Aloha and Welcome to my small speck of cyberspace! Dec 8, 2010 is the birth date of my blog. Never had one before, but my son encouraged me to have one, and it seemed like a good way to at least keep a log of my RC airplane building and flying. With the initial design kicked off by my son, I'll carry on from here and have fun with it. Now that I have it, I will use it to also keep track of my oil painting efforts, and any other ideas, hobbies, travels, or whatever else that come up. LIFE IS GOOD!

Update on 02/25/2011. It's been a few months since I began this blog, and I am enjoying creating and having it! I like documenting the things I have done in my hobbies, and sharing with my small family. I think Jer and Tad actually view it fairly regularly, as a means to see what I've been up to lately. At worst, it serves as a reference for my own use.

Update on 12/22/2011. This blog stuff is habit forming. My blog is a year old now, and I make an entry about every other day or so as that seems to be the frequency of doing something in one of my hobbies. Like my hobbies, this blog is a lot of fun, and it has become in itself another hobby that I enjoy.

Years are flying by...update on 01/11/2013. Still enjoying maintaining this blog even though hardly anyone sees it. I don't advertise it anywhere or to anyone, and it is mainly just a way for me to keep my own notes and thoughts on my flying, painting, and cars. If a stranger happens upon it, I think it is by pressing NEXT at the top of the current blog they are visiting, lol. It's a great device for me.

August 2014: still here! Took up flying RC helicopters one year ago and got hooked. Had flown micro Helis up to then, but got serious with 450 size for a couple months, then bought the Goblin 500 and Gaui X5 . Also got my Boxster in April 2013. Most importantly, Ariel was born 12/02/12 followed by Skylar 07/20/13, and they are little beacons of joy in our lives. Life is indeed good!!!

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Flight Log: 01/30/2011

Geesh, today was better than yesterday weatherwise, so I left the house around 10:15 and came home around 4PM!  What a GREAT day of flying weather...around 55F, very light wind or none, partly sunny, dry, just awesome.    Had the jacket on over the vest as usual to start, then the jacket came off, then the vest!  Flew the Yak 54 again about 4x, and the SNAFU about 6x.  I say about because I just lost track.  I burned almost a half gallon of 15% today!  I tried some IMAC maneuvers called the shark tooth and reverse shark tooth, but mostly flew just about everything I know again, with very generous numbers of rolling circles.  I also had fun flying perhaps 30' off the ground doing two slow rolls consecutively, and trying to keep them on a string.  The Yak holds the altitude very well on this.  Joe brought his H9 P-51 which flew perhaps the best I have seen it fly, like a pattern plane.  We ended the day with his P-51 and my SNAFU up together, making low passes on just about every pass, and seeing who could go the lowest over the runway.  Probably a TIE, with under 2' accomplished a number of times.  I told him his passes are much more impressive because he was doing it with a warbird while I was using a slow sport plane!  LOTS OF FUN, and no mishaps or probs today.
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