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, June 7, 2015

Bravo Bravata!

Took my Bravata and the X5 to the field today, a day of forecasted 90F.  Lucky I went early, at the field by 7:30AM when it was still cool and in the 70's.  By the time I was done it was getting toasty.  Got in 5 full eight minute flights on the Bravata, a real sweet gasser to fly.  And though my largest plane, it can slow down and land light and with a short rollout due to the flaps, so it was perfect for our short runway now surrounded by tilled dirt after the sod harvest.  Between the Bravata flights, I threw in 4 flights on the X5.  I felt more comfortable with it today but sticked to simple horizontal 8's with a few flips and very little inverted.  I did many small, flat right circles to get the confidence back in that maneuver.  All went well today.

The Bravata prolly stayed under 100 feet high except for a few times I went up high to spin the plane down.  I love the rolls on this gently giant, as they are slow and graceful.  Interestingly inverted does not take that much down elevator.  Perhaps most fun is just flying slow and low with or without flaps, and often carving banked turns about a wingspan off the dirt.  Just tempting a dirt nap!
Featured aircraft for today's flying.

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