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Your favorite model type - 7/4/2003 2:54:33 PM   
rchawaii



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From: Ewa beach http://spadunderground.biz, USA
Status: offline 		One of my favorite quotes from this entire thread is :

quote:

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.


Thanks!

If you haven't tried to build or fly a SPAD, you are missing out-enough said.

Then again, their isn't that much diversity in where they come from, who they are, or what they build, or what they use for materials-right. :

I for one love to build scale. I have a few scale balsa flyers, and some were quite difficult to build. Then again, scratching a SPAD and keeping it low on wingloading and flying great aint all that easy either-in some cases I have found it more difficult than building "traditional" airplanes.

I do agree with one overall theme to this thread. The bashing of any one type of preference does not help anyone.

Thanks once again for the poll. I find it interesting-at the least.

As far as this being a "skewered" poll, I guess that depends on the application of the term "skewered".

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Your favorite model type - 7/4/2003 6:22:43 PM   
Jim_McIntyre



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If Spadders are relegiously defensive, does this make you relegiously offensive?[/QUOTE]

LOL! This is the best yet.

I guess SPADs don't have to be ugly you just build them that way to be rebellious? I get it, it's like that (c)Rap music thing?

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Your favorite model type - 7/4/2003 6:23:46 PM   
Jim_McIntyre



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Status: offline 		ps. Dean, I guess the cat is safe after all.

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Your favorite model type - 7/4/2003 7:02:10 PM   
Tattoo



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ps. Dean, I guess the cat is safe after all.


Yep...I noticed that ...BTW...it never fails, I'm sipping my morning coffee and come across the attack donkey. I think I'm just going to start keeping paper towel by my moniter

BTW, check out this top secret survalence photo of Kraut's Balsa GP Extra...whoops, sorry Kraut

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Your favorite model type - 7/4/2003 7:55:00 PM   
ChrisSpad



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Status: offline 		GASP!!!
One of the founding fathers of SPAD actually builds and flies balsa?? GASP!!!

Hmm, what could that possibly mean.... that maybe, just maybe, you can actually fly and enjoy both?

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Your favorite model type - 7/5/2003 4:08:49 AM   
MrGreenSpeed



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Rotflmao!

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Your favorite model type - 7/5/2003 8:52:41 AM   
Piraro76


 

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Status: offline 		Attack Donkey... Well, laughing myself to death isn't the worst way to go I guess

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Your favorite model type - 7/5/2003 9:18:34 AM   
Tattoo



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Status: offline 		I will respectfully start this post by saying that the only reason I'm posting these pictures here, is because the following question was asked in this thread by BasinBum.

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Sorry SPADguys, love my 3D's but have you ever flown a 1/4 scale gas aerobat?


If there is a spicific 1/4 scale aircraft called the Aerobat, than I apologize for this post, but if you were refering to a large gasser aerobatic aircraft in general, then the answer to your question would be a very excited YES. Kraut flew it for the first time today. Unbelievable. We are totally new to the large planes, and today was very exciting. It is Krauts most ambitous Spad project to date. He bought a new weedwacker from Harbor for @ $50 and pulled the engine out of it. He has approx 10 hours of building time and about $30 in the airplane. It's built with Coroplast and PVC fence post. The sound, the grace, the smoothness...incredable! Kraut did say today that he'll start working on a set of plans as time allows.




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Your favorite model type - 7/5/2003 9:47:11 AM   
rchawaii



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Status: offline 		AWESOME KRAUT, GLAD YOU FOUND THE FENCING USEFUL TOO

Thanks Tattoo-unbelievable!!!!!!

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Your favorite model type - 7/5/2003 10:11:04 AM   
William Robison



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Status: offline 		Nukes and All:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by nukes
Ok, you think your playing with toys.[/QUOTE]
That's a distressing picture you posted, but yes, all our airplanes are toys. Dangerous toys, but toys nonetheless.

And if it's not plastic it can not be a SPAD, by definition. Please note the second word of the expanded acronym. At the same time, being made of plastic does not mean the plane is a SPAD. It could be very complex rather than simple.

When you build a good looking scale model, even using coroplast as the main construction material, is it still simple? Or has it become complex?

I have no objection to SPADs, and I'm going to put one together real soon now.

But it will have two engines. That's the part that's necessary.

Bill.

< Message edited by William Robison -- Jul 5 2003 5:38AM >

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Your favorite model type - 7/5/2003 10:24:05 AM   
nukes


 

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Can't wait ot see it.

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Let me think! Na, too hard! :) - 7/5/2003 10:26:13 AM   
Star-Rider


 

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Status: offline 		Ok, maybe I am having a blonde moment here...., hey but I am not a blondie!?!

I had always thought being a Spadtothebone dude is a scatching dude.....hummmm....

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SPAD = SIMPLE PLASTIC AIRPLANE DESIGNS - 7/5/2003 10:32:27 AM   
Star-Rider


 

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Status: offline 		William Robison,

Are you missing a "[COLOR=red]n[/COLOR] " some where?

I just can't help myself!8^)


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Your favorite model type - 7/5/2003 10:43:26 AM   
William Robison



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Status: offline 		Sorry about the post as it first came up, I was over at Nuke's picture of his truck, hit the wrong key, everything disappeared. Didn't realize it had posted until I got to the end of the thread. It's all right now.

And Star-Rider, the lower caste relations use the internal "N" in their name, we high class types know the correct spelling. Haw.

Bill.

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I Figured it out! - 7/5/2003 10:46:23 AM   
Star-Rider