Kindness Dangerous?
04-14-2010 | 10:07 PM
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RE: Kindness Dangerous?
Noah,
PM me with your contact info. I'll call a guy named Bob Chapman, he lives and works there in Skowhegan, and he knows everybody local you'll need to know. He's a real nice guy and a heck of a flyer, and a KILLER Heli pilot. He'll get back to you.
You see, it's a funny hobby. You'll need to take the time to go to the field and work with some instructors or more experienced guys, and once you've found them and the field, it gets to be a little bit addictive.... ;^) After that, you COULD fly alone.....but then you don't WANT to...
In case you're wondering, I'm from Plymouth, just outside of Newport. I still have a summer place there.
~ Jim ~
PM me with your contact info. I'll call a guy named Bob Chapman, he lives and works there in Skowhegan, and he knows everybody local you'll need to know. He's a real nice guy and a heck of a flyer, and a KILLER Heli pilot. He'll get back to you.
You see, it's a funny hobby. You'll need to take the time to go to the field and work with some instructors or more experienced guys, and once you've found them and the field, it gets to be a little bit addictive.... ;^) After that, you COULD fly alone.....but then you don't WANT to...
In case you're wondering, I'm from Plymouth, just outside of Newport. I still have a summer place there.
~ Jim ~
04-14-2010 | 10:40 PM
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RE: Kindness Dangerous?
Fundamentally we need common sense but even more than that I think anymore someone new to the hobby can have a .40 size plane set up over a wkend or two and then they are operational.. When I started yrs ago I spent the first 10 yrs in the hobby learning procedure and respect with an .049 and plenty of episodes of minor injuries taught those lessons... Nowadays a persons first machine is commonly an os max .46 spinning a 10x6 master airscrew at 13000 rpm - a poor place to learn new procedures. Speaking of master airscrews, I love them in the air but they are a close relative of x-acto blades when it comes to hands and fingers![8D]
04-15-2010 | 07:07 AM
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RE: Kindness Dangerous?
ORIGINAL: p51Dpony
Fundamentally we need common sense but even more than that I think anymore someone new to the hobby can have a .40 size plane set up over a wkend or two and then they are operational.. When I started yrs ago I spent the first 10 yrs in the hobby learning procedure and respect with an .049 and plenty of episodes of minor injuries taught those lessons... Nowadays a persons first machine is commonly an os max .46 spinning a 10x6 master airscrew at 13000 rpm - a poor place to learn new procedures. Speaking of master airscrews, I love them in the air but they are a close relative of x-acto blades when it comes to hands and fingers![8D]
Fundamentally we need common sense but even more than that I think anymore someone new to the hobby can have a .40 size plane set up over a wkend or two and then they are operational.. When I started yrs ago I spent the first 10 yrs in the hobby learning procedure and respect with an .049 and plenty of episodes of minor injuries taught those lessons... Nowadays a persons first machine is commonly an os max .46 spinning a 10x6 master airscrew at 13000 rpm - a poor place to learn new procedures. Speaking of master airscrews, I love them in the air but they are a close relative of x-acto blades when it comes to hands and fingers![8D]
This is one of the best threads I have read in a long time.
We are a comunity that teaches all who attend. Besides all else safety should be a constant goal for our own health.
Happy flying and take one lesson from this post and pass it on.
04-15-2010 | 08:53 AM
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RE: Kindness Dangerous?
ORIGINAL: p51Dpony
Fundamentally we need common sense but even more than that I think anymore someone new to the hobby can have a .40 size plane set up over a wkend or two and then they are operational.. When I started yrs ago I spent the first 10 yrs in the hobby learning procedure and respect with an .049 and plenty of episodes of minor injuries taught those lessons... Nowadays a persons first machine is commonly an os max .46 spinning a 10x6 master airscrew at 13000 rpm - a poor place to learn new procedures. Speaking of master airscrews, I love them in the air but they are a close relative of x-acto blades when it comes to hands and fingers![8D]
Fundamentally we need common sense but even more than that I think anymore someone new to the hobby can have a .40 size plane set up over a wkend or two and then they are operational.. When I started yrs ago I spent the first 10 yrs in the hobby learning procedure and respect with an .049 and plenty of episodes of minor injuries taught those lessons... Nowadays a persons first machine is commonly an os max .46 spinning a 10x6 master airscrew at 13000 rpm - a poor place to learn new procedures. Speaking of master airscrews, I love them in the air but they are a close relative of x-acto blades when it comes to hands and fingers![8D]
My first non-049 was a Thunder Tiger .28 (back in 1984, when nobody had heard of TT), and I used to get whacked a lot at first. I've always been meticulous about dulling sharp prop edges, both front and back. A backfire will cut you as sure as a regular strike when the back end of the prop is sharp. I DON'T like the APC props, and I'm not talking about performance. Their performance is fine. Those props are like razor blades, and there is no performance level worth putting a meat slicer on the front of your model.
I'm a big fan of wooden props.
~ Jim ~
