DO NOT Call Them 'Toys'
This is the last of the programs we shot at the 2008 E-Fest
event that SO boggled our minds a few months ago. It was one of the
most amazing air displays ANN and Aero-TV has ever seen was and was
(pretty much) run on batteries... no kidding. The growing
popularity of small, electric Radio-Controlled aircraft (of ALL
kinds and configurations) has given rise to an amazing event, held
each Winter in Champaign, IL.
They call it "E-Fest" and all manner of electrically powered
airplanes, motorgliders, helicopters, warbirds and even 'jets'
gather together for a weekend INSIDE the massive University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign Armory Track and Field Facility -- to
fly... in some truly extraordinary ways.
E-Fest is hosted by Great Planes, Inc., a major player in the
model aircraft industry and over the course of the last few years,
the event has grown to become known (and documented) worldwide.
While must of the weekend is devoted to simple "free-flying," a
number of competitions do take place.
In just the last few years, RC Model Airplanes, especially the
electric versions, have come down aggressively in price, are
available in just about EVERY RC hobby shop, and have become far
more easy to fly. This has happened, in large part, due to better
design, enhanced powerplants, better radio technology, very quite
noise signatures, and (as a result) have quite simply become one of
the fastest growing segments in model aviation.
But... how do they work? How hard are they to fly? What do they
cost? How do you get started? For the answers to these, and other
questions, come along with Aero-TV as we wrap up our exciting
programming from the 2008 E-Fest... an event we can't wait to
return to, next year!
Aero-TV Checks Out The Technology Behind Those
Amazing RC Airplanes!
About Aero-TV: It's DEFINITELY Show
Time!!!!
OK, folks, so far, so good... earlier this year
we initiated the first feature programming series for
Aero-TV... we decided to take it slow, but we also tried
a steady approach to building the aviation world's most
innovative news and information service. We hope you
understand that this is the most complex media program we've
ever undertaken and what you're seeing is just the tip of the
iceberg... but from here on out, we will be doing our best to
educate, inform, and entertain YOU about all aspects of the
exciting worlds of aviation and aerospace.
And yes, there is MUCH MORE to come... and soon.
If you've been an observer of the media and associated media
industries over the last few years, it's not hard to mistake the
fact that a massive revolution is taking place. Old sources for
news and information are falling by the wayside, having to change
their modus operandi or risk obsolescence (or extinction).
Electronic media and print media are both under the assault of
progress, and the online world has been a cornerstone for
revolutionary change.
Part of this amazing process is the fact that we're been
building and planning a massive new organization within ANN. That
said,
we're hiring talented new people as fast as we can find
them (a far more difficult task than we had
imagined -- REALLY good people are hard to find), and we're
brainstorming at speeds that would make a deorbiting Space Shuttle
feel like a slug. Suffice it to say that we wanted to do this
right, rather than right-now, and that the development of this
program has been the most carefully pursued undertaking we've ever
undertaken.
E-I-C Note: The
complete feature shown above is embedded in this
story, with most of the slick and useful functionality
otherwise available on the main Aero-TV
site (which will be upgraded
aggressively over the next few weeks). The ability to embed a
video on another web page is but one of the hundreds of
amazing little features that we've worked hard on, for many months
now, to implement in different phases of the initial release
of Aero-TV. It is, BY NO MEANS, the only way to enjoy unaltered
Aero-TV programming on other parts of the web... as we have
extensive plans for future functionality, but this feature
allows those with an interest in a specific Aero-TV News or Feature
program to embed it on a different web site, though we must
note that we reserve the right to forbid such use for those sites
or purposes that we do not feel fit in with the proper mission of
the Aero-News Network, Inc.
Webmasters or Administrators of well-trafficked aviation or
aerospace related sites, are welcome to contact the Publisher to
start conversations on how they may be able to leverage some of the
immense power of Aero-TV programming for their sites and
constituency by clicking the
I Want Aero-TV For
MY Website! link.
Coming Soon!
Aero-TV Sees What It Takes to "Compete" As An
AMT, Looks At The FAA FAASTeam Program, Updates On The Garmin
495, Flying The Piper Matrix, Gets Some GREAT Rotax
Lessons, Gets Updated On ALL Things Lopresti, Has A FUN Chat With
Corkey Fornof, Checks Out The Latest in Life-Raft
Technologies, Checks Out More "HIGH" Tech at I/ITSEC
2007, Hears From AOPA On Critical Aviation Issues, Spills Some
Juicy (and HIGHLY Detailed) Cirrus G3 Info, Scores
A BUNCH of LSA Reports, and SO MUCH MORE!!!!! Do NOT Miss
Them!
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