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, July 31, 2011

An Extra Ultimate Day!

Tad flew his Extra and I flew my Ultimate today, both by AeroWorks. I got in 4 flights, as I arrived and was flying before Tad arrived. He got in 3, including a deadstick landing on the last one where he managed to miss the large sprinkler and just clip the small one with his tail wheel. That pushed the rear gear up into the bottom of the rudder for extremely minor damage, whew! I had all good landings yet the darn wheel pants are still starting to crack. Flights were good. I took out 1% of the up elev that activates with rudder deflection. Added in 1% more aileron when rudder is applied. That seemed to keep the KE better. Still not set on the elev mix to the rudder because the plane seemed today to pull to the LG in KE, yet on the last quarter of the 4 pt roll, it seemed to want to pull to the canopy. Also decided to up the expo on the middle and high rates so that they are not so touchy. At first I took off on LR, but did all taxiing on HR to keep the tail down. This meant switching to MR or HR in flight to do harrier rolls. On the last flight I took off on MR with higher expo, and that allowed doing the harrier attempts without changing rates. All my glow planes are on one rate with 70% expo, so maybe this 50cc plane should be too. Definitely am having fun with this great looking machine!!! :)
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