Might be, I don't care. He can risk his digits and other parts if he wants to. I'm not that stupid.

I just met Don at Home Depot. We have a light dusting of snow at my house. Over at the Depot(distance of 5 miles) they have an inch of snow. ugh!!!

down here in the sunny south we have no snow bright skies and its alot warmer than where tom is oop I think I know where one of the crazies is

Ya, in Buckley, Michigan!!! Now go put in that water heater so you can get back to important stuff like the Mystery Ship.

Tom, I do my best work in the late evening hours. But it all depends on the days rest before or if I choose to fall asleep after dinner watching tv...only to wake up and work on my plane.

The wings are stressing me out so I've been spending MUCH more time in front of the TV, sitting behind my workbench, pondering my next move to form the leading edge properly as to not change my airfoil to the point of disaster, while attempting to retain symetry (sp?) between wing halves. SIGH.

It's nice to see I haven't been forgotten on here though. The play on my name has inspired me to new handles possibly!

S

Sincraft, We wouldn't mess with your handle if we didn't love ya!

Anyway it seems to have slowed down now. No insults in the last 20 hours. I think maybe that Bill's medicine is wearing off.

When I get mystified by something I'm workong on, I watch TV too. Sooner or later, the answer comes to me. I figured out mt aileron installation on the FW that way yesterday. I even got some of it done! I'm warming up the shop now, so I can go out and finish it after breakfast.

Supposed to be 40 here today, but with 10-15 mph winds. That puts the wind chill low enough for me to stay inside!

Don flew his GWS Corsair for the first time yesterday. When he breaks out the electric planes, I know winter is here. The little thing is kinda neat. He says it flies well. I made the paint for it. Maybe we can get him to post a picture of ot. (hint, Don, hint)

Snoop,

Sorry to hear that you are not satisfied with the attitude of some of the member of the club. If I am a problem TELL me I will not be offended. I would like to know if I offended someone. The guy who flys every day, who told you to get another plane because the Eagle will not last long, has a history of crashing. So far he has gon through 8 Cubs. He gets nicer as you get to know him. But if you are not comfortable with him do not go when he is there. He flys every day from about 10am-2pm. If he said that is a sort of serious and somewhat mean way I applolgise. He is tired of training new pilots. Trainers can and do last a long time. The treasurer's trainer lasted him 2 years before the right wing fell off during flight. Mine is still going. And there is a guy who only flys his trainer. You will not necessarly crash it within a certain time frame just depends on your flying style. Many guys have different oppinions and attitudes about the cycle of R/C flying. Maby you would consider coming to the Christmas party and win equipment, supplies, (about one-thousand $$ in prizes) and eat cake and ice-cream. No business is conducted at the December meeting just a big party. There you could meet different members of the club, hear their conversations, expearance their personallities, and then make your stay in the club or join the farm group decision. I hope this helps some are intentionally mean, others sound mean, others do not understand you, others do not like answering newbie (dumb to them) questions, others do not like to give training, others are helpful, others lend you field tools, others are just there to look nice but not to do anything. It is all a matter of finding the right person. Once again my appologies for people who are shuning you from that first solo.

Sincerly,
BaronSchwab
or
BrennonS

There you go Snoop. The Barron is making you an invatation you shouldn't refuse.

Hey snoop
go check it out- sounds like a real enough invite to me

hey gurus, guys, knearly knutered knaves, dom trumps, stink rafts, slick billys, snoop scoups, barron et all other new namers,

i've been out because of laptop power supply problems & various other [&:] crazy stuff. ha

well, i'm about 2 pages behind the times.

my daughters van had eng. and trans. troubles. there's times i think its time for her to get a new timex. or maybe just a new watchmaker.

ron e-mailed me that the eagle is ready for another training session. although nights are cooler here, flying times are still near tee shirt temps, so there's no neutering weather down here yet. so i'll put the eagle up again this fri. & sat if the wx cooperates. it's been rainy or threatningly so for the last several days.

one of my work chums was sort of kidding me about getting a helichopper, so i'll tell him that line (i liked that one) about them not really flying, but being so ugly that they're just repelled by the ground.

oh yeah snoop that invitation from the barron sounds like a happening you don't want to miss. tell us all about it after the fact, ok?

well, it's about time for me to dispose of a moon pie and a jersey highball.

eesay oooyay aterlay,,,,, o k ?

aleday

Elad, Good to have you back with us!! Maybe you were lucky that you were'nt around. The words were flying hot and heavy for a while.

Bet you are glad to have your Eagle back. The only shirt sleve weather we have up here is indoors.

Good luck this weekend.

Dalelad!
long time no hear- shirt sleeve wow! sat and sun was beautiful here- 34 sunny degrees sat was calm when I went flying -got aflight in on my fma razor and a first flight on a gws corsair before all my appendages fell off!!!! sun was too windy for a second trim flight so I just flew the razor then beat feet back to to my warm little cave
send us a big enveope of warm sometime
later Don

Lollytwatt!!!

