Ep 128: Toledo

[00:00:06] Hello everyone and welcome to the RC Plane Lab podcast. I’m Ron, I’m Tom and I’m dave, and we just wore shirts that said that, for the first time ever, all at the same time in public, in public.

[00:00:21] Is that weird? I don’t think it was my shirt, like that. I don’t think it was weird, but it was fun though it was fun. Yeah, we’re talking about toledo. Of course toledo was interesting and we’ll get to.

[00:00:32] That first. First let’s talk about okay. So on discord we were told that we don’t do a good job of telling people that we have shirts for sale, that we have other things that people might like to purchase to help support us. Go to the website rcplanelab.com and click on the shop link.

[00:00:57] And you can get shirts and all that kind of fun stuff. Shirts, hats, there’s all kinds of cool stuff. I don’t remember what all I looked the other day: oh, did you? Yep, did you buy anything? No, however, I’m gonna segue into toledo by saying I got lots of compliments on saturday for my shirt that laurie had made for me that says flying is my favorite f word. So laurie is gonna upload that design- to excuse me- to our cool swag page so people can buy that very shirt. So I do like that because I did.

[00:01:31] Get a lot of compliments on it and thank you laurie for making that for me maybe I want one too now.

[00:01:35] There. It’s a fun shirt, and I think, if I have her, make me another one, I’ll have same thing, but then I’ll put the- the big blue and white with the yak logo on the back, so then it’ll be like really, really rc plane with the whole. Yeah, that’s gonna be hard. That’d be cool, though it will be. There’s a lot of colors there is, but I think she’s up for the challenge. Poor laurie. You have to do it, laurie.

[00:01:59] Figure it out. Also, patreon, yes, anybody that wants to support us. We don’t do a good job of talking about that. We do have a patreon page, whatever you call it, a patreon account- yeah, I’d.

[00:02:10] Like to be a patron please do we appreciate that’s our way of asking for money which we don’t like to.

[00:02:16] Do all the support we get well stuff gets expensive it does so it’s nice to not have to pay for all that.

[00:02:22] Stuff. Yeah, right, yes, I don’t disagree at all. Okay, now that’s out of the way. Oh very, before we move on- sorry, patreon, I’m gonna hit this just one time. Anything you guys donate to patreon, it goes towards the podcast, not towards our hanger, correct? I just want to make that clear. Yeah, we don’t buy, we don’t.

[00:02:42] Buy toys with it we buy podcast production stuff which are kind of toys I guess if you I suppose but.

[00:02:47] Not anything we would use for anything else, right, yeah, no airplanes or radios or engines or any of that fun stuff. It’s all this electronic gadgetry that Ron really is in control of, that Tom has no.

[00:02:59] Clue what it means or what it is or what I’m pretty sure dave doesn’t what does that button do yeah.

[00:03:04] Don’t push it don’t don’t touch that one he’ll yell at you yeah I’m already missing parts.

[00:03:10] Hey, so’s Ron so excited. Okay, let’s get back. Are we good on that? Yeah, I think. So. Exciting news, very exciting. Dave has his very own email address. Now I finally got unlazy and did that. I feel so included, I know right. So email dave, all your complaints and all that kind of stuff if you don’t like us.

[00:03:31] Say hi to dave yeah if you have a question that a dave question you can now email dave directly.

[00:03:38] Which is nice, I’ve just got to say before we get too far in, toledo is awesome. Everybody was named dave. There were a lot of dave. Did you notice that? Yes, yes, I sold several planes and the guys were like, hey, can you hold on to this and I’ll come back pick it up in a little bit. I’m like sure, what’s your name, dave? Dave, I think four of the five people that asked to come back later to

[00:04:00] Pick up airplanes were daves yeah and we met a few daves associated with the actual production of.

[00:04:07] The show as well. So if you ever go there and you’re not sure what to call somebody, just yell dave. It’s safe to assume dave is their name. Yes, yep, oh, and my email address is: oh, dave, dave at rcplanelab.com. Did I not say that? Yeah, I thought so. I thought so too. All right, you can say what is it, dave, tell us.

[00:04:27] So it’s dave at rcplanelab.Com how do you spell that dave I’ll get back to you so as I find out.

[00:04:36] And that is that d-a-v-e-a-t, or is that the at sign symbol thing which I always thought that should be around? Does that not make more sense to be around instead of at?

[00:04:50] For that? Yes, I thought so too, because it’s. And then around, yeah, around. No, you’re not the only one. I’m not the only one that spends time and I still call the things. I think they call them hashtags, but I actually I still call it a pound sign, number sign or number sign. Yeah, I’m yeah.

[00:05:09] Isn’t that what the? Isn’t that what the millennials do? They do that. I’ve never seen that. No, and I can’t do that anyway, because I don’t have fingers to do it with. Oh. So, yes, toledo was last weekend. Toledo was, which means a blast, as usual. Before we get to toledo, okay, let’s talk about what’s coming up next. Oh my gosh, I’m so. No, I’m sorry that’s gonna be so. Like I said before, unfortunately dave isn’t going.

[00:05:39] So it’s just tommy and I. You and I are either going to be really good friends by the end of that week or we are going to be enemies. I don’t think there’s much in between. Oh yeah, I think we’ll.

[00:05:51] Be fine, it’s a long week. It’s a long week, but there’s so much space there, like if you get sick of me or if I- especially if I get sick of you- there’s lots of stuff to do there that we don’t have to be together at what I’m saying. That’s true, and the camper we’re renting there’s it’s two like a two bedroom, and the bedrooms are like on opposite ends of the. So it’ll be.

[00:06:12] Fine so this is turning out the next podcast after that I’m doing all by myself.

[00:06:19] Well yeah that’s why you have your own email now yeah we’re gonna switch back and forth on but no.

[00:06:25] Yeah, we’re like I’m really, really excited, like I think we’re gonna have. I think it’s gonna be one of those deals where we’ll remember it, for it’ll be one of those things that I won’t forget- and I forget a lot of stuff. You’re gonna remember it all, right, yeah, for good or for bad, I don’t know which.

[00:06:39] Yet, yeah. So I don’t know what to expect though, because we’ve never been. I’ve heard stories, but once again, we shall see. It’s a long drive. That part’s gonna not be fun, because we’re doing.

[00:06:51] Each way in one day, and that’s what: 12, 13, 16. Well, the google maps says 12 ish hours, but by the time you factor in stops for gas and to pee and to eat, or for me to eat anyway, because Ron doesn’t eat, I don’t. On the road, Ron doesn’t eat, like at all. No, for 12 hours I might have to, which is weird, but six and a half I’m okay, like I can’t go more than about four hours without eating. But

[00:07:17] Oh I can go I mean like honestly if my mind is on something else I can go yeah so long time that.

[00:07:22] That’ll be probably closer to a 14, 14 and a half hour day of travel each way. So but we’ll take turns and it’ll be fine. What? What time will you? I’m optimistic? Like four in the morning, I think, was well, actually probably a little earlier, because I don’t want to get there like in the dark trying to set up the camper and stuff. So, yeah, probably more like two in the morning, I’m thinking. Are you?

[00:07:44] Serious yeah so I’ll take the first leg of sleeping okay because that’ll be that’s fine I actually.

[00:07:52] I actually like I prefer driving in the dark. So do you really? Oh, I much prefer traveling at night. Yeah, me too. Less traffic, less buttholes on the highway, but pulling the trailer, pulling all that kind of stuff- well, you saw how easy it pulled the trailer this weekend to see the golf cart and all.

[00:08:09] That kind of stuff on there. You’ll be able to see it through the back window. It’s not an enclosed trailer, at least no. So yeah, we’ll be fine. But anyway, for those who have been to joe and all since this is our first time going, if you think there’s something we need to know, email us, contact us, however, and just let us know, because, like I said I, I don’t know exactly what all we need to bring. Like, I’ve got a list of what I think is normal stuff, but there might be something that we don’t know right. So, email either Ron or Tom at rcplanelab.com, even though dave has a new email address because he

[00:08:40] Doesn’t get to go. So I’ll be staying home watching the store and we not really. I was gonna say we appreciate it, but I’m I’m wishing he was coming with us. I wish he was coming with I, just can’t.

[00:08:52] Swing it. There’s no time at work. Well, we’re not trying to like- no, I understand- coerce you into doing it, but we will miss you. Maybe next year- I hope that would be awesome if the three or four of us- even if daniel- decides he wants to go to, that’d be we should have had him out for.

[00:09:08] This one, like I thought about that like an hour before you guys got here, since he came with us to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to boy, it’s late. That would have been nice because he bought, yeah, a ridiculous airplane that we can get to. He bought a little bit, but anyway. So I think that’s.

[00:09:27] All I wanted to say on joe and all anybody else. No, I’m not really excited and I’m I’m in agreement with you. If somebody has suggestions, like stuff that they have forgotten over the years and want to make sure we don’t forget, yeah, please let us know, because we’re noobs when it comes to joe and all.

[00:09:42] Yeah, or things that we don’t know. We know that, or that we don’t know we need that. We need to know we need. Wow. Did you follow that, unfortunately? Yeah, see, it made sense anyway. So let’s talk about toledo. Toledo was a lot of fun. That was a lot of fun. We actually different experience this year. This was better. Yeah, like I liked it. I will, I think, for all times in the future, buy a table.

[00:10:09] Oh for sure whether we’re selling or not yeah for sure just need a home base yeah.

[00:10:13] Yeah, I agree. Yep, I mean, it’s so much simpler to have an actual place, just to kind of not have to walk out to your car every time you buy something nice to park yourself. Think about things, have a seat, like we both bought. Talk to people brought chairs, thinking we might need chairs and stuff. They had chairs all over the place, nice chairs, very comfortable chairs. So yeah, I was. I was pleasantly impressed, pleasantly surprised. So let’s talk about a little bit some of the things they had set up for vendors that we had to experience this year, that we didn’t last.

