Kind of cool if you are into nitro speed nerd stuff. I always wanted to see this but its getting to be quite rare. Event kind of reminds me of pylon racing. We are all getting older, fewer in numbers & competing with video games for new blood. When we croak the kids will wonder what was the point of grown men flying around 3 poles HaHa
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Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!
Tethered cars
- Thread starter PeterT
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DPittman
Ultra Member
And I did something similar... I used 049 engines and made wooden sleds with wire rails but ran them untethered done the hard packed snowy roads! I would chase them along and had great fun. I loved the screaming buzz and smell of those engines!When I was a kid I used some 2x2 wood with a 049 propeller engine to power it. The anchor point was a nail pounded into the tennis courtand it went like hell!
turner
Active Member
Yea me too, what fun we had before the key board. Had one of those COX airplanes on a string that Dabbler is talking about. Plane was designed to crash but in reality plastic only survives so many crashes. Took the .049 and strapped it to the back of a Tonka Jeep, ran the engine backwards. Let it free on the sand packed beach and there was no way I could catch up to it. Managed the runs by shorting the fuel so it would run out rather quickly.
I destroyed 2 or 3 of those things before giving up on them and moved to balsa and paper LOL.