In his quest to "break through the limits of RC drifting techniques," Japan-based RC expert Drift44 was searching for a new challenge. He found it not in winning races, but in a more pedestrian event: Parking. (Warning, turn your volume down.)
That's not the strangest thing you'll find RC enthusiasts doing online. The YouTube channel RC Live Action stages accidents, disasters and vehicular trouble; they have a video of a truck stuck in mud that has 25 million views. In this one below, they take the trouble to send a tanker filled with flammable liquid over the side of a bridge, causing it to burst into flames. Why? So they can drive RC fire trucks with working hoses over there to put it out. (Be warned that this is worth a scan, not a full watch.)
Austrian enthusiast Peter Pfeffer made a 19-foot-long replica of "Aluminum Overcast" (one of the few actual B-17 Flying Fortresses still in existence). It took two long years to build, which explains the crowd reactions—see around 2:10 and 3:45—in the video below:Alexandre Synger, meanwhile, isn't just an RC enthusiast. "My dream is to become a professional director," he writes on his Vax Studio channel. To that end, he's put together this piece to show Hollywood that he's faster & furiouser:
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