Ep 129: Tom’s Vintage Airplane Swap Meet Find

[00:00:05] Hello everyone and welcome to the RC Plane Lab podcast. I’m Ron, I’m Tom and I’m dave and we are probably going to be a little bit late for releasing this week because much going on. Well, yeah, we have not been able to get in touch or get together to record until it’s actually 5, 46 friday night and we’re supposed to release in an hour and 14 minutes. Challenge.

[00:00:38] Accepted. So really short episode. We’ll see how it goes. But anyway, if you’re waiting around at seven o’clock for a new episode and that’s not coming out, that’s why just be patient, and you won’t know that, because this will be late or heard of this. So moving on, oh god, I can. So much going on. This week was just really, really busy. Yeah, we were supposed to do it yesterday. You canceled and then we tried to redo, or we were going to do something on monday or tuesday, but then we had stuff going on monday. I had stuff going on tuesday. Wednesday was out. So here we are here.

[00:01:10] We are I’ve been free all week guys what’s your problem you weren’t free monday.

[00:01:16] Dimmer dinner dimmer was wonderful dimmer was good that was a good time I appreciated.

[00:01:24] That bob had put that together for us for me for you because you were going away dinner yeah so.

[00:01:31] I appreciate that I had a good time it was nice good food too so good to see some people.

[00:01:36] That we hadn’t seen for a while. Because it’s been so windy we haven’t been able to fly. I know this wind has been nuts lately. It’s been windy. It’s windy again today. So monday and tuesday, the sustained

[00:01:48] Winds on both days was around 45 mile an hour sustained, and then, of course, there were gusts at all time. Yeah, and thank you for clearing that up, making sure, which, of course, means that there were gusts even greater than that higher. Yeah, yeah, yeah, cause an accident down. Oh yeah, an I-55, a huge dust cloud that had been stirred up by the winds from the farmer’s field, had obscured the visibility going across 55 and it caused a massive. Maybe you guys saw it in the news, I don’t know.

[00:02:21] It was national news. It made national news. Yeah, it was like an 80 car, completely or completely. Yeah, pile up when you considered the cars and actually had a few folks killed in that, unfortunately you, you drove by there that day, did I missed it? You went down the same. Yeah, I missed it.

[00:02:36] By about 20 minutes. I was on my way home when it happened and I was about probably well 20 miles ish south of where it happened and I when it happened. Yeah, oh, so it happened before you got.

[00:02:51] By it yeah by it yeah so you were coming back north when it happened yeah really yeah so how’d you get.

[00:02:57] Home lots and lots of side roads and detours and like so most of the folks that are listening aren’t going to know. But like so, I came up north, got off on the on. I don’t even know what exit that was, it was way south of even the. The morrisonville exit had to go east because they wouldn’t let anybody go west because of all the frontage roads and all that were closed off. Yeah, so I had to go east and had to go up to taylorville and got on 48 at taylorville and went up to decatur taylorville.

[00:03:31] And then came across yeah so you went wow way out of your way okay so then that tells me how you found.

[00:03:36] Out about it they had stuff blocked off yeah so laurie had texted me are you okay well she said hey.

[00:03:44] Because we had been communicating back and forth I was telling her where I was at and what I was.

[00:03:49] Texting and driving. No, no, it was before I left, where I was leaving, from gotcha now, which was, by the way, you can say you went to the lego store. Yeah, it was may the 4th celebration. I’m in. Yeah, I’m a lego geek. I also like star wars, so lego does star wars and whatever. I can’t laugh because

[00:04:06] I’m an adult that plays with toy airplanes well whatever so it’s okay but yeah so I left the.

[00:04:10] Lego store and- and, yes, she was updating me as I went along. And then, once I got on, got off the 255 interchange and hit 55, she said, hey, it looks like there’s like a slowdown in traffic according to google maps. You might want to try to find another way. I was like, okay, cool. So I got to about litchfield and then that’s when I could see some ambulances and things like that whizzing past me. It’s like this is more than just a slowdown. So then I, when I got off, I texted her. I was like, hey, what’s going on? She’s like, oh, yeah, there’s like this massive car pile up. You probably need to find.

