A great member of the Radio Control hobby is gone

[Daddeo]

Sad news indeed, Chris Chianelli has passed on. On January 20, 2009 he passed away in his sleep of unknown causes at that time. He will be missed by the RC community.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.

To read the article from RC car action click here: http://rccaraction.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=E29CAE68A6D4457BA0FB171BEC7D56D2&nm=Site+Features&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=D870CB15D9264CAAB189FB5D2D004390

[call-911]

WOW!! What a shock! Chris was indeed a major component of RC when I was growing up. RCCA was the magazine to have back then and I enjoyed watching his show on TV.

[y2kgtp]

sorry to hear this....I was just watching some of the online review stuff he did.

[highwayracer]

I was surprised to see him in DIY channel. I'm guessing that the original taping for the show was from a few years ago because he was demo car was an Inferno MP 7.5

[justinspeed79]

That's very sad, and vey un-expected. He was with RCCA for a long time right? "Chris' Back Lot" was always one of favorite things to read. Didn't he have a new tv show coming out that was supposed to start soon?

[lostwages]

that is sad to hear, he was always kinda a wild one, wonder what happened, my prayers go out to his family.