I'm sure a lot of us as kids went through a phase of building model muscle cars, World War II airplanes, and/or remote control monster trucks. My younger brother and I were into the RC monster trucks at 11 and 12 years old. Together, we built a beast of a machine from the ground up and costume painted the body with mothafuckin' skulls all over it. It was glorious. Every day after school we'd hurry home to take our truck out to a nearby subdivision construction site where we built trails and jumps in the dirt. And each day the jumps got bigger and bigger, until we pushed the limit when we jumped it off a cliff and the thing exploded in a beautiful blaze of glory. A moment that any adolescent boy could be proud of. But now we are grown men. We still went on to build things and make things explode on a much larger scale, but the days of playing with remote control vehicles are long gone... until now. After seeing this video, my inner-child is crying out, "I want that!" The video is a little long (about 6 minutes), but watch in awe as this RC turbine-powered jet screams across the sky at 366 miles-per-hour and think, "what skills you must have to perform such a feat." Amazing. Definitely no kid's hobby. I think building models just got badass again. Now all we need to do is get two of these birds in the sky with mounted pellet machine guns and get a dog fight going. That would be epic.
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