[00:04:42] Another way home. By then it was already, they were already diverting traffic, and but it was a huge deal, all thanks to this crazy wind. Yeah, yeah, the wind was so bad I was able to.

[00:04:53] Our break room lunch room. We were at lunch when all this was going down and we can see the helipad from one of the local hospitals and their helicopter took off obviously was headed that direction. It looked like it was struggling a lot. It circled around and came back and landed. Oh, it didn’t even. Yeah, yeah, so it was. I can’t imagine yeah, trying to fly in that. Yeah, it was.

[00:05:14] It was, it was nuts and then. So that happened on monday, may the 1st, and then the winds were high again on tuesday, may the 2nd and they closed 55 down again for the very same reason. Yeah, it was closed. It was probably 24 hours more precautionary. No accident anymore. No accidents on tuesday that we know of. But yeah, the same thing. And people are trying to blame it on the farmers. It’s not the farmers fault, it’s just circumstances, just all the wrong things, the wrong time, when I

[00:05:41] First heard it, I thought there was an actual farmer out doing the field at that time, and when I heard that, then yeah, yeah, you think you should be smart enough not to do, but I can tell you, yeah, I can tell.

[00:05:52] You from driving on 55 when, about the time frame that happened, I didn’t see any farmers out like honestly that would, because most farmers have pretty decent common sense and they’re going to see: oh gosh, I’m creating this cloud, this is not cool, so, and they don’t want all the dust in their tractors either. Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, it’s not, it’s not really anyone’s fault, it’s just unfortunate accident. Yeah, yeah, it was crazy when so windy that’s. Yeah, that’s what it’s been around here.

[00:06:20] Not flown me either but Ron has well yeah yesterday there was no wind well I shouldn’t say there was.

[00:06:27] Very little yeah yesterday was a lot and I compared to monday and tuesday yesterday was awesome.

[00:06:31] And we had one day last week too, I don’t remember what day it was. There was a night like it was windy all day, but when it started to kind of get dusky, then dusky, it just settled down. I was like, oh, I have some time, I need to go out, so you flew. So I was able to fly the ultra x 600, got a one, two, three, four, all four batteries through that nice, and I went through an actual or four, yeah, four batteries on the, the umx radian. First time I flew that. Yeah, how’d that fly?

[00:07:03] It’s so lazy really it’s just it’s a fun lazy dumb little airplane I would not have guessed that I would.

[00:07:10] Have guessed that it would have been lively because it’s so small no not at all it’s got AS3X+.

[00:07:16] On it. So with the little bit of when- when I say a little bit, I mean maybe two or three mile an hour is all it was when I was out doing it. It handled it well and it actually glides. I’m not gonna say great, but decently for what it is. Cool. Like I was expecting it to be a lot more of a of a drop when you cut the throttle, but it was. It wasn’t all that bad. Good deal. I know I was happy with that one. Cool, I actually got to fly yesterday, was able to fly the. The erratics went through another.

[00:07:49] Four batteries on that one and then I was able to get a couple batteries on the mini convergence. Oh, that was the toledo, that was one. Like I said, I’ve I’ve seen those before. I’ve wanted the big ones. I didn’t actually know they made a small one until I saw it in toledo, and it’s, it’s fun. But I should have not flown it first here in my room to learn its idiosyncrasies. Yeah, because so it hovers well.

[00:08:20] It’s got the three blades for hovering and stuff and then when you flip it to be airplane to airplane mode, it takes the front two motors and slowly tilts them forward and then turns the back motor off, obviously because it doesn’t need it anymore. So I didn’t realize- because I didn’t read any instructions or anything- that why would you do that? Why would we do that? Well, because it’s small, so you don’t need to right. Yeah, probably should have, but anyway. So I didn’t realize it had safe, which I don’t even know if they called it safe back then, because this is quite old, like a few.

