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06-24-2016, 11:31 AM
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donnyman, glad to se you are still hanging in there. i had my cateracts done via lazer. fast & worked great. loss of night vision can sometimes be related to macular degeneration. 5 yrs ago i was diagnosed with mild macular degeneration. dr prescribed over the counter areds 2 preservision. 2 per day.
no change of my macular in 5 trs. so it is working for me.
now, back to the dynaflite super decathlon kit. am getting somewhat back to normal after my wifes passing & hane jus about finished the second 1/2 of the wing, i had bought some dubro cotter pin hinges that turned out to be real stiff& clicked. a call to dubro brought excellent replace ments, it is good to know that in this day & age that there is a company that cares about it's customers. i am really anxious to finish the decath. hope all your future plans work out for you. frankie trainermaster80
no change of my macular in 5 trs. so it is working for me.
now, back to the dynaflite super decathlon kit. am getting somewhat back to normal after my wifes passing & hane jus about finished the second 1/2 of the wing, i had bought some dubro cotter pin hinges that turned out to be real stiff& clicked. a call to dubro brought excellent replace ments, it is good to know that in this day & age that there is a company that cares about it's customers. i am really anxious to finish the decath. hope all your future plans work out for you. frankie trainermaster80
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06-24-2016, 11:45 AM
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donnyman, glad to se you are still hanging in there. i had my cateracts done via lazer. fast & worked great. loss of night vision can sometimes be related to macular degeneration. 5 yrs ago i was diagnosed with mild macular degeneration. dr prescribed over the counter areds 2 preservision. 2 per day.
no change of my macular in 5 trs. so it is working for me.
now, back to the dynaflite super decathlon kit. am getting somewhat back to normal after my wifes passing & hane jus about finished the second 1/2 of the wing, i had bought some dubro cotter pin hinges that turned out to be real stiff& clicked. a call to dubro brought excellent replace ments, it is good to know that in this day & age that there is a company that cares about it's customers. i am really anxious to finish the decath. hope all your future plans work out for you. frankie trainermaster80
no change of my macular in 5 trs. so it is working for me.
now, back to the dynaflite super decathlon kit. am getting somewhat back to normal after my wifes passing & hane jus about finished the second 1/2 of the wing, i had bought some dubro cotter pin hinges that turned out to be real stiff& clicked. a call to dubro brought excellent replace ments, it is good to know that in this day & age that there is a company that cares about it's customers. i am really anxious to finish the decath. hope all your future plans work out for you. frankie trainermaster80
06-26-2016, 04:13 AM
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Hi all you old timers been away for a bit, and you guys wander all over with the conversation So I am in the process of building a semi scale 1/4 super cub and have a ball doing it, But the only thing is I have menieres disease a balance problem, most people call it dizzyness and right know it is giving me fits, and by concentrating on something for me it tends to relive it.
Bashing a J- 3 kit to a super cub is quite a challenge just getting the out lines right correct as there was 3 variants manufactured by piper all called the pa-18 so it has been fun trying to keep them straight
Cheers Bob T
Bashing a J- 3 kit to a super cub is quite a challenge just getting the out lines right correct as there was 3 variants manufactured by piper all called the pa-18 so it has been fun trying to keep them straight
Cheers Bob T
06-26-2016, 09:37 AM
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Flew the Senior Telemaster and the WOT 4 XL this afternoon. A clubmate was very interested in the STM and wanted the plan. I used to sell them but I'll probably just give him a plan, he was talking about having it copied anyway.
06-26-2016, 12:50 PM
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The senior telemaster is one big plane, my neighbor had one some time back and it was relaxing to flying.
I had another weak spell and could not resist the temptation to purchase this
06-26-2016, 09:06 PM
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Morning Donny! I doubt that I will be much affected by the Brexit. I have decided to live the rest of my life in France, I have a reasonable pension, house prices are much lower than in England, property taxes are lower, you don't have to tax your car, wine is cheap, the weather's better and all those little size eights and tens walking about are very agreeable on the eye!
The Pound has fallen against the Euro but it has been very volatile over the past nine months or so ranging in price from 1.20€ to 1.43€. On Saturday it was trading at 1.23€. If it remains at a low rate my pension will obviously be worth less but I do not live particularly extravagantly so I should be ok. I moved a good deal of my savings from Sterling into Euros the day before the Brexit when the Pound was worth 1.30€. I only wish now that I'd transferred more! Perhaps I should start a post retirement career as an international currency speculator!
