ORIGINAL: on_your_six
I hate the ''Remember When'' nostalgic thread currently running. Sure it is nice to remember how it was, but I have to question why the snail slow progress in the RC technology?
I bought my first 7 channel RC radio about 25 years ago... and there has not been that much progress or advancement since proportional radios were introduced.
In the same time span, I have gone through about 10 computers with remarkable advancement each time. Radios with programmable functions have not been around very long.
Telemetry is still in its infancy and few people are enjoying its benefits. Microsoft flight simulator arrived in in 1995. The RC simulators have not caught up yet with realism.
I expected a lot more from RC when I got back into the hobby.
WHY SUCH SLOW PROGRESS IN RC? I say remember now, it's not that great now.
Our progress is funded with disposable income, considering that, I think it is remarkable that we have advaced this far in the last two decades. The govt is not paying for our progress, WE ARE.
Look at our autos and light trucks, they have advanced because the govt has mandated it!