Ep 114: We’re Live!

[00:00:06] Hello everyone and welcome to the RC Plane Lab podcast. Oh, hold on, let me push this button first. Here we go, there we go. Hello everyone, welcome to the very first live edition of the RC Plane Lab podcast. I’m Ron, I’m Tom and I’m dave, so we’re having some audio issues actually on this one, so there’s going to be a little. It’s kind of weird that dave and tommy cannot talk at the same time.

[00:00:39] So they’re yeah microphone shuffling sharing is what I’ll be doing over here yeah but.

[00:00:45] What I got five dollars on I get whacked by this thing before we’re done if you start talking he.

[00:00:49] Gets that over in front of your face quick. Yeah, I’ll probably whack you upside the face with this at least once and I will laugh, and Ron will probably laugh and I absolutely will. So, okay, what’s going on live. Well, it’s raining- weird, we’ve got some weather outside. We do have some weather.

[00:01:04] I hope it doesn’t affect our stream. Yeah, I hope not. We’ll see we’re going straight to satellite stuff, so who knows? But if it does, it’s also being recorded. Yeah, if it does, it’s being recorded, we will upload this as an actual episode afterwards. Yes, this is weird. Like I can’t make a mistake, like I feel.

[00:01:23] Like you make mistakes all the time it’s fine you should be used to it oh that was that was deep.

[00:01:29] That was. That was hurtful. I’m glad I’m on this side of the table. I don’t know if I like that anyway. So what should we talk about? What do you want to start or start with? Well, how about we?

[00:01:41] Talk about last week’s episode and the one with Reggie’s accident yeah we got a lot of.

[00:01:45] Feedback for that we did. Yeah, a lot of people reaching out because I don’t know how well we actually explained that he’s going to be okay. Yeah, Reggie’s fine, he’s going to hopefully fine. He’s ever going to be. That’s. That’s a good point. As fine as he started off with, so he will have a full use of his hand and everything. After all the healing is done. Yeah, he’s expected to make

[00:02:07] A complete recovery and get the full, full functionality. We hope you enjoyed this episode of the rc. Nope, we’re not done yet. Hold on there, we go. Thanks, crystal, but yeah, he’s supposed to get full function and he’s still struggling to get his fingers completely straight and flat again. Yeah, but I

[00:02:23] Think that’ll come with time it’ll come with time yeah I think so too but yeah we got lots of.

[00:02:28] Feedback on the discord server a lot of people you guys are terrible you were making so much so bad.

[00:02:34] He took it well. He did like, if you weren’t on discord, there was a lot of- I gotta hand it to you- comments, a lot of- I can’t quite put my finger on comments dave even chimed in with. I don’t have a leg to stand on because, for those that don’t know, dave has one leg, which one leg is missing. So he, that’s how. You have one leg. I’m sorry, I’m like trying to drop it. I hop.

[00:03:00] Well, that’s what crystal came down before and she’s like, oh, somebody got new shoes. Who is it? And I’m like, well, it’s not me. I said, is there one or two? Because that will tell who’s there. Because yeah, they doesn’t. But anyway, there was some discussion on the discord server about

[00:03:14] Gloves also, which are actually- it’s a good idea. Yeah, I mean, a lot of people put way more thought into what glove they use than I do. I mean, I just do you use a glove? Yeah, like I don’t remember, I don’t. Yeah, I have a leather. It’s a really lightweight leather, but it’s a leather like a work type glove that I use to, if anything, to prevent it from cutting my finger completely off. Yeah, and I, I use a

[00:03:39] Heavy leather chore glove with a lining kind of like a winter glove so it’s got some nice padding.

[00:03:44] To it: see, I’m already missing fingers, so that’s okay, like I don’t mind if I lose another one. That’s another one. I don’t know if people know, so I’m missing a couple fingers on my left hand from table saw actually. So which? If you, if you ever watch any of our youtube videos, you’ll notice that.

[00:03:58] Ron does not like to be in them for that very reason I try to hide you do I do and that’s okay.

[00:04:03] I think maybe I don’t know whatever I’m getting to the point where I don’t even care anymore.

[00:04:07] Like it’s it’s coming around it yeah you’re getting comfortable yeah with our three audience.

[00:04:13] Members oh god stop it anyway so gloves what kind of gloves do you recommend for starting a.

[00:04:21] Motor. Well, like I said, I use a lightweight leather glove, but a welding gauntlet was actually what they’re called, but it’s a really, really thick, heavy glove. Those are great for starting some of the bigger, more dangerous engines. That’s what one of the guys on discord suggested, that. And then we actually had somebody else say: yeah, I’ve never, I’ve never heard of this before, but

[00:04:44] Yeah, hockey, hockey glove, and I guess I can see they got a lot of padding on the knuckle. So if you got a motor it likes to backfire on you. That’s nice. That’s part of the reason I use a heavy winter glove is for the extra padding, but it is bulky and cumbersome, especially with the smaller engines.

[00:04:58] Yeah, yeah, I would agree. Yeah, but I, just like I said, I usually don’t. It’s not like I start a ton of them, but I, I don’t ever wear a glove. I’ve never had one bite me. That little 15 bit me and it freaking hurt man well that it did, okay. Well, I don’t have any small ones, like well, so I have to worry for me.

[00:05:17] Like I, so you’re talking about your. I want to say there’s one. Yeah, for me I fly a lot of smaller nitro stuff and I’m really, really comfortable- probably more comfortable than I should be- around them. So a lot of the times, if it’s an engine that I’m very familiar with and that treats me well, sometimes I don’t even wear a glove, and that’s, that’s a foul on me. I should wear one at least every time. Or use a chicken stick, which that’s a fancy term for using a device to flip the prop with instead of your finger, but I don’t like those very much, by the way. Yeah, I don’t.

[00:05:52] Either I don’t get the feeling right- yeah, I don’t either. But if you develop your technique and, like I said, if it’s an engine that you’re familiar with, I, a lot of the times I’ll go without a glove and sometimes even I can start an engine- if it’s one that I’m really familiar with- just by grabbing the spinner and not even getting my hand anywhere near the prop. Yeah, that little 15, I usually

[00:06:13] Just grab by a spinner or maybe just touch the prop, but I use a glove when I do hand flip because I use nylon propellers a lot and even though they’re sanded and smooth, they can still give you.

[00:06:24] A nasty little paper cut per se sure they can yeah they can especially those smaller props like on.

[00:06:30] That 15. So when you’re talking about like an engine backfiring and having it come through and hit the back of your hand, I’ve never had that happen before. Four strokes, four strokes, okay. Well, that’s probably why- because I don’t have any four strokes that I would start by hand, like that, yeah, what like is a? How do you make sure that doesn’t happen? I mean, like, if you completely follow through with your motion, does that help? Does it? It does okay? Yeah, you have to make sure.

