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KingTech TURBINE K45 G3

Today, modern technology impacts our everyday lives like never before. A single smartphone has hundreds of times more computing power than that room full of computers that got us to the moon and back. In the last few years, we RC’ers have seen the widespread adoption of 2.4 frequencies that freed us from the pin and impound days, multi-axis gyros the size of a quarter, and more.

One of the areas of our hobby that has been significantly impacted by smaller, inexpensive electronic components is jet turbines. Turbine flight has long been out of the financial

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