I’m a the home office this week in Connecticut, visiting the Air Age office for a few days of work and then several days of RACING! Matt Higgins, Kevin Hetmanski and I will be racing the 2011 RC Short Course Nationals at RC Madness.  Talk about the Car Action editors’ showdown!  We are very excited [...]

Tomorrow I fly out of sunny So Cal and head to the other side of the country…like, the entire way across, all the way back to Connecticut. I’m visiting the Air Age home office for a week, and then I’m happy to say that I will be racing in the 2011 Short Course Nationals at [...]

So I promised an update on the Tekin 4-pole motor that I blogged & video-blogged about last week.  The amount of traffic this new Tekin motor generated on our site was impressive, by the way.  It surprised even me, and I knew this motor would be hot. I installed the 4600kV Tekin motor in my [...]

Wow everyone–I figured we would get some guesses, but over 80 guesses in less than 24 hours, with hundreds more on Facebook and the web forums—rock on!  Thank you to everyone who participated in this promo. Click the link to our video below to find out what the surprise product is:  

So I can’t say what it will be until tomorrow when it arrives, but rest assured that this product is HOT, highly anticipated and VERY much at the top of many discussion forums right now.  And you’ll only be able to SEE IT here at RC Car Action! Assuming UPS delivers on time tomorrow, I [...]

Going by the statistics and facts, RC is a male dominated hobby.  RC appeals to guys, and a handful of girls, but generally speaking (if by “generally” we mean 99%+) this hobby is filled with dudes.  Dudes who love to spend money on RC, tinker, build, wrench and race RC cars. Girls tend to enjoy [...]

RCX rolled into Chicago and drew massive media exposure, even from Chicago’s local ABC news station. RC Car Action publisher Louis DeFrancesco and Formula Drift champion Vaughn Gittin JR were interviewed live this morning on ABC 7′s Saturday morning show. Check out the behind the scenes photos below, and watch the segment at ABC 7′s [...]

Horizon Hobby’s try me track and indoor flight area was hoppin’ with foot-traffic all day. TLR’s Adam Drake welcomed visitors and discussed all of TLR’s vehicles, while RCX attendees tried their hands at driving Horizon’s Electrix vehicles in the try me track.  Veteran pilots flew Blade micro helis to the delight of all onlookers.