conservative and go with four 64 mm. The true problem would be the same with the actual airplane, the nightmare of the "stilts" landing gear.

"stilt" landing gear isn't much problem on models. Music wire and/or machined aluminum semi-scale struts.

The issue becomes the mounting points for the gear, which is often a problem for EPO models.
Just gluing a mount no wider than the retract into the foam is asking for it to pull out.
We need the gear mounts to clamp around a significant thickness of foam (screws pulling plates toward each other) and providing a larger area of contact with the foam.

EXACTLY the landing gear issue with the FMS Firefly... just (poorly) glue a plate on the foam surface. and the plate is pretty well designed to shear just forward and aft of the dural landing gear. Grass pulls the gear right off the airplane.
I added a LARGE plywood plate to the upper surface of the wing, long screws to draw the gear toward the plywood, clamping a huge amount of foam in the middle. The dural gear will bend long before that pulls loose now.

Similar issues with almost all of the < 1600 mm span EPO warbird retracts that have the mount just surface glued to the wing... Dynam at least has a plate on top if the wings (most of the time) with screws pulling that toward the retract, making the retract usually bend (or snap the trunion-strut pin) before the retract pulls out of the wing.

You do have to pick a failure point, because a bad landing is going to break something... For the retracts with a replaceable mounting plate, I'd make that the first part to break, since it can be replaced with a piece of 1/8 inch aircraft plywood.

[Valkpilot]

Looked like a Air China landing- LOL HSD is on the move . New T-33, a big F86 (105mm) and this seven four.

Meanwhile, over at Aplha's house, if you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of face palming and teeth grinding.

[Hardway]

:Straight-Face:

[Valkpilot]

Really, if that is one of the offerings, you would be better off putting your money on Maxine Waters becoming the next president with Madonna as Vice President... Just saying, maybe I am wrong in this melinnial world we live in...
I sure hope not!!!!

As far as Auntie Maxine and Madonna, think about this. If you asked anybody outside of Illinois who Barrack Obama was before 2007, they'd probably say he was a new hip-hop or rap singer. And who, other than Matt Groening would have believed in the possibility of President Donald Trump?

[rifleman_btx]

Dont built money pits that will suffer huge hits on the bottom line, build affordable stuff, I wanna see motion around a lot longer.

[crxmanpat]

More planes, less politics!

I want to see a 3000mm B-36D with 6 a turnin' and 4 a burnin'! (Now would that be Freewing, or FlightLineRC? ;))

[rifleman_btx]

Yes!