[00:10:48] Year because we weren’t vendors last year right so nobody’s going to talk it’s just me let’s oh no.

[00:10:53] Yeah let’s talk about well no the what the setup was awesome like so setup was thursday I get that.

[00:11:00] It’s weird because it’s a friday saturday event not a and it feels like saturday sunday.

[00:11:04] But they- they opened up thursday early just for people who had purchased tables to get set up and stuff, which was fantastic. But even better than that was they actually opened up the loading docks. You could drive right into the facility, which it turned out later was where they did the flying. They were flying, so that was really nice to be able to pull in, like if it had been raining or something that would have been not been fun right to unload in the rain. So, and it was that they let us pull inside to unload was awesome and it was fairly close really to where we were.

[00:11:35] Setting up to I mean there was a little bit of a trek but not nearly as bad as it could have been.

[00:11:39] Yeah, but they, they had carts there and everything and people were willing to help. If you wanted, if you needed help pushing stuff around, they had folks there to. Yeah, it was, it was.

[00:11:48] Really I thought it was really well set up good size carts too they were like what three foot.

[00:11:53] By six foot or something. Yeah, you needed all the space on those carts with all the stuff you brought and they rolled nice, yeah, very nice wheels, and then also kudos to the staff, they. So if you had brought a trailer, which we did because of all your stuff and your stuff- some my there was-

[00:12:14] Nothing of mine in the trailer no but we had all of my stuff wouldn’t have fit with your stuff so no.

[00:12:20] For sure, but anyway, they provided a, a parking lot that was attended, where you could drop off your trailer and not have to drag it around with you for those couple of days, which was really nice.

[00:12:31] Also, and it didn’t cost any extra free of charge for that. Yeah, I was like, said I was, for setting up as a vendor the first time this year. I was pleasantly surprised by how well they had things figured out and just how easy everything ended up being very easy. Yeah, kudos. Kudos to the staff, or staff to the.

[00:12:48] Few guys that put it on. Yeah, the club and the guys. Hank was really great to deal with. Yeah, yeah, so I. It was just a great all-around experience, a much different experience than our experience last.

[00:13:00] Year it was nice not to have to wait for the doors to open to go in. Yes, because there was a good line last year. Yeah, and like I said it was, it was to me having a spot, like dave said, as kind of a home base made things just so much more relaxed and so much more easygoing and less stressful. Yeah, you go wander for 20 minutes, you come, have a seat, yeah, and if you find something, you just bring it back to.

[00:13:23] The table, set it down and go back out and find more stuff. There was no, no delay and possibly missing out on another deal because you had to take out. You take stuff out to the car. Well, and this.

[00:13:34] This, for me, was not a buying year. No, like I think we were all kind of in a weird headspace this year because it wasn’t collecting things like it was last year. We got rid of a lot of stuff between the four of us. Yeah, we all sold stuff. Yep, and it was just more going out than coming in. Yeah, like we bought two tables and it was nice because when we walked in there was an extra table thrown upside down on top of one of them. Yeah, and the guy there was like I thought you might need an.

[00:14:05] Extra table. Set it up wherever, so we put it behind us. That would be hank. Thank you, it was hank. And then I put or I brought another table. Yeah, just in case, I brought a six foot table. Yeah, we set that up so we had four tables full. They were full when we started- full of stuff with stuff underneath the.

[00:14:22] Table too. Yeah, oh yeah, all the way up. So luckily a lot of the stuff we had brought was still in boxes. Yeah, that we could put on the floor. But yeah, that made everything. Four tables and between the.

[00:14:32] Four of us. They were full, like I didn’t even count. Did we ever figure, like between all of us, how much we brought, like how many airplanes? I don’t think we actually did. That would have been cool. I brought nine, oh well, I brought 21, so there’s 30, right there. Five, okay, 35, what daniel two, so 37 airplanes.

[00:14:54] To get rid of 37 and other stuff. Yeah, yeah, there was some other stuff, but the table gigogs the table, yeah, the doodads that they brought to, yeah, to kind of fill out the table which sold quite a bit of.

[00:15:07] That I think for what it was it’s my edf stuff’s the only thing sold everything else just oh did you.

[00:15:13] Did you take the little nitro motor back home yeah no one bought that no one bought that oh none of.

[00:15:18] The chargers I might have to buy that Ron got the smoke system oh yeah I did yeah that was the last.

[00:15:26] Minute kind of impulse buy which he wouldn’t take any money for it. So it wasn’t a buy, it was just a move to the back table, kind of an impulse grab. That’s a- yeah, good way to put it. Impulse didn’t make him money, which I kind of felt bad on. I don’t have anything in it either. I want us at a show, so

[00:15:43] Well, I feel better about that. So I took nine and I sold six, six, yeah, six, and then came home with two. So I was net minus four for the weekend. Now I’ve got to do.

[00:15:59] The math hold on so I brought 21 I sold 17 is that right yeah I sold 17 which I was very happy.

[00:16:07] So you’re net minus four at that point and then I bought.

[00:16:14] Now, these are small, so it’s not like they’re expensive. I’m in my defense, we’re not. Yeah, these are mostly umx. I bought five, so you’re plus one, and for the weekend: no, because I said, how is that? I sold 17, so I don’t math. So I came home with what? Four plus those five, so I came home with nine and I brought 21.. Net minus, yeah, and I’m happy for the weekend, for the weekend.

[00:16:42] Anyway so I started out with five I gave one away I sold one for ten dollars yeah and I bought three.

[00:16:53] I thought you sold more than that. That was all. That was all the planes. I felt so bad. Dave had his- what was that? A gws mustang? Yes, what did you have priced on that 30 dollars plug and.

[00:17:07] Plagues and I bet no fewer than- and I’m going to be conservative- no fewer than 30 people picked that thing up, looked at it, pulled the, the hatch off, spun the prop whatever, looked it over, put the hatchback on it and sent it right back down 30 dollars. And there’s nothing wrong with it? No, nothing.

[00:17:25] At all. It got to the point where I was just more like: okay, I want somebody to buy this, just didn’t break the streak, didn’t even get an offer on it. No, that was so weird. I thought that was weird.

[00:17:36] Too, and the f22 got. Probably 75 people picked that thing up. Yep, same thing. Nobody wanted that either. No, now I did get some offers on the f22, but I had it priced so low I couldn’t let it go for.

[00:17:47] What they were offering and that was a good. That’s. That’s the good in my opinion. That’s the good. F22 small one anyway. So what? It’s the kyosho one. Oh okay, 55, 55. It’s the same power system that’s in my kyosho. It flies great. It flies awesome. Both of them do, but just it. It’s hard to launch that one. Yeah, you got to have wilt chamberlain hands to pawn it. Yeah,

[00:18:08] And it takes a weird size battery too 1300 right it’s a 1600 but it’s a long skinny oh that’s right.

[00:18:13] Yeah, yeah, my little, my f4, you can fit the little cube- 1300 cubes that fit in there. So anyway, yeah, so I guess actually so one. I bought an airplane and then, yeah, turned around and sold it so that I mean, I don’t know how that I guess that’s net zero for that. That’s just straight up. But well, you bought a motor, but I gained, it came with a free plane. Yeah,

[00:18:38] Kind of yeah ended up. Yeah, that was a good deal. Actually, the more I think about, the happier I get about it. Yeah, I mean it’s nitro, so yeah, yeah, but it’s a sato golden knight. Yeah, and it’s six golden night too. I know you did. I’m really jealous too, because it looks like brand new. I think it is you.

[00:18:57] Know what that needs. It needs a small gasser. Yeah, it does. Don’t be so cryptic and confusing you guys. Figure, say what you’re talking about, if you’re gonna. I showed you a video of a nice little 20 cc.

[00:19:08] Earlier runs pretty good you sure it’s 20 yeah I’m pretty sure that’s a 20 the way it turns that.

[00:19:13] 16 8 Prop so Tom bought another motor well let’s don’t don’t talk about stuff that nobody else knows.

[00:19:20] What we’re talking about. Okay, so I bought three engines. I bought a fairly new four engines, I guess. I bought a fairly new sato 125 with the box and the okay, and we’re back after some technical.

[00:19:34] Difficulties, so that was on me. I was trying a different setup for recording for when we go to joe knoll with a battery backup for actually recording on this, and it made it. It made it 16 minutes. It apparently failed 16 ish minutes, so let’s start over. You bought yeah. So yeah, I was.

[00:19:53] Talking about the sato 125 that I bought. I’m pretty sure I paid about 150 for it, but anyway, it’s like brand new, maybe been run once or twice, and then I bought you. You bought what was it? What size? Again sato 125, and you paid how much? I think it was like 150. Oh, it’s like new, though. I mean it’s smooth and

[00:20:13] Yeah that’s fine I didn’t remember you paying that much for motor when we were there yeah and then I.

[00:20:17] Bought a sato. Well, I bought an airplane that had a sato 65 golden knight on it, which I’m a huge fan of. The sato 65, it’s like the perfect 40 size two-stroke replacement, like if you got a 40 size airplane. The sato 65 is like bolt-in- perfect, same-ish power but sounds so much cooler. But it was attached to an airplane. I’ll give you that they do sound a lot better. So, yeah, I bought the airplane. I think the guy was asking 100 and I offered him. No, he was asking 125, he was asking 140.

[00:20:53] 140, 140. Yeah, that sounds better now that I say that. Yeah, it was 140 and I offered him 60 and he took it. That was a shocker. So now this was day two, though. Yeah, it was day two, so those are better on day two. Yeah, let’s be honest. I mean that I know I was certainly more willing to come down on some of my prices on saturday as opposed to friday. We didn’t want to take him home, right? So anyway, I bought it for 60, took the engine off of it and then just for gee whiz, I thought.

