RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
May 13, 2020 at 9:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2020 at 9:35 pm by onlinebiker.)
(May 13, 2020 at 7:28 pm)Fireball Wrote: One of my younger brothers builds and crashes RC planes very well. I think his record is 5 seconds. it was windy as hell, and his friend launched it into the wind. It went up maybe twenty feet, did a wing over(?) and augured in. Well, maybe it was about 1 second. That same friend was an absolute star at flying RC planes. We were out flying (well, I was watching- I can't even drive a curb-pheromone-sniffing RC car for shit, I ain't trying for 3D) one of his planes. His friend took it up and trimmed out the controls. The wind was blowing like a bitch that day, too. It was blowing hard enough that he was able to bring the plane down right next to where we were standing and land it. He then leaned over and picked it up and killed the engine. Never seen anything like that in my life, and likely never will again. Amazing.Me and my dad went to the AMA homecoming in Muncie IN. a bunch of years back. (Google it - if you don't know)
It was a nice clear warm day - with about 25 mph wind. I had a .60 sized Telemaster that we brought that I flew. The winds were so steady that I was able to take off and hold the plane hovering in about a 10 foot square box.
One of the officials eventually came by and said -
"Nice control pal - but they are flying kites over on the next site. Could you get that thing moving? Some guys want to do a flyby....."
