No. From the reading I've done a while back, compared to electric they're a relative PITA to maintain and operate, and more expensive in the short/long run too.
Also, don't quote me but I think in many cases the brushless electric motors can take the RCs much faster than the nitro (gas) motors can, cost being a consideration. I know that the Nitro Stampede has a rated top speed of 33MPH (about ~13MPH faster than my brushed) while the brushless Stampede STARTS at 30+MPH on a 6 cell NiMH, goes to 40MPH+ with a 7 cell NiMH, and with LiPO batteries and the right gearing, can go over 65MPH.
So, nitro wouldn't be my first choice personally I don't think, but it'd still be really cool to have one, for a variety of reasons, one being, they're way louder than electric. (Also, speed isn't everything; the faster it goes, the less controllable it is and the more likely it's going to break)
It looks like a lot of fun. Especially the "commercial duty" ones, like they have flying cameras around at Nascar and Indy. Shortly after CPU magazine launched, one of the female regulars that had a monthly column let us know that she had been part of the team that pioneered the use of copter cams at Indy. Those will set you back a few grand, I seem to recall her saying.
At one of the local parks where I go 'goosin', there is a big reflection pond that a guy brings R/C boats to. Some of them are amazingly fast.
The Geese hate those boats though. They usually all gather up on the beach near me whenever that guy is out with a boat. (yes I find that flattering, since they are scattered everywhere on the shore otherwise when this guy is there boating)
Those Estes engines were pretty cool. At the end of the burn there would be another charge vented in the other direction to pop the nose cone off so the chute would unfurl and your rocket would slowly descend to the ground... unless of course you glued the nosecone on, and instead of packing a chute you stuck an M-80 in the payload.
Years later I saw the same results when the Challenger took off in 1986
I like both of you, and I hope that you might consider that no two people get along all the time. There's always gonna be bumps in the road.
FWIW Cng, I think you are going through a stage we all do, where you (correctly) perceive faults in the system, and would feel little remorse if that system fully collapsed as a part of the needed correction. In order for ideas like that to be heard, they must be emphasized, and perhaps Geno is taking your over emphasis to heart?
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Also, don't quote me but I think in many cases the brushless electric motors can take the RCs much faster than the nitro (gas) motors can, cost being a consideration. I know that the Nitro Stampede has a rated top speed of 33MPH (about ~13MPH faster than my brushed) while the brushless Stampede STARTS at 30+MPH on a 6 cell NiMH, goes to 40MPH+ with a 7 cell NiMH, and with LiPO batteries and the right gearing, can go over 65MPH.
So, nitro wouldn't be my first choice personally I don't think, but it'd still be really cool to have one, for a variety of reasons, one being, they're way louder than electric. (Also, speed isn't everything; the faster it goes, the less controllable it is and the more likely it's going to break)
At one of the local parks where I go 'goosin', there is a big reflection pond that a guy brings R/C boats to. Some of them are amazingly fast.
The Geese hate those boats though. They usually all gather up on the beach near me whenever that guy is out with a boat. (yes I find that flattering, since they are scattered everywhere on the shore otherwise when this guy is there boating)
Years later I saw the same results when the Challenger took off in 1986
BOOM!!!
FWIW Cng, I think you are going through a stage we all do, where you (correctly) perceive faults in the system, and would feel little remorse if that system fully collapsed as a part of the needed correction. In order for ideas like that to be heard, they must be emphasized, and perhaps Geno is taking your over emphasis to heart?