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How Many Functional Airplanes You Have?
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  6% (27)
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  8% (38)
3
  11% (50)
4
  11% (49)
5
  10% (45)
6
  6% (30)
More than 6
  45% (196)


Total Votes : 435
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RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 3/15/2007 4:45:51 PM   
50+AirYears


 

Posts: 1147
Joined: 7/29/2004
From: Lorain, OH, USA
Status: offline 		I'm disgusted. Even though I've reduced my stable by 3 this year, I am at a point that to satisfy my addiction to building I have resorted to HO guage train stuff, and am shortly to try a wood planked Viking ship model. I've actually completed building 2 hand launched gliders and a catapault glider for this coming year's competition schedule, but since they only replace the gliders I've lost, I am still just out of space in the basement, attic and shed for more flyable models. I've already build 3 railroad cars, and am working on a front end loader kit.

I just have to take a break from work and get out to do more flying. Enough flying, and available space for more models seems to open up. Some kind of natural cause and effect, I suppose.

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RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 4/9/2007 4:39:43 PM   
edd540


 

Posts: 10
Joined: 4/12/2002
From: St. Paul, KS, USA
Status: offline 		Well over 15 Ready to fly, at least 5 more arfs in boxes, I have less airplanes than my wife has shoes though!!!

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       Post #: 77

RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 4/10/2007 1:46:48 AM   
ChuckW


 

Posts: 1788
Joined: 6/15/2006
From: Clovis, CA, USA
Status: offline 		I have 3 currently flying and a 4th that will be in the air by next weekend. Then I have several more planned.

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       Post #: 78

RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 4/10/2007 2:18:52 AM   
WartedEmperor



Posts: 149
Joined: 10/31/2004
From: Bristol, TN, USA
Status: offline 		I have 3 planes and thinking about getting a fourth and I am only 15 years old.


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RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 4/10/2007 5:54:22 AM   
sebo


 

Posts: 714
Joined: 8/24/2004
From: jacksonville, FL, USA
Status: offline 		I have 11 if I move flite packs around. Don't like to do that though. I always would be doing that first trim flight each time I move a receiver.
About the "not telling the wife". I tried that. All Heck broke loose when she found out what I was doing.
I'm not married any more. I can buy anything I want.
Bought 2 new kits this week.
I'm in heaven!

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RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 5/6/2007 9:43:38 PM   
RoyR


 

Posts: 153
Joined: 11/28/2006
From: Nederland, TX, USA
Status: offline 		I began flying RC in the 70s, usually I could only afford one flyable one at a time. I got better jobs and increased my inventory up until about 10 years ago, then for some reason stopped flying RC altogether. I had totaled my last SuperSportster.
Two years ago I retired from flying the big ones for a living and got back into the models. I had one flyable from the earlier period. In the last year and a half I am up to 6 flyable with just fuel or a battery. 4 left over from my last insanity period that could fly by adding radio equipment and motors. 2 almost ready, only a little completion, 2 kits in my shop, and one or two kits waiting for me to order. (Not to mention waiting to order: engines, radio, radio accessories)


The 'not telling the wife' won't work for me. I buy all my kits online and since we are both retired and are both home at the same time, when UPS rings the doorbell and I lug this big box in the house she has just the slightest suspicion of what it is.

I suppose I could tell her it's my mistress.

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       Post #: 81

RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 8/6/2007 9:19:59 PM   
brownlab



Posts: 105
Joined: 8/5/2007
From: beaumont, TX, USA
Status: offline 		i have two, mini stormlauncher and aero ace jet

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RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 8/7/2007 2:47:59 AM   
jeffk464


 

Posts: 1240
Joined: 10/31/2004
From: cerritos, CA, USA
Status: offline 		I currently have zero functioning planes . In my defense however I have eight non-functioning planes and one non functioning helicopter.

My solution was to order a glider, they always seem to work. Crossing my fingers and knocking on wood.

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RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 8/15/2007 6:04:54 AM   
brownlab



Posts: 105
Joined: 8/5/2007
From: beaumont, TX, USA
Status: offline 		my mini sl broke and the aero ace was taken by wind, im bout to get a 4ch t-34 mentor this or next month. LETS SEE YOU TAKE THIS ONE WIND

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RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 8/15/2007 10:09:57 PM   
NCIS


 

Posts: 2635
Joined: 5/28/2006
From: Janesville, WI, USA
Status: offline 		Planes, let me see,

I have 12. All but 2 are Kit and plan built Warbirds and Civilian scale planes. I don't know how to vote but my wife said that because I crashed # 12 2 days ago and have already got a replacement on the way that I am done. The credit cards have been hidden. I'm addicted and think I'll go crazy without anything to build in the Winters to come.

Gibbs

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       Post #: 85

RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 8/15/2007 10:22:15 PM   
50+AirYears


 

Posts: 1147
Joined: 7/29/2004
From: Lorain, OH, USA
Status: offline 		Just reduced my count by 8 over the last couple weeks. The Hobby People Rookie stopped moving the rudder. Decided to pull the equipment out and see if I can repair it and use it in one of my smaller Comet rubber kits. One of my HLGs stalled out and turned into a lawn dart on sun-backed clay soil. Too many pieces to accurately glue back together. Wind started to bring my Skylark into the pit area on a dead stick, made the sacrifice to dump it. Will need about 6 hours of repair. Gust got my scale Ford Tri-motor shortly after take-off, at about 6 feet altitude. Repairable, but I'm estimating about 12 hours. And hangar rash got two other hand launced gliders, my Fly Zone Sky Screamer, and my Coupe de Hiver FF Rubber. All quickly repairable, if the wife didn't seem to think some house improvements and yard work were more important. Just can't figure out how some women think!

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RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 8/15/2007 11:18:51 PM   
servoarm


 

Posts: 12
Joined: 2/6/2005
From: Pembrokepines, FL, USA
Status: offline 		Lets see 27planes 9 radios 4 with 8 model menories. You do the math I don't want to know. And the bad thing is I don't have anything on the board. The good thing is my wife is ok with it.

Butch

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RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 8/16/2007 12:03:51 AM   
HimotoRacingUSA



Posts: 12790
Joined: 2/27/2006
From: howard beach, NY, USA
Status: offline 		7 flyable, 2 need to be built, 25+ cars and trucks, 2 motorcycles, 7 boats, 2 hydrofoams, 4 heli's, i am a total rc addict. Been doing it for over 25 years

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RE: How Many Functional Airplanes You Have? - 8/16/2007 2:16:44 PM   
50+AirYears


 

Posts: 1147
Joined: 7/29/2004
From: Lorain, OH, USA
Status: offline 		Returned 1 hand launched glider back to active duty. On trim flights, seems to fly like it used to, but a hard throw is the real test.

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