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If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
#51
RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
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.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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#52
RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
go through everyone's shit.
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#53
RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
(May 13, 2020 at 8:02 pm)masoni Wrote: go through everyone's shit.

Hehe  All the gold, diamonds, rubies, etc., and no one to adorn them with since you are alone. I'm reminded of one of the gals in my carving class. Her deceased husband's father died, and she got title to his house. She was talking about things one learns about someone in that case. He had sex toys, and guns hidden all over the house.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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#54
RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
(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....."
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#55
RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
You didn't meet a chubby balding school teacher named "Oberholtzer" there, did you?
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#56
RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
(May 13, 2020 at 6:58 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:
(May 13, 2020 at 6:50 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: When you've got nothing but time, you can start with the basics.  I didn't say it would be quick.  I would probably train for a couple years from the ground up.  It would be totally worth it. 

I have sort of a head start, with an engineering degree and knowledge of the fundamentals of flight from slope-soaring RC sailplanes...

I probably wouldn't drink beer and smoke dope before climbing into the cockpit of an F-35, though.   Cool

RC experience is good translated to real life - more so than the reverse - but it still isn't the same animal.

I have been flying RC for almost 40 years. Fixed and rotary. I flew helicopters before gyros.

My dad soloed in 1949 and has multiple thousand hours in recip and multi engine jets....

And he STILL can't land an RC trainer.....

I can sure understand that.  One of the hardest things for me to learn was to "fly ahead of the aircraft".  I imagine there's a similar concept in planes you climb into...
Disappointing theists since 1968!
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#57
RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
(May 13, 2020 at 8:02 pm)masoni Wrote: go through everyone's shit.

Collect as many valuables as I can and die on a throne of gold and platinum.

May as well go out in style.
Dying to live, living to die.
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#58
RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
(May 15, 2020 at 4:50 am)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(May 13, 2020 at 8:02 pm)masoni Wrote: go through everyone's shit.

Collect as many valuables as I can and die on a throne of gold and platinum.

May as well go out in style.

Funny, I pictured you going with a knife motif.
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#59
RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
(May 13, 2020 at 8:22 pm)Fireball Wrote:
(May 13, 2020 at 8:02 pm)masoni Wrote: go through everyone's shit.

Hehe  All the gold, diamonds, rubies, etc., and no one to adorn them with since you are alone. I'm reminded of one of the gals in my carving class. Her deceased husband's father died, and she got title to his house. She was talking about things one learns about someone in that case. He had sex toys, and guns hidden all over the house.

Sex toys are unfair to men.  You stay over at your girlfriend’s flat and find her vibrator in the night stand - you find it cute, sexy, kinky in a fun, friendly sort of way.

She stays at your place and finds the latex vagina in your cupboard, and suddenly YOU'RE the pervert.

Discrimination, that's what it is.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#60
RE: If you were alone on the planet, what would you do?
(May 15, 2020 at 4:50 am)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(May 13, 2020 at 8:02 pm)masoni Wrote: go through everyone's shit.

Collect as many valuables as I can and die on a throne of gold and platinum.

May as well go out in style.

it’s yours now!
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