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12-13-2015, 12:28 AM
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One windless day I took my brown and yellow model to an abandoned aerodrome with my father who wasn't an aeromodeller and his brother who was, and it flew beautifully.
This experience stayed with me and is the main reason why I'm typting this.
Happy landings gentlemen.
12-13-2015, 11:10 AM
#2028
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I'm 64, my first balsa model was a Comet F4u Corsair. I was about ten years old. I cut out all the printed parts with a double edge razor! I put the wet tissue on and didn't use dope. The tissue dried and shrunk up,and when I picked up the model,all,the covering fell off! The learning process I guess !
I still have trouble covering with tissue I get the job done but it just isn't as neat looking as I have seen other guys models look. maybe I am rushing the job.
The double edge razors cut me more than the parts and spilt the lumber because i was cutting too deep in a single pass. I am still learning how to cut the smaller parts Now and I have noticed a improvement. But No more double edge blades.
I recently finished this little thing
12-13-2015, 11:36 AM
#2029
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That charger shows you have much improved, I have fond memories of that type of bird, it was the type that I saw do loops and rolls for the first time in the late 1950's and launched me into R/C......... you do nice work
12-13-2015, 12:35 PM
#2030
Thank you,Donny. The tissue is a special skill. The more determined I am and the more time I take the worst it gets. The heat shrink Cover All seems just plane easy to me. The Mono Cote is some times frustrating mostly because it doesn't always stick the way I expect it to.
12-13-2015, 01:53 PM
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I'm 64, my first balsa model was a Comet F4u Corsair. I was about ten years old. I cut out all the printed parts with a double edge razor! I put the wet tissue on and didn't use dope. The tissue dried and shrunk up,and when I picked up the model,all,the covering fell off! The learning process I guess !
Jim
12-13-2015, 03:28 PM
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Thanks guy's for all the happy birthday wishes. They cheered me up some what as my wife is in the hospital & crittical. She is terminal so i wont be on the site for quite a while after tuesday. Hey you guy's all have a merry christman and a great flying new year. Frank g trainermaster80
12-13-2015, 08:30 PM
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Praying for you and your other half, Frank. The Shenandoah Valley will have a candle burning for you.
12-14-2015, 08:41 AM
#2039
Ah, guys. Darn. My father was a real, no kidding, actual, illegal immigrant. Born in Antwerp, Belgium, as a kid he lived under the German boot in WW1. Scars on his forehead from climbing under barbed wire to steal potatoes. Between the wars, he was a cabin boy on a merchant that made the Antwerp, New York run ... one day in NY, he just never made it back to the boat.
Ultimately joined the Army in WW2, was recruited into the OSS because of his language skills and did a lot of black work before D-day. Retired many years later a full colonel in the Army Reserve - it killed him when I went Navy ROTC.
My dad is the guy in the center, looking down. Here's a link to what they did. And yes, I have a C47 that I'm working on to remember him with.
Ultimately joined the Army in WW2, was recruited into the OSS because of his language skills and did a lot of black work before D-day. Retired many years later a full colonel in the Army Reserve - it killed him when I went Navy ROTC.
My dad is the guy in the center, looking down. Here's a link to what they did. And yes, I have a C47 that I'm working on to remember him with.
Black and Native American Genealogy can be a tough nut to crack. For blacks its hard to find much before the civil war. With Native Americans when it came to get on the tribal roles many refused because of distrust of the white government or in some cases if an Indian was established in white society it could hurt them if it was known they had Indian blood.
My wife's family are all Germans and where she hit a snag was those members who came from Prussia. Prussia is one of those areas where you can be either German or Polish depending on the year you were born. Her family were Germans but they were Jewish. The Nazis when they moved in destroyed ever Synagogue, cemetery, and every local source of records they could get their hands on. They even destoryed the headstones!
12-14-2015, 10:38 AM
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You just reinforced what my mother told us, that her mother warned her to not let people know we are indians because they hate us.
Some information for blacks has been recovered from the records of slavers before the civil war. I would be tickled to have data back to that era.
You just reinforced what my mother told us, that her mother warned her to not let people know we are indians because they hate us.
Some information for blacks has been recovered from the records of slavers before the civil war. I would be tickled to have data back to that era.
12-14-2015, 05:09 PM
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thank you ALL for your cosideration. sorry to report that my wife passed away peacefully sunday night
i have 6 grand kids & a son & a great daughter for support.
and all my modeling friends too. will keep busy finishing my dynaflite super decathlon. i will try smoke on this one. i will have to postpone it for a while till things settle down here. a merry Christmas to all modelers. & A GREAT FLYING IN 2016.
THANK YOU FRANKIE TRAINERMASTER80 NOW 87 12/8/2015
i have 6 grand kids & a son & a great daughter for support.
and all my modeling friends too. will keep busy finishing my dynaflite super decathlon. i will try smoke on this one. i will have to postpone it for a while till things settle down here. a merry Christmas to all modelers. & A GREAT FLYING IN 2016.
THANK YOU FRANKIE TRAINERMASTER80 NOW 87 12/8/2015
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12-14-2015, 06:19 PM
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They don't call them the greatest generation for nothing!
