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PILOTO R/C
STUNT AIRPLANE

Piloto R/C Stunt Airplane, retail $19.95 (www.historicaviation.com...)
Manufactured by Revell (www.revell.com)
Link to the Piloto on Revell's website: (www.revell.com...)
Last updated 04-30-12

This isn't a flashlight, household lamp, Christmas light set, or other thing that glows, but since I love things that fly, I figured what the hey.
I have only evaluated a few remote controlled (RC) flying toys before, so please bear with me here.

If you grew up in the 1960s or 1970s, you might be familiar with the name Revell. They made plastic model kits of ships, aircraft, cars, trucks, and even starships & starbases!!! You may also remember the smelly, toxic "model dope" (adhesive) that came in a tube that you used to assemble them (you could sniff this model dope to get wasted, but that was never recommended!!!

) You might have even assembled one or three or a dozen of Revell's model kits! I know I did.

Revell has now advanced to the thrilling world of R/C aircraft, and I think they have a real winner on their hands!!!
Ladies and gentlemen, please give a very warm welcome (and a rousing round of applause) for the Piloto R/C Stunt Plane by Revell!!!

This is a very small, lightweight, easy-to-fly remote controlled biplane. It fits in the palm of your hand, and is very light in weight (just 8.4 grams). It is designed to be flown indoors or outdoors; its construction is such that if flown indoors, you won't gouge holes in walls or break lamps when you crash (note I said "WHEN", not "IF", because you WILL crash it at least a few times while learning to fly it!!!).

And yes, it really is a biplane, not a monoplane.

SIZE

This toy is remarkably easy to use for a biplane...here's how to get it flying:

As with any rechargeable product, charge it first (see directly below), and then you can pretend to fly a dragonfly (well, that's what the kitty cat thinks it is).

1: On the remote control, turn the "on/off" switch to the "on" position. Extend the antenna - this antenna is shorter than the antennae on all other radio-controlled aircraft I have seen to date; so don't think it's defective because the antenna is so short.

2: On the left side of the Piloto's fuselage (body), there's a tiny on/off switch.
Use a fingernail to slide this switch toward the rear (toward the recharge connector) to the "on" position.
A green LED inside the fuselage will come on at this point to let you know that the Piloto has been activated.

3: Hold the Piloto almost level (tilted slightly up), and push the left hand stick on the controller up (toward the front).

4: Gently throw the Piloto forward; it should now be flying. Be certain to aim the remote control so the antenna is pointing up to ensure maximum range of the R/C.

For additional instructions & tips on how to fly, please read the instructional material that comes with the product. The Piloto includes a set of stunt things that you place on the ground; the purpose of them is to fly the cute & loveable little Piloto through and around the various objects.

Turn the Piloto and remote control off when finished using them.
Same switches as before, but slide them in the opposite direction this time.

The battery in the Piloto itself is rechargeable and is not designed to be changed; however the batteries in the remote will need to be changed from time to time.

To do this, unscrew & remove the phillips screw holding the battery door on, lift up on the front edge of the battery door, take it off the back of the controller, very gently place it on the ground, and kick it into the garden so the hungry, hungry praying mantids will think it's something yummy for their little insect tummies and subsequently strike at it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Remove the six used AA cells from the compartment, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Insert six new AA cells into the compartment, orienting each cell so its flat-end (-) negative faces a spring for it in each chamber.

Finally, place the battery door back on and screw in that screw.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door into the garden with all those hungry, hungry praying mantids now?

Here is what a praying mantis looks like.
I found this guy on the morning of 09-08-06 clinging to the basket of my scooter.

To charge the battery in the Piloto, slide the door on the underside of the remote control (it has a stopper, so it cannot fall off and become lost) near the antenna until it's open.
In the compartment you just exposed to atmosphere

, you'll see a thin cord with a small plug on the end.

With the Piloto turned off, plug this into the small receptacle for it on the left side of the Piloto's fuselage (body), just in front of the lowermost wing.
This connector is keyed to fit the receptacle on the Piloto only one way; please do not force it or you may irreversibly damage the Piloto.

Turn the switch on the remote control to the "ON" position. Both the red and green LEDs on the remote should now come on.

After a maximum of 10 to 15 minutes, the red light will turn off and the green light will stay on.
When the red light turns off, turn the remote control's switch to the "off" position, gently unplug the cord from the Piloto, stow the cord in the remote control's compartment, and slide the door back closed.

The flight time per charge is stated as being in the range of 3 to 5 minutes.

According to the instructional materials furnished with the product, you should wait 10 to 15 minutes before recharging the battery after you've run it down in order to allow it to cool.

Charge the Piloto's battery every six months even if you do not fly the plane at all during that time.

The Piloto R/C Stunt Plane is meant to be used as a toy in a dry area indoors or outdoors, and not a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused, I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a front porch in effort to try and expose the bare Metalmarineangemon - er - the bare Metalkumamon - um that's not it either...the bare Metalwargrowlmon...er...uh...wait a sec here...THE BARE METAL (guess I've been watching too much Digimon again!

