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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 3/30/2012 8:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		The core of the problem is not the government. The government just passed a bill that President Obama signed telling stating that there be no regulations over recreational model aviation that is conducted under a nationwide community-based organiziation guidlines. The problem is that there are people such as the author of this OpEd who are either ignorant, or lying for some agenda that he sees as being served by scare mongering. I think the best approach is to bring this to the attention of a nationwide community-based organization and urging them to respond with their own OpEd.

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 3/30/2012 1:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Expecting them to Actually do research and mention "Facts" within a story,, come on,, that's old school

The Times has been a terrible paper for over 20 years now, It's full of the worse lazy reporters out there. It's just one big Opinion page from front to back,, you'll never read an unbiased objective story. Unfortunately that's more and more common in the news industry today,,Sad really

Their agenda,, yes they have an agenda, it's to sell papers, If they have to frame everything as Black/White Racism, Terrorism, Corruption, Sex,, what ever sells, so be it.
I remember when it was to tell the whole truth, and let the reader decide

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 3/30/2012 3:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		I agree with the last 2 posts. I think you guys are right on the mark. Obviously, the author of the op-ed piece knows absolutely nothing about the rc hobby and wrote an article that was biased.

I couldn't help but wonder if terrorists switched to rocks and bottles, would he advocate the licensing of those objects as well?

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 3/30/2012 4:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Better yet, ban golf clubs because they could be used as a weapon. That way, we could incrase the size of our field down at the Basin!

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 3/30/2012 6:35 PM   
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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 3/31/2012 9:38 AM   
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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 4/25/2012 3:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hello everyone, long time no see! I get out of the hobby (to pursue another activity) and this thread seems to dry up. I do check into RCU occasionally and I was wondering about something lately........

With the acceptance of Spread Spectrum radios and that based on my last visit to the field they are the majority of radios now.... do people still blame 90% of crashes on "being shot down"? I can't count the number of times that I watched an inexperienced pilot with an overly advanced plane like an Extra pull too much elevator and cause a high speed snap resulting in a crash only to yell out that they got "hit". Combined with dumb thumbs, loose connections, bad batteries reused crashed receivers and all sorts of other user errors that were all attributed to being someone else's fault or worse yet the "black hole" out towards the big tree that just happened to be on the down wind turn for approach to a landing.

With the majority of that excuse being negated with SS what do people now blame for a crashed plane?

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 4/25/2012 3:38 PM   
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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 4/30/2012 3:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey old friend, how you doing?!!! I flew my foamie 3 days last week. The basin is better than ever. Hope all's well with you.

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 4/30/2012 6:55 AM   
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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 4/30/2012 1:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		Tom, that's a trend all over,, more and more guys are flying EP these days, especially newbies, shoot I have several myself, our club even has a EP only field. But what makes you think gas/nitro is going away for good?

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 4/30/2012 1:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Joe! Been wondering what you've been up to. Glad to hear you are still flying. How can the Basin be "better than ever" without Rex using his frequency scanner and yelling about someone's flag being up for several hours, was anything more entertaining than that?

I'm not surprised by the results of that poll and the decline of Nitro which was getting more expensive and always made a mess of your plane. Gas and electric and of course turbines have become more economic and available so it makes sense. Are the war bird guys still at it?

I am surprised at the lack of responses to the Basin thread and figured there were no English speaking people left at the field to participate in the thread. Glad to see that is not entirely the case.

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 4/30/2012 5:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		I do not think gas/glow is going away for good. I think the results of the poll show that it will become less and less popular and instead of hearing the great sounds of an IC engine putt-putting or a tuned pipe howling, we are only going to hear the Dremel like whir of electric motors. I have a few electrics myself but I will always prefer the traditional model airplane engine that uses glow fuel.

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 4/30/2012 8:22 PM   
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or worse yet the ''black hole'' out towards the big tree that just happened to be on the down wind turn for approach to a landing.



Hey Richard,

that's soo funny ! I haven't heard that one in years ... use to hear it all the time ! ... the DREADED downwind turns ....LOL

I miss all those antics at the Basin.

Ken.
ps; I hear that the "rude-squadron" has all but disapeared. Allways spectacular crashes with those guys.



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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 4/30/2012 9:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey you Basin 'ole timers,,, I was surfing and found a old shark that's still lurking

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1617826

hard to believe the guy has the guts to show his face anywhere r/c related,, thank god for 2.4

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 5/1/2012 1:59 AM   
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I hear that the ''rude-squadron'' has all but disapeared. Allways spectacular crashes with those guys.



T-Bone's eye sight was going bad several years ago and I figured that ment the end of the rude squadron was inevitable. As much as it sucked trying to fly when they went up it was always fun to watch and they did have a good time together. They certainly did add to the flavor of the place.

One of my proudest moments was when I built the Sig Kadet Senior with bombay doors specifically to drop old french fries from Panos (gathered from the work benches) on the the warbird guys out on the runway.

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 5/2/2012 7:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		wow! nothing rude about those guys they still hang out there and help people. they just don't fly as much. I ran into Banjo Bill recently in Culver City and he told me he's putting together a Dago red with a 115 so he should be flying soon. Also, as I work at Robin's Hobby, I recently found out that Ken (the instructor) I can't remember his last name..it's french and begins with a "B". anyway, he's now in a retirement home in Northridge.

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 5/10/2012 4:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		with the way the tables are now oriented,
i saw some guy launch his electric plane right off the tabletop last weekend....
like it was taking off from an aircraft carrier deck.

of course, nobody was there that early in the morning so who cares.


hey basin bum, nice to see you.
what are you doing with all your free time now that you are out of the hobby?


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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 5/10/2012 2:11 PM   
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Still building stuff. It just doesn't crash.

Some of my work.

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 5/10/2012 2:39 PM   
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Hey Paul,
Still building stuff. It just doesn't crash.

Some of my work.


Impressive, very nice work!



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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 5/10/2012 10:13 PM   
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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 5/12/2012 6:14 PM   
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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 5/13/2012 2:04 AM   
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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 5/13/2012 7:20 PM   
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Makes me think of Mel Gibson in "The Patriot" when he kept trying to make a rocker and would sit in it and it would collapse.

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RE: Sepulveda Basin - 5/17/2012 5:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi guys,

A friend of mine is asking for help, they could loose their field. Solidarity here is good karma.

Our club in the San Francisco Bay Area is being evicted by the Parks Department. As you can imagine, being California, the Parks Department is broke, but they can find 8 million dollars to create a swamp to save the red legged frog or something like it. What we are trying is to let us keep our site and coexist with any development they might want to do. There are examples all over the country that show this is feasible, like Markham Park and Santa Clara (Tomcats)

In order to achieve this, we were adviced by AMA to try to create as much community support as possible

So here is where we need your help: please follow this link and sign the petition to the parks department to not evict us.

https://www.change.org/petitions/general-manager-east-bay-regional-park-district-do-not-kill-rc-modelling-in-the-bay-area

Your support is appreciated even if you are not from the Bay Area. This could be happening at your field...

Thanks a lot for your support, and please spread the petition around. Put it in your facebook page and send it to your club's mailing list.

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