[00:06:56] That your flip is vigorous and you have to make sure that you follow through right, just like you. They say, like if you’re playing tennis, the follow through with your when you’re swatting at the ball or whatever it is, it’s important. It’s important when you’re hand starting an engine to follow through and not give up on it when it’s coming up on compression and just assume that it’s going to go ahead and make it all the way over. Yeah, that’s actually one of the

[00:07:19] Methods to start a four stroke is to flip it backwards against compression it’ll bounce against that.

[00:07:23] Compression and backfire and go the right direction exactly. You’re taking the kind of advantage of the backfire to actually give it its momentum to start itself and get it over that, that top dead center of compression. Yeah, I’ve seen you do that before. Yeah, and that’s how I start all my four.

[00:07:38] Strokes. I guess I didn’t realize that was four stroke only. Well, I shouldn’t say all my four strokes, all my single cylinder four strokes. That’s how I start them. But yeah, on the, on the two.

[00:07:47] Strokes things and or if you’re going to hand start anything, just the follow through is the most important thing and make sure that you’re not like- and it’s going to sound really terrible, but don’t be like limp fingers. I’m saying like you have a purpose, have a purpose and follow through. When you flip it over top dead center, make sure that you follow through and get your hand and get your hand out of the way. But usually if you’re flipping it vigorous enough, your hand is going to go out of the way just because of the, the motion, the force of moving it, the natural motion is going to pull.

[00:08:16] You out of the prop arc yeah exactly okay so yeah that’s what they said like I said I’ve never heard.

[00:08:22] Of a hockey glove before, but me either. That’s, that was new to me, but it sure does make sense because, like dave said, we’re not canadian. Yeah, we’re not canadian. Hey, hey, the guy that suggested.

[00:08:32] It wasn’t either yeah I don’t think it was our canadian that was our friend tony that said that so.

[00:08:37] But yeah, that it makes perfect sense because they’re padded on the back side where, yeah, sometimes they get you on the knuckle and that really hurts, especially when it’s cold.

[00:08:45] Outside. Oh yeah, yeah, okay, so that was, that was Reggie. Like I said, he’s he’s doing fine. He will be fully recovered. Yep, and we’ll talk to him again sometime in the near future to see what his next steps are going to be with things. Yep, I’m trying to get him to sell a bunch of airplanes.

[00:09:04] He really needs to he needs to make some space especially if he wants to buy a jet.

[00:09:09] That’s his next thing he wants. Yeah, there’s no space in that apartment, no, and he, he has it in his mind that he’s going to get it faster than our two-year goal, which is fine, because I don’t know if I’m going to be able to justify doing my two-year goal. Well, like I said, there’s a lot of stars that have to align just perfectly for all that together, and I suggested him. Like, honestly, if he is serious about this, if he really wants to do this, the best thing he can do right now is join monticello model masters, because it seems like everybody over there has an actual turn. It does.

[00:09:41] Seem that way. It’s like every time we’re there, there’s a jet there, yeah, and they are very friendly and they will walk you through what needs to be done, just so you don’t buy junk, so you don’t buy something that you don’t know what you’re buying. So talk to somebody that does: yeah, hopefully he’ll go through with that, but I don’t know if he will or not, because, well, he needs to make some space first, just like you said. So, yeah, and I’ll take and you’ve got he wants. I do have plenty, so you could.

[00:10:06] Buy lots of his airplanes and if you end up with that just give them to me if you end up with the.

[00:10:11] Hellcat. I would be interested in that. I don’t think that’s gonna happen. He will not get off that one, but I know I don’t understand why, but anyway. So we got stickers. Yeah, we’re ordering stickers in. I don’t know, I was super excited, but now it’s like it’s a sticker. Yeah, but they’re cool, they’re.

[00:10:29] Cool stickers. They’re our logo- our logo with our website on it. So if you want a sticker, you can send us a self-addressed stamped envelope and we’ll send you one. And the address to send that to is RC Plane Lab post office box 107, mechanicsburg, illinois, 62545. Great for a lot of.

[00:10:49] Things. Oh yeah, field boxes, airplanes, not airplane phone cases or the phone like the back of your phone case thing. It’s a good idea. Yeah, transmitter case, I need to find a way. Yeah, we all have like with the ones of us that have the ix12. They look identical. They do see, forget whose is whose. I need to put some, although if we both have stickers, then it’s gonna be the same thing. I’ll put two on mine. You can have one. There you go. Maybe I want three. Well, okay, okay, so put three one. Whatever we do present for your wife, I’m gonna give one to christmas. Merry christmas.

[00:11:23] Yeah, I’m sure she will really appreciate that. I like to stick, so I have a big water jug that I use at work and it’s covered with stickers. That’d be a perfect place to put a sticker also.

[00:11:35] There you go, it would. Or your refrigerator- I don’t know about a sticker on it, that’d be hard to get off. Well, I mean, if it’s like a garage fridge, who cares? That’s true, we have cover the rust spots.

[00:11:50] I’ll need like 700 of them just to wrap it. No, but one thing we’re gonna do, though, for our patrons: we will send you stickers for free. We appreciate the support you guys have given us. So if I actually I don’t have addresses for patrons, so I’ll be reaching out, but if you’re listening now, send me your address. We’ll send you a sticker if you want one. If you don’t, well that’s your problem. And who, but I mean who- doesn’t want one? I mean you need at least two, exactly at.

[00:12:23] Least see dave just so we’re sending two now well I mean we can I guess no we can’t take this back.

[00:12:31] Now either. So, okay, well, we didn’t say we’re sending them to. Dave just says you need to, so, oh, we’ll send you one for free. Well, we’re gonna send them. I mean. Well, I mean they sent us an envelope and then we’ll send them one, and then, if you want more, you can buy them. Why I wouldn’t sell them? Well, on our on our swag page you can buy stickers. On the swag page you can see this is stuff that if we weren’t live, we could take out. Well, it’s good that I remind them because, hey, by the way, there’s RC Plane Lab swag. There you go, yeah, and if you go to our website, rcplanelab.com, there’s a.

[00:13:07] Link there to our swag and you can buy all kinds of cool stuff with our logo on it okay I’m wearing.

[00:13:12] Some rain. Yeah, well, it’s under. I was gonna say, no, you’re not. You’re such a liar, hold on, he’s stripping, he is. See, there it is. I don’t see. I just see a belly. That’s a big bill. I still don’t. No, I just see chest hair. Oh, it’s like a. It’s there, trust me, anyway. Okay, off the rail. Moving on. Before I forget, this is:

[00:13:37] Really no different whatsoever from our normal episodes by the way before I forget no episode.

[00:13:44] Next week. We, we, we’ve just been busy. I mean, like, honestly, the- I don’t know if I’ve said it yet or not- the whole reason right now that we are live is because we could not get together any night this week with our schedules and actually record an episode and have me have time to get it out for tonight. So that’s what brought this whole live thing on. So, whatever we, we do what we can, but we’re going to be working in order to bring more stuff later. Yeah, you’ll, you’ll be trying.

