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01-24-2003, 12:27 PM
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Buying last weeks winning lottery ticket so I could afford to buy myself a workshop and not have to build all my models on the kitchen table.
01-24-2003, 01:31 PM
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I would have gone to the recruiter's at the age of 18 instead of 26. Having done this...I would be retired now, and have a lot more flying time
01-24-2003, 05:55 PM
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Most of the above answers don't take into account the two minutes timeframe, and anything that happened more than two minutes ago is irrelevent.
So, if I had a 'two minute device' and I had to use it for something R/C related, then I'd save it for a time where two minutes would make the difference.
eg at the R/C auction where the plane I'd been looking at all day went for half the price I was expecting, or just after the crash of the plane I'd been spending the last year building...
The lottery ticket idea I think don't will work within the two minute timeframe as ticket sales are probably stopped 30 minutes prior to the draw, but it could work at a horse race or at the roulette table....
So, if I had a 'two minute device' and I had to use it for something R/C related, then I'd save it for a time where two minutes would make the difference.
eg at the R/C auction where the plane I'd been looking at all day went for half the price I was expecting, or just after the crash of the plane I'd been spending the last year building...
The lottery ticket idea I think don't will work within the two minute timeframe as ticket sales are probably stopped 30 minutes prior to the draw, but it could work at a horse race or at the roulette table....
01-24-2003, 08:09 PM
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tiggerinva- I don't think he meant "the last two minutes," but instead two mintutes of time at any pervious time.
For me, it would have been remembering my glow ignitor at my first r/c car race. I had to ask just about everyone there to borrow one.
For me, it would have been remembering my glow ignitor at my first r/c car race. I had to ask just about everyone there to borrow one.
01-24-2003, 08:37 PM
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OK, without getting too technical about time travel I see your point but:
Your example of forgetting the glow igniter wouldn't achieve anything unless you rememebred it within 2 minutes of leaving your house, in which case you would probably go back to get it anyway without travelling in time.
A better example would be, you crashed your car or lost a race through a silly mistake. Travelling back 2 minutes would hopefully be enough to redo whatever you needed while avoiding the same mistake...
Your example of forgetting the glow igniter wouldn't achieve anything unless you rememebred it within 2 minutes of leaving your house, in which case you would probably go back to get it anyway without travelling in time.
A better example would be, you crashed your car or lost a race through a silly mistake. Travelling back 2 minutes would hopefully be enough to redo whatever you needed while avoiding the same mistake...
01-24-2003, 08:40 PM
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My two minutes would be during my training to fly last summer. I was still pretty new and was just learning take off. I pushed forward on the elevator instead of pushing forward on the throttle. Just a little thing, but I did rip the tail off. No blame on my instructor, if you have ever used a JR662 as the master radio on training you know that the "button" on the radio makes it very difficult for the instructor to keep in sequence with everything especially the throttle. I did put the tail back on and am still flying the trainer when not flying my 4*60.
01-24-2003, 08:52 PM
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Isn't hindsight wonderful?
A bit late but I could help with that, I know exactly what you mean as I've got a JR XF631.
I got round the problem by making the JR Quattro the master and my 631 the slave. That had several advantages:
I got to keep hold of the 631.
Instructor gets full rates on the Quattro and I get to use low rates on the 631.
The Quattro uses a spring loaded switch on top of the tx instead of the button.
A bit late but I could help with that, I know exactly what you mean as I've got a JR XF631.
I got round the problem by making the JR Quattro the master and my 631 the slave. That had several advantages:
I got to keep hold of the 631.
Instructor gets full rates on the Quattro and I get to use low rates on the 631.
The Quattro uses a spring loaded switch on top of the tx instead of the button.
01-24-2003, 09:02 PM
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I think my two minutes should have been last fall. I'd go back to tell myself to ignore my wife, and that one more attempt to hand launch my Aspire elictric glider in the local park when it is getting very dark is NOT a good idea......
That's about how long the flight lasted before the Aspire ending up going straight through a tree!!
That's about how long the flight lasted before the Aspire ending up going straight through a tree!!
01-27-2003, 05:03 PM
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Not to take off with a tailwind. About 12 years ago, I just soloed a few weeks prior to our club's picnic. Not having experience taking off the "other direction" I took off my trainer with a tailwind and hit another guy on the flight line. Not his plane but him! 
Unquestionably the worst day in my entire life (up to this point at least). I knew better but was just too excited to be flying at my first ever club picnic. Fortunately Jim suffer only a bruised and swollen hand (someone else landed his plane) but I dread to imagine how much worse this could have been. Jim and I are best of friends and still "joke" about that day. My Kadet went on to fly another few hundred flights (quite insignificant part of the story all things considered). Plus I never ever hastily do anything when it comes to safety.
But again........I would have been happy for ONE minute of time reversal.
..............Mark
Unquestionably the worst day in my entire life (up to this point at least). I knew better but was just too excited to be flying at my first ever club picnic. Fortunately Jim suffer only a bruised and swollen hand (someone else landed his plane) but I dread to imagine how much worse this could have been. Jim and I are best of friends and still "joke" about that day. My Kadet went on to fly another few hundred flights (quite insignificant part of the story all things considered). Plus I never ever hastily do anything when it comes to safety.But again........I would have been happy for ONE minute of time reversal.
..............Mark
