I been into the RC stuff since the 60's. Was really into war planes prop and jet. I got heavily into the electrics. I had some electric boats that did over 100 mph, I actually set some speed records with boats. Got older and my depth perception was getting bad, so I stopped flying the big fast stuff. I just do some backyard flying now with small electrics. Did heli's too, but they get real expensive fast.
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Ya,, I raced boats for years, Nitro, Gas,, & Electric.
First pic is of a highly modified .21 Rigger I re designed for a .32.
That ran around 72mph, on ''only'' 20% Nitro.
2nd pic is of a ''rare'' - MRP 1992 Miss Budweiser, that I was blessed a couple of years ago in finding.
Had 2 of these back in the early 90's,, & always kicked my self for selling them,, & always wanted another, to set up with Brushless & lipo's.
Got a 2220kv Inrunner for it , & 60a ESC.
Will be running it with 2 - 3s, 3300 lipo packs in parallel, swinging a ''GR-3655'' prop.
Motor & ESC,, are both cooled separate, with using a duel water P/U rudder,, that I modified.
Also made the break away turn fin for it.
Had graphics made for it also,, to eventually fill in the missing ones.
It's probably going to get finished next winter now,, as I have some plane projects yet to finish this winter.
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