[00:14:18] To figure that out so we can make this work again in the future. And we’ll have to make this work when we do the call-in guests. Yeah, we’ll figure it out. Yeah, we’ll get it figured out, did you guys? All it takes is money. What’s that? Speaking of money, we’re all loaded. Yeah, I don’t mean.

[00:14:35] Money-wise, maybe that’s what we need. Oh, we’re loaded. All right, have you seen any of the new products that are coming out? There’s one that I think we are all super excited about. I am super excited, so glad it’s back, and I don’t know why it’s this exciting, but it’s super exciting. Dubro is releasing the sanding blocks again. Dubro for the win, and it’s about time. And

[00:14:56] Like, how many times have we- at least a few times we’ve talked about it on the podcast, about how tools come and go. I remember the great tool. I wonder why someone can’t bring it back. Well, dubro, did they’re working on the contoured sanding bar man? Thank you, dubro.

[00:15:14] Contoured yeah it’s got the contoured handle is that okay when you say contour I think oh I’m sorry.

[00:15:18] Yeah, it’s a flat sanding bar but it’s has a contoured handle to make it kind of more comfortable to grip. And man, I am so glad they’re making them two lengths at 11 inch and five and a half inch.

[00:15:29] It’s- yeah, it’s the same one that used to be able to get years and years and years ago. Yep, the old gray plains one, and it’s gonna be nice to see some more stuff coming out. Hopefully they start bringing some more of the old stuff, yeah, back out. Yeah, I hope so, and I hope they have enough people buying them to make it worth their while. And that’s where you guys come in. Yeah, I don’t even.

[00:15:46] Need a sanding block, I’m gonna buy another one. Well, you should like the way I. The way I would prefer it, I would have one of each length. Well, I would. I take that back. I would have three of each length and then on each one I’d have fine, medium and coarse. Yeah, that way I don’t have to change paper or anything like that. I can just grab the bar and go. I, however, would love to see them.

[00:16:09] Bring back the extra long one I can’t remember how long it is it’s like two foot or something like.

[00:16:13] That yeah it was yeah it was a it was a there’s no reason they couldn’t that’s true I mean these.

[00:16:19] Are all coming in maybe they were in long like eight or ten foot sections maybe if these maybe.

[00:16:23] If these lengths that they’re going to do sell well enough maybe they will they will bring that back.

[00:16:27] Or somebody call them just say hey could you cut one a little long for me that maybe yeah it could.

[00:16:32] Because I mean, it’s just an extrusion, like we were talking about it beforehand, beforehand, and it’s an extrusion that they push the molten aluminum through and then I mean you can cut it.

[00:16:41] To about any length I would imagine so yeah the longer it is the more expensive it is to ship but.

[00:16:47] Well, yeah, but I mean, okay, if you really need a two foot long bar and you can’t get them anymore, wouldn’t be worth. I mean, wouldn’t be a. I don’t think it would be worth it. Yeah, I don’t think it would be a futile attempt to at least call them and say, hey, listen, can you? Yeah, cut me off a.

[00:17:03] Couple of these things, or three, three for you. And see, I’m the same way, like I only have two of them right now. I don’t have any of the short ones, I just have the 11 inch ones and I have fine and medium. Yeah, because I don’t have any course, because of course I usually don’t do it that badly to where I have to have course to go that fast. Oh, I, I use course all the time. I rarely use the others, that’s.

[00:17:23] Almost always the 80 grit, really. I’ll start a new kit with brand new 80 grit paper on the block and by the time I’m done it’s worn out enough that I can actually do my final sanding. Really, yeah, that’s.

[00:17:35] That’s been my experience also. Huh yep, maybe I need to build more and figure it out then I don’t know well, 80 grit tends to make things go a little bit faster too, true, and I’m impatient, so the faster.

[00:17:47] Things go the better. Really, I never knew that. Yeah, so that’s one of the things they came out with. Hopefully they bring more stuff out. E-flight, by the way, is also coming out with a new f-16 thunderbird scheme. Have you seen that? I haven’t, yeah, but is that a repaint of the old gray one? I don’t know, I don’t know. I don’t know their whole history of things. Was it an 80 millimeter before?

[00:18:10] I don’t know, but I kind of have a feeling they had a gray one that was an 80 millimeter. It might have been 70, but I think it was 80. So I think this is just a repaint with an update, but that’s.

[00:18:19] Kind of really nice. Yeah, it’s good to see some more things. Is it safe? Does it have the safe in it? I would. I don’t know, but I can’t imagine it wouldn’t. Pretty sure. I saw a video and I think they had safe on it. Yeah, I think everything pretty much that comes out with them- foam does, probably, and the reason I say foam is because hanger nine is actually coming out. There’s been a lot of emails coming out from them lately about things they’re coming out with. I’ve been bad about.

[00:18:44] Checking my email and I, like, checked it tonight before we got started and I was like holy cow, I should check my email more often. There’s a lot of stuff. I got a lot of stuff from horizon there, yes, yeah.

[00:18:53] So they have a fun scale pt19 coming out it’s a plug and play 56 and a half inch wingspan.

[00:19:01] Expensive, yeah, but it’s balsa. Well, that’s. It’s kind of neat to hear the fun scale term again. Like dave, I’m not familiar with this. Yeah, dave will probably remember. Well, I know dave will remember because I know he’s built several fun scale mustangs and the house of balsa made a bunch of fun scale. They did a corsair and they did a couple other like 40 nitro size, 40 size, but it’s, it’s kind of cool to see that name pop up again. Yeah, they just cheat the air foils a little.

[00:19:31] Bit make them a little more forgiving better flying but they still really looked the part yeah so that’d.

[00:19:36] Be kind of like that, not pts. What was the trainer mustang thing that I yeah, that was a pts. Yeah, that kind of be considered a fun scale because it’s like a yeah, because it’s yeah, because it’s slab.

[00:19:46] Size. It’s not contoured fuselage and that, like dave says, they take and they kind of maybe shave off the lower half of the airfoil and make it kind of a semi-symmetrical or a flat bottom to make them a little bit easier to fly. But and from 25 feet away it looks like a mustang. So I imagine this thing is going to probably look pretty good. It does look pretty good.

[00:20:09] Yeah, it looks real good in the photos that I saw. Yeah, electric, but yeah, four hundred forty nine dollars and 99 cents electric. But that comes with everything except your battery and your receiver. So if you look at it that way, it’s not bad. Like okay, well, let’s say, let’s say you’re going to put a.

[00:20:25] Decent, which you should, yeah, receiver in it. That’s 80 bucks, 100 bucks. So now you’re- you’re over 550 for less than 60 inch wing. That seems really expensive to me by the time you it’s.

[00:20:42] Getting up there, sorry, yeah, but by the time you buy an ARF, by the time you buy quality- no, you’re right. By the time you buy a quality speed controller, quality motor, I mean, stuff just gets expensive.

