That’s cool!
Ah, the smell of glo-fuel. Long summer afternoons at the field. (Did you see the concorde one?) Makes me want to… (My X would be certain I’d be dead of skin-cancer by now, if she knew.)
Well, maybe not. A mistake with a train is much less disastrous 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52CVrcCydig&feature=related
Neat found this also, fun stuff if you’ve got deep pockets 
Long ago I was heavily [read expensively] into large-scale model sailplane modelling - a three meter wing-span ASW21 with all the doo-dads was my delight down on a lumpy bit of the south coast here in UK.
One fine afternoom, I launched it for the last trip of the day and then watched in helpless rage as an a$$hole about 3/4 mile away on a country road took it off me with a more powerful transmitter. We could do nothing as to get to him entailed a good ten minute downhill walk to the car park - and we were on the other side of the escarpment - at least three miles by road.
Watching him stow away my plane into his car without even a backward look made me so angry that I could quite easily have done him serious harm. Needless to say, the licence plate we spotted in our binoculars was fake, and we were about the fifth victims that day of a similar-looking car driver.
THAT little exercise in airborne generosity cost me almost $3000, I recall, and put me off planes for ever.
Trains, on the other paw, are a lot easier to keep your eyetrumpet on…and folks tend not to try and steal them from under your very beek.
tac
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Wow, who would have ever thought that some slime ball would do something like that? Most hobbyists are fine fold, guess he sure was NOT! Glad to have you in the trains!
Did you know that in germany you have to be a fully licensed Pilot to fly large scale model planes like the Bomber or the Concorde??? I like the fact that in our hobby it´s heplful to be a train engineer by profession but not urgently necessary ! 
Sorry about your model plane , Terry !
cheers Joe
TAC. I am sorry for your loss. But, it is nice to know that such an incident could not possibly happen with the new 2.4 GHz R/C systems.
Yup, stroo. Both my r/c locos use the same 2.4GHz set-up. Just for a laff we tried one out last year at one of our open days, and found to our amazehoodship that although the loco concerned was all-metal, and there was only about half and inch of antenna sticking up out of the ‘coal’ load, it remained totally controllable from well over 150m away.
tac
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