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By the end of the 1980s, the buggy class single-handedly turned the radio-controlled car market into a multimillion-dollar business [53] but in 1990, Tamiya, a market leader in off-road cars; shifted their attention toward on-road cars [54] when in 1991, they adapted their Manta Ray's DF-01 [55] chassis to a Nissan Skyline GT-R NISMO bodyshell.
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 ).
Former logo (1977–2005) Yokomo Co. Ltd. (株式会社 ヨコモ, Kabushiki-gaisha Yokomo) is a Japanese company from Adachi, Tokyo that specialize in radio-controlled cars, it was one of the first manufacturers in Japan to build their own RC cars, sell upgrade parts and it also invented the option RTR (Ready To Run) cars, but most notable of all is their long-running "Dog Fighter" series of ...
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A fundamental dog safety boundary for children to know is, “If the dog says ‘no,’ we go play with something else,” Amanda Farah, a national training and behavior coordinator at Best ...
RCA radio controlled car. Dayton, Ohio, 1921. In 1904, Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo was developing a radio-based control system he named Telekino.He chose to conduct an initial test in the form of a three-wheeled land vehicle (), which had an effective range of 20 to 30 meters, the first known example of an unmanned ground vehicle.
National Organization for Racing Radio Controlled Autos (NORRCA) was one of two premier sanctioning bodies for radio-controlled racing in North America along with Remotely Operated Auto Racers (ROAR) [1] [2] and at the time, the largest [3] boasting of 14,000 members according to the Los Angeles Times in 1994, despite a decline in participation by 40%. [4]
Radio control was further developed during World War II, primarily by the Germans who used it in a number of missile projects. Their main effort was the development of radio-controlled missiles and glide bombs for use against shipping, a target otherwise both difficult and dangerous to attack.