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!!!

Saturday, July 7, 2018

WARBIRD SATURDAY @Dallas Field

28 Warbirds for the Dallas Warbird Saturday!

That was a lotta fun, 7 hours of flying, friends and food at the Dallas Field for Warbird Saturday.  We had 28 planes for the kodak moment on the runway, from WWI dawn patrol bipes to a Phantom jet.  Most numerous were the WWII warbirds.  I flew my P-47 to my delight, lol, and hopefully it was equally entertaining to the guys.  Four of my fellow krca pilots participated, which was welcomed and appreciated by the Wingdingers.  They really enjoyed the 3d printed Spitfire that Dave brought, and after his retract issue was resolved, Dave and the plane flew well.  His T-28 with engine sound system was also enjoyed.  Jerry’s electric glow lil stick got a good laugh from everyone when they realized the motor was plastic and just a decoy over the electric motor, lol.

Loved the fat Hellcat that Don flew...just one flight and he made a great landing except 50’ too long.  In other words he landed in the mowed rye grass with no damage.  I helped Bob carry his new P-51 Blue nose P-51 for its two flights.  Very sweet plane with a strong Saito 125 up front.  Has cool keleo scale exhausts...nice but they sure spat fuel all over my arms and t shirt each time the Saito started up!

Couple of crashes.  A bad one was an AT-6 Texan that landed dead stick in the  rye grass, snapping the wing off.  Maybe it was just the wing bolts...i did not inspect it.  The other was Joe’s Phantom EDF.  He had assembled it just for the photo shoot, without wing tubes.  Then he flew it that way...yikes!  The wing collapsed and the jet dethermalized to the ground in a real flat spin with motors still running.  Not much damage due to the very slow flat spin into the rye grass.

Food was great....hot dogs, hamburgers, beans, pasta salads, desserts, cookies, chips, pop.  What a great day.  What more could an RC addict ask for!?
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