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    • March 27, 2003 at 7:16 pm #11667
      Cranga
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      Hi guys,
      Has anyone purchased or heard of RC blimps available in AUS? i so bad want one and i remember frenetic used to have them but they have gone else where. Can some one please help me?

    • March 28, 2003 at 5:05 pm #45619
      PandaBear
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      Think those “Sharper Image” gift stores might have them… not sure though. But when you buy them you have to source your own helium; maybe a balloon shop might be able to help.

      I looked at one long time ago, can’t remember which shop now, but didn’t bother buying it when the instructions said to “sellotape the gondola onto the balloon bit”.

      Haha, why not just get a foil balloon and then make your own blimp using BCG electrics?? 🙂

    • March 28, 2003 at 6:16 pm #45622
      Cranga
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      Yeah, pandabear, id love to spend 5 years balancing the bloody thing! It be great, two 3.0’s running the turbo props one for lft one for right and some sort of elevation system, but the BCG plane was hard enough for me!

      I just want to buy one, no matter how crappy they are, they just sound cool!

      Bap Bap Bap

    • March 28, 2003 at 11:43 pm #45625
      PandaBear
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      It wouldn’t be hard to balance, imho.

      You have a floating balloon, with the weight (gondola) hanging below.

      You have 2 props on either side of the gondola, running off 2 microB motors:

      Fwd/Rev = run both motors simultanously

      Left/Right = just run 1 at a time

      Hmm… I’ll try to save a yoghurt tub next time… might make a handy gondola for when I find a cheap clone, cheap enough to strip for bits. 🙂

    • March 31, 2003 at 10:35 pm #45636
      Cranga
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      Ha ha! sweet idea, I guess you could angle the motors up so that when you go forward the baloon rises, (like a 2 channel RC plane) is this how the real RC blimps work?

      Bap Bap Bap

    • April 2, 2003 at 10:45 pm #45652
      PandaBear
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      No idea!! :p

    • May 6, 2003 at 8:41 pm #45800
      8ch Ess Vee
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      Sounds good in theory!

      Not too sure how effective it would be in making the thing drop (lose altitude) when you went into reverse though?

      Could be fun though with a few of them, especially in a large hall having races around a couple of baloons at either end of the area.

      Very SLOW fun I am thinking.

      Bit like watching grass grow:smiley2:

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    • May 7, 2003 at 3:17 pm #45805
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      I have this idea that perhaps they’d be ideal to set up for computer controlled racing ;0 a bit like Robot Soccer 😉

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    • May 7, 2003 at 9:13 pm #45806
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      …a bit like Robot Soccer 😉

      Me actually silly enough to attend the international Aibo soccer
      tournament when it was held in Melbourne few yrs ago. :blush::blush:

      (forget propellor-heads, these were real gas-turbine turbo-fans!!)

    • May 8, 2003 at 6:12 pm #45807
      8ch Ess Vee
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      Sounds like a good idea, PC controlled could be fun (perhaps)

      Perhaps some precision aerial manuvers by programming times and turns.

      That could be a real spectator sport!!

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    • May 8, 2003 at 6:59 pm #45808
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      Aibo, sony robot dog right panda??? LMAO that is so funny.

      If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, then let’s get wasted and have the time of our lives!!

    • May 8, 2003 at 7:21 pm #45810
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      check out http://www.plantraco.com

      NV

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