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, September 20, 2015

4 cubed


4 flights of the X5 followed by 4 of the G500, then 4 by the Giles 202.  All went very pleasingly well.  I made good strides with the helis today!  Finally got the cajones to do more than a straight line inverted.  I would half loop up to inverted, stabilize in hover, go straight into a very slight stall turn, pyro 180, and come back for another inverted straight line into another pyro 180, etc.  Big step for me!  Did it on 7 flights after the warm up first flight.  It is helping me maintain flat and level inverted, using aileron to correct tilt, pitch to control speed, rudder to control path and pyro turns.  It's helping to figure out which way rudder goes in response to stick input.  Great fun after the first few times to work the jitters out.

Giles started up and ran fine, with just a little bit of priming squirts of glow into the carb.  It always was a challenge to prime the OS 160FX enough so that it pops on hand flipping.  Fun to fly the big guy again, 4 flights of 8 minutes each.

I flew yesterday too!  It was club picnic day so I flew planes only.  I did have the G500 with me but did not take it out of the car.  Got in 3 flights on the Toledo Special and 2 on the Yak 54.  Both were dialed in and on rails.  I just love flying big circles and loops with both of those, and of course low passes.

AND big news...Tad maidened his brand new Stinger 90 EDF and it is pretty awesome.  Not that fast, but it has terrific coolness factor with its size, sound, stability, and retracts!  Flew steady as a rock and really entertained everyone at the picnic  who were eating lunch at the time.



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