[00:21:25] Well, I’ll put all the stuff back together minus the engine and set it on the table for 40 bucks. And if I can get, if I can get 40 bucks out of it, great. And somebody bought it for 30. So I got a sato 65 golden knight for 30 bucks. And what was that airplane? It was a great planes: ultra sport 40, the ARF.

[00:21:42] And that’s I really thought it’s actually a good looking airplane. I thought you were going to keep that airplane. I thought that was going to be the airplane for you. That, whatever that blue thing is.

[00:21:50] You got last year? Oh yeah, no, this one was mine as a receiver and stuff the blue thing had. Granted it was all old equipment but it had it was ready to fly. This one didn’t have a receiver or a battery.

[00:22:01] Or anything but it did have servos but I mean how you picked it up for such a cheap price then you.

[00:22:05] Flew it and you just like fell in love with it. I probably would have, because I do like ultra sports. They fly, they fly really nice. They’re like a low wing stick kind of. Oh yeah, I can see that by looking at it, yeah. But so I wouldn’t have been upset if nobody bought it. But somebody did, and so that made that purchase even sweeter. And then I bought dave freiman. I ran into him- I was going to talk about that a little bit later- but ran into him and his crew. He had that a bunch of stuff out there, the ama guys, I think. So I bought a, an os 91 four stroke from those guys.

[00:22:38] Really cheap. In fact they- I wanted to give them more for it, but they wouldn’t take it. That’s another story we’ll talk about here. A little bit maybe. But bought that. And then what’s the third? Oh, I bought a, a 20 ish cc gasser out of a box of engines- for 40, I think I gave for.

[00:22:56] That with the ignition it’s not a bad deal yeah the ignition is more than that on its own well if I.

[00:23:02] Could use it. It’d be: yeah, well, it’ll work on something. It’ll work on a big spark plug, but this one hasn’t. I didn’t notice it when I put it all together with the show, but once I got home I was like trying to hook up the ignition and the big plug cap just kind of doesn’t really stick to the small.

[00:23:15] Spark plug. So I don’t remember the, the box you got that out of, because there was a few guys there that had boxes, boxes of engines. Yeah, so did that engine like, was it connected to the, to the ignition, or were

[00:23:26] You able to. Okay, no, the, but the engines were all just in there, and then there was just various ignition boxes just kind of also in the same box, and you just kind of had to pick two that you thought would work together. So now, but for forty dollars, I mean, I’ll post the video on our, our facebook page. But it runs actually really well, turns a 168 somewhere, just probably just shy of 8 000 rpm, which for a little sport engine should be just fine. It sounded with the

[00:23:52] Original propeller that was on. It was a wood propeller. It sounded a little bit lacking in rpm. Yeah, like it. Just I kept. When you sent me the video I kept waiting to hear that, that, that timber, that pitch, that whatever, saying hey, I’m full rpm, and it just wasn’t quite there and it was a little.

[00:24:08] Disappointing. Yeah, so I threw an apc on and it was better. It sounded much better. Yeah, so I think that wood prop is- I’m not sure what it was- either azore or sore. I’m not sure exactly how you pronounce that.

[00:24:19] It’s a wooden prop yeah which but they look cool yeah the apc prop yeah definitely perked it up so.

[00:24:26] Yeah so yeah hopefully we’ll we’ll stick that 20 cc on dave’s pawnee project that he’s going to.

[00:24:32] Talk about yeah why do I have an echo okay oh I don’t know you have an echo yeah I’m not going.

[00:24:40] In my ear anyway. Well, it’s not me. I think I’m going to hang on to that little four stroke for right. Okay, damn, it are you. Are you wanting that off of him? Yeah, it’s a golden knight and it’s like brand new. What’s that? It’s an 80, 82. Oh, the 82, even better. How many do you need? All of them? You don’t.

[00:24:56] Have airplanes for all well you do have airplanes you’re just not going to do anything with all of you don’t know that history tells.

[00:25:05] Anyway, so, anyway, yeah, so those are the engines I bought and I’m pretty happy. And I bought one airplane, two airplanes, and they’re both kits. Weird, what’d you buy? So I bought the little flat foamy from r- a course, thanks, jim. And then I bought your airplane, the decathlon. Oh, that’s not.

[00:25:22] A kit, that’s an art, so that’s that’s what threw me. I was like: what did you get? Yeah, yeah, that’s what made the deal of the day so nice, because when we got home I just had to take one out of the trailer, put it in your car and then we were finished. And I was one less, yeah, so we, I thought traffic was pretty good. There were some times where it died down, like later in friday. I don’t want to say it was a waste, but there was not much going on towards the mid to late afternoon on friday. Yeah, nothing.

[00:25:52] Swap related like swap meat I mean they had the auction going on it sounded like not friday oh.

[00:25:58] Friday I’m sorry yeah friday is when it went till five yeah and that was a little once it.

[00:26:02] Got late yeah it really slowed down and I understand I mean most people that are going to.

[00:26:07] Take the day off to go to something like that. Are going to take the day off and show up in the morning right by the time afternoon hits. People are still working, they have things going on and

[00:26:16] Yeah, that’s all you get, and saturday went kind of how I expected it would go, like it was. Once they opened the doors it got kind of busy. Remember we showed up early to do the setup again and to walk around to see if we missed any deals or whatever. There was a lot of new stuff saturday, yeah, but yeah, once they opened the doors it got busy. A whole new kind of.

[00:26:38] Different crowd and then, yeah, early afternoon it got really quiet in there, yeah, and that’s, that’s okay. Yeah, I mean I sold more saturday than I expected to you did. You sold more than I expected you to sell period, but I was on saturday too. So the whole reason for selling- because I’m usually not a seller- I don’t, I like to keep stuff- but I did finally order the mb339 hanger 9’s new jet from brian. We went to brian’s place and got that on order, so hopefully I’ll have that before.

[00:27:10] Too terribly long so I need money because that’s that’s pricey yeah it’s exciting though it has.

[00:27:18] It worn off has it has the excitement worn off and the and the butterflies have they have they.

[00:27:24] Gone away yet from I’m not nauseous anymore when I think about it so that’s a step in the right.

[00:27:29] Direction but like I said the thought if buying an airplane makes you nauseous what does that say.

[00:27:35] Dave, well, I’m kind of in that box because I got that p40 and I just refuse to fly it because I’m just too heavily invested in it. So I understand where he’s at see. Yeah, I mean, like you want the.

[00:27:47] Airplane. You want to fly the airplane, but then you’re like, oh god, I don’t know what I want to do on this, but it’s exciting. I mean, we’ll get it put together, we’ll, you’ll- I don’t know- put together. I’ll get it put together because I won’t be here- you’ll be gone, unfortunately- but I will be able to talk more about what it takes to get into turbines, yeah, what it takes to get your turbine waiver, what you have to have field equipment wise. That’s something I’ve wanted to.

[00:28:13] Get into for quite a while. So, and that’s a subject we have- we have sort of shied away from just because we don’t know anything. Dumbness, yeah, yeah, we just don’t know anything about it. So that’ll be interesting to add that, that perspective, to the podcast, I think. I mean, like I’m

[00:28:27] I wish this would have been a few months from now, because my goal was next year to go into turbines. I mean, obviously, that’s, that was what I’ve said the whole time, but you can’t miss the opportunity when it comes up. So this is a new jet, hanger 9’s first jet, which excites me. Yeah, I’ve never done anything in this realm before. Yeah, not, not a true turbine. Yeah, right, so it should be exciting, nerve-wracking, lots of things all thrown into one. We’ll see lots of emotion.

[00:29:01] Lots of crying, probably lots of cussing. Oh, hopefully there will be no crying, lots of fun. Well, it’s either tears of joy or tears of sadness, we’ll see. But no, it’ll be good. So that’s why I sold a bunch of stuff. Unfortunately, like I came home and told crystal how I’ve been doing so good this year that I’ve sold 20 and okay, so a lot of these airplanes I bought at the estate thing to sell, like I didn’t want to keep any of. Well, I wanted to keep a couple of them, but not many of them, yes, so I came home I told her I said, look, I have sold 28 airplanes this year. I’m proud of.

[00:29:36] Myself. That’s a good number. And then she asks: well, how many have you bought? I hadn’t figured that out at that time, but so far this year I have bought 33. So I’m still positive. And that’s only because that is only because of all the ones that I bought in toledo, and they’re all small, so it does not necessarily count that much against me. They were cheap, like inexpensive cheap. See, I’m justifying so.

[00:30:07] We’re all in the 60 club yeah all four of us got a 60 airplane that’s true yeah I don’t know who won on.

[00:30:12] That one though I don’t have it anymore so I guess I’m out of the running for winning that’s true.

[00:30:21] Quote from our stop it january episode. This is Ron quote. I’m getting rid of planes next year with the intent to make my list more refined or net negative. I feel as though I still have time to.

[00:30:37] Make that happen you do because I’m I’m so what are you for the year one more then what do you.

[00:30:43] Mean like right now what are you for the year plus one plus 10 plus 15 what is it plus five oh well.

[00:30:50] That’s not bad. That’s what I mean. Like I have sold 28 and I’ve brought in 33. Oh, that’s that’s for the year. Oh, I thought that was just okay. No, that’s that’s what I’m saying. Like it’s not as. And the five.

[00:31:01] That’s literally the five that I bought there and I so really you only need to sell seven more to be.

