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forgive me for this. but who in there right mind would tie a string to a airplane.

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It's one of those things that, if it has to be explained to you, you would never understand anyway. Two strings, now that is a different matter. Two strings tied to an airplane will provide many happy hours of enjoyment. I'm sure others will elaborate.

Jim

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kinda like tying a string to a june bug:)

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Guess you'll have to find someone in their right mind.

Now go play nintendo or we'll call your parents.

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Oh, some person enough in THEIR right mind to be able to differentiate between there, in the introductory pronoun use, and the possessive pronoun their.

I remember actually tying a string on a 1/2 A model and watching it fly around a swiveling pole, along with my small sons who thought it was a great fun thing.
I also enjoyed CL for many years and still do with some grandkids now and then.

Right Mind? Who judges? Definitely not YOU.

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So there!

:)

George

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Jeeze, that took gall

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I find it unforgivable that some people are so eager to demonstrate their ignorance with out first trying to learn something.

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The same type of person that can build a model from scratch, start a motor without an electric starter, and isn't afraid to fly stunts 5 foot from terra firma.

BTW I don't use string, I use steel cables to tether my models to my hand. Only women, twits, and RCer's (not all of them) think it's string.

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Right Catdaddy, like I've ever seen anything YOU"VE done with 5 foot bottoms!

Waaaa Waaa Waaa

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Well I am with you on all counts except one; the starting of the engine w/o an electric starter. With a wood prop hand propen is great with a master airscrew its like hand proping 2 steak knives. Can I at least us a chicken stick and still be a man????? LOL

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Geez!!

All this time, I thought it was J. Caesar who took Gaul!

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Guys,

While I think that the original post is probably a big put-on, I will respond by saying that I know a lot of allegedly sane Radio Control flyers who tie strings to their planes. At the other end of the string, one finds a streamer that others of a like mind try to cut with the prop(s) from their own planes, thereby stealing an aspect of model aviation from those of us who attach (I rarely tie mine unless they break ;) ) two steel lines to our planes to tether them to a small area and provide direct control of them. I even think that those Radio Control pilots refer to the activity with the same term as control line flyers do, i.e., COMBAT.

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Clean,
I sometimes fly stunts with a negative 5 foot bottom, of course I can only do it once per plane per day.

catdaddy

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Double,
Chicken sticks are cool, but I prefer a leather glove.

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CatDaddy:

Hand propping? The skin on the back of the first joints of my right index and middle fingers has grown back countless times. And that has been mostly wood props.

Bill.

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I prefer the plastic props, the cut glues better with the straight edges. Reminds me, I haven't been using my leather glove all summer, hmmm, wonder when I got out of that habit again. Then again, it probably happened sometime when the weather got warm. Hard props on a cold day are just Ouweee!

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I for one have tied a string to a plane and swung it around in circles. Then I found out about plastic planes with real motors!! They had two strings connected to the plane and a to a handle you put in your hand. The strings made the elevator move up and down and when the plane was in the air when you pulled on the strings it would go up or down!!!!! I was always going around in circles watching that plane and it was always going to the left so i guess i was in my left mind most of the time those days!!!
But there is something to be said about strings being attached to a plane. As long as they didnt break and it wasnt to windy, I never lost a single plane. d:-}

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Excuse me Mr. Catdaddy2, but I must reply to your outrageous chauvinist comment about women not knowing the difference between string and cable. I have been flying C/L since I was 7 years old, and I have flown combat for many of those years. In that time I have run into other women who have done the same. Besides I fly my fast combat planes with knitting yarn, not string. ;) Don't you dare lump us all into the "Oh, isn't that a cute little airplane, tee hee hee" category. I can kick butt in a combat match with some of the best of them. I also fly R/C combat and I'm just as deadly there. I know there are not as many serious women model aircraft fliers as there are men, but we do exist. Don't talk down to us.
As far as the Bozo who started this thread, he dosen't even deserve a comment from me.[>:]

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You tell 'em gurl....... :D

Hey NitroWoman, nice to see one of the fairer sex flying models. For much too long the hobby has been primarily male based and it's been a mystery to me why this is so. Certainly women pilots in full scale is very much on the upswing and I would have thought the same would hold true in model flying.

I had one woman at a swap meet ask me about joining the hobby and after I had offered some encouragement and options she sheepishly asked me how many other women there were in the club. I had to truthfully say that the ony women at the field were the ones came with their husbands.

However there IS hope on the horizon. A buddy of mine that helps organize our local diesel combat class meets here in the lower mainland tells me that he has one or two girls ( I forget how many) that are having a great time of it. And of course there's been the odd one show up in pictures in the magazines over the years. I still remember the pics of Dawn Cosmillo (sp?) flying stunt way back when.

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Hey guys, why are you wasting your breathe

his batteries will run out soon enough and then well we know what happens then. LOL ! [:-]

he's buying another ARF. (Almost Ready to Fly)
where's the real modeling skill in one day to flight.

it's just like a Hamburger Happy Meal
open the box and see what toy you get.

Oh! and BTW I did do R/C Planes, Boats, and cars

nice but it's just not Prime Rib.

and one more thing, If you want a plane built look me up

I'll put you on my waiting list.

http://www.builtrightflyright.net/index2.htm


Walter Umland
aka/ builditright

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I have copies of a couple of articles on flying tethered RC airplanes and one on tethered freeflight (which sounds like fun, actually.) So long as I can find articles like that, I'm not going to worry too much about my own mental state.

Jim

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I know that this is a really old thread, but I think its kind of stupid that someone would say something like that when they have never tried it and probably doesnt even know what it is!
theres a lot more to it than just tying a string to an airplane.

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I think people in American Samoa spend a lot of time worrying about brown tree snakes. It is good that he could take a break and wonder about something else.;)

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WOW! I can't believe someone dug this one up...but to continue the thread, I used to tie a string on JETEX models because I did not have a large enough field nearby. JETEX 50's did not run for long but it was still fun.

Some of the first CL planes were converted FF models, referred to as "goats".

Someone already mentioned tether plane racing.

George