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Post by hobbyjumper on May 1, 2011 16:41:28 GMT 1
I've received some excellent help and advice – so a little background info is owed. At age 10 or so my first airplane ride was in a Beaver bush plane with floats and the pilot did a cool dead stick landing on a tiny northern lake. After that i read every book on planes and pilots in the town library, plus I discovered they had stacks of Model Airplane News. I became a good builder for a young snot, but couldn't afford anything except the cheapest of the cheap – balsa and tissue rubber band and gliders. In my teens I saved up my nickels and bought a cox 049, a 2-channel radio, and built a cox st to go with it. I wanted to fly, but couldn't bear the thought of crashing the thing. Plus, in tests, the engine was noisy, messy, unreliable, and hurt my fingers. Then I got into motorcycles etc.
Decades later i see my chance to finally fly, thanks to these amazing electric foamies. I am learning on an Ember 2 and a hobbyzone champ, and I have a super cub lp waiting in the wings (as it were), which I one day hope to fly up at the lake, on floats, sort of completing the circle. Cheers... Pete
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Post by KAE on May 1, 2011 23:52:20 GMT 1
Welcome! I'm still new here myself. When you get to fly your Super Cub on floats I hope you have photos and/or video of the flight. I would love to see it! I thought about getting floats for my SC, but then I saw a video on YouTube and well, a boat would sure come in handy in some situations... and I don't have a boat.
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Post by hobbyjumper on May 2, 2011 17:49:16 GMT 1
Thanks Kae. My brother has a boat...and some fishing poles in case the SC is snatched by a mighty spruce! I have no defense plan against eagles.
ps: How's the flying weather in Wisconsin?
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Post by KAE on May 3, 2011 10:15:53 GMT 1
Well,so far if it isn't raining, the wind is blowing at about 30 mph. On the he few good flying days we've had, I've either been at work or had something else planned. I'm hoping things will change as summer reproaches.
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Post by hobbyjumper on May 3, 2011 14:35:45 GMT 1
Same here. I haven't got the cub airborne yet, but I've been down to the ball diamond and flown my micros in a light drizzle.
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