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, March 19, 2017

Wing Dinger!

That is what Tad and I will be called soon...instead of Krosswinds!   We are going to join the Dallas Oregon RC club called the Wing Dingers for obvious reasons....dinging wings!  We wanted a new field due to the continual threat of losing the KRCA field to the owners JB Sod.  They are escalating their types of complaints for us to be unhappy there.  Reasons now include not just the risk to their workers of getting hit by one of our aircraft, but not liking to drive around the corners of our runway, and the presence of obnoxious weeds on our runway.  Bob says JB has been asking how we are doing on locating a new place to fly, lol.  He says it is a matter of when and not if we wll be kicked out.  I feel they are just manufacturing complaints now  and voicing them often to build the case to get rid of us.

So we always knew about the Dallas club but never had a real need for it till now.  I flew there today and met lots of the regular flyers, including Doug and Cliff who were recent members of KRCA.  Good news is that the distance to Dallas is longer but the travel time is about the same because of no traffic lights and higher speeds.  And best of all, I liked the field and members there today.

 I got in 3 flights on the Aerostar 40 and one on the SNAFU.  Everyone left or i would have flown longer!  Some pics follow.
Looking east from west end of pits

Looking east from west end of runway

Straight east from west end of runway

Real nice shed

Looking west from east end of pits

Short North South runway looking southeast from shed

Doug on taxiway to main runway

Dougs Falcon 56 on runway

My SNAFU and Aerostar 40

The club regular flyers!
View to the southwest.

The tall grain elevator is gone, just a pile of rubble now.

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Monday, March 13, 2017

Gone in Sixty Minutes

Finally the weather cooperated and I made it to the field on Sunday morning!  Not a soul was there, weirdness!  So I got seven flights done in sixty minutes and was outta there that fast!  Three flights on the 7HV after four flights on the X5.  All good but sometimes I felt a little brain dead since my last flying was over 6 weeks ago!  Still, no boo boos that caused my heart to race out of control, and I brought both helis home in one piece.  Started out slow to get my feel, then threw in some back, forward, and side flips. plus a little inverted hovering.  Felt great to fly again.
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