[00:20:53] No, you’re right, you’re right and- and a lot of that is the, the times we’re currently living in- right, because balsa is it’s not impossible to get it, but it is more difficult to get possible for us. And well, yeah, but it is more expensive. So I mean materials, raw materials are expensive and labor is more expensive since covid because people don’t want to work or whatever. So, no, I get it, I get the, I get the price increase. I just hope that this isn’t the new like normal. Yeah, what I mean? Because pre-covid, you could get an ARF for 200 bucks, a decent you.

[00:21:29] Know, 40 size, sport type, yeah, but you’re kind of doing the same thing now, though. I mean, if you buy- yeah, like I said, five servos or I don’t know what that one takes- maybe four servos, probably four, along with decent servos are expensive, you’re at least 25, 30 bucks for a servo, that’s true. So there’s 110, right, and all the work is done for you. So there’s that also speed controller. Yeah, motor. Now you’re right, covering. I mean you don’t have to worry about covering with an ARF because it’s already done. Well, that’s true, I think it’s spinner, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, I mean it’s, it’s not.

[00:22:03] That far out of line price wise, I don’t think that’s true. Yeah, you get a good point, but it just it’s a lot of money to plunk down up front, up front. I agree, maybe that’s, maybe, that’s that’s.

[00:22:12] What you’re getting, the shock. So if they maybe down, though, did it separately, like here’s the plane, and then you can put this in for extra and you’d be better with it. I don’t know, probably not well.

[00:22:23] Are they gonna offer it as just an ARF minus all the other stuff? I don’t know, because a lot of us- I know dave and I both, and you too- we have all the stuff to put an ARF together. We have servos and speed controllers or engines or, yeah, receivers or if they, if they, produce something like that as an ARF for 2.99. Yeah, it would probably be. It would probably be worth that, yeah, so I’m guessing. Yeah, I’m, I’m, you’re right, it has all the electronics in it. I get it, it’s, and they’re good electronics.

[00:22:55] They’re e-flight, they’re the avian esc and all that telemetry and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, that’s cool. I want to go back to the thunderbird- really quick- have you heard of? Because they have that one coming out in two flavors. They have the bnf basic, the bind and fly basic, and then they have the ARF plus. Have you heard of ARF plus? Oh, that’s new to me. How about you, dave? Yeah, I’ve seen some ARF plus stuff. I can’t remember which manufacturers are doing it, but it was, I think.

[00:23:22] Motion had some. Yeah, that I’ve seen before, but they’re they’re semi-complete, they’ve got like the servos, but no power plant, or they have the power plant, no servos, or I can’t remember the way it works.

[00:23:33] Out. Yeah. So, if I, if I saw it right, it’s pretty much everything you need, minus, minus the power system. So you don’t get your motor, you don’t get speed controller and obviously you don’t get the battery. But yeah, servos are installed already. Yeah, so that’s not bad either. Yeah, I can see the marketing.

[00:23:50] Behind that. I mean because there’s there’s such a wide variety of aftermarket support is especially for edfs right now. Yeah, I can, I can understand the merit in selling it without the power system.

[00:24:02] Yeah I got a bucket with four 90 millimeter edfs in it’s like.

[00:24:07] Sounds to me like you need to be built either a c17 or a c5 oh there you go a big one that would.

[00:24:14] Be awesome. That would take a bunch of batteries for a three-minute flight. You keep him busy. I’ll get the battery out of the tesla. Good luck with that. Yes, so anyway. Yeah, it’s good to see there’s some.

[00:24:27] New stuff coming out to get excited balsa I like to see a balsa a new balsa airplane that’s awesome.

[00:24:32] I know I don’t see a lot of that stuff much anymore. It seems like everything’s foam. So yeah, that’s cool. Yep, what else do you want to talk about? Well, we went to the street or flying, yeah, you guys.

[00:24:45] You suck, you didn’t get to go. Yeah, well, it’s not because I suck, I mean, that’s not why I didn’t go for anybody. That I mean- I think we talked about it- I had to do a roof, I had to put a kid a roof.

[00:24:58] On my kid’s house, yeah, last weekend. So, oh man, I felt so bad. I really did like the stories that I was hearing of all that and then, of course, and I felt so terrible. Okay, so your, your kid lives over.

[00:25:12] By like close to where my parents live yeah well he lives close to me too because I live close to.

[00:25:15] Where your parents live, too sure, okay, yes, fine, but as I was going, so on monday I ended up stopping by my mom and dad’s house. I don’t even remember why: headache, that’s okay, but anyway. So I ended up stopping by their house on my lunch break and as I was driving by, I looked down the road your kid lives on and I saw the color house, that, or the color roof, and I thought I was looking at his roof and I was like, oh, I want to stop by on the way home or on the way back to work, see what it looks like. So after I left mom and dad’s house, I told him I was going to stop by because they asked how things

[00:25:45] Are going with the roof and stuff, I said, well, I’m assuming they’re finished, because they were starting on the back side of the roof. Yesterday, when I offered help and was turned down because I’m too fat, that’s how I took it, that’s not no? I asked: would you like help? And you said:

[00:26:02] Oh, the roof is thin. Well, I don’t want too many people, so they, whoever built this house of his, they went as cheap as they could, which, okay, these are all spec homes, these are all catalog homes from back in the 70s, back in the 70s, yeah, anyway, they built them as cheap as they could. And the, the plywood, I’m pretty sure, is 7, 16 plywood on the roof deck, which is thin anyway, and then the, the, the trusses are spaced 24 inches apart, so there’s not a lot of support between the trusses.

[00:26:35] So even with me on it, if I didn’t step directly over where a truss was, I mean you could physically feel the roof giving and with my well, no, wait a minute. And in addition, there were a few spots that were- I don’t want to call them soft spots, but they were soft spots- so you had to be really, really careful, and when you offered to help we already had paper on it so you couldn’t see readily where.

[00:27:05] All the trusses were. So if you didn’t groundwork so well, there was no groundwork to do at that point. Awesome, because it was already. I mean, which? That’s another story. Did you hear the shingle story? Yes, I don’t. Well, let’s not get too deep into okay. Well, anyway, we got it done. And the reason I didn’t want you up there? Because if you didn’t know where you were stepping, there’s a good chance you could step through the roof. And I told laurie I didn’t want her up there either for the exact same reason.

[00:27:30] But I had nothing to do with weight, that’s fine, but what I felt? Bad though. So monday, like I said, I was going back to work and I drove by the house and I thought everything was finished, like I thought you guys were done- not even there, and I saw your car on the driver. I was like, well, that’s weird. And then, as I got up there, I saw you both on the roof and you were like four lines up on the front of the roof, four rows, yeah, four rows, and I stopped. And then I was befuddled because I thought you were finished already, and so I think my first comment was: I thought you guys would be farther along than

[00:28:01] That’s exactly what you said, or something along. No, that’s exactly it, and I thought you guys would be farther along than that. And now, now, casey and I are both on the roof like head to toe soaked in sweat because it’s hot as blue blazes up there. I’m sitting in my air. And then yeah, and Ron pulls up in his air-conditioned tesla and says, gee, I thought you guys would be farther along by now.

