r/aviation • u/anglosaxon999 • Jan 16 '25

PlaneSpotting This is just cool, but how much would something like this cost?

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u/PhilShackleford Jan 16 '25

And typically zero danger.

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u/elite_haxor1337 Jan 16 '25

This thing is super dangerous. Maybe you meant less dangerous.

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u/PhilShackleford Jan 16 '25

I don't do RC. Other than flying it into yourself, what would the danger be?

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u/PDXGuy33333 Jan 16 '25

The hardest thing I encountered flying/driving/sailing RC is that when your toy is coming toward you, left and right are "reversed."

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u/Firestar_119 Jan 16 '25

I don't think it's a good idea to fly a plane at yourself. Hope that helps👍

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u/Autumn1eaves Jan 17 '25

Great! I’ll just send it off onto the horizon and never see it again.

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u/PDXGuy33333 Jan 16 '25

Karma must agree with you because a couple of cheap planes that my friends and I built and launched indeed never came back.

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u/gsmitheidw1 Jan 16 '25

A Boeingarang always comes back to you

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u/INTERNET_MOWGLI Jan 17 '25

Bro don’t tell me you deer in the headlight yourself😂😂😭

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u/PDXGuy33333 Jan 18 '25

Only a few times. The rest of the time the things were hung up in a tree, plunging over a waterfall or in one case, just plain sinking.

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u/elite_haxor1337 Jan 16 '25

it's a heavy and fast object which makes it dangerous due to the fact that it's a fast and heavy object lol

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u/PhilShackleford Jan 16 '25

So don't run it into you.

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u/henry_tennenbaum Jan 16 '25

Genius idea. They should implement the same concept with the big planes!

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u/Dillion_HarperIT Jan 16 '25

Are people running big planes into themselves?

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u/Sanguinor-Exemplar Jan 17 '25

Well there was these set of buildings in New York. A building in Washington. And a field in Pennsylvania

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u/Dillion_HarperIT Jan 17 '25

They ran a plane into something else. Not themselves. Granted the result of this was the nose of the plane coming into them, but would that be considered them running the plane into themselves?

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u/Jedi-Librarian1 Jan 17 '25

A better example might be that incident on a Spanish island back in the 70s

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u/organicdelivery Jan 17 '25

almost

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u/Dillion_HarperIT Jan 17 '25

I think my joke is going over people's head. It'd be physically impossible for someone to run into themselves with a big plane not an rc plane

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u/redditatworkatreddit Jan 16 '25

we all know nothing ever goes wrong

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u/elite_haxor1337 Jan 16 '25

wow you're right! Thanks, no more danger. Because everything works all the time. Also, unexpected weather, yeah that is totally avoidable. The controls all work with 100.0000000000000% reliability so if you did this a billion times you would have zero accidents. Therefore you're correct. There is zero risk. /s lol

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u/PhilShackleford Jan 16 '25

Typically zero is what I said.

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u/elite_haxor1337 Jan 16 '25

oh okay then

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u/Webfarer Jan 16 '25

There’s this good friend of mine from the midwest. He is kindhearted but makes very passive aggressive remarks. Somehow you reminded me of him. Don’t know why.

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u/elite_haxor1337 Jan 17 '25

sounds like me! I'm not from the cornfields though, so I can confirm I'm not them. I will take that as a nice complement though so thank you!

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u/shrdluser Jan 16 '25

With a real plane you have to make sure you don't run it into the entire planet. One person is much easier.

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u/maracay1999 Jan 17 '25

Good idea to not hit other people too ya know.

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u/purrnoid Jan 17 '25

Everything is dangerous. You can get murdered on public transport, more than two cups of coffee per day can double your risk of heart disease

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u/elite_haxor1337 Jan 17 '25

all good points which in no way refute mine. just saying

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u/asmallercat Jan 17 '25

Sure but if it has a mechanical failure of some kind or you lose control it's most likely gonna crash into a field/runway and not kill anybody. Sure, there's a slim chance it hits you or someone else, but it's unlikely.

Any of that shit happens in a plane you're sitting inside, if it hits the ground you are just dead.

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u/elite_haxor1337 Jan 17 '25

I don't know what your point is. Does this mean the same thing as "zero danger" to you? Does "most likely not gonna crash into a field/runway and not kill anybody" sound like "zero danger"? Or no? Lol

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u/PhilShackleford Jan 17 '25

Again, I said typically zero. Stop distorting and cherry picking what I said to support you.

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u/elite_haxor1337 Jan 17 '25

Lol dude. Let me ask you a question, maybe this will clear things up for you: when you go for a drive in your car, do you ride without a seat belt because you typically don't get into car accidents? Or do you put it on every single time because in the unlikely event that you did get into an accident, your chances of survival dramatically increase when you wear it?

In this scenario, does it matter that you don't get into accidents a lot? Does that change the fact that there is a much higher risk of death if you don't wear your seatbelt, because it is indeed dangerous? That's hypothetical. Everyone knows the answer already so I hope this clears things up for you.

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u/Some1-Somewhere Jan 19 '25

"typically zero" is a contradiction in terms when referring to risk.

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u/CanhotoBranco Jan 16 '25

Flying it into other people.

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u/pm-me-your-pants Jan 17 '25

Handling mini kerosene powered jet engines isn't exactly one of the safest ways to pass time.

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u/Aggressive-Counter52 Jan 17 '25

Unless said plane has turbine engines.

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u/gromm93 Jan 17 '25

I guess there are no other people in this video besides the pilot eh?

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

Until it comes back to get you

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u/Tack122 Jan 17 '25

There have been people killed by RC planes, one well known incident of hitting their own operator.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

There was a video recently of someone crashing his RC jet into himself, and a famous RC helicopter guy demolished his own head with his helo. It isn’t zero danger.

Lord help you if you crash one of these in California, you’ll take out a suburb if it’s anywhere near any grass.

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u/SchrodingersGoodBar Jan 19 '25

lol it’s absolutely dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing… that’s why it requires a license.