A mans Toy

[c303a]

I sorta envy you guys. Flying U-Control always made me dizzy, even on the small Cox .049 stuff. Merry-go-round had the same effect....

Did you ever try the bigger engines. Remember the bigger ones used 60 or even 70 foot cable lines so you weren't turning so fast.

[Fire$torm]

Did you ever try the bigger engines. Remember the bigger ones used 60 or even 70 foot cable lines so you weren't turning so fast.

Nope never did. Such things were a luxury growing up. By the time I had my first good part-time job I was way into model rocketry, R/C planes and home audio.

[shiva]

I sorta envy you guys. Flying U-Control always made me dizzy, even on the small Cox .049 stuff. Merry-go-round had the same effect....

well you weren't suppose to go around in circles all the time. figure 8's would let you stand in one spot, you could do them all day if you wanted to. even loops would let you take a break from circles. or invert and go in the other direction.

[c303a]

well you weren't suppose to go around in circles all the time. figure 8's would let you stand in one spot, you could do them all day if you wanted to. even loops would let you take a break from circles. or invert and go in the other direction.

Lots of possibilities. Use a flying wing and just do half of the circle and do a loop and go back the other way. Just don't put a 6 oz fuel tank on a .35.

[shiva]

Lots of possibilities. Use a flying wing and just do half of the circle and do a loop and go back the other way. Just don't put a 6 oz fuel tank on a .35.

yea was great fun

[Fire$torm]

Well first you have to get proficient at flying U-Control.... But since I always got dizzy, I never made it past noob stage. Hence my reason for gravitating to model rockets (yes, pun intended). First kit was the Estes Scout. Lost on first launch. After the Scout came (Not in order of build); from Centuri: Groove Tube, Excalibur, Astro-1 and a few others. From the Estes catalog Gyro, Mosquito, Big Bertha, Nimroc, SR-71, Mercury Redstone, Patriot, Red Max, etc...

If you check out Estes catalogs for years 1974~1993 I've had at least one rocket from every page during that time span. I've also built a handful of models of my own design.

Damn, now you guys have me thinking of building again......

[c303a]

If I started spending money on builds now, my wife would use the exacto knife on me.

[Fire$torm]

If I started spending money on builds now, my wife would use the exacto knife on me.

But it would get you away from your monitor and out of the house..... Use that as a selling point.

[shiva]

Back in the 80's my brother and I bought out a little hobbies store in a little town in south west Kansas. I still have a ME109 Messerschmidt, Nobler, and a Buster new in the box. My brother has 3 or 4 more kits. I think he still has some motors new in the box from then. He stayed in flying and building after I stopped. He has about 30 RC planes now.

[c303a]

Stop it. I just can't take up that hobby again. Crunching......building model planes so the grandkids can crash them.....crunching or planes.....electric bill or several hundred dollars for model planes....extremely mad wife or just a plain mad wife....no contest. I'll keep crunching.
Due to a problem with my legs I would have to build RC planes and that would be a big $ project since I only have a couple of RC engines (small 2 cycle ones) and no RC equipment.