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 16, 2015

Happy Dozen

I had a great time flying with Tad this morning.  I got about 6 flights with my helis before he came, but still had 4 more while he was there.  In all, I got in 4 flights on the X5, 3 on the  G500, and 3 on the new 7HV.  I made sure Tad got to see two of the flights of the 7HV since he had not seen it fly before.  Today was calm and sunny so visibility was good.  I was able to bring my back flips to inverted lower than I have before, and it was spooky once or twice, but it was of course much easier to see the helis!  The 7HV was fun but had a fast waggle to the tail at the beginning of the first flight, then seemed either to diminish or I got oblivious to it on the other flights.  I still am going to adjust the differential gain in the iKon.  I think I increased the default setting, and will now decrease it since the waggle was worse today than before I set the increase.
7HV!  Photo by Tad, thx very much!!
Tad had a misfortune on the first flight of his G570.  He was flying fine, then got into an inverted hover.  The heli almost seemed to power down, as it descended slowly to the ground.  He kept it flat and it crashed into the short grass of the North field.  It looked like the only thing broken was a landing gear support, so Tad set her on the tarmac to throttle up and look for things like bent shafts or blade holders with the blades spinning. None were observed so he went ahead and lifted off!  Later he told me he likely made a pilot error...he thinks maybe he did not go to IU after take off, therefore had too little negative pitch for sustained inverted hover.  Stuff happens to the best!  Luckily only pride was damaged other than the one LG support, which he has already found and ordered online, lol.

After my helis, I had two 10-minute flights on the Aerostar 40 in the rapidly increasing and gusting wind.  It was total fun to play with the plane in the wind, shooting passes and touch and gos on the short NS runway!

BTW I also flew Saturday.  Got in 4 flights on the X5.   Main purpose was to fly the Bravata.  It ran perfect the first flight, then flamed out in the middle of the second.  Luckily hit the runway on the deadstick landing, avoiding the irrigation pipes all about the field.  Found the muffler loose yet again.  Arg.
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