RC Air Show ... June 4, 2016

On Saturday, June 4, the girls suggested that we go out to an airfield at Hickam for an air show of RC planes.  Having been around RC aircraft, I thought I knew what to expect.  Wrong!  This event is promoted as the "Biggest Little Air Show in Hawaii" and it was something else. 

The aircraft involved were radio controlled and were smaller scale replicas, but that is where the similarity between this and what I was used to stopped.  To start with, most of these planes were a lot larger than I expected.  They were promoted as exact scale replicas and according to the emcee, were a lot more expensive than you would usually see.  Many of them had jet or turbine engines and burned jet fuel!  The announcer told us that some of these exceeded 200 MPH.

There were even a couple of helicopters.  The pilots of these did some things that I didn't realize were physically possible with a helicopter and they were done at breakneck speed.  They were moved in virtually every direction.  I overheard one woman comment that it reminded her of a dragonfly.

Some of the aircraft pictured are full-sized crafts but the rest are these models.

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