Maukaonyx's "Life is GOOD!": November 2015

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, November 29, 2015

Cold and clear

Just above 40F but calm and clear for flying helis today. 4 flights on the X5, then 2 on the G630, and finished with 3 on the 7HV. All flew well. Worked the rusty bugs out of the brain and fingers with the X5 first, and felt comfy with the big guys after that. Pretty much am plateaued and will need to make forward inverted flight routine in 2016. Just did not get it this year.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Ccccold but fffffun!

It was maybe 40F for flying at 10AM this morning, but it was calm and sunny, so I had to try. Happy to say that I did not crash albeit rusty after a pretty long layoff (18 days) due to wet, windy, and cold weather. I only flew the X5 for four packs, and my Star for four packs knowing how cold it was, and that I should take it easy working the rust off. All went well with the X5 flying fine. I did not have any misorientations or anything near a crash, lol. Did some back loops and flips, one forward, no side flips, and just a little inverted. Mainly I did a lot of slow forward flight and hovering to get the fingers loose and the grey matter focused. The Star was fine, planes are just lots easier.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Blue Joy

Did painting #4 for 2015 today. Loved the blues in the sky and water, thus the name. This is my 98th painting since starting almost 6 years ago. Still much fun and it is getting more natural and easy even with long layoffs!

#98 Blue Joy

Friday, November 13, 2015

THREE new paintings!

That title sounds impressive...yes i painted three new paintings. The sad part is that these are the very first three for 2015! Now that is bad, but i have just been busy with poor health of my wife and myself, RC helis and planes, HO buildings, and my Boxster. Anyway, i painted the first painting last Saturday, second one on Tuesday, and third one today. Here they are:

#95 Vibrant Sunrise

#96 Winter Haze

#97 Foothills Meadow

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Fourpeat!

Yeah a dull repetitive title but it was another day of using all 14 4000mah pack on helis plus two packs on the Aerostar 40. Went through 4 on the X5, 6 on the 7HV, and 4 on the G630. Did well for not flying for 10 days. Small right turns were surprisingly easy and smooth, with no butterflies in my brain or fingers! I had just one bailout today, on the last flight. I was flying the Gobby 630 when I did a half loop and kept my speed up inverted. That's when I decided I would roll out to the right and my dumb airplane fingers input some top rudder which is left rudder in this case, and caused the heli to do some weird things but I quickly corrected. I was able to quickly put the heli upright and stationary even though at a distance, and then return to fly some more. No crash today! All flying was similar to the last few times. Fly the X5 first and get my fingers warmed up and fly the big helis after that. I did many loops and flips backwards and forwards and Many inverted straight sections of flight which had Pyros in them. Coming back to upright was accomplished via completing forward or backward flips or rolling out to either the right or left. It sure was a great day of flying. Not to forget the Aerostar 40, I mostly did lots of touching goes in low wide circles over the sod farm trying to barely clip the grass with the wheels.