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- From: st1ec@rosie.uh.edu (Tse, Oliver)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Information Wanted on Very Miniature RC Planes, Cars and Boats
- Message-ID: <3SEP199220374340@rosie.uh.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 01:37:00 GMT
- References: <k9ln42=.noring@netcom.com>
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- In article <k9ln42=.noring@netcom.com>, noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes...
- >Hello,
- >
- >After visiting my local hobby store and seeing some 'Z' gauge model railroad
- >equipment, it made me wonder how miniaturized RC planes, boats and cars can
- >get and still be controllable. For example, most cars are 1:10 scale (or
- >thereabouts), but how about 1:50, or even smaller? How small can RC airplanes
- >get, and still fly controllably? The same for boats? How small can/do
- >practical gasoline engines get for those micro applications? (same question
- >for battery/electric motors).
-
- I've seen pictures of 1/144 scale R/C torpedo boats used in warship combat.
- They even fire pellets! In that case, I've also seen a 1/144 scale submarine
- (about a foot long) that dove dynamically and fired pellets as well. Someone
- also told me that you can convert the Lindberg 1/350 Bismarck into R/C.
- I even think that it was a subject of an SSM article. Anyway, all of these
- are electric powerplants.
-
- Oliver
- st1ec@rosie.uh.edu
-