Radio Controlled Cars

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Can you afford to buy and maintain a full sized aircraft, especially a valuable vintage model ? If you can then read no further. The rest of us fly scale radio controlled aeroplanes to get as close as we can to the thrill of controlling the real thing.
There is something particularly magical about fighter aircraft. Perhaps we know that young men risked all in aerial combat to defend their countries. Manfred Von Richofen in WW1 who shot down 80 allied aircraft or the South African in WW11 who had 51 victories and revelled in the name of Marmaduke Pattle. However no one comes close to the German ace Erich Hartman who, in WW11, had an almost unbelievable 352 kills !
Many modellers build static models going to huge lengths to get every detail right. Using acrylic and enamel paints applied with brushes or airbrushes they replicate even oil marks, exhaust stains and chips on wings and propellers. They are sometimes finished in matt gloss to protect all the artwork then dulled down, by various means, to look more realistic.
I am a great admirer of this type of modeling and have spent many hours inspecting their work in museums …

Radio Controlled Car Questions & Answers:

Is it ok to use bamboo skewers rather than carbon fiber tube/rod for foamie rc planes?
i want to save some money and time so is it ok to use bamboo skewers rather than carbon tube? any help would be greatly appreciated
also, is it ok to use white glue to glue the skewer in place?
or do i need to use a special kind of glue that i need to use

Sure. The joints would the only parts that needed to be tubing. Here’s a reference from 1947:

http://www.theplanpage.com/Months/2104/amf.htm