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Rossi started building model aircraft in the 1950s. Rossi started to successfully modify existing model engines, and won Italian and international competitions. Throughout the 1960s, Rossi manufactured his own engines using engineering and mechanical skills learned from his father. With the aid of his brother, Cesare Rossi started a family ...
Radio-controlled cars, or RC cars for short, [1] are miniature vehicles (cars, vans, buses, buggies, etc.) controlled via radio. Nitro powered models use glow plug engines, small internal combustion engines fuelled by a special mixture of nitromethane, methanol, and oil (in most cases a blend of castor oil and synthetic oil). These are referred ...
Four-stroke model engines have been made in sizes as small as 0.20 in3 (3.3 cc) for the smallest single-cylinder models, all the way up to 3.05 in3 (50 cc) for the largest size for single-cylinder units, with twin- and multi-cylinder engines on the market being as small as 10 cc for opposed-cylinder twins, while going somewhat larger in size ...
Serpent Model Racing Cars B.V. (known commonly as Serpent, or alternatively Serpent Motorsport, Serpent MRC or Team Serpent) was a company from Heemstede, North Holland in the Netherlands, specializing in competition grade radio controlled cars, which has won numerous IFMAR and EFRA titles, plus several national titles.
1:10 scale radio-controlled car (Saab Sonett II)A radio-controlled model (or RC model) is a model that is steerable with the use of radio control (RC). All types of model vehicles have had RC systems installed in them, including ground vehicles, boats, planes, helicopters and even submarines and scale railway locomotives.
Gordon Burford (3 August 1919 – 12 March 2010) was an Australian model aircraft engine designer and manufacturer. He was Australia's premier model engine builder. [1] He produced thousands of engines of many different designs including the GeeBee, Sabre, GloChief and Taipan brands.
In 1992, its first RTR nitro model, the Nitro Hawk, was released, followed by an RTR nitro boat, the Nitro Vee, four years later. [1] In 1999, Traxxas released its first full sized monster truck model, the T-Maxx. [1] A larger monster truck; the X-Maxx, came out in 2015. [3]
Nic Case with the R/C Bullet. Nic Case (born 1963) is an American radio-controlled model hobbyist from Southern California specializing in speedrunning.He is notable for becoming the first person to reach 200 mph (321.9 km/h) with his radio-controlled car, [1] the R/C Bullet, having surpassed his records three times with a confirmed entry at the Guinness World Records in 2008, 2013 and 2014.