A little hijack -
My husband and I are thinking about getting into flying toys. Do you have any suggestions for a starter plane for newbs like us? Something that isn’t too expensive, too fragile, and will fly enough for us to have fun with.
Cool story. We have lots of raptors in our neighbourhood, too - it never occurred to me that one of them might take an R/C airplane! (People fly them in the field at the end of our street all the time.)
And thanks for the mind picture of the hawk flying off with a squirrel. I can only imagine the ball of fury he’d have in his claws (little freaky tree rats).
It´s not just that they like watching the planes fly, hawks, eagles and the like soar on thermals (rising currents of air), when they see something riding one they´ll get close to it to catch a hitch on the thermal.
R/C glider pilots, conversely, do the same when they spot a bird riding a thermal.
You can visit the Small Flying Arts forum, there´s section for R/C and mini/micro R/C, plus there´s a lot of really nice people in there how will help you get started.
Have a little look at the link I posted. There are a number of similar planes in similar configuration - high wing, pod and boom fuselage, self-banking, of blown polypropylene construction which is very tough. They’re not expensive and you can pull a few basic aerobatics or just fly 'em high and bring them down slow.
Those guys never really liked Starscream anyway, so it’s not beyond them to leave him out to dry. Actually, no one really liked Starscream, come to think of it. No matter, when he takes his rightful place as leader of the Decepticons, those insolent bastards will pay!
Why, yes, yes they did. And when I caught my beagle with a baby bunny in his mouth, he 'splained (with his innocent brown eyes) that he was just giving him a ride.
Possibly the funniest visual imagry since Gary Larson drew a ship full of mannequins sinking, and a shark says “What is this? Some sort of cruel hoax?”