[00:31:08] At least net negative, negative one because there’s the jets coming, yeah, yeah, but that’s assuming I don’t buy anything else we’ll see how that. I mean it’s still early in the year, but there’s a swap meet coming up, by the way, this weekend. Yes, there is. Are we going down? I mean yeah, if you want to. I mean

[00:31:24] I’m gonna already be down there and I’m gonna be heading home that way, just like we did last year. So if you want to go, we can, I’m okay with not going. If you don’t want to go, I don’t mind. Dave, sunday, it’s the one down in, like meeting us down in columbia, columbia. Yeah, I got nothing going on. I’ll check, okay, yeah, we’ll have to figure out timing and stuff. Sunday would be the day I would be able to go. Well, that’s the day. It is one day, right, so I couldn’t remember. That works out well, two day. But

[00:31:50] No it’s a one day and that’s usually a good one like I’ve had it was good last year yeah I remember.

[00:31:54] That one. I don’t remember what I bought. I think that’s where I bought the- the umx sbox, I believe, is where I picked that up, and then you bought the p47. I think that’s right, yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s a.

[00:32:06] Good one then yeah and I’ve flown that sbox several times so from the p47 several times there you go.

[00:32:11] Good airplanes. I wish I had more time to prepare because I’m leaving tomorrow to go down that direction for our race. If I had room, I would take stuff to sell out. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I, I don’t.

[00:32:25] Want to lug stuff down there. I mean, I only have a couple- well, really one- ARF at this point that I want to get rid of. That, I know I want to get rid of. The other two that I brought back are ones that I had bought before to put together, and I still might talk myself into doing that sometime. It’s just a couple small boxes, yeah, so it’s not like it’s so. They should be put in the car then. Well, that’s, if I decide to get rid of I need something to take to toledo next year, because I really do want to go.

[00:32:52] Back to the next year. Oh, and something else that we’ve decided. Well, I say we, I mean I, and I could probably talk dave into doing it too, but for toledo next year they have that huge open space to do the indoor flying park flyers. So dave, I think, and I are going to do what we used to do for rc car races: we’ll go to toledo, buy an airplane kit or flat foamy kit or something, put it together that night and

[00:33:22] Then fly it the next day at toledo do you think that’s possible really yeah oh yeah the amount of.

[00:33:28] Time it takes glue to dry and all that stuff. Oh yeah, well, no, you don’t have to. You could buy something. Yeah, you could. You could buy something ready to fly there too. If you need to like somebody that somebody else is selling umx stuff ready to go, yeah, true, why not? But then you have to have the charger. You have to have the right batteries. We took a trailer this year. You can take that stuff with.

[00:33:47] You that’s true and we’ll probably do the same thing next year I’ve got about five chargers in.

[00:33:51] That tub that I didn’t sell yeah there you go I forgot to take my charger and a couple other things I.

[00:33:55] Wanted to get rid of. I meant to take my transmitter with me, and I meant to take it last year too, so we could. Oh, I thought you meant to well, you, you did last year, didn’t I? Yeah, oh, yeah, I did that’s.

[00:34:07] Right we were able to test some of the receivers that’s right but now you have meant to do that.

[00:34:11] This year- and I forgot it, no big deal either way. So next year, yeah, toledo, if anyone else is going to go, are you up to the challenge? Buy an airplane there and fly it there that weekend you talking to.

[00:34:23] Me or just anybody. Oh, I was gonna, but yes, you too I’ll. I’ll bring something maybe, but I don’t know if. What is that? I don’t know. Sorry, cans. Oh, it’s windy, I wonder. Something blew over outside.

[00:34:37] It is windy it’s storming actually on our way here tonight so awesome thanks for that fun stuff anyway.

[00:34:43] So what I bought? Yes, let’s get to that yet. So this might be a good thing, might be a bad thing, we’ll see. It’s a umx twin otter- the new one that just came out. However, the guy that had before me put a 2s LiPo in it and burned up the board. So I think I mean I’m gonna come out ahead if I replace it, because I was looking at pricing and stuff on the board, so it’s not that big of a deal. So I think I’ll probably fix that. Yeah, and it looks like brand new, but I don’t think it. I think they literally bought it first time and first time with the wrong size battery in it and it doesn’t.

[00:35:17] Have a scratch on it no it’s never been flown I mean the wheels are still like it’ll look cool.

[00:35:21] Sitting next to the big umx or the big twin otter excuse me yes it will as long as I get it fixed.

[00:35:28] And I bought finally a umx radian got a good deal on one of those, except the guy that I mean it doesn’t look like it’s been flown very much either. The guy that had it put a camera on it like a what’s it called a fpv camera. Yeah, does nothing for me, but if I cut it off then there’s a hole where the wires were ran through. I mean he did a good job on it. Like it looks like it was done well.

[00:35:51] From what I can see. So it’s not like it was back together. So that’s not that it doesn’t come from e-flight with that on it. No, oh, no see, I thought it did. Well, see, that means it looks pretty decent. Then you don’t know, yeah, the mount, the mounting looks really good. Yeah, see, fpv might be fun, except.

[00:36:07] It makes me sick other than that yeah we’ve talked about it before and it makes me nauseous too I can’t.

[00:36:12] Do it, dave? Have you tried it? Never tried. Although I can’t play doom on the computer, I get sick, so he’s probably would be on the same boat as, yeah, or the same plane. We’re on nice. Other thing I’ve.

[00:36:25] Always wanted to try one of the convergence airplanes- the ones that the vertical take off the whole thing. Yeah, they had a, not umx, the mini version, I guess, is what they call it- so I ended up buying that for 35- brand new, I mean, like the stickers haven’t been put or haven’t even been put on yet. So I’m excited to try that. If it’s not good, I’m not out much of anything. Something different to fly out here. Yeah, just for funsies. And I didn’t even know they made a umx spacewalker.

[00:36:57] Oh yeah that one’s been around a while so that’s an older one it is an older one I didn’t know they.

[00:37:01] Made it, but that was 15 bucks, so couldn’t pass that up, I think. What do you mean? Good ish. Well, from what I, it’s been flown a bit right. Well, it’s okay. I thought you meant the shape of the plane.

[00:37:11] Yeah I mean it’s it’s used oh I like this but it’s not been abused hopefully gotcha yep and the.

[00:37:19] Last thing I got. This is: this is either my mistake or going to turn out to be a cool airplane that probably never will get flown. It caught my eye from across the room. It was up high on a table and I even called you over to look at it, tommy, and I got the look of- oh, that’s a cool looking airplane. Because I think you wanted, or you thought I wanted- to hear that’s exactly what happened.

[00:37:48] So it’s a glider I didn’t want to rain on your parade I could tell you were already enamored with.

[00:37:53] It so I didn’t want to like poop on it well but sometimes it’s good to have somebody bring you.

[00:37:56] Back down to earth as had I had I picked it up first I probably would have went the other direction.

[00:38:03] But anyway. So yes, I agree with that it’s. I didn’t know what it was, bought it without picking it up and made an offer and stuff on and he took it and then I, I picked it up and it’s what do you think? Maybe 48 inch wingspan, it’s not huge? Yeah, that’s probably. Well, that range. It’s probably a little bit more than that, because it wouldn’t fit across in the trailer and that’s a fire of no five by eight, it’s a five by eight trailer, so it wouldn’t fit straight across, are you sure?

[00:38:36] Oh, it’s bigger than I thought. Then I’ll have to measure it just to be sure, but anyway it is. It’s a glider that I had no clue what it was. Picked it up and it weighs like 1400 pounds.

[00:38:51] It’s. It’s for the size, it’s probably. What do you think honestly? Like eight pounds it’s. I’m not sure if it’s eight, but it’s it’s somewhere significant. Yeah, it’s. It’s not going to be a very good glider.

[00:39:03] It’s not a floater- no, probably not, but it’s an actual okay. So I didn’t know what it was. I liked it, bought it obviously, came home. It’s been a few days since we’ve been home and I have not touched anything that we came home with. I had to go out to the garage the other day to get a gallon of milk, yesterday to get a gallon of milk, and blah, blah, blah. Long story short, I looked at it as I walked by and I saw that there were n numbers on the tail, oh really. And I was like, let’s do a quick google. I didn’t even notice that- I didn’t either, until I was out there. So I did a quick google search and

[00:39:37] I actually found out what it was and after seeing what it is, it is a very good scale model of what that airplane is. So it was according to, because this is where I found the information on the national soaring museum’s website, soaringmuseumorg. It’s a schweitzer sq or sgp 1-1.

[00:40:03] Okay, means nothing to me means nothing, but there was a picture of it on there and it I mean like it’s a very good scale model of it. Like I said, I was very surprised at how it matches- like the actual, but like the, the skid on the bottom matches it where the guy sits, the seat like sexual molded seat that looks just like the seat that was on it. No kidding, it’s. It’s really cool. Apparently it was originally built between like 1929 and 1930 is when they built the first one, and I guess there was three of these, the brothers that built it, and long story short.

[00:40:38] In 1989 they got together with some of their friends, built another one, a replica of their original one. All three of them flew it like they actually flew it and then donated to that soaring museum and it’s been there ever since. That’s awesome. I kind of thought that was neat too. So it’s a scale model. It is very scale. Like I said, if you look at all the, I would not have guessed that it looks very.

[00:41:00] Pioneer like yeah like I would not have like at the show looking at it I would not have guessed that.

[00:41:06] That was a scale model. I should have shown you a picture first, because it looks just like it, like that single tail, boom yeah, with no reinforcements on either side. That’s exactly how the actual glider look. And this one’s neat too because it has the toe release. Huh, found the sound. Oh, you’re not a drink over. Okay, no big deal, but anyway, it actually has the glider toe release on the front of it. So now we have one of those if we need to use it on a different airplane, and they did a good job. That I thought was kind of cool. You don’t see any electronics, so you don’t see the servos.

