It’s the age old question, what is better; a car or a helicopter? Jeremy Clarkson posed in on Top Gear once where the Lotus managed to outmanoeuvre the army helicopter, but was defeated by the helicopter as soon as it moved to a distance and achieved missile lock.
Top Gear’s tests are always stacked in favour of the car though, so which one would you prefer, in a radio controlled sense?
The radio controlled car is a lot of fun. It can achieve scale speeds of over 200 mph (as proven by a recent edition of the Gadget Show) and you can race them with fellow RC enthusiasts. They can be driven off road and on road, and they’re fairly cheap to buy and maintain, so long as you don’t opt for the really fast ones of course.
RC helicopters are very similar in that they start are very cheap prices (less than £30 for the smaller models) and can go to a lot higher for the larger, faster variety. They’re not so easy to race with other RC helicopter flyers though, as racing isn’t really what they’re for. That’s not to say you can’t compete with your friends with an RC helicopter, the competition comes in the skill with the controller, and performing the tricks that only an experienced RC pilot can do.
So, which do you prefer, the car or the helicopter