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!!!
March 2025: we’re up to five grandkids! Jack born 11/15/2016, Carter 01/14/2017, and Noah 04/22/2019. And Alex and Robin married on 09/25/2021!

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Alpha 40 and SNAFU

Alex flew his Alpha 40 today, 5 flights!  After Tad took off the first one, Alex made takeoffs on the next three flights.  With the strong crosswind, this was no small accomplishment.  The first two suffered from not enough left rudder, so he had S curve takeoffs to the right toward the fence, with recovery back to the left, thus the S.  On his 3rd takeoff he compensated a little too much resulting in a takeoff over the left edge of the runway, and as he put it, the ground dropped off rather than him lifting off with up elevator, lol.  I took off for the 5th flight.  Alex showed really good and consistent control of the plane at all altitudes, making both left and right turns, and many passes of descending altitude in prep for landings someday.  Awesome!  Tad had lots of fun training Alex today.  I also flew my SNAFU a number of times in prep for the Valley Challenge flyoff this Saturday.  Almost biffed the plane up good on one taxi practice when I dropped the xmitter and the throttle went up, as I was checking a stop watch.  I quickly throttled down when I righted the transmitter on the ground, and the plane stopped short of any accident out on the sod farm.
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