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, November 20, 2011

Brrrrrrrrr

Today it was ccccccold but we flew anyway. Met up with Joe around 11:45 at the field, and Mike was just setting up too. It was 37F when I left home, and 40F when I got home, so it was very nipply the whole time there. Still, due to NO wind, the wind chill was nada. Used two hand warmers in my front jeans pockets, my Pendleton hat, Eddie Bauer earmuffs, and my usual dark green vest and Nike tennis jacket over a thick long sleeve flannel shirt. That kept me warm enough, and not till about 4 hours later when I departed the field was I starting to feel slightly chilled to the bone, haha.

I must have got 4 flights with the new Stinger II, and I loved it more than ever. Landings are so easy, just keep feeding in up once over the runway to flare out and land lightly every time. Joe brought his HOTS, so on the last flight we flew together we were doing some fairly low passes and circuits ala pylon racing. They are evenly matched in speed and look alike. It was lotsa fun. Got a good laugh out of Joe when on the farside downwind leg, I did a real low slow roll, maybe 25' off the deck.

The YS FZ63S continued to operate flawlessly today, gotta love it a lot. I do notice that it likes to start with maybe 3 clicks throttle on the stick, perhaps to get the regulator/pump working, then I can immediately drop to low idle and it stays running.

Joe also flew his Hawk and Mr. Mulligan. The latter flew well, the former not so well. My launch was not great, but the Hawk did not seem to have the thrust to make flight control surfaces effective on the bungee launch. Torn left wing at the fuselage can be repaired and the plane will live to maiden another day.

Surprisingly we were not the only diehards today! Bruce and Brandon, Rudy, and Shane showed up to fly too. Great time had by all. Oh, I checked out Rudy's new electric pattern plane, the Osiris. Took a lot of up trim and resetting of the subtrim, plus moving the balance point to midrange of the recommended CG, then the plane flew nicely. I think it can be refined in trim later, but it is darn close enough for Rudy to fly it next time. I made two flights with the Osiris...that plane is seriously on rails on 2 consecutive slow rolls. Landings were as easy if not better than the Stinger!

I did not take this pic today, but the sky was just as dark and ugly as in this pic:
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