[00:28:28] I knew he didn’t mean it that way but at the time kill though I mean like at the time I was like.

[00:28:34] You jerk I don’t even think you said anything to me I didn’t like your kids because I couldn’t.

[00:28:39] Believe. You said that I was like I’m sure Ron didn’t mean that the way it sounded, so I’m just gonna not say anything. Well, I, yeah, like I’m sorry that, but anyway, that’s why I didn’t go to the, to the flying with you guys. Yeah, because you had that to do. Yeah, it was working and we’ll get.

[00:28:57] Back to it. But you got back at me, by the way, for that comment by going to brian’s by yourself and buying. But anyway, so yeah, we went up to the flying, it was a lot of fun. Dave went up the night before with his brother and, and, and so I don’t know what happened with the dogs, like something happened and the dogs didn’t get along too well, or something. Yeah, fred got in hank’s food bowl and hank

[00:29:22] Took exception to that and kind of freaked fred out for the rest of the weekend so there’s a little.

[00:29:27] Tension. When we got there saturday I went up with crystal actually came with me and so did piper because they decided they wanted to go. It was a long day for piper, like I really felt bad. We left at like 7- 7- 15 in the morning and didn’t get home till almost 10 o’clock that night. I mean, she’s five, she that was. That was a lot for her, but I had a lot of fun. It was windy. I didn’t like the wind and not a whole lot of flying going on, unfortunately, but it was one of those. It was a good trip, like I still.

[00:30:01] Enjoyed being around airplanes I still enjoyed being with friends minus tommy unfortunately but.

[00:30:08] Next time. Yeah, so it was a bunch of fun. Yeah, some really pretty airplanes up there and people were flying in the wind, no matter how bad it was. I couldn’t believe it actually, but yeah, there was a.

[00:30:19] Lot of people. That kind of scared me, because the wind for most of the time was crosswind, coming towards us, like at our face, across the field and we were at the end of the runway, like where you would be taking off. So there’s a lot of drifting, let’s say, going on towards us, but no,

[00:30:39] It was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was a blast. Thankfully, after the event was over, the wind dropped off and we got quite a bit of flying in the evening was able to fly the f-15 for the first time in a couple.

[00:30:52] Years, got some new batteries for that. I had never seen that airplane before and that’s a. It’s a nice looking airplane, thank you. It’s heavy, heavy, heavy for foam. Like it’s foam you wouldn’t think it’d be.

[00:31:05] That heavy yeah and to save batteries so I always have somebody carry it out to the end of the.

[00:31:10] Runway for me. That would be me. Yeah, on the second time, yeah and so and okay. So this is a free wing f-15: 90 millimeter, so it’s eight cell setup. It’s big. I mean, it’s a big airplane for foam, for foam, it’s foam, it’s foam, was it foam? It was foam, but anyway. So, first off, I have to ask: where can I pick this up? Because foam dense and I would feel terrible like hey, here’s my finger mark. In dave’s airplane we got landing gear doors all over the place. Yeah, so I had one hand on the front of

[00:31:44] The airplane, the nose, and then I was like on top because I was holding it in front of the center of gravity, so it wanted to go backwards, which made it heavier on my hand too, by the way, on my right hand- and so, of course, from where we’re starting at the end of the runway, we have to go to the beginning part of the runway in order to set it down, to take off. I almost like dropped that thing, I don’t know how many times, because the it got hefty, like I have my hands out, like I’m carrying a little pizza box and it’s windy and it’s windy. So that’s. Yeah, I forgot about the blowing everywhere, but I was just

[00:32:19] Tommy’s making fun of me. I was. I was very careful to not break dave’s plane because I have a bad tendency of breaking people’s airplanes when I carry them and try and throw them. But anyway, so I got. I thought I was going to the very end but you luckily yelled out: you don’t have to go that far where you are as good, and I was able to set it down that you flew it. Like I said, pretty good three minute flights.

[00:32:43] Yeah you better be touching down when the three-minute timer goes off because there’s nothing.

[00:32:46] Left. Yeah, yeah, and that’s two. By the way, four cell 5200 milliamp hour batteries in it. Yeah, 100 c’s, yeah, and they were hot when we took them out, like I was. I had never felt, because I have the same batteries- the huvu, I think is what it is, or amazon batteries, and they work really well on that plane. Well, they work really well in the planes. I fly them in too, but I don’t ever pull that much power out, so I’ve never felt one get warm, let alone. Yeah, I mean, these were not hot, they were, just I couldn’t hold on to them. They were very warm, I was just uncomfortable. It was not burning me, but it made me. I have

[00:33:22] I have sensitive hands, so it’s okay. Are you back? Ron has very sensitive hands. I can. I can attest he complains a lot, even when he’s building an airplane. I do, yeah, you never noticed that, like when we were building the dualists? I don’t what. Yeah, oh, this, like anytime you’d push a t-pin in, oh,

[00:33:43] I have a t-pin pusher that I no longer use since I use magnets I’ll have to get it to him.

[00:33:48] Yeah, Ron can probably use it. I did, I really, yeah, I don’t remember. You have sensitive hands, it’s okay, it’s probably the office job you have. Like I work with my hands. Well, whatever you push buttons on a computer, I do now, but I used to work with my hands. But anyway, yeah, Ron has sensitive. So I didn’t know. I didn’t know. The f15 used two, two batteries, two, four cells, because it’s an eight.

[00:34:13] Cell setup it’s an eight cell setup I used to use a six and a two and I’ve switched it over to two.

[00:34:17] Fours, it’s a little more practical. Makes me wonder now if I could go to a six and a two in that jet thing that I’ve got, because it’s a 90 millimeter. Yeah, yeah, you should be fine if it’s.

[00:34:30] Separate so I was gonna say as long as your esc will take it also you had to buy a special yes oh.

[00:34:34] Okay now I’m pretty sure this one’s set up for six because I think it even says six all on the.

[00:34:39] On the speak. That answers your question. Yeah, in order to get the f15 to fly off of grass at all, it had to be switched to order to an eight cell setup. So yeah, well, but you no, yours does have.

[00:34:51] Landing gear too. Doesn’t know me, yeah, yeah, it’s got retractable with the sequencing doors and all that I should. I should actually watch you fly that sometime. It’s so there. They are a lot of fun to.

[00:35:01] Fly yeah they’re a blast very quick blast but they’re a blast yeah not a lot of flight time.

[00:35:08] Especially the higher like the big 90 millimeter ones yeah three minutes and you better be looking to.

[00:35:15] Land yeah I’m touching down as a timer screaming at me or else you’re buying new batteries or else you’re.

[00:35:20] Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah, don’t fly him to the cutoff, because if you think no time, yeah. If you think they were hot when you pulled it out of his at the timer, if he had flown them to the cutoff, yeah, they would.

