Over the last few weeks I've really been listening to ya'll here on RCU!!!! And just to show you how much I appreciate it, this afternoon I was in my back yard and I had my wife SNAP this little image for ya'll to see how good I've gotten over the last few weeks:



What do you think???

Yours,

Kirk

cough**edit cough**

man you must have auto pilot considering you hand;s not even within a foot of the cyclic controls.

i love photo shop, good job though

Nice Job Kirk.....you have learned a lot from us, it shows. You will improve your skills as time goes on and move on to more impressive maneuvers. I had my wife under mine balancing it yesterday while I went in and made a sandwhich.

For what it's worth, I know it's hard to believe, BUT this is a REAL photo. ONE SHOT. It was done with a digital camera, and it was opened in photoshop to size it to fit here.

Color corrected and I ran an UNSHARPEN MASK.

But that's about it, NO layering.

Kirk

Kirk what gadget is this you have attached to the boom,

Is it a co-pilot ? I have a new post here today asking about them..

Another one from the photoshop master!

Drafter:

Well, yea, that's why I can fly it upside down on my finger.

KIDDING!!! NO it is NOT an AUTO PILOT!!!!

It's a aluminim thing that holds your rudder servo. The closer you can get your rudder servo to the tail, the better and smother the response. (LEARNED THAT HERE).

The reason you do not put it all the way to the back it because, 1. it would throw off your balance, and 2. THAT STINKING servo is EXPENSIVE and I'll be darn if I have a boom strike and break that servo.

Thanks for asking.

JOHN VH!!

I'm so disappointed in you. THINKING I did this in PHOTOSHOP!! I'm, I'm, I'm, speachless, I've never been hurt so deeply!! And esp. since YOU were one of the ones who's helped me so much!!


Kirk

HERE'S some questions for all YA'LL who DO NOT THINK it's REAL and think I did it in PHOTOSHOP:

1. HOW did I get the gas in the tank to go in the right direction?
2. HOW did I get the lighting (sun) to all go in the same direction?
3. IF I pasted the heli from some where else, how did I get the blur of the blades to show trees through it?

JUST a few things to make you GO HUMMMMM?????

The first one to explain HOW I DID IT will win a NEW CAR!!!!!!

Kirk

and the way the blades are shaped they look like there giving positive pitch


better duck

and maybe you edited yourserlf in not the heli, and the heli is from somewhere else

Ferrari......

ARE YOU KIDDING!!!! YOU can see all of that in a photo that was taken at 1/1000 of a second??

HEHEHEHEHEHE....

NO new car for you.....



Kirk

VERY GOOD!! But NO NEW car for you!!!!!

IF I were sitting on your side of the computer, I would have said that too. But NOPE!!

EL Wrong O..... I'm really there I tell you,,,,,I'm really there!!

HEHEHEHEHEHEHE


This is fun!!!

Kirk

hey kirk i am trying LOL

was I somewhat close?

Looks like it has all of the required components to be put on the

"HEY Y'ALL,,,,,,,,,,WATCH THIS!!" list.


Course, that's just my opinion.

It's hard to explain why this picture is real, because, it isn't!

Look at his hair! It's not waving and his shirt neither...

Pretty simple eh? Send me the car plz... Mail me and I give you the details!

kirk

4-22-02 in the eve. you couldn't even figure out how to set a pitch and throttle curve for FF flight.
took you only 7 days to fix the heli, set the picth curve right and learn flying inverted (thumbless) ?
spend you time on the field instead of photoshop but then you are a "Occupation Pro Photographer " and have all the toys...

the blades would cover up the trees in the background and no background would be visible (at least partial and clsoe to the head)

how come you have some unexplainable white "shade" around the red blade (close to the head) ?

i even can turn the gas "upside" down in photoshop in a few minutes.

no light (sun) therefore no shade.

and why the hell am i up at 3.00 am ?

and as mentioned in the post before, you shirt sleeve sure would not stay up like that...

send me a car as well please... )

I want my car first!!! I discovered the real facts about this photo first!!!!

Hmmm. No smoke, engine not running? Unsharpened the photo to hide the line suppending it upside down over you?

Hang it in the air, get the blades spinning by hand, get in position and snap the pict?

The problem is that the line at which the fuel is sitting is NOT paralel to the ground, in other words there is a slope where there should be none... and that is the smoothest hover I have ever seen, the fuel is NOT moving at all.... maybe it's from running sooo lean... with no smoke and all. John VH havn't you tought him better than to run an engine so lean!? Shame on you!!

Scott:

YOU are the closest to correct!! Think now would I FAKE it by just pushing the blades around??? THINK SCOTTY!! THINK!!

Scotty, YOU've ALMOST GOT THE CAR!!! ONE LAST LITTLE THING and I'll EMAIL IT TO YOU.

All very good answers, but SCOTTY looks like he will win the prize.........

HEEHEHHE.



FILMGRIP,,,,,, I've been practicing on the simulator DAY and NIGHT!! That's how I got so good so fast!!

COULD IT BE REAL???? HUMMMMM.

Kirk

I was going to wait it out for a few more post, but since I'm NOW on the second page, AND since SCOTTY was SOOOOOOO CLOOOOSE.

I figured I would and SHOULD give ya'll the answer:



YOU GUYS are so quick to think PHOTOSHOP that you just don't see the forest for the trees!!! GET IT??? TREES ARE WHAT is holding up this heli!!

HEHEHEHEHEHE.....


I sure hope all of ya'll enjoyed this little diversion!!!

ANY REQUEST for something else?? MAYBE a F4U Corsair HELICOPTER???? I think I'll work on that.

Kirk

Scotty,

HERE's you new CAR:



Come with a girl. She's Got 3 other sisters who all look EXACTLY like her. THEY ALL dress exactly the same.

MAN YOU SHOULD see all 4 of them squeeze into that car.

Kirk

looking at the real pic, wondering, your not standing under that thing while its running are you? Can be very hazardouse to your health!!!


Man, where did you get those hot sisters? *yuk*

John:

RUNNING??? YES!! Running very fast??? NO WAY 2 or 3 clicks above idle. Any faster and the thing would wobble like crazy.

SURE WAS FUN!!!

Kirk