Black and Native American Genealogy can be a tough nut to crack. For blacks its hard to find much before the civil war. With Native Americans when it came to get on the tribal roles many refused because of distrust of the white government or in some cases if an Indian was established in white society it could hurt them if it was known they had Indian blood.
My wife's family are all Germans and where she hit a snag was those members who came from Prussia. Prussia is one of those areas where you can be either German or Polish depending on the year you were born. Her family were Germans but they were Jewish. The Nazis when they moved in destroyed ever Synagogue, cemetery, and every local source of records they could get their hands on. They even destoryed the headstones!
Black and Native American Genealogy can be a tough nut to crack. For blacks its hard to find much before the civil war. With Native Americans when it came to get on the tribal roles many refused because of distrust of the white government or in some cases if an Indian was established in white society it could hurt them if it was known they had Indian blood.
My wife's family are all Germans and where she hit a snag was those members who came from Prussia. Prussia is one of those areas where you can be either German or Polish depending on the year you were born. Her family were Germans but they were Jewish. The Nazis when they moved in destroyed ever Synagogue, cemetery, and every local source of records they could get their hands on. They even destoryed the headstones!
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12-15-2015, 06:29 AM
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thank you ALL for your cosideration. sorry to report that my wife passed away peacefully sunday night
i have 6 grand kids & a son & a great daughter for support.
and all my modeling friends too. will keep busy finishing my dynaflite super decathlon. i will try smoke on this one. i will have to postpone it for a while till things settle down here. a merry Christmas to all modelers. & A GREAT FLYING IN 2016.
THANK YOU FRANKIE TRAINERMASTER80 NOW 87 12/8/2015
i have 6 grand kids & a son & a great daughter for support.
and all my modeling friends too. will keep busy finishing my dynaflite super decathlon. i will try smoke on this one. i will have to postpone it for a while till things settle down here. a merry Christmas to all modelers. & A GREAT FLYING IN 2016.
THANK YOU FRANKIE TRAINERMASTER80 NOW 87 12/8/2015
12-16-2015, 05:00 AM
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The FAA it appears wants to control our flying and is asking us to pay fees and get registered. well I for one am totally against it.
this is nothing other than a power/money grab. and we all had better fight it with all we have.
Remember, the anti christ will want you to have a number also!.....mental conditioning of the masses is the beginning.
Have you considered how many numbers is connected to every member of your family now?
Consider this ....every gun made has a number, how has that number stopped the murders?
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12-16-2015, 05:52 AM
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We've got newspaper articles about drones all over the place and a lot of people getting worked up over it. Just like lots of other things. But in the end, you do an online registration every three years and put a number on your plane. If this is all it amounts to, that we get another number to put next to the AMA number we're already required to have in our models, then I don't see this as a big deal. It could have been a lot worse.
The population of the country has doubled since most of us were kids climbing over a barbed wire fence with our airplanes and annoying the cows. And the technology has gotten to the point where anyone can walk into the local Target and buy an amazingly capable aircraft with a digital camera and fly it themselves. A significant part of the public is worried about this. I don't think they should be, but I understand that they are, and I understand that politicians are going to respond to that. This is not a government power grab and the money is insignificant. It's public fear and lack of knowledge, and politicians being politicians. Our own lobby stopped the worst ideas, and what's left after the face-saving and compromises are all done with ain't that bad.
Jim
The population of the country has doubled since most of us were kids climbing over a barbed wire fence with our airplanes and annoying the cows. And the technology has gotten to the point where anyone can walk into the local Target and buy an amazingly capable aircraft with a digital camera and fly it themselves. A significant part of the public is worried about this. I don't think they should be, but I understand that they are, and I understand that politicians are going to respond to that. This is not a government power grab and the money is insignificant. It's public fear and lack of knowledge, and politicians being politicians. Our own lobby stopped the worst ideas, and what's left after the face-saving and compromises are all done with ain't that bad.
Jim
12-16-2015, 06:20 AM
#2050
We've got newspaper articles about drones all over the place and a lot of people getting worked up over it. Just like lots of other things. But in the end, you do an online registration every three years and put a number on your plane. If this is all it amounts to, that we get another number to put next to the AMA number we're already required to have in our models, then I don't see this as a big deal. It could have been a lot worse.
The population of the country has doubled since most of us were kids climbing over a barbed wire fence with our airplanes and annoying the cows. And the technology has gotten to the point where anyone can walk into the local Target and buy an amazingly capable aircraft with a digital camera and fly it themselves. A significant part of the public is worried about this. I don't think they should be, but I understand that they are, and I understand that politicians are going to respond to that. This is not a government power grab and the money is insignificant. It's public fear and lack of knowledge, and politicians being politicians. Our own lobby stopped the worst ideas, and what's left after the face-saving and compromises are all done with ain't that bad.
Jim
The population of the country has doubled since most of us were kids climbing over a barbed wire fence with our airplanes and annoying the cows. And the technology has gotten to the point where anyone can walk into the local Target and buy an amazingly capable aircraft with a digital camera and fly it themselves. A significant part of the public is worried about this. I don't think they should be, but I understand that they are, and I understand that politicians are going to respond to that. This is not a government power grab and the money is insignificant. It's public fear and lack of knowledge, and politicians being politicians. Our own lobby stopped the worst ideas, and what's left after the face-saving and compromises are all done with ain't that bad.
Jim
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