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, August 10, 2014

Flight log: Aug 8-10, 2014

Time flies when cousin Ron visits and we fly, fly, fly!  I sorta forget what really happened.  Ron brought a truckload of his helis and planes to Salem, from his home in San Jose.  Arrived Thurs afternoon, and we flew the mornings of Fri, Sat, and Sun.

On Friday, Tad, Ron, and I flew.  Besides flying my X5 a few packs, and Factor 3D, I flew a handful of flights of the Battlewings.  Ron brought 3 of them, one for Tad, Jer, and me/Alex, and he brought 27 battery packs!  Crazy fun but this was the first day of flying them and getting used to them.  Tad flew his G500 and G700 both with not a brownout, so hopefully these helis are cured for good.  Both flew nice and Tad is just impressive and smooth.  Ron flew his Logo 480 and Compass 7hv.  The Logo had a definite tail wag, the 7hv not so noticeable.  He also flew his Addiction XL and jet.  Of course Tad and Ron flew the Battlewings with me.
I broke this one on a horrible  launch!

Attentive BW pilots

Action!

On Saturday, Jer and Al came to fly with us, and Tad had to work.   I got in a couple packs on the X5, and a couple more on the Star, plus another handful of Battlewing flurries with Ron, Alex, and Jeremy.  Ron's big Addiction was again impressive, and Jer got to sample it with positive compliments afterwards.  Jer had two flights on the Warp 360.  On startup of the third pack, one cyclic failed and luckily he was not off the ground, so no damage.  Alex flew the Star, and had one flight in the wind with the 450 FBL.  He was not too happy with the wind so did not fly it again.   Ron had fun with his Addiction and G500, but did not get to fly the 7hv.  Too much going on!

Today Ron, Jer , Al and I went out again.  Weather was better...not as windy as Fri and Sat.  I got in 4 packs on the X5.  Ron flew his Addiction XL again...very sweet flying and looking plane.  He also got his 7hv up for two flights.  Higher head speed after Fri is now helping reduce the tail wag...this heli looks great in the air, sounds good, flies nice.  Jer fixed the Warp 360 issue yesterday afternoon...the iKon "forgot" one cyclic servo and he programmed it in again.  The heli was pretty awesome again today, for 6 packs!  (He had 3, and Ron gave him another 3 this trip.)  I think Alex flew the Star 3 times today, with good proficiency all the time.

We had a real ball of fun flying the Battlewings.  Everyone scored hits on each other with no permanent damage.  In fact I think everyone recovered after hits, and never hit the ground due to a hit.  Probably Jer scored the most hits in the later sessions that we flew...we had 27 packs, 9 each, therefore 9 sessions.  While Ron handlaunched all of us for the first 5 sessions or so, we all got the hang of hand launching our own wings after that.  We all made some hand catches too.  Unfortunately I had the most crashes due to pilot error, probably 3, all on the last flight I think!  Really good fun, and I think other members watching are getting enthused to try these with us.



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