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COST OF RC: THEN & NOW

very now and then, I like to flip through pictures of old planes and radios in RC magazines, and marvel at how far this hobby has come since the ’60s and ’70s. Even the simplest of our modern planes would have been a mechanical and electronic wonder in those days. An electric-powered RC plane? With a battery? No! How the heck would you get that to work? You

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