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!!!

Monday, August 18, 2014

Heli of a day!

Sunday was cousin Ron's last full day in Oregon and therefore the last day to fly.  Great that my three sons joined Ron and me, and quang was there to boot.  We all flew Helis!  Add to that the battlewings and we had a blast and came home tired.  I only took three flights on the X5, but had several on the battlewings.  I was very content to watch and enjoy the others presence.   Sandy was a sweetheart, coming to watch us fly, and bringing spam musubi, grapes, and carrots for a light snack for us...even quang enjoyed the spam musubi.

Crazy Jeremy jumping OVER the helis!

450FBL, 450DFC, Warp360, Logo480, X5, G500, G500, 7HV, G700


Helis and pilots, too bad Jer is on other side of camera!

Flying kung fu masters!
Actually I was just clicking my heels, and
Tad was doing a flying kick.
Everyone got some good kills with the Battlewings today.  Lots of broken props and lost o ring prop savers, haha.   I think we get pretty noisy and raucous with the crazy Battlewings sessions, what a rush!  Ron gifted us with the three Battlewings and 27(!) batteries for them, as well as spare props and o rings.  Such a generous guy.  Other members have taken interest due to seeing us fly and making so much noise and excitement, lol, so a couple have already bought different wings.  Unfortunately those are too large, heavy, or fast to fly with ours.  While they would like to fly with us, we will not do so due to the uneven match should their wings hit our small ones.    It was great to hear that Quang ordered a couple of the Battlewings to do aerial combat with us.  Gonna be real mayhem with 4 of them in the air at once.  I can hardly wait!

Sad to see Jer crash the Warp 360 today.  He lost orientation doing piro flips facing the sun, and a little low.  While he gained control, he lost it again and hit the throttle hold button, and in she went.  Damage doesn't look too bad...new main and tail blades and tail blade grips.  He already has blades so it could be a cheap repair!
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