Whois & Analysis for hobbyking.com

HobbyKing is a Hong Kong based sales site that mainly distributes products dedicated to model airplanes and rc models.

Radio control (often abbreviated to R/C or simply RC) is the use of radio signals to remotely control a device.

Radio control is used for control of model vehicles from a hand-held radio transmitter.

Industrial, military, and scientific research organizations make use of radio-controlled vehicles as well.

A hobby shop (or hobby store) sells recreational items for hobbyists.

Types.

Modelling.

Classical hobby stores specialize in modelling and craft supplies and specialty magazines for model airplanes (military craft, private airplanes and airliners), train models, ship models, house and building models.

Some hobby shops sell R/C cars, boats, and model or remote control planes.

First-person view (FPV), also known as remote-person view (RPV), or simply video piloting, is a method used to control a radio-controlled vehicle from the driver or pilot's view point.

Most commonly it is used to pilot a radio-controlled aircraft or other type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

The vehicle is either driven or piloted remotely from a first-person perspective via an onboard camera, fed wirelessly to video FPV goggles or a video monitor.

More sophisticated setups include a pan-and-tilt gimbaled camera controlled by a gyroscope sensor in the pilot's goggles and with dual onboard cameras, enabling a true stereoscopic view.

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard.

UAVs are a component of an ; which include a UAV, a ground-based controller, and a system of communications between the two.

The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy: either under remote control by a human operator, or fully or intermittently autonomously, by onboard computers.

More emerged during World War II – used both to train antiaircraft gunners and to fly attack missions.

Nazi Germany produced and used various UAV aircraft during the war.

Jet engines entered service after World War II in vehicles such as the Australian GAF Jindivik, and Teledyne Ryan Firebee I of 1951, while companies like Beechcraft offered their Model 1001 for the U.S. Navy in 1955.

Nevertheless, they were little more than remote-controlled airplanes until the Vietnam War.