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Top Gun 2008, the Movie (Without Cruise, Fortunately)

Not everything was about the stunning A-10 Warthog at last week's Top Gun 2008 competition, the largest R/C event in the world. 10,000 people watched the 120 invitation-only R/C airplanes competition—which included everything from from World War I Fokker fighters to WW2's Mustangs and Lightnings to Vietnam War's Phantoms, and plenty of civil aviation models. Gigantic gallery of this year's edition after the jump.
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10:30 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Jesus Diaz
27,009 views, 15 comments

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Ghetto-Tech R/C Plane Tutorials: Cheap Aerial Video and Lego Autopilot

Chris Anderson, EIC of Wired, has a geek weakspot: R/C Planes. Here's a guide he wrote to turn shitty digicams, old parts from tripods, some cardboard and rubber bands into a budget aerial video solution. (Plane not include, and best used on a stable plane like the EasyStar.) Then, he jury-rigs some mindstorm kit into a crude autopilot system that returns home via a compass heading 180 degrees from its original path. It could work, but only if the airplane's tail is pointing at you when you activate it. Anyhow, this is only a holdover until he gets the GPS worked into there. More »

12:46 AM on Tue Mar 27 2007
By Brian Lam
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