[00:41:40] They’re hidden. You don’t see the radio, you don’t see the battery. That is all actually inside of the guy. The pilot, the pilot that’s sitting on there- has all that stuff hidden inside of him. Yeah, about.

[00:41:50] The only thing that tells you there’s electronics on is you can just kind of make out the switch.

[00:41:54] Yeah, which? And I guess there’s one, one servo horn you can see on the bottom, but I think that’s what controls his feet: feet to turn the rudder, yeah, yeah, and the only reason we had to find the switch.

[00:42:05] Just because you accidentally turned it on and then it started. Yeah, I mean, it started moving and buzzing and making. I had no clue where it was, but yeah, we found it cool. Well, that’s neat that’s a scale like I. Like I said, I would not have guessed that. Hopefully it glides. Well, I don’t.

[00:42:22] Think it’s going to, but we’ll have to fly it. I don’t know. I mean I need to. What’s the point of having? If we don’t like, we can throw it behind the small Telemaster and get it done that way. I’m not.

[00:42:32] Sure the small Telemaster has enough power pull this heavy thing. I mean it’s heavy, it’s. It would be interesting to see what it actually weighs, because it in your head, excuse me, in your hand, it feels very heavy. Yeah, six pounds for sure, we’ll get it up behind the l4. There you go, oh there.

[00:42:48] You go. Do you have a toe on that? It wouldn’t be hard to rig one. We don’t have any planes that are ready to tow. We need to fix that. I agree, let’s fix that. Good talk. Okay, then make a note, all right.

[00:43:02] So, dave, really, what did you get? I got a umx, all tricks, yeah, yeah. So I got it really cheap with a light kit in it. It’s oh sweet, essentially brand new. It’s not a ding about its work. Both taillights work beautifully. There was a little bit of a strange tape job on it, so I pulled all the tape off and hot glued those on, but it came with. I think it came with tape, didn’t it? Yeah, it came with tape to put it on. So that’s not mine. No, it didn’t. No, no, I used- nevermind, I used- blend derm.

[00:43:37] On the front of it and then I used some hot glue to secure the taillights perfect I think.

[00:43:43] That’s exactly what I did online actually and there’s no I think about it I don’t know dings or.

[00:43:47] Anything on it so if it’s been flown it’s just been once or twice nice but it looks better than.

[00:43:51] Mine well yes we won’t go into that whomp that was on purpose level on accident whatever so now.

[00:44:00] The three of us can play the fun game and watch you crash into the into the ground I’m game until.

[00:44:04] I get it fixed. And then I bought a- what is it? Hanger nine, piper, poni, yep, the old one, the old one with, and it came with a seto 82 in it, which I didn’t even know which motor was in it, I just knew it was a golden knight that was on it. I’m so jealous. Price was pretty good on it. It’s not great, but pretty good. And I got some plans for this one. It’s going to be stripped and ARF bashed into a stand way, the heck off scale skywarden. That’s gonna be nice. I think it’ll be cool.

[00:44:41] That’s gonna be cool looking. So I’ve got the fuselage and tail stripped down. Right now I will be making a brand new rudder for it, because the old rudder I don’t know how they did it. It was busted up and poorly glued, but yet I can’t see where they changed any of the coverings, so I’m not even sure how they pulled that one off. That’s, yeah, impressive, and so I’ll be making a new rudder for it, but there are a lot of little cracks and dings in it that you would never see if you didn’t recover. Because it looked flyable. Yeah, had you not taken the covering off.

[00:45:14] But there’s a lot of little things and poor glue joints being an ARF, yeah, in it. But we’ll get all that straightened out, that’s no problem. And this is going to turn out pretty cool. Yeah, I’m going to try to maybe do a little series on it of taking the photos as we go along. Oh that’d.

[00:45:27] Be great. Do an ARF bash article? Yeah, that’d be awesome, that’ll be cool, sweet. Yeah, dave has done way more since we got home than the two of us combined. Well, I add zero to whatever that total.

[00:45:39] Is so, and all I did was run an engine. Yeah, that’s. And then I have to track down a fifth scale pilot for this thing that doesn’t weigh a ton and a half and doesn’t cost a hundred bucks.

[00:45:50] Yeah I still need to get well if we find a pilot you want printed without making our own we can.

[00:45:55] Print one yeah if I could find anything so my brother could run something out but you’ve got.

[00:46:00] The cool gooey thing. So I don’t know how to take that, but thank you. The gooey printer, yes, the, whatever that printer is called, I don’t remember right now, but the l, goo or l something, I don’t know what it is. No, what’s the photon? I say, I don’t have it written down in front of me, no idea, doesn’t matter. The gooey printer, it’s the, the vat and the. Anyway, it’s been a long time, so anyway, we’ll

[00:46:24] Look at that. And then the third one I picked up was: we’re not quite sure what that. We’re not sure what it is. It’s got a decathlon tail. Yeah, it looks like an l19. Yeah, but not really. Well, it’s covered.

[00:46:37] As if it were an l19. But it has a decathlon tail, but too many windows for a decathlon, too many windows for a decathlon. It has a cath, a decathlon ish cow, but no chins. But no chin, scoop, scoop, thank you. So it’s weird. I don’t know what it is, I’m not sure what it is. We’re going to just generically.

[00:46:54] Call it an l19 at this point perfect but it’s not and it was on a rack it is beat to death.

[00:47:01] Really rough. Oh, was that from back in that corner with all the airplanes that look like they came up? A barn from 48 years ago? Yeah, I know which one you’re talking about, but no, this one came from.

[00:47:13] Another table that had other beat to death airplanes on it. Oh okay, and a couple thousand dollar airplanes- it’s at the same time, yeah. So it was kind of an odd mix of rough and wow, yeah, this one is definitely on the rough side. Yeah, in fact, he didn’t even have a price on it. It was just like: make me an offer, so 65 club. It was 64 dollars. I’m 64 because I opened my wallet and showed him this is all I’ve got. That’s a good trick I need to start doing but and he took it. That’s how I bought the.

[00:47:47] Last 10 out of there yeah it has a motor in it and it seems to be in good shape not the bearings.

[00:47:53] Don’t seem crunching or anything yeah I looked it over it’s got good compression got servos in it.

[00:47:57] Their old s128s. I mean it’s serviceable stuff. But this will be a fun little restoration project and it’s got good bones somewhere under the rickets but it’ll come out of it. I think. It’s a, I think.

[00:48:10] It’s a. Honestly, I think it’s a decathlon, but they did the window count is wrong. I know they did something different with it because the wingtips are decathlon or satabria and the tail is, for sure, satabra or decathlon, which are the same airplane basically. But yeah, so it’s got a little 40 size.

[00:48:29] Two-stroke in it I think it’ll be fun and sparing so yeah it’s gonna turn out nice my favorite part of.

[00:48:35] That one was the pilot. Oh yeah, this looks like he just melted and is staring towards the sky. Yeah, it looks like a muppet had a really bad day, straight up. I mean it looked like he broke his.

[00:48:47] Neck in a crash yeah and the windows are damaged on it but not enough to melt a pilot that to that.

[00:48:52] Extent so I don’t know what’s going on purpose who knows but it does look funny yeah weird.

[00:48:57] Yeah he’s going immediately in the trash don’t throw him away don’t throw it away I like it just.

[00:49:03] For the ugliness sake, for some reason, you should put it in one of your airplanes. Maybe I will. If he’s getting rid of it, I figured you’d let it stay in there. Maybe you could put in the back as like a- I was gonna say like a, a patient or something. Oh, that needs transport. Medevac. Yeah, yeah, definitely.

[00:49:18] It’s fitting yeah it definitely looks the part yeah for sure what I wanted to say though when you.

[00:49:24] When you were talking about nice airplanes next to not so nice airplanes, I was surprised with how many expensive big airplanes were there. Yeah, that didn’t sell. Like I noticed, none of the big ones that I was eyeing not to buy, but like just looking at the beginning- really sold. Yeah, there were some that were very expensive. But what surprised me is there were three jets there, three actual turbines. All three of those sold. We think no, the guy said they all sold. Oh, he did. Yeah, I saw them walk out.

[00:49:55] With their new owners yeah I was very surprised by that because those I mean one of those I think was.

[00:49:59] Almost four grand. Definitely more turbines there this year than there was last year that I saw. I don’t remember looking. Last year I was looking kind of not to buy but just out of curiosity to see because it’s interesting to see what shows up at a swap meet. Yeah, and the pricing. And yeah, and this year there were not only airplanes that were ready to go with turbines in them, but they’re all were also turbines for sale, like sitting out in the box. Sitting out in boxes, what do you think? Eight or so all together. Yeah, probably somewhere. Yeah, yeah, because we talked to the, talked to one of the.

[00:50:31] Cat sitting there, yeah, yeah, and the prices seemed reasonable to me, but I couldn’t tell you, I don’t know enough. Well, I mean, compared to like so the what was that, as I don’t know the sizing and all that, but it was a smallish. There was, there was a king tech 45- yeah, I know that was one of them. That was there, yeah, and then he had another one that was a little bit older, of the same size. I thought it was a little bit bigger. Oh, maybe it was but 600 and 800, right, which to me a brand new turbine’s.

[00:51:02] 2500, 3000, And that, no, no 17. 17 To 2, I think, is what we looked up. Give or take, that’s quite a substantial markdown. Well, yeah, even though it’s used, you got a golden knight for 30 bucks. Well, a used one that was. It’s well. It’s gonna need some love. These probably did too.

[00:51:25] Yeah, or I mean like I don’t know exactly how many hours you get on all these before you have to send them in, right, but I know, I mean the guy said one of them had like 17 hours on it, which I think is getting pretty close to like a 25 hour. Oh, send in. Okay, one of them didn’t have a lot of time on.

