VentureBeat.com is reporting that PowerUp Toys has raised more than $1 million via crowdfunding for its toy that attaches a toy airplane motor to a paper airplane. You can control the airplane with the touchscreen on your iPhone. Find out more here.
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Yep, nothing like an elitist “I’m better than you aditude” to attract more potential customers for
mo-gas.
Half of the “real pilots” I know are also RC pilots, and many of the “real pilots” I know started in
RC.
I guess having a Pitts S1S for almost 20 years, and flying an Aeronce L-16A means I can’t fly
my RC helicopters because than I wouldn’t be a “real pilot”
I’m buying an RC paper airplane as soon as I can. Looks like a real hoot.
Yep, that’s our society today, more interested in toys and virtual thrills than the real thing. Real men fly real airplanes.