I went into the local bar to watch a football match on Saturday: the European Championships are taking place in France at the moment. I was subjected to a fair bit of good-natured banter along the lines that the French were going to block the Channel Tunnel! However, there were two other Englishmen in the bar, one of whom was brought up here so speaks French fluently, indeed, his English has acquired a slight French accent! He said that property prices will fall because once Great Britain leaves the European Union, owners of holiday homes will have to pay higher property taxes because the owners will no longer be residents of the EU. Suits me as I'm looking to buy a house, indeed I've put in an offer on one which the owner is considering.
The Pound has fallen against the Euro but it has been very volatile over the past nine months or so ranging in price from 1.20€ to 1.43€. On Saturday it was trading at 1.23€. If it remains at a low rate my pension will obviously be worth less but I do not live particularly extravagantly so I should be ok. I moved a good deal of my savings from Sterling into Euros the day before the Brexit when the Pound was worth 1.30€. I only wish now that I'd transferred more! Perhaps I should start a post retirement career as an international currency speculator!
I went into the local bar to watch a football match on Saturday: the European Championships are taking place in France at the moment. I was subjected to a fair bit of good-natured banter along the lines that the French were going to block the Channel Tunnel! However, there were two other Englishmen in the bar, one of whom was brought up here so speaks French fluently, indeed, his English has acquired a slight French accent! He said that property prices will fall because once Great Britain leaves the European Union, owners of holiday homes will have to pay higher property taxes because the owners will no longer be residents of the EU. Suits me as I'm looking to buy a house, indeed I've put in an offer on one which the owner is considering.
06-27-2016, 04:13 PM
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FlyerinOkc
The biggest problem at my age some ( kids and good friends and a few club members ) think I am Daffy any way, and I hope all in good fun. .But the meniers thingy is imagine the worst drunk you have ever had or seen you can see up but you cannot get up or even roll over even on your hand and knees it's a *****
Cheers Bob t
The biggest problem at my age some ( kids and good friends and a few club members ) think I am Daffy any way, and I hope all in good fun. .But the meniers thingy is imagine the worst drunk you have ever had or seen you can see up but you cannot get up or even roll over even on your hand and knees it's a *****
Cheers Bob t
06-29-2016, 08:00 AM
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I just found this thread. What a great bunch of memories!
My humble beginning with flyable models began with a Guillow's Spitfire kit when I was in 6th grade (1965). I went on to build many more of Guillow's freeflight kits, although none were powered because I couldn't afford a Cox .010 or .020. I switched to u-control when I bought a plastic Cox .049-powered Stuka. It didn't fly worth a hoot (or maybe it was just me) but I was hooked on nitro! I used that engine to power a gaggle of self-designed balsa ukies throughout junior high. (Looking back, most of those homemade ukies flew pretty well, albeit probably more from sheer centrifugal force than true aerodynamics!
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My first R/C rig was a second-hand 4-channel Digitrio and I built a Goldberg Falcon 56 for it. Put an OS .30 on it and promptly learned the fine art of teaching myself how to crash. I had to shelve the hobby when I entered the USAF in 1971 and didn't return to it until 2003.
The Digitrio's long gone (why, oh why did I ever let it go???) but I've still got that Falcon and OS 30. And somewhere in all my boxes of stuff, I've still got the Cox .049 that started it all!
Harvey
My humble beginning with flyable models began with a Guillow's Spitfire kit when I was in 6th grade (1965). I went on to build many more of Guillow's freeflight kits, although none were powered because I couldn't afford a Cox .010 or .020. I switched to u-control when I bought a plastic Cox .049-powered Stuka. It didn't fly worth a hoot (or maybe it was just me) but I was hooked on nitro! I used that engine to power a gaggle of self-designed balsa ukies throughout junior high. (Looking back, most of those homemade ukies flew pretty well, albeit probably more from sheer centrifugal force than true aerodynamics!
)My first R/C rig was a second-hand 4-channel Digitrio and I built a Goldberg Falcon 56 for it. Put an OS .30 on it and promptly learned the fine art of teaching myself how to crash. I had to shelve the hobby when I entered the USAF in 1971 and didn't return to it until 2003.
The Digitrio's long gone (why, oh why did I ever let it go???) but I've still got that Falcon and OS 30. And somewhere in all my boxes of stuff, I've still got the Cox .049 that started it all!
Harvey
06-29-2016, 12:38 PM
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Hello H5487
The cox 049 is forever, I started with a Spitzy .045 and thought I was in heaven got it in the air maybe twice as best my memory serves me, but I ran the compression out of it, still have it. My son had the falcon with the O.S. 30, it was a fantastic experience right up to the wings folding..
I did the air force also before that I sold plastic stuka's but never saw one fly, but I thought it was pretty cool.