[00:51:41] It. I remember one of them. He said, yeah, it’s pretty low time, but they were older so they required the fuel change. I don’t know. I mean yes, but I don’t know, on propane, but then you’d run them on.

[00:51:51] Kerosene or diesel or whatever. I- yeah, I mean, that’s stuff I want to learn about. I just you should have been listening when he was talking. I was listening, but I don’t know how you switch it over or how you actually works either, like how you actually start it, if you have to run a blower through it to start spinning it up or what that’s. Yeah, I don’t know. Well, one of them had the, had the electric motor on the nose of it. One of them did, but the other one didn’t. Did not right. So I imagine you probably have to do the leap blower thing, but which is okay with me, I don’t mind.

[00:52:19] Tinkering yeah so it’d be fun to purchase a used one like that to play with that’s what.

[00:52:24] You should do get one of the older ones that are just not fancy and techy like the one I’m getting.

[00:52:30] And we can compare I’d be perfectly happy just taking one running it up on the bench yeah ever.

[00:52:35] Put it mounted on a, on a piece of two by six or whatever, with all the fuel system, and just have it like as a toy to play with or whatever. I’m definitely doing that when I get my. I think that.

[00:52:43] Would be fun. Use it, blow the leaves around. Yeah, was it 14 or 15 pounds of thrust, I think, is what I’m getting. I believe that’s not too bad. That’d be fun. So what got me was amazing variety.

[00:52:56] Of things you could see there strangest thing I’ve ever seen at any swap meet ever this guy had a foot.

[00:53:03] And a half tall brass acorn squash. Yeah, and it went away. Yeah, I saw lots of different people walking around with it like I don’t know what the there had to have been something we didn’t.

[00:53:16] Understand to know about, or something he had it in his garage, was picking up stuff to bring to the show and oh, you asked about it. Yeah, because that’s where we got the other item. Yeah, that’s.

[00:53:29] What daniel got his purchase. We’ll talk about daniel’s in a minute. Yeah, so yeah, I talked to him about the acorn squash, so he just it was in his garage. He thought, oh, grab that, I’m selling stuff, whatever. Somebody actually bought it then, yeah, because I saw it walking around within different people’s hands. So I must have seen the guy that owned it bringing it in, and then I must have seen the person that bought it take it out. So, yeah, I’ve never seen an 18 inch acorn squash brass, one like a.

[00:53:57] Like a shiny. Yeah, weird. I saw it from afar. I didn’t really pay much attention so I’m assuming spray paint- I don’t know it was not solid brass. Yeah, I mean, like I don’t know it was brass plated or something, or a spray. I didn’t look at it that close I didn’t either. Yeah, weird stuff, cool stuff. A lot of boxes that you had to pick through to find and I honestly I don’t do well with that, like I’m not much of a I don’t know what I’m looking for, so I’m not much into going through boxes and trying to find stuff. A few things I knew I was looking for, but nothing.

[00:54:31] Yeah like not just the fun of the hunt yeah I was on the lookout for some specific items like.

[00:54:37] For the f18, which I didn’t find any of. So, by the way, those parts are coming from aliexpress. We didn’t talk about that. Next year sometime maybe, I don’t know. We didn’t talk about that, did we last time, so I pulled over. I didn’t want to bring it up because I, you were. I feel like you were still.

[00:54:55] Feeling some kind of way about it. No, it’s okay. I mean, it happens, it’s my fault, I take responsibility for it. I think it’s partially my fault, but so I had that f18- the e-flight f18- that I picked up in decatur last year, that I finally spent the money on a battery, and so I took it out to the field. I really like I should have stood up to what I was thinking. Let’s be honest, like I was complete, let’s

[00:55:25] Let’s honesty here, therapy. Yeah, you were going to not fly it. I was not going to fly it- and then you let somebody go- not really goad you, but you listened to somebody else like me say: oh it’s, it’s fine, the wind is right down the runway, it’s perfect conditions for flying a jet, which if you’re going to have wind and flying a jet, you need a little bit of wind sometimes and it was right down the runway. So I wasn’t technically wrong, but you were. You had made up your mind. You were not going to fly it. I was on the fence and I talked you into it and I should have kept my mouth shut. I was on the fence.

[00:55:58] Leaning towards not. Yeah, I should have kept my mouth, but then you said that I’m like he’s right, what’s the big deal? Let’s, let’s try this. I’m completely faultless in this situation. David wasn’t even there yet he’s washed his hands of all. Well, he wasn’t there yet. He showed up after the fact, and so then I go to take off and edf on grass- problematic and not a terribly big edf. Now is it 70? It’s an 80 millimeter fan. Yeah, on a 6s 5000. Yeah, so, as I’m going down the runway to take off,

[00:56:33] I get towards where they don’t have it mowed anymore, like they mow it really short for the rc field right. And then, since we’re on an actual long runway, the rest of it- yeah, the rest of it- is normal grass height. I mean, I don’t know how else to work, but other than like what you would cut your grass at home- tall grass, tallish, yeah- and so I was coming up to that and in my mind I was going back and forth between: okay, I’m really getting to the point where I just need to turn this off or pull up and see what happens. And I’m getting to that point I’m like, all right, it’s time, just to.

[00:57:06] Abort, because I don’t have enough speed and I am far enough away to where I can’t really see it very well again. I should have just kept my mouth shut. And so the devil on my left side says: pull up. So

[00:57:20] Without thinking, I just pull up. Well, here’s what was going through my head. You were, you were really close to that tall grass and I didn’t want to. I didn’t want you to rip the gear out from under the airplane. So I was thinking, if he pulls up, he’ll, he’ll gain the airspeed he needs if he does it the way I would do it. You haven’t flown an edf, not like that, no, not like that one. So you didn’t have the experience that I assumed in my head. Oh, I told you I had no experience.

[00:57:50] This happened like milliseconds yeah so anyway I said pull up and you did and then what happened and.

[00:57:56] Then it dropped a wing because it was starting to stall. Yeah, so as it was doing that, I was trying to correct it and it just stalled out completely and fell out of the sky only from about five feet.

[00:58:06] In the air yeah it wasn’t it wasn’t very high but it was moving at a pretty good rate of speed not.

[00:58:11] Enough to take off on its own. It was. I mean it would have went. But yeah, well, for me it wouldn’t have went because, and see, I think there’s a definite technique, so there was which I should have. There was some regret afterwards, mostly because my plan with that was to take it to eli field- yes, for the first flights, which would have been perfect. Yep, I was excited because I bought that battery that same day. But yeah, that was the same day, wasn’t it the day before? Day before, when we went?

[00:58:42] Up to brian’s yeah but anyway so day before whatever it was the same day no it was because I couldn’t go.

[00:58:48] With you to brian’s because I was working. Oh, that’s right, but that was friday after. No, no, it was the same day, because we got back early enough to go fly, remember, yeah, but it was friday because that.

[00:58:58] Was the day we had friday off. Yeah, oh, that’s right, went right after work, yeah. So anyway, my original plan was to not fly that here, to take it out to eli field, because it’s got a nice paved runway, just to get some stick time on it before I did anything here, to kind of see how it handled and what I had.

[00:59:14] Power wise, what, how to how to go with it. But unfortunately that didn’t happen. I didn’t stick to my guns and I didn’t think about it and I put it in the car, which I shouldn’t have done that to begin with, and it is no more and I am done with it like I am. Well, no, don’t say that to me. It’s, I mean, it’s, maybe I’ll fly it, just to crash it again, I guess I don’t know, like not on purpose, but one I don’t care about. But it’s not, it’s not anything I’m excited about. Like I was, I got a box in the truck. We’ll just

[00:59:42] Fill that right up. So I don’t understand. Like I’ve already got it, it’s repaired, I’m just waiting on parts now. Okay, like, and it looks, it looks pretty good. Still, I’ll have to see it, okay I mean because I mean like it could use a little paint touch up, but I mean otherwise. I mean it actually looks pretty good, especially from the top, but really I mean from the top. I haven’t seen it like: got new gear doors, it’ll have a new nose gear, it’ll have a brand new fan. See, I, still I don’t like the fact.

[01:00:13] That you’re spending money on this either. I owe you money for this. No, you don’t. I do, yeah, because I’m going to fly it too. Oh, there you go. It’s yours now. No, I have a battery, it’s not? Oh, no, that’s not.

[01:00:22] What I don’t have use for that battery, but anything else. No, it’s not a write-off. It was a very, very easy fix. Honestly, it really was like you could have fixed it. I wasn’t going to, I know you.

[01:00:34] Weren’t, but you could have anyway. It will fly again, and so the other thing that made that worse was that is the day after I ordered a jet, and that’s the bad part, what and the why. But no big deal. I was not out a lot of money on that because that was cheap. Completely different airplanes, oh, I know, I mean the. The turbine should fly much easier. That’s a trainer turbine.

[01:00:59] Right I mean so I’m not the two are completely different animals but that one will be flown.

[01:01:04] First at eli field, with the help of people that actually know how to fly turbines, because you have to do that when you have a turbine at the beginning. Yep, so, and unfortunately I won’t.

[01:01:13] Probably be there but if I was I would keep my mouth shut and just watch from afar no it’s like.

[01:01:19] It’s not your fault it’s all on me I completely well I should have understand if I had not been there.

[01:01:25] You would not have flown. It. Is that fair to say? That is fair to say, okay then? So there you go. I feel some kind of way about it too, anyway. So there you go, it’s gonna get repaired and you’re gonna fly it. Or well, it will get flown, somebody’s gonna fly it. Like I said, I have the battery for.

[01:01:41] It well you can use that and nothing else I don’t have anything else the space walker doesn’t use.

