Maukaonyx's "Life is GOOD!": November 2016

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!!!

Friday, November 11, 2016

Fog, Goblin, and Aerostar 40

Yesterday was calm, just above 50F, but pretty foggy at the field. I almost did not leave home, but decided to risk it. Same conditions at the field but I could see the farmhouse from the helipad. Heck, good enough! I flew the G500 four times. Had to stay low and close, but still managed some flips to inverted and some hovering inverted. Fog forced tighter turns too. All good, no mishaps! Flew the Aerostar 40 after that, and kept it close too. Almost lost it inverted on one disorientation, lol, but recovered a few feet above terra firma. Yay, I got to take both home in one piece. I would have flown the 7HV but forgot the charged receiver pack at home! Oh, the repaired Aerostar flew like it always has....GOOD! So the damages incurred last time, plus ensuing repairs, have no ill effect on the flyability of that great plane.

Friday, November 4, 2016

Gobbies and Gobbled up!

What a great day of flying even though it was mostly foggy. I took both Goblins today, and got in 4 flights on the 500 and 3 on the 630. Due to low ceiling and limited visibility, I stayed pretty close with both and had much fun doing lower than usual flips and inverted hovering. When I was done with helis, the fog was dissipating and it was much fun to fly the Aerostar 40 low through the pockets of mist, and up high where the Aerostar 40 turned to a ghost. I got carried away though as pics will attest! I was having too much fun flying low and damaged the right wing tip of the plane.

Rats, on my last flight, I got too close to the Private Property sign!

If just 3/4" higher, or 6" closer to me, the plane would have missed the sign post.

The plane actually hit the top tip of the steel post, not the sign itself. Cuts balsa like butter!

I went home and immediately got at repairing the plane. It is ready to fly again! With a slightly different color scheme, lol.

Actually in this one, I already cut away most of the torn covering, and shredded balsa.
Also, I already glued two pieces of recovered LE back in place. Good that I collected them at the field!

Repairs to wood completed.

Repairs done. Note perfect match of newly covered area to rest of wing.
Had to use transparent orange since I don't have transparent yellow.

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Flight Log: 11/02/2016

Great day of flying with the field all to myself. Couldn't figure why no one else came, with temp over 50F, dead calm, mostly sunny skies, no rain at all. Oh well, go figure! Enjoyed 5 flights of the 7HV and 2 with the Toledo Special. That runway officially sucks now with all dead grass being taken over basically by lumps of soil brought up by the night crawlers every where on the field. Worse it has ever been in my 10 years of membership! My guess is it will be like this all Winter since the powers that be started the whole reseed operation too late in the Fall. No worries, the helipad is fine! I will stick to helis most of the time anyway. Got in lots of inverted stuff, and even did some coordinated half circles.