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The RC Baron is a miniature remote controlled airplane that appears in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Description
The RC Baron is designed as a model bi-plane with a red body; this design trait, coupled with its name, suggests the plane's design is inspired by the Red Baron, an ace pilot in First World War. In its first appearance in GTA Vice City, the RC Baron originally featured landing gear wheels derived from sports cars in the game; for GTA San Andreas, the landing gear was modified to appear more to scale of the plane. The GTA San Andreas rendition also comes with a functional machine gun.
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Prominent uses in missions
The RC Baron has been adopted for use in several missions in both GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas.
- For GTA Vice City, the Baron attains the ability to drop bombs during "Bombs Away!", and is integral to the RC Baron Race side quest from the top the North Point Mall's multistory parking lot; in both cases, the player must enter a Top Fun van in order to fly the planes.
- In GTA San Andreas, the Baron is used in two missions for Zero: "Air Raid", where it is used against Zero, and "Supply Lines...", where CJ uses it in order to help Zero to destroy Berkley's delivery service. The Baron is also used in an optional "Beefy Baron" side-mission for the same purpose as "Supply Lines...". The Baron has a self destruct capability along with a fuel meter in the latter two missions.
The RC Baron is otherwise unattainable outside the missions unless trainers or modifications are used.
Trivia
- The GTA San Andreas rendition of the RC Baron comes with blinking lights on the wing, similar to an actual plane in the game.
- In GTA Vice City, the RC Baron's wheels are much larger than the San Andreas rendition.
- In GTA San Andreas, the sound of the RC Baron's machine gun and the AK-47/M4 are identical, only the RC Baron's machine gun being fired at a faster rate.
- Rarely while driving on streets of Vice City, the RC Baron spawns and while you control your vehicle, you are controlling the plane too. (Tested on iPad 2)
- In GTA San Andreas, if the player flies the RC Baron into any body of water, the vehicle will instantly enter Blue Hell. This is possibly due to the float value of the RC Baron being set to a negative number in the game's internal files.
- The RC Baron was probably named after the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, a German ace in World War 1 who took out 80 enemy planes by himself.