[01:01:47] That no for us can you put a success in it I don’t that’d be fun I don’t know I’d have to look.

[01:01:53] Around six on six cells. I don’t think it. I don’t think it’ll go up to success on what I put in it. Maybe I’ll have to look, we’ll see, but for us definitely, and I just bought one of those batteries. It was delivered today, by the way, d24s 5000, I know, but I charge it the first time to see how it charged- 10 minutes less, 12 minutes to go from storage charge all the way to fully charged, that’s impressive. That’s what makes it especially a battery that size. Yep, I, I get it. They’re expensive, but I, I get it. Don’t think about the cost and it’s okay. Yeah, so something that was fun. That also happened at.

[01:02:29] A few more people recognized us this year than last year. It was pretty much just dave freiman last year. We saw him again this year, which was really cool and by the way, dave, if you’re listening, thanks for the gps unit. So david apparently heard us ramble on a prior episode about renting the spectrum gps module so we could do speed tests or whatever. So, yeah, he showed up and gave me a gps module so we can play with that. So well that.

[01:03:00] Was very nice. I didn’t realize that was cool. He would not take anything for, like, I tried to pay for it. It had 40. I tried to give him 40. I tried to give him a 20, he would not. He was adamant that he not take anything for it. So of course we’re going to use that and put anything we do with that on the podcast. So thanks, dave. But it was cool to run into some other listeners this year. It was a few more than last year, so that was kind of neat. Yeah, made you uncomfortable, but I

[01:03:27] Was in my element, a lot of our canadian friends. Yeah, ran across a lot of canadians that were listening to us. Yeah, which is neat, apparently, because that’s all I can do now, I’m not flying.

[01:03:35] Although I did get we did get an update at the show they are the nice like gosh I can’t remember.

[01:03:40] Her name the two older women they were just great with their with their husbands but they are.

[01:03:45] Gradually reopening sites in canada, which is- I must not have been there for that- good news. So, yeah, her husband and her husband’s friend were both members of a club that had been recently reauthorized up in canada. So they’re flying now, so good for them. Yeah, I have to take back my statement.

[01:04:00] Because just every canadian I talked to they were they are up and flying now so good nice getting.

[01:04:06] Back to some sort of normalcy yeah that was I was glad to hear that because.

[01:04:10] It’s been kind of bad news for them for a while but the sticky point is the registration for each.

[01:04:15] And every airplane? Yeah, I don’t, I mean it’s, it’s, I get it, it’s easy to do for them, they can get on online and do it, but it’s five dollars for each one. I think I have 49 airplanes, yeah, so that could add. That’s up quick. How long does that last any? Any clue? I think once. I think in can’t not. We should have looked this up. Canadian listeners correct me if I’m wrong, but I think if you register an airplane, I think that is that registration is good for the life of the airplane, I think, which might be 30 seconds. Well, right, but thanks, dave.

[01:04:51] That’s not bad if it is for the life of the airplane I mean really I think I’m not.

[01:04:57] Sure, okay, I seem to recall reading somewhere in the stuff that got sent to us that I think I remember seeing that somewhere, but what is it for hours? Well, we don’t have to register ours, do we?

[01:05:09] Don’t we’re supposed to have the faa number but it’s just one per number per all of your person yeah.

[01:05:15] Yeah per person yeah and that number is good for two years yeah I think two years two or three I just.

[01:05:22] Had to redo mine a few months ago. I don’t remember what it was. Did you get a notice? Yes, okay, I haven’t got one, so mine must be good, I think so. No, I did yeah, but anyway it was. It was cool to run into.

[01:05:34] People who had who kind of recognized? Of course I did. I was wearing a shirt with my name on it and you had your shirt with your name on it. So, yeah, and dave had his shirt with and I’m dave on it, which and I kind of stick out. I think it’s hilarious. So we talked about what we got, what about?

[01:05:50] Daniel, what did he get? Yeah, that’s the one that I just. I just want to say I’m usually the one that does stuff like this, so it was good to see somebody else buy something like ludicrous. Yes, so I didn’t want to be the one to say it, but go on, dave, what did your brother? So he bought a.

[01:06:08] Bunch of little bits and pieces. On saturday or, excuse me, friday, and was kind of looking around these different airplanes and there’s a guy on the one back wall. He had several airplanes that he was interested in. It’s actually where I ended up getting my piper punny from. Oh, so that’s where.

[01:06:23] It came from okay yeah and I thought it was at the back and go ahead there were he just was.

[01:06:29] Wishy-washy about he wanted. He has no type that he likes to fly, he just wishy-washy whatever looks cool to him. I mean, like you said, they had three or four back there that he was kind of interested in. They had a quarter scale cub. That was kind of rough. I mean it was okay but it was, and he was just looking around. We ended up finding him a sixty dollar airplane. He got a little mini.

[01:06:52] Stick was it yeah the e-flight the e-flight the old one the old version yeah with the flight and.

[01:06:57] Everything very cool. We bought some bigger wheels for it. It needs minor, minor work and it’s gonna be really nice airplane. So he those are fun to fly. So he joined the sixty dollar club with everybody else and he had sold a couple of those airplanes that he took up there. So he had a little spending money with him. And the guy across from us had this third scale monster balsa usa cub.

[01:07:23] Unusual paint scheme it is unusual I’ve never seen a cub painted this way white neon green and black.

[01:07:29] I’m not sure I’d say it’s me. I don’t think I go, but it’s a bright green. It is a bright green, yeah, yeah, but it’s unusual, yeah, and it’s got like a quarter star and the rays are off of the wings.

[01:07:42] And the tail japanese flag. How is that? The ray and the rays, kind of like that. But a quarter, it was all nicely done. Yeah, it looks really good. I can’t say it’s my style, but it was nicely done. Right, but nicely done a long time ago. Yeah, it’s an older airplane. It you open up the side door it’s got a funk to it. Smells like death. I got it. Yeah, probably a mouse, to be honest, I mean.

[01:08:05] It I don’t know what the funk is but it’s something all nasty yes and so how was the ride home with.

[01:08:13] That in your car, david crowded. Did it smell, though? I mean like it stink up the car- or did you just get used to it and you didn’t notice? Daniel took his shoes off. We were fine.

[01:08:27] No I’m kidding so it wasn’t too bad it was kind of buried under a bunch of stuff because it got.

[01:08:33] A little snug in the truck, so I’m I’m terrible about taking pictures, like I’ll do stuff and I, when they were taking this airplane out of the building and I didn’t get pictures of them putting it in the car, but I took pictures of them getting it out of the building. That’s how entertaining it was, and I don’t take pictures normally, so the elevator ride was fun. Yeah, it got.

[01:08:54] Comical both of us the fuselage and somebody and somebody else with their stuff yeah I would.

[01:09:00] Have waited I can fit I’ll jump right in here with these guys you can’t wait 30 seconds we compare.

[01:09:05] There’s two elevators. You can wait for the other one. We gotta explain my brother. I’m a big guy, my brother is a big guy. He’s got another three inches on me. He’s not a small guy. No, yeah, so here’s.

[01:09:17] These two guys with this huge airplane in one of these kind of standard size elevators, and then, yeah, some guy that was waiting for the elevator behind you just went ahead and jumped right in because there was a spot that he could just fit in. I didn’t quite. I’ve got a square foot I can stand on, so I took.

[01:09:33] A picture of that too yeah that was that was pretty good that was an interesting purchase.

[01:09:39] Yeah yes and then we had to put it in the truck yeah so I have a third scale cub with its 140 inch.

[01:09:46] Wing at least it’s two pieces at least it was two pieces so that’s a good thing I did not sell my.

[01:09:51] P40 so I’ve got my p40 to bring home yeah the tub of leftover stuff plus the two other or three other.

[01:09:58] Airplanes that I purchased yeah which aren’t really small air they’re 40 size but the pony is 80.

[01:10:05] Inches. Yeah, the pony is a good size airplane, so we got all that in there, plus the three that I didn’t sell. Yeah, and our baggage. And yeah, I’m really good at tetris, yeah, oh, by the way, don’t forget your chair. Oh, yeah, it’s in my garage. Yeah, we forgot about the chair. Now, we could have got the chair in there if we thought about it, but I forgot. You guys had it, yeah, and it had to go on the bottom. Oh, we had it. I thought, yeah, it was in the trailer. It was in the trailer. I thought.

[01:10:34] They were packed and asked us to take it because they couldn’t fit it no it was so that the his.

[01:10:38] Chair was in the trailer because they didn’t need it, obviously. So he’s like: hey, can you put it in the trailer? I gotcha okay, and if I had remembered it we could have put it on the bottom and everything.

[01:10:45] Would have packed nice in fact it probably would have been nice to keep the cub from rolling around.

[01:10:50] Yeah so you were like we were last year you were absolutely loaded in there so tight all right so.

[01:10:58] Six and a half hours in this truck not a stinking rattle from anything because it’s all jammed in there.

[01:11:03] So that’s how packed it was I love it so funny yeah because that’s exactly how our ride was last.

[01:11:08] Year yeah and then on the way home this year we have like nothing all right so here is the big.

[01:11:12] Problem. We get this thing packed to the gills. It is tight. I go to get it in the truck and realize where am I going to put my crutches? Oh no, I didn’t even think of that either. Yeah, so we’re gonna put them. Daniel was able to dig a hole on his side of the truck.

[01:11:30] Needless to say, we didn’t stop off and I didn’t get out. Yeah, I don’t know how we passed you. Somehow you left like a half hour before we did. Yeah, I don’t know if it was quite a half hour, but it was.

[01:11:39] Before us quite a bit and somehow, yeah, we well, we- took a detour trying to find a restroom and every place we hit was closed and I couldn’t get out. Yeah, it was detours. Oh, I didn’t get lost. This time there was no hood involved, no ditches, no pulling out in front of

[01:12:00] Semis or anything like that no scary death days nothing no Reggie screaming in the are we.