Stay in touch...........Good hearing from you!
The cox 049 is forever, I started with a Spitzy .045 and thought I was in heaven got it in the air maybe twice as best my memory serves me, but I ran the compression out of it, still have it. My son had the falcon with the O.S. 30, it was a fantastic experience right up to the wings folding..
I did the air force also before that I sold plastic stuka's but never saw one fly, but I thought it was pretty cool.
Stay in touch...........Good hearing from you!
06-29-2016, 01:02 PM
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I remember my first balsa model was a Comet high wing plane. I don't recall the exact model. that was probably around 1970 when I was 9. I built numerous Comet and Guillow's kits from that point on. I don't remember any of them ever flying more than about fifteen feet! And those were the good flyers! 
I also had a couple of the plastic Cox U-control models. They never flew very well either.
Back in the late 90's-2000 I was a member of the local RC club learning to fly. Life, career changes and everything else got in the way, so I dropped out of the hobby for several years. Now I'm slowly getting back in.
That first model has proven to be very costly as the years have gone by.
I also had a couple of the plastic Cox U-control models. They never flew very well either.
Back in the late 90's-2000 I was a member of the local RC club learning to fly. Life, career changes and everything else got in the way, so I dropped out of the hobby for several years. Now I'm slowly getting back in.
That first model has proven to be very costly as the years have gone by.
06-29-2016, 02:22 PM
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That 16" winspan Comet Ryan SC was my first balsa & tissue kit, too,FlyerInOKC!
Was kind of gaudy looking with the supplied black tissue, but as a 4th or 5th grader, I was very proud of it.
Was kind of gaudy looking with the supplied black tissue, but as a 4th or 5th grader, I was very proud of it.
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06-30-2016, 06:04 AM
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I remember my first balsa model was a Comet high wing plane. I don't recall the exact model. that was probably around 1970 when I was 9. I built numerous Comet and Guillow's kits from that point on. I don't remember any of them ever flying more than about fifteen feet! And those were the good flyers!
I also had a couple of the plastic Cox U-control models. They never flew very well either.
Back in the late 90's-2000 I was a member of the local RC club learning to fly. Life, career changes and everything else got in the way, so I dropped out of the hobby for several years. Now I'm slowly getting back in.
That first model has proven to be very costly as the years have gone by.
I also had a couple of the plastic Cox U-control models. They never flew very well either.
Back in the late 90's-2000 I was a member of the local RC club learning to fly. Life, career changes and everything else got in the way, so I dropped out of the hobby for several years. Now I'm slowly getting back in.
That first model has proven to be very costly as the years have gone by.
You may cut your cost by picking stuff up at swap meets but be careful there is a lot of junk out there.
Good luck and welcome back.
06-30-2016, 06:08 AM
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That field in the picture you posted is very pretty It looks to be a ideal place to fly.
06-30-2016, 06:36 AM
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He is often one of the smallest men in the team, he is chosen for his agility, speed, ball-handling and kicking skills. I won't go on to about the various merits of arrowhead and blitz defences!
The flying field is at Forton Aerodrome near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It is an old WW2 training aerodrome where the leading allied fighter pilot Pierre Clostermann first flew a Spitfire. http://smfc.biz/
My French club's website is here:http://berrymarchemodelisme.free.fr/ Incidentally , we gained our second English member yesterday, a guy called Daniel Hunn, who has taken early retirement.
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06-30-2016, 01:05 PM
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The scrum-half is a pivotal position in a rugby team. He is responsible for putting the ball into the scrum, and assuming that his forwards win the ball, he then has to decide whether to run with the ball, pass the ball or kick the ball. We did a lot more kicking in my day, the rules have changed a bit in the last forty years, modern scrum-halfs usually pass the ball, but even then you have to decide whether to pass to the "open side" where there is lots of space or to the "blind side" were space is limited. Of course the opposition will have deployed most of its defence on the open side but if you decide to "go blind" the opposition has more chance of bundling your player into touch and bringing the play to an end. The scum-half is also responsible for retrieving the ball from "rucks" and "mauls" which may perhaps be described as "informal scrums," then he has to decide whether to kick, run or pass.
Harvey
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06-30-2016, 05:56 PM
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Well for what it's worth I was laughing all the way to the end of the Telemaster's post as I have friend in OZ that describes things the same way, and as I have watched several games, and to play that game you need to be a bit loose in the mind
Now about that comet kit I don't remember mine being in color just red on a white box, but they were great fun.
Cheers Bob T
Now about that comet kit I don't remember mine being in color just red on a white box, but they were great fun.
Cheers Bob T