[00:35:30] Probably burn your hand, cannot imagine. Yeah. So yeah, when we went up, though, it was nice because that’s actually the first time and streeter is really close to brian shop, so this was the first time that I was able to take piper and crystal to brian shop to show her around. So I’m, I, it was fun to take crystal in, because as you walk in, I mean now, granted, like I’m smiling, just I know, imagining walking into the place for the first time, so she’s not the rc geek that we are.

[00:36:01] Like she doesn’t get all excited about that kind of stuff. However, as we walk in, I mean I don’t know if, well, yeah, you’ve been to brian’s recently- he has gotten so much more stuff. Oh yeah, like I think the way she put it was it reminded her of an episode of hoarders. That was, it was organized. Yeah, I mean no.

[00:36:22] I could see that yeah, it’s, it’s getting, it’s getting difficult. He has so many airplanes there, used and new, and not just airplanes either. He does rc cars and he does the whole hobby thing, but it’s getting to the point where it’s getting difficult to almost difficult to walk around in.

[00:36:39] Certain parts of the store. Yeah, like I couldn’t buy anything because we had no room in the car. But well, I still want to go up with you again. Yeah, use your car, we’ll make a trip. There’s an airplane. I have an eye on that. I need to try and talk him down price a little bit, and brian knows he knows.

[00:36:56] Which one you want. Oh did, did you talk to him about? We did. They talked a little. Okay, not much. I just told him how badly you wanted it and he would. You would pay almost anything for it. That’s not, no, that’s.

[00:37:06] Not you’re supposed to play coy you’re supposed to be like yeah if you got it you got it.

[00:37:10] If he knows he knows you’re you’re very interested in that so yeah it would it you I.

[00:37:17] Mean. There’s nothing that says we can’t talk about what it is right. No, no, it’s a big, big, big Telemaster. That’s the 12 foot Telemaster. It’s the biggest he’s got. No, it’s not the biggest. Oh okay, they make bigger now, but he’s got one of those up there that’s almost fully assembled- no electronics very close to being done, yeah, so I really would like to have one of those. I don’t know why. I would like to put the motor that I got, the- what is it? The cheetah 40 or the 42 cc or whatever it was that we got in ohio. I think that’d be a good fit for yeah, but anyway, I think so too. I got sidetracked again, see.

[00:37:48] Darn it. So crystal got to see brian shop for the first time. When we walked in she had to take in the first view, yeah. And then I had so much fun because I’ll be like, all right, now, come over here, okay, but wait, there’s more. And I take her around to another like corner and she’d look there back, but wait, there’s more. And so we go to another room and I’d be like, but wait, there’s more. And then we go to another room and I just- I don’t know how many times I got to say that- and then we got to the stairs. The stairs actually kind of like piper was a little afraid of those at first. Well, I can see why there’s.

[00:38:22] No back, no backer, it’s just open. They’re metal, yep, and it just. But by the time we got upstairs, I mean I was just like and look, this is, this is nirvana, this is, this is, this is like I don’t know. Yeah, I still get excited every time I go up there, or even when I think about going up there. Yeah, me too. I just me too. There’s so many airplanes there. Yeah, there are. And so much airplane paraphernalia- yeah, parts and engines which makes me tick, but buckets of engines up there. I love that place.

[00:38:52] I don’t know he keeps every time I go up there that cessna 337 sitting on that floor. It’s like I have no reason to buy this 337. It’s still there. I know it was there last saturday, but see that.

[00:39:05] There were. Two of them weren’t there. There were, I only saw one when I was. So when I was up there recently I didn’t even go upstairs. We didn’t have to, we were. So we were so pressed for time and he was busy. He had to go work on a bridge, a bridge to nowhere. Well. So I don’t know if we’ve mentioned or not, but brian, he has his hands in many businesses, not as many as he used to, but he also runs a machine shop there in streeter, or not? Streeter, lenore, lenore and that business.

[00:39:36] Is it does pretty well, which I believe he’s trying to sell that business. So if you’re interested in a turnkey ready to go machine shop, he’s got one anyway. Wow, he apparently a while back he built a 16 by- I hope I get this right, forgive me if I don’t brian- by 80. So it’s a 16 foot wide by 80 foot long. I think it was. He called it a truss style bridge welded up out of steel and all the stuff that a machine shop would do, and he had to go look at it or do something to it. So he didn’t have a lot of time.

[00:40:09] So I didn’t even get to go upstairs. Yeah, because I had a purpose. You went with a purpose. Yeah, yeah, you bought a big bag of yellow air. Well, that’s one way to put it. Yeah, I bought a big cub. What’s big? It’s 109 and a half inches. Oh, you have to throw a half. Well, yeah, it’s 109. It’s a half inch short of 110 inches. It’s. Yeah, it’s the biggest airplane I’ve ever owned, which is something special to me, and without making a huge long story out of it, because we’re coming up on an hour here, pretty,

[00:40:43] Soon we’re two-thirds of the way there when I like kind of in the heyday not the heyday I can’t.

[00:40:50] Call it that because I’m always in the heyday of the hobby right but a while back in your younger.

[00:40:55] Days, my younger days, I hung out with an older gentleman- his name was harold doherty in taylorville, where I’m from, and he cubs like every. Like 90 of the rc airplanes that he had were cubs. They were either clipped wing, they were either. He had the, the od the l version. He loved cubs and so I would build for him and it would always be end up being a cub that I would be building either the goldberg version or the SIG third scale. I mean he had them all sizes.

[00:41:30] Shapes, and back then about the biggest you could get was a third scale, which was the SIG kit or the balsa usa back then, which I guess the bud knows, and you could have gotten the big one back then too. But anyway. So I just have really, really fond memories of cubs and would you believe that in the 40 plus years that I’ve been in the hobby I’ve never owned myself a flyable j3 cub- ever? Really. I know it’s shocking. Like I have, I have a goldberg kit at home that I have intentions of building you.

[00:42:01] Know, someday after the camel’s finished, right, but I’ve never actually owned a flyable, a flyable cub. So, yeah, so it’s special to me because it brings back all these great memories and I mean I just finally I own a cub and it’s a big one. Yeah, it’s a nice big one. I saw it sitting up there. Yeah, it’s very well built. Whoever built this one did a great job. And yeah, I can’t figure out which kit or plan or whatever this one’s built from, because it’s an odd, it doesn’t. It doesn’t.

[00:42:32] Match anything that I’ve been able to find on the internet. Yeah, weird. So either it was a custom or maybe somebody chatted a little bit, added some span to the wing or whatever. Their

[00:42:43] Friend had 107 inches, like no, no, 108. Okay, well, that’s probably. Yeah, that’s so there we go, the wings bigger than like three quarters of an inch on each wing, just to make it bigger, because that’s something I would do. Yeah, like, actually it is something, it is something I did on the do list.

