Hey, finally a nice day for flying! While my thermometer said 42F when I left home, it sure felt better than that at the field around 10:15AM. I took my SNAFU and Imagine 50 today. Got about 3 flights on the latter, maybe 4 on the former. One flight was particularly funny with the SNAFU. I was doing very low passes and got too low on one. Before I knew it, my plane seemed to be sliding on the sod farm grass with no power. I gave up elevator; it lifted off and indeed was not running. I just glided it back down for a final landing. I expected damage and was very happy to discover that the wire landing gear were bent back, and one prop tip was broken off, but there were no breaks in the covering or wood! Joe and I snipped off the prop tips to match, he sanded and balanced the prop, and I bent the landing gear back forward and down...good as new, I hoped. I flew and all was like normal! Oh, the wind really picked up at the end, but I flew the SNAFU and had fun landing at just about nil ground speed!
Joe flew his Rascal, but had some glitchy situations where when lots of aileron was input, there was unintended down elevator given too! Made for two exciting flights. Jer flew his big Extra with the muffler securely attached, and it flew well, as usual. Jer helped fly Dean's UCanDo in the higher winds because Dean was not feeling comfortable to do so today...seemed to fly well with Jer at the sticks.
This is just a place for me to ramble (sometimes rant) about my hobbies which include radio controlled airplanes, oil paintings, my sports cars, and any other random blithering from me.
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!!!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
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