[00:08:53] Years old, which really banks how much you can, I’m sorry, which really limits how much you can bank. So I took off and it’s faster than I thought it was going to be too, so it was flying away from me and then I tried to bring it around and it just started going farther away than I wanted it to. So I was like, okay, flip the next switch down, three position switch, and then it just started barrel rolling because I was still like locked, trying to get it to turn. Yeah, yeah, trying to get.

[00:09:25] It turned back to me, so luckily I saved it and brought it back. For some reason, the thought never came to my mind to flip it back into hover mode. Hover, yeah, then it would have just stopped. Yeah, yeah, well, but it’s a fun airplane I have. Vertex is kind of like that. Yeah, that’s, I probably should have that one. Oh, that’s really nice. Sorry, yeah, I’m allergies. Can I join you on your end of the table? Yeah, no doubt about that. Is that better back away from the microphone, or warn me and I’ll mute.

[00:09:56] You. You’ll be doing a lot of muting. Then push it away from me anywho. I’m afraid it’ll come off the table again. It’s a comedy of errors. I remember that fell, yeah, oh, but anyway. So, yes, I got some flights on that. That was fun, so we’ll fly it more once the weather warms up and the wind dies down. Yeah.

[00:10:21] You’re gonna take it to journal don’t know I mean we might have room for it I don’t know.

[00:10:27] I’m still going over final yeah because I don’t know where we’ll fly it that’s the other oh that’s.

[00:10:32] So small well so small you can probably fly it in the in our little camping space I don’t know we’ll.

[00:10:38] See, I don’t know what the rules are for stuff like that, so I don’t either. There’s a lot like it’s a wild west out there. We’ll see, we’ll figure it out. It’s going to be fun, no matter what. So somebody else can talk ads. Ads, yes, we have, and it was brought up on discord. Somebody asked: apparently we have ads now on our podcast. Yeah, unbeknownst to us, they just appeared out of nowhere. But yeah, listen to.

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[00:12:01] So far they’re not that bad I was just one in the middle and maybe one at the beginning but.

[00:12:06] Yeah pretty easy to deal with then I suppose we’ll see a lot of the podcasts I listen to have ads.

[00:12:12] And they’re not overly ridiculous. So, as long as they can keep it to where it’s not overly ridiculous, I don’t know. Yeah, yeah, like the ones I don’t like is when you’re on youtube and like we don’t obviously get anything from youtube, but youtube now puts ads on everything. Yeah, whether or not the person. Well, it’s not like we do anything on youtube anyway. Yeah, we haven’t put.

[00:12:33] Anything out there in a while, but nor will we, since. Well, you can still put stuff on youtube without me. I could, but you and dave are more than capable of recording stuff without me. Well, can we though? Are you gonna be all butthurt? No, no, because the show must go on right. Yeah, and if you need content, then go to the swap meet this weekend and have a good time without me. So that’s what brought that.

[00:12:58] Whole thing up there’s a swap meet this weekend that I think dave and I’m going for sure I think.

[00:13:02] Dave’s gonna come like good grief. Haven’t you had enough swap meets for the year? No, okay, can you? No, that’s why I’m so weird, because I want to go too and I can’t. I use my swap meet money to pay.

[00:13:15] The plates on my truck so that’s not fun I know should have just not paid them well I forgot for.

[00:13:23] Five days that’s funny my oldest kid went like almost two years with expired plates on his car so.

[00:13:30] Whatever wow yeah it’s good until you get into an accident yeah tell my kid that it’s okay he.

[00:13:37] Doesn’t listen. I was gonna say to me: or the podcast, that was good, that was holy, all right, cool. So some new airplanes or a new airplane and new radio out there, yeah, I, I don’t know how I feel about the nx20 yet, so I’m super excited, like I can’t afford it and I’m not gonna buy it, obviously right away, but hopefully in about six years, when somebody’s letting that right away, yeah, oh for sure, I will own one. I mean, eventually you think so, like, let’s be honest, I’m gonna be.