[01:12:06] All alive yeah truck doesn’t have a dent on it that’s true perfect oh gosh good times that’s funny.

[01:12:13] Yeah so that’s our what next year well yeah we’re going I think so I think maybe we should.

[01:12:22] If we can do dayton, also because we’ve got a lot of feedback on folks who had gone to the date and swap meet and said that was pretty good too. I heard that was more expensive from a lot of.

[01:12:31] People that went there and then came to this one, oh okay, well, we definitely have to do, perry, I mean that’s, that’s, we’ll see when, but yes, but yeah, I don’t know what next year is going to bring. Yeah, like, if not next year, I would like to do it the year after. For sure, yeah,

[01:12:43] Okay but plans change so we’ll see I don’t think I’m taking the p40 again it was just.

[01:12:50] Too much you had too many people looking at it and not well it looked like there was one guy that.

[01:12:55] Was kind of serious, but then it didn’t. I guess he didn’t. Did he even make it? I never even got an offer on it. Oh you, just, you just need to fly it. Or I had a lot of people say, oh it’s beautiful, or well it is. I mean, it really is. Like I so knew for the swap meet at toledo this year was

[01:13:13] I was going to say before we get to talk about that but also tell what this airplane is we just.

[01:13:18] Say p40, but what, oh okay, anyway, new for toledo this year was that they also had a scale like a contest, right, like an event. And so dave’s p40, it’s a top flight gold series, the 60 size kit that dave built and detailed and like. When I say detailed I don’t mean like he, he weathered it a little bit, I mean he fiberglassed it, painted it panel lines- a little bit of weathering. Lots of tabs, yeah, lots of little scale details like trim tabs. I mean it’s the, the toe lugs on the landing.

[01:13:53] Gear pedo too. I mean the thing is sliding canopy, the whole retractable landing light. Yeah, I mean it’s, it’s beautiful. And I’m not just saying that because you’re my friend, I mean it like if I saw it in the scale competition, I’d be like that thing is gorgeous. So I was like, well, you should put it in the scale competition. If it like- if you’re not gonna sell it, I mean it’s, it would. I think it would have had a shot in the people’s choice award or whatever. But that’s how pretty it is, I agree, and you’ve got so much time in it that I could have built a full-size kit fox in.

[01:14:26] Less time. Yeah, see, I agree with that, but he was trying to sell it. No, I get that, so I get that. That one person didn’t come by that wanted it. But if it was up there, nobody would have been able to really.

[01:14:38] See that it was for sale. What I mean? Well, they were. I mean they were in the set, like all those competition planes were in the center aisle, okay, but let me ask you this. So one of the things that

[01:14:48] People do there that, let me ask you. They leave their table and put their cell phone number on there and says: if interested, call. I saw a few of those. Yeah, yeah. What are your thoughts on that?

[01:15:00] I would prefer the person to be there so I can deal with them I don’t think I would ever call.

[01:15:05] Personally yeah so I mean that’s that’s my point like if you just put a thing on there that said.

[01:15:09] For sale call when it’s come see me in the next hall. I, I don’t think that would have had any takers either, but at any rate, I mean it would have. It is what it is. I think it would have competed. At least I think it would have too. Yeah, because the air oh. Yeah, some of the airplanes were beautiful, but some of them, I think- yeah, I think yours- it’s okay to say that some of them were. Yeah, some of those were my scale. Some of some of them were just simply put up there because their sheer size, they weren’t particularly scale. No, gray wheels, tires, I wasn’t gonna say anything.

[01:15:43] Okay so now you’re talking about a cub that was absolutely huge what was that maybe a 40 oh my gosh.

[01:15:48] Yeah, it was at least 40. I mean it was cool, neat, yeah, but gray tires. It looked like they were just off of a lawnmower, but gray, yeah, gray, like almost do they make tires, gray rubber tires for airplanes.

[01:16:03] Like full size like I don’t think I’ve ever seen it I’ve never seen a modern aircraft with a gray tire.

[01:16:07] Well right well but okay anywho yeah which I thought was it kind of spoiled the whole thing.

[01:16:14] For me it was gorgeous up to you for me as soon as I got the tires I spoiled it yeah it’s for me but.

[01:16:19] It was a huge cub yeah like yeah and I bet the biggest ones I’ve seen I bet it flies awesome but.

[01:16:24] You would. Yeah, I mean you would almost have to, but anyway, yeah, I can understand the feeling I’m not trying to take the p40 again, so now you just need to fly it. Yeah, we’ll spend some.

[01:16:37] Time on the engine. Make sure it’s good to go and then fly that thing that new carbs. Now I got a drop of gas through it yet, so time to change, fix that. Yep, I think we’ll pull the engine. Put one of those.

[01:16:47] Rings in it too oh good idea very good idea so things to do different next year for me.

[01:16:58] Stay in the building. Oh yeah, as far as the, yeah for sure. Yeah, because you can stay at the hotel that is connected to the glass city center. And next year, that’s yeah for sure. Yeah, even if it’s a.

[01:17:11] Few bucks more it’s worth it to me yeah because that was a 15 minute drive that we had to make.

[01:17:15] Back and forth a few times. I don’t know if it was that long, but still it would be super, super convenient to just be staying right there where the show is, even if it was 10 minutes each way.

[01:17:23] That’s an hour going because we made the trip three times. Yeah, so traditional pool: yeah, I got about the. Yeah, we won’t talk about that, okay, anyway, but anyway, yeah, so we’ll do that differently.

[01:17:35] Probably, but anything else, I mean I want to stay. Taking a trailer was a good idea, yeah, and that was getting the tables, getting more tables than you think you need. We didn’t do that right. But for next time, if we’re selling and we’re, if we’re in sell mode next year- mental note, more tables than we think we need- maybe take a table or two with us to, yeah, but behind or whatever. That’s really all I would. I think that’s all I would change. I wonder if we can request to be in the same place.

[01:18:06] We certainly can it was on the form and I think we want to be in the same spot I really like that spot.

[01:18:10] Yeah it’s a good spot I liked it there’s a lot of room between us and the people behind us.

[01:18:13] Which I noticed. Some of those were closer. It may not have gotten as much traffic maybe as some of the other spots, like some of the more centrally located tables seem like they had. Like if you were at the end on the inside it seemed like people were it loop around get a lot more traffic. But I’m okay with where I’m. I really like that. Yeah, I’m happy with where you are. Yeah, I’d like.

[01:18:34] To do the same thing next year. Yep, and then next year. I also want to make sure I sit down for the whole auction, because I missed a couple planes I probably would have come home with. So this is a bad thing. How well, because one of them was a glider. Like it was a fully put together glider, not powered glider, but it was a tow glider, had servos. I don’t remember what it was, though it was. They said what it was. Some, it doesn’t matter what it was- ended up selling, I think, for like two.

[01:19:03] Dollars what did he let it sell for that really yeah well yeah you probably nobody wanted.

[01:19:10] Gliders definitely nobody wanted gliders there come home with that yeah and I gave mine away.

[01:19:14] You did. That kid looked really got a couple kids. Yeah, he looked really happy though, so, anyway. And then the guy that bought your electric trainer, him and his daughters, that was awesome. That I, yeah, I, I.

[01:19:28] Wish I would have thought to tell him: here’s my card thing. Email me pictures and stuff. I want to see you guys do it. I did not even think to do that until it was too late. Well, it’s outside your comfort zone. Well, it definitely was. But I would have done that though. Yeah, and I sold my helicopter that.

[01:19:43] Went with you to iraq oh that’s right for ten dollars to a couple kids let me tell you that.

[01:19:48] Thing has some hours on it yeah it does I flew the blade cx yeah blade cx not a cx2 no just the.

[01:19:54] Original one, yeah, original cx. So these kids were pretty darn happy. Yeah, so they got it made me happy too, and I made sure to tell them that it had been overseas. Yeah, it was. As many hours on it in the nasty, sandy conditions of that stuff just does not blow off. You have to wipe it off. Imagine.

[01:20:11] Breathing it. I would say your lungs have got to be jacked, yeah, so anyway, yeah, all right, I was excited to see those girls get those trainers. Yeah, the guy get the trainers to teach those girls. That’s, I think.

[01:20:22] That’s awesome. That’s that’s what it’s about. They’ll get more use out of it than I would, so I’m glad to see it go to somebody that will hopefully use it a lot. Yep, and he didn’t even know it came with all the extra parts. This is the electric one that I was planning on keeping for myself and at the last minute I thought what I’m going to get rid of it or at least take it to have the option of getting rid of it. So I took the airplane, took the ARF box. It had everything except, like I said, I think horizontal stab was the only thing that wasn’t in it, like that. Yeah, and he wanted the fully put together airplane that was sitting on top of the table. I’m like that’s fine. It also comes with all.

[01:20:55] These parts and he was extremely happy because he said they might need them yeah I hope they don’t I hope.

[01:21:00] They don’t, but yeah, they have them if they do. And the fact that he’s going to teach his daughters to fly, I think, is awesome, good, amazing for him. Yep, anything else, or can we? It’s been a long one. No, I think we’ve talked enough. I think we’ve rambled. I’m excited for toledo. I can’t, I simply cannot be here before it put into words how much I’m looking forward to that. So it’s just a nice trip. It’s a long trip. That’s the only part I’m not looking forward to. Well, the part about it that really stinks is it’ll be the coming home, because at least we’ll have a date within a week.

[01:21:33] Then I, then I’m gone, for I see I forget about that, yeah, oh well, all right, until next time. I am Ron, I’m Tom and I’m dave. Good night, good night.

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