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    Now this is a sport I could get behind

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Water Closet
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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Nic
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      @Nic said:

      a. wouldn't that kill your own drone?
      b. after the first time they'd just add EMP shielding

      Hence the cage thing that I mentioned 🙂

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
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        For some reason I don't thinks Nuclear explosions would make it onto the list of "allowed weaponry" for the sport..... lol

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
          last edited by

          @DustinB3403 said:

          For some reason I don't thinks Nuclear explosions would make it onto the list of "allowed weaponry" for the sport..... lol

          Do you really think they've listed it as not allowed?

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
            last edited by

            Not until they see the operator walk in with a radiation suit..... then they'll say "WTF is going on here? No you can't have a nuclear bomb go off."

            Plus you'd have to shield the audience from the EMP, folks with pacemakers, hearing aids etc.

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            • gjacobseG
              gjacobse
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              I'm in - but ... I 'd need some advanced fusion battery... when I was into RC cars years ago, I knew one speed... full on.

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              • hobbit666H
                hobbit666
                last edited by

                I need a hobby ..... just found it!!!!

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                • MattSpellerM
                  MattSpeller @gjacobse
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                  @gjacobse said:

                  I'm in - but ... I 'd need some advanced fusion battery... when I was into RC cars years ago, I knew one speed... full on.

                  I'm going to... how to say.... rapidly disassemble a l-ion battery this weekend

                  They're scary man

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                  • travisdh1T
                    travisdh1
                    last edited by

                    I'll have a 450mm base frame one together in the next day or two. Only 1045 props for it currently, I really need 1240 or 1250 props for it. Eventually it'll have a GoPro or equivalent on board as well, it's the big, stable (read slow) platform to do video from.

                    Last week I ordered parts for a 150mm frame, 4000KV motor, 3x3 prop, FPV model. Should be the fastest thing around, assuming I am able to keep it in one piece 😄

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                    • travisdh1T
                      travisdh1 @MattSpeller
                      last edited by

                      @MattSpeller said:

                      @gjacobse said:

                      I'm in - but ... I 'd need some advanced fusion battery... when I was into RC cars years ago, I knew one speed... full on.

                      I'm going to... how to say.... rapidly disassemble a l-ion battery this weekend

                      They're scary man

                      Yes, yes they are. Will you post a video?

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                      • MattSpellerM
                        MattSpeller @travisdh1
                        last edited by

                        @travisdh1 That's the goal at least heheh

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                        • gjacobseG
                          gjacobse @gjacobse
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                          @gjacobse said:

                          I'm in - but ... I 'd need some advanced fusion battery... when I was into RC cars years ago, I knew one speed... full on.

                          Oh yea - forgot to mention...

                          Where do you mount the Estes Rocket motors... or the more advanced ones ....

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                          • gjacobseG
                            gjacobse @gjacobse
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                            @gjacobse said:

                            @gjacobse said:

                            I'm in - but ... I 'd need some advanced fusion battery... when I was into RC cars years ago, I knew one speed... full on.

                            Oh yea - forgot to mention...

                            Where do you mount the Estes Rocket motors... or the more advanced ones ....

                            Whoops.. lost another car:

                            tomahawk-missile-raytheon-explosion-3.jpg

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                            • MattSpellerM
                              MattSpeller @gjacobse
                              last edited by MattSpeller

                              @gjacobse lol you joke but wait until you see what a 6 year old cell out of the explosion / fire prone MacBook Pro's can do. Maybe an 18650 for giggles.

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                              • travisdh1T
                                travisdh1 @MattSpeller
                                last edited by

                                @MattSpeller said:

                                @gjacobse lol you joke but wait until you see what a 6 year old cell out of the explosion / fire prone MacBook Pro's can do. Maybe an 18650 for giggles.

                                I'm a little scarred of my 3cell 6000mah I have for the large quad. Got em all stored, and charge in those LiPo "fireproof" bags.

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                                • gjacobseG
                                  gjacobse @MattSpeller
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                                  @MattSpeller
                                  Ever launched a D motor out of a 10 foot copper pipe with no nose cone, fins or anything else?

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                                  • MattSpellerM
                                    MattSpeller @gjacobse
                                    last edited by MattSpeller

                                    @gjacobse said:

                                    @MattSpeller
                                    Ever launched a D motor out of a 10 foot copper pipe with no nose cone, fins or anything else?

                                    giggles

                                    That's a good one 🙂

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                                    • travisdh1T
                                      travisdh1 @gjacobse
                                      last edited by

                                      @gjacobse said:

                                      @MattSpeller
                                      Ever launched a D motor out of a 10 foot copper pipe with no nose cone, fins or anything else?

                                      I had a Mosquito. It got launched once, it ended up in the jetstream. Wasn't much more than an empty tube with fins and a nose cone glued on.

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                                      • gjacobseG
                                        gjacobse @travisdh1
                                        last edited by

                                        @travisdh1 OMG - the Mosquito...

                                        with a nail-cone

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          We had some Estes rockets when I was little. I remember one of ours kept exploding. I did the math and figured out it was the sound barrier where it was blowing up.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            My dad had the best stories ever, though. He used to machine his own rockets and make his own fuel. A lot like in "October Sky." He once set the barn on fire when he was a kid trying to launch a new rocket in a rain storm from inside the barn.

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