[00:43:00] Right, exactly, I know, I haven’t forgotten, I didn’t until I said that. But no, this one was very, very, very well built that I was kind of looking over the construction and the fuselage and the joints are very good fitting joints, well put together. Nice looking airplane. Yeah, and it’s covered in aura tex. Right, that’s the fiber, like the stuff you like or a text, the fabric.

[00:43:24] I know what you’re talking about I’ve got a roll of it in my mind it’s covered in that.

[00:43:29] So it’s fabric and it’s not real glossy. It doesn’t have the polyester film covering on it, which is nice right. Yeah, it has an os 120 twin on it, which hopefully flies it well enough. It’s a big airplane but it’s light. I mean, I picked, I put it all together in the basement the other night and kind of I didn’t put it on a scale or anything, but I picked it up and I was surprised that, oh, this, for as big as it is, it seems like it’s heavier. They are. Yeah, so you’ve flown cubs, obviously. Yeah, I’ve flew heralds and I’ve flown cubs over the years, but never my own. They’re there. It’s different to fly a.

[00:44:03] Cub. Yeah, lots of rudder, I hear lots of rudder, and be prepared to float. Yeah, and good luck getting off ground without trying to spin a little bit. Oh, you mean like a ground loop. Ground loops are easy to do in those, okay, so noted, at least in the one I had it was. But anyway, yeah, I got back at.

[00:44:23] You for enjoying your weekend at the fly-in by going up there alone and picking up picking up that cub.

[00:44:28] I felt like you felt like you had to call me though on your way up so here’s what here’s what was going.

[00:44:34] Through my head like I was. I was, I was just out of springfield like I had just gotten on the on the highway and heading up on and I thought I should probably be. Ron would probably be upset if I went up here and didn’t at least let him know I was coming up here in case he needed whatever glue or whatever. So that’s why I called. I would. I didn’t call to rub it in your face or anything like that. And had I known what you told me a little bit ago, yeah, if you’d call me an hour before he left, I would.

[00:45:01] Have taken off work and gone up. See, and if I had known that I, I would totally would have done that. Yeah, that would have been a day I could have done it. But I think, like I, I you obviously are free to go up there whenever you want, but I not without hurting your feelings. No, what got me about that one was we were just up there, obviously like I said for the flying, and I saw that cub was still there and I was like, okay, so I will tell tommy that cub is still there. We will plan to make a trip up, probably the second week in october. We will go up. He can buy that cub and I’m gonna talk brian into selling me.

[00:45:34] Like a two for okay he’s buying this one let’s kind of play the deal together on.

[00:45:41] That one, yeah. And then I get a phone call and you’re like: no, that is not what I did, but there is a flaw with your plan. That cub and the Telemaster- I don’t think both of those would fit together. Sure, because that cub took up a lot of room in the back of my car. It did, yeah, because the struts don’t collapse, so the struts are always out at that angle. So, oh, so they. By the time I get the wings in there, there’s just enough room to fit the fuselage between them. So, okay, well, so we may have had issues.

[00:46:11] With trying to get both of them back, but we probably could have figured it out. That’s all right, we’ll make another trip, but yeah, that just gives us a reason to go up there again. Yeah, and dave when he.

[00:46:20] Went up by the way you bought a new plane yeah I broke down and bought one of the big old tricks.

[00:46:26] They’re so cool- like they really are awesome. I love them. That’s a. It’s a fun plane to fly. It’s gonna get stripped real soon here and get repainted.

[00:46:35] Of course, you got to make it your own, because dave can’t leave anything alone, and that’s okay. That’s what the hobby is about and it was what, okay? So when I went up to the flying, like I knew I didn’t have room to take planes. Plus, I did. This was a warbird flying and I really don’t have warbirds, but I have the new a10 I bought. That’s a warbird, it is. It is great warbird, yeah. And then the ultra exciting: they’re small enough pancake box, you can fit it right in the car. So I threw them in the car and by the time we got up there it was so windy I knew I was not even gonna fly, so like I didn’t.

[00:47:07] Register. I didn’t do anything. I just sat with dave and we watched pretty much everybody else fly with. Dave and his brother, daniel were up there. But as the wind died down, I finally started thinking maybe, maybe it’s time now. I mean, like the, what was it like? Three or four o’clock is when the- yeah, I think about just after three- things started dropping off just enough to make it flyable, yeah, and the flying technically ended at like two or three in the afternoon, or maybe it was four, I don’t remember what time it was. It was a weird time to end on a saturday and a lot of people were just

[00:47:42] Like it was. It was the third day of the event too, yeah, but it was saturday, which is weird. Usually you would think they’d go to sunday, but anyway. So I decided to kind of get some planes out and flying with, with you having your alteryx. So I took the, the new charger. I have the spectrum- I don’t know what that was- the s155 charger- and I took a lawn and garden battery with me, because I know there’s no power out there, and a small inverter that I used to keep in my other expedition when I had it.

[00:48:13] And so I made a pigtail on that- to where I could actually plug that directly onto the, the battery, and charge those the little three cell 850s off of that I. I have too many of those batteries because literally we were flying for five to seven, eight minutes on a battery and it was taking me six to seven minutes to charge them back up.

[00:48:38] It charges very fast when you can charge it at what five c or whatever. It ends up being so with four batteries. Dave was flying, I was flying, we went through stuff in the a10 and the ultrax and I had no issues waiting out of battery to charge. I will have to say that little a10 with the three cell setup it’s fast, it’s fast and it flies. Good it does, but it just seems like it changes trim on its own. I don’t know if one of the servos isn’t centering right or what. Well you’re flying so.

[00:49:09] Darn fast you’re bending the rods you think that’s what it is that could be I guess I mean that thing is.

[00:49:15] A bullet. For the size of it makes it look even faster. I had the old scale two cell version of it and it flew fine. Yeah, this three cell is a rocket ship. Yeah, it was fun though on the way up to the

[00:49:28] Fly-in, we stopped and I don’t know what we were thinking. So whenever you get crystal and I together and we’re going somewhere, we always over buy for stuff. We spent like 70 bucks on potato chips and different chips and salsa because so, as we’re in the store, we’re like: okay, I don’t know what dave likes, I don’t know what daniel likes, we all like different things. So we had oh, and then they had popcorn, which I like popcorn. So I bought like six bags of popcorn and shush it’s anyway. So we ended up.

[00:50:04] Having I stopped counting at like 15 bags of chips that we ended up opening one. That’s overkill. We ended up opening one out of 15 bags- 15 bags. So you guys can have a bag of chips as a parting gift.

[00:50:19] When you leave tonight and to top it all off I did pulled pork nachos so I had my own chips and we had.

[00:50:24] A trailer full of food up there as well. Yeah, well, now we knew you were going to cook, because you always do. You feed us well, and I figured: what can we bring to not be moochers? And we went overkill on chips.

[00:50:37] But that’s okay. It was yeah, to piggyback on that. Dave does treat us right whenever we go to fly-ins and stuff with him. Yeah, thanks, dave, you’re welcome. We’ll do it again. Yeah, I think we should. What’s next, anyway? Like what is there? Oh, we’re not going to be able to make the one down at red lake, will we?