You can say that with a straight face !!!!!! as you sit in front of your furnace basking in the glow of a gas fire

Don, Yes I can!!! And if I get cold, I can turn up the thermostat.

Who gets cold??? Hey up here it was 43 today. On wednesday suppostobe 45 but wind gusting to 40mph!!! Whoa better get out the heavy weather kite.

Finally, somebody else speaking up that live in The Great White North! Our forcast for Wed. is similar, but onlt 20mph winds. I do get cold, tho. I figure winter was invented so that I can stay inside and build.

Barron, I take it that you and Snoop live close to the Wiscosin- Minnesota border. I used to live south of there in Cedar Rapids, Ia.

Ya we about 40 miles apart. But I do not know about Great White. Lately its been Great Windy. Well another excuse to be building.

Sink raft here..
Long time no talk guys. Been kinda busy. Work, nap, work on model airplane work on female companionship, eat, sleep. Rinse, repeat.
Sunday was a pretty good day of flying, however the weather drunks fubard their forcast AGAIN. VERY odd winds on sunday. Was supposed to be the calmest winds since 3 months. The weather sock would so NO wind, but there was a ground wind that would almost blow your airplane over. The wind in the air was downright squirly. Never seen it like this. I have flown in much worse wind and landing in horrible crosswinds. But sunday, we had our UGLIEST landings. On one landing in particular, I was coming in toward the pavilion/grass expecting the crosswind to blow it over toward the runway and possibly even past. Nope, HARSH crosswind and my airplane is floating more and more over toward the 'spectator' area. Which is only 25 feet from the runway hehe. SO I push my rudder over , more more more ...more..all the way now and it's still flying toward us AGAINST the crosswind. Normally with that crosswind, half the rudder would have caused my Eagle to auger into the ground creating a new place to put a post and sign saying "don't stand here, danger". Alas, I throttled up and got her out of there. About 25 feet from the ground I finally picked up the crosswind and she almost winged over. Scarey as all hell. Very squirly. Our airfield is on top of a hill about 800 feet higher than the river below. I am wondering if that could have something to do with it. It is probably one of the highest points in the area also, but there is a gentle hill behind our field where the crosswind comes from that is higher at approximately 1000 yards in length and another 100 feet in elevation. Just wondering. I seem to experience a new type of weather everytime. It is SOOOO much more fun to fly without wind. The things you can do in the sky are fun. I was doing extremely high speed passes without the wind and doing touch and goes even with a decent crosswind. But Sunday, man was it wierd. It seemed that almost every 50 cubed feet had it's own weather patterns.

Glad to see you are back Elad. *S* (salute)

Tom, how's things going with the build? I FINALLY have my top wing completely. Just a few bits of sanding to do and I am moving on to the bottom wing. I joined the two halves and am excited with how it turned out. I used that template I spoke of and smeared balsa filler to decrease the low spots bringing me to my final shape. It's pretty well almost on the mark perfect to what it's supposed to be. Even my wing tips are nothing but two pieces of balsa block, cut from a larger block, glued in a sandwich formation over a 1/8" piece of ply that goes on the middle of the wing. Then I have to sand and shape that. Done. Pain in the arse.

Welp, back to work now guys. Take care. It's 3 dollar pizza day. Time to turn up the thermostat, kick back and doze off to some seinfield. Ahhhhhhh.

S

Yes trainers are fun to fly in the wind. Harriers, knife edge, tail wheel touch and goes, just to name a few. [sm=spinnyeyes.gif] I ventured out today was kinda dissapointed that it was not as windy as forcased (I'm weird). Was looking forward to trainer in the wind flying. Oh well. Glad I had the Pizazz along. Hey! Ever heard of putting old Pizazz alirons, elevators, rudder on a trainer?? [sm=idea.gif] I got some spair part from my last Pizazz and was thinking about putting them on my trainer (no I did not crash my Pizazz today I am currently flying Pizazz #2). And Snoop my trainer is still flying.

Sincraft, I figured it was"female companionship" that was keeping you away. That balsa block wingtip is another place you could use a razor plane (harp,harp). Glad the top wing is done. If you wanted to, you could harden the balsa filler with some thin CA. It will hold up better on that LE. Otherwise you might have powder under your covering if you nick it. Post some pics on your thread if you get a chance.

Speaking of Snoop, I wonder where he's been.

Baron, I'm glad you are joining us on a regular basis.

sinker aft
next time you go by a building site with all those little flags "reposition" a few and add them to your approach area and watch the winds to see if there is a pattern to the microclimate there- Where did snoop and dale- go i hope they didnt get any of bills medicine If you ask nice usually the guys will give you a hand full of those little flags

I need little flags. Can you send me some after you "reposition" them into the mail??

Who would ever think of what is happening under the name of this thread "Eagle 2 ARF & 4 Stroke Engine?" This has gone WAY off subject. But I don't care I like having this "discussion" under a innocent sounding name as "Eagle 2 ARF & 4 Stroke Engine?"

Baron, i have a bunch of them. All you have to do is head east and come get them!!!