- now I'm just making {vulgar term for feces} up!!!), let my mother's big dog's ghost or my sister's kitty cats spring a leak (uranate) on it, hose it down with a gun, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again

- candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

The remote control's maximum range is stated as 100 feet.

This web page look a bit like the one I made for the Megatech Avion Micro Airplane?
Thought you'd say so.
That's because these two products are somewhat similar, so I could use its web page as a template for this one.

Photograph of the remote control.

Photograph of the yellow-green LED inside the Piloto's fuselage.

Video clip on YourTube showing the flight.
I flew it in our rather small front yard; the Piloto is small and slow enough to allow this instead of my having to transport it in my electric wheelchair to the baseball fields a couple of miles away in order to make the flight.

In this clip, you can hear me say "Entering sector zero point two" in the same manner as the speech synthesizer in the coin-op arcade video game ''Star Trek'' {it's supposed to be Mr. Spock saying this}, then say "I mean...flight number two", in the same manner as the speech synthesizer in the
coin-op arcade video game ''Looping'', followed by the sound of the Piloto's motor throttling up; then you'll see it fly in the frame twice and then land in a short tree.

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Another video clip on YourTube showing the flight.
I flew it in our rather small front yard; the Piloto is small and slow enough to allow this instead of my having to transport it in my electric wheelchair to the baseball fields a couple of miles away in order to make the flight. In this video, the Piloto is flying in our front yard, hanging a left in front of the garage, and crash-landing out-of-frame.

In this clip, you can hear me say "Entering sector zero point three" in the same manner as the speech synthesizer in the coin-op arcade video game ''Star Trek'' {it's supposed to be Mr. Spock saying this}, then say "I mean...flight number three", in the same manner as the speech synthesizer in the
coin-op arcade video game ''Looping'', followed by the sound of the Piloto's motor throttling up; then you'll see it fly away, climb a bit, hang a left, and go out-of-frame.

This clip is approximately 4.444652345611 megabytes (4,654,468 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
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A video montage on YourTube showing a numbetr of "craptacular" flights; this airplane sustained some tailfin & vertical elevator damage during a move that took place in September 2011.

In this video montage, you can hear me say "Entering sector zero point six" in the same manner as the speech synthesizer in the coin-op arcade video game ''Star Trek'' {it's supposed to be Mr. Spock saying this}, then say "I mean...flight number six", in the same manner as the speech synthesizer in the
coin-op arcade video game ''Looping''; the final flight of this series is flight number seventeen.

This clip is approximately 6.175674555280 megabytes (6,349,143 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
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I cannot provide any of these videos in other formats, so please do not ask.

Spectrographic analysis of the "Power" LED in the remote control.

Spectrographic analysis of the power-on LED in the Piloto's fuselage itself.

Spectrographic analysis of the "Charge" LED in the remote control.
Spectrometer's response extended to 820nm in the NIR to show the NIR emission from this LED.

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on the Historic Aviation website on 07-18-09, was backordered for a fairly brief period, and was received at 3:57pm PDT on 08-27-09.

Product was made in China.
A product's country of origin really does matter to some people, which is why I published it on this web page.

UPDATE: 09-09-09
I realise this is not a technical update about the Piloto; just more of a curiosity, that's all.

Every time I look at the Piloto, I "hear" the song "Lowrider" by War, but with different lyrics.

Pi...lo...to, it's an R/C airplane!

{"saxomaphone"* playing}

Pi...lo...to, it's an R/C airplane!

* "Saxomaphone" is what Homer Simpson sometimes calls Lisa's sax.

UPDATE: 09-16-09
I took the Piloto out for a flight in the baseball park ~2.0 miles from here yesterday; it flew reasonably well but it was just a bit too windy in my opinion.

This is the baseball field I made the flight in.

UPDATE: 05-11-10
I was going to make a flight on Sunday 05-09-10, but I realised that May 09 was Mother's Day, so I postphoned the flight.

Looks like my flight attempt will instead take place either tomorrow or 05-13-10.

UPDATE: 04-28-11
I just now found out -- through static testing -- that this studly little bipe (R/C hobby talk for "biplane") will fly, fly away if it loses contact with the Tx (again, R/C hobby talk for "transmitter"; e.g., its remote control).

MANUFACTURER: Revell
PRODUCT TYPE: Remote controlled indoor/outdoor stunt biplane
LAMP TYPE: LED
No. OF LAMPS: 3 (1 in the Piloto itself, 2 in the R/C)
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide on/off on left side of product
CASE MATERIAL: Carbon fiber, styrofoam
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 6xAA cells (remote), 3.7 volt Li-Poly rechargeable (biplane itself)
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND PEE-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: NO WAY HOZAY!!!
SIZE: 10.75" long, 8.50" wingspan
WEIGHT: 8.4 grams
ACCESSORIES: Stunt kit
WARRANTY: 90 days

PRODUCT RATING:

Piloto R/C Stunt Airplane * www.historicaviation.com...

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