[00:50:57] That was the same weekend yeah it’s over oh that’s why there you go was that just last weekend.

[00:51:02] Why does that seem like there’s so much further like in the past so I guess that’s is that the.

[00:51:08] Last one for the year I have to look at the ama thing I’m sure there’s probably something out there.

[00:51:13] But that’s the last one I plan on hitting. That was the same weekend, unfortunately, I don’t know. So I feel like a story’s coming on well. Okay, I told I don’t remember if I said on the podcast or not, but I told you that I went to the fly-in at our field and nobody was there, like I knew it was windy in the morning and I knew it rained a little bit, but I was still like- and that was a day piper wasn’t feeling all that great and I was like: look, I’m gonna go, do you guys want to come? And they both decided: yeah, let’s, we’ll ride out to the field with you. So I drove by and I was like there.

[00:51:47] Is nobody here, like I figured there would be somebody there. The gate was even closed. It was closed, so I didn’t even try and go back, and so we were on discord, of course, and talking about the fly-ins that were coming up and going the streeter and dave said something about the flying at our field and I said, yeah, it was canceled, and I never even got any kind of notification. I went there. There was nobody there. I guess it got rained out because the weather in the morning. I don’t remember. He called me some dolt or something like that. I was on a complete wrong weekend. It was like two or

[00:52:19] Three weeks off. It was the same weekend, as street it was last weekend, yeah, so I felt like an idiot, which I do that often. No, you’re not an idiot. That was. That took a while, but anyway, well, I had to get the microphone. Oh so, all right, is there, are we? I feel like, though let’s talk about that just a little.

[00:52:39] Bit more. I feel like. I feel like you’ve done something like that before gone somewhere or was gonna go somewhere on the wrong weekend. Yeah, I feel like I forgot all about that until Reggie brought it.

[00:52:50] Up. Yeah, it was the columbia swap meet. I think that’s right. That’s right. I didn’t go, but I was getting ready to go. Yeah, I think somebody pointed it out. Yeah, I gotta do better. I gotta do better. Well, you.

[00:53:01] Got a lot going on. Well, I need to use a calendar, so well, there’s that. So I meant to ask: yeah, so you took crystal to the hub b shop, b shop, why? I had a thought in the middle of that. So what did she think? Like did you? Did you say, did you tell him? Like did you?

[00:53:21] Was she impressed? She liked it but, like I said, she wasn’t like. Her comment was from the stories we tell she thought was going to be bigger and I for those, yeah. So I don’t know if anybody watches doctor who. It reminds me of the tardis, the- that’s just the police call box. That’s small on the outside and you open up and it’s just huge. That’s how I feel about that place, because you look at it. And I said the same thing when we were up there the other day, yeah, or a couple weeks ago, whatever I was like: look at this building, like I don’t know how so much stuff is shoved into.

[00:53:54] Every nook and cranny to where it just feels huge. When you’re inside, yeah, and then when you’re outside, it’s like this is it? Yeah, but now she for what it was. She was impressed. She’s not into the hobby as much as we are, obviously, so it’s it’s like when she takes me to some of the stuff she’s into and I just act impressed also, I mean it’s, I don’t know she’s she might be listening. I love everything you have me do, honey. I do so, but no, that was, that was one of the things that she just it was not her thing.

[00:54:25] But she was still impressed by what it was for it for what it is it’s it’s pretty cool and right now.

[00:54:31] It’s really impressive. It is because it is so packed, wow. Yeah, and I would like to lighten his load by one airplane. Yeah, but I gotta find something else to take out. I need to get rid of legit. I need to be done. For a while I’ve gotten rid of a lot because I why that’s where I need to. I need to. I owe you one, but then getting one from dave, apparently, so now I’m net plus whatever for the year I need.

[00:54:55] To get rid of some. I do so. Here’s the thing we’re done with fly-ins: we need to start hitting the swap mates and get rid of some stuff. I got boxes of bits and pieces I need to get rid of. I can’t do that.

[00:55:05] Though I buy I’m a buyer and I do too and I gotta get past that what do you got boxes and bits of.

[00:55:12] Stuff david, I got four 90 millimeter fans for one thing. Yeah, well, that might be fun to throw on. Something silly I was thinking about- well, maybe I was thinking firefox, maybe, oh, maybe a stick with a.

[00:55:25] Foam firefox that’s completely doable because the firefox is nothing but flat surfaces anyway.

[00:55:33] Yeah there you go there you go dave all right new project for you so you don’t have to get rid of.

[00:55:39] It now. See time. You found a thing that was a fairly quick no. No, I’ve got a lot of stuff I need to get rid of. I mean, I open my closet and stuff has fallen out at me. Now it’s time to go. I got a bunch of car.

[00:55:50] Stuff I need to get rid of. Yes, I do too. Actually, I could probably get rid of 12 or 13 wrestlers and all that stuff. Have you seen the wall that’s? I don’t think you’ve seen it. There’s a bunch hanging up in there. They’ve been there for a while, so I don’t touch them. I’ve seen them. Yeah, yeah, anyway, are we done?

[00:56:07] The problem is like I need to get rid of airplanes but I’m attached to all the ones I have I like.

[00:56:13] Them all well. I’ve gone through my list recently, yeah, and I feel as though I have it whittled down to where I’m in the same boat as you are. There’s nothing on there that I want to get rid of. Yeah, there’s stuff I probably could get rid of that wouldn’t hurt me in the long run- me too- but

[00:56:28] Yeah there’s just some that I know it’s we need to fly more so that we crash them there’s a.

[00:56:34] Certain red fokker d7 that’s on the I need to get rid of it list yeah I don’t like fokkers it’s a.

[00:56:42] Good looking airplane I like it is a good is that the one with the four stroke on it yeah I like that.

[00:56:46] Airplane, but, man, is it a pain in the butt on the ground? A little bit, yeah, a little bit. You were very frustrated with that airplane. Okay, so that’s all. I can get it cheap then, all right. Well, I think I’m.

[00:57:00] I’m good. Are you guys good? Yeah, so thanks for if for all two of the listeners that are still listening to us live, thanks for tuning in for our first live. It felt just like a regular.

[00:57:12] Recording honestly yeah it was great I don’t think there’s any real problems and I did and I managed.

[00:57:17] To not hit you in the head with the microphone once yet. Sorry, dave, all right, well, until next time, which will be two weeks from now. Oh yeah, no episode. Next episode next week, because we’re lazy.

[00:57:30] We’re lazy well it’s really not just because of that we there’s a lot going on we got stuff we’ve.

[00:57:35] Got to catch up on. Excuses are like I’m not gonna say it, but anyway, all right, until next time. I’m Ron, I’m Tom and I’m dave. Good night, good night. Good night, good night. Hope you enjoyed this episode of the rc.

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