[00:14:11] Honest, I’m a luddite, right like. When it comes to technology. I’m an old fuddy-duddy that I like my ix12. I like the way it performs. Once I can figure it the heck out and make it do what I wanted to do. It’s honestly, the program is too much radio for me. It really is like I don’t need the whole android app. I don’t do the whole the making it talk and all those things. I just want a radio that’s fairly easy to program. Yes, I need a lot of channels for some of the stuff we fly, putting multiple servos with different channels, mixing them, all that.

[00:14:44] Sort of stuff and having the expo and the epa and all that stuff. I use all that and trims and mixes I. But you can do that on a basic radio without having the cool android app and the and the wi-fi connectability and assigning pictures to the like. That stuff is cool. I’m not saying it’s not cool, but it’s beyond. It adds complexity to something that I don’t want to be complex.

[00:15:10] My dx9 does all that all the basics that you have to have yeah and the only thing really not the.

[00:15:17] Only thing. But what appeals to me about the nx20 is it has everything I want, has all the all the channels I want. It has all that programming, minus the slowdown of the android business. Like maybe it’s faster, maybe the processor’s faster, great, I don’t need a smartphone in my transmitter. Yeah, I have. Like it took me to, it took owning an ix12 for me to come to that, to that sort of thought like the ix12 is a beautiful radio, I love what it does, but it’s, it’s really more radio than what I need.

[00:15:50] The nx20, even though it’s more expensive than my ix12 was, and hopefully, in six years, ten years, whatever it’s going to take for them to come down to where I can afford them, I will. I will own an x20 eventually because, like I said I don’t need an iphone or an android phone in my transmitter.

[00:16:11] I get it and I will agree that the slowdown on the ix12 can be annoying, disheartening, extremely annoying, but I love everything it does. I just wish it was faster, I mean, that’s. My only complaint is just the speed of booting up, the speed of loading things sometimes. Yeah, once it’s on.

[00:16:33] And going. It’s usually okay. I will say also that I do appreciate the touch screen when it works well. See, I don’t. You have mine. Does the weird? You touch it and then you wait five minutes and then you it finally does what you’re trying to execute. That’s still something like I.

[00:16:50] Think you almost need to have a complete wipe and reinstall of the whole os on there, like there’s something that the person that had it before you or someone else has installed. That’s just slowing.

[00:17:00] Things down. I’ve I’ve been through, I’ve watched youtube videos from horizon. I’ve watched youtube videos from other users that have the ix12s on how they’ve sped theirs up. I’ve done all of that to it and it always. It works for a little while, like it’ll be fast for a while, but it always seems to go.

[00:17:15] Back. Then you have a setting or something turned on that needs to be turned off. Some auto update, some again something weird. I’m a luddite, true. So there you go. I guess you’re proving the point of you.

[00:17:25] Exactly so an nx20 will. I will own one eventually. I’m really excited about it like I can’t wait to see them in people’s hands and see how happy they are with it, that they

[00:17:36] So all those channels and without the? The only thing, the only thing I don’t remember saying is: what kind of case does it come with? Oh, I don’t remember seeing anything about a case, because the ix14- I love the idea of that radio, but it comes with a janky little like just styrofoamy case. Oh, I don’t like the case. I love the. I like our hard cases. Yeah, and that’s what the ix20 comes with: nice hard case that you can actually put in another, yeah, another radio in.

[00:18:08] With it. It’s big enough for two. Yeah, I don’t. I didn’t. I don’t recall seeing if the nx20 comes with one, but regardless, I, you will have one day. One day when it becomes obsolete, affordable and obsolete. Yes, I’m looking forward to that. No, it’s it. Like I said, it’ll be a good, a good.

[00:18:27] Transmitter I. I think it’s just the same thing as the other ones with more