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!!!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Delightful Day

Wow, it was a gorgeous day at the field.  Clear up at my house, I arrived to find sparse fog dissipating.  By the time my Sbach was assembled, the sky was fogless with scatter high clouds and lots of blue.  It must have been 50F at least since it was almost that at my house.  Not another soul came while I stayed for over 2 hours and got in 6 flights on the Sbach.  The DLE-30 gave its first bark after about 16 flips, and then started in another 5 flips.  After several flights, I observed the engine is still spitting out black on the underside of the plane so I turned the high needle in just a 1/16th of a turn or so, then after another flight tried the low needle too.  Had to back off on the low needle when it would not run as reliably on low idle.  Looks like it still spits a little but I will fly a few flights next time and then  recheck for black residue.  No prob with running  WOT and transitions are fine.  Had all good landings today...just have to keep above lowest idle to bring her in with a little speed and enough air under the wings to prevent stall.  The Sbach is turning out to be a real nice airframe.  I added a little more up elevator mixed with left rudder because the plane still wanted to tuck to the belly in right KE.  It is way more present in right KE than left KE (right rudder).  Not sure why.  All in all a fun time and I got more adjustments made to the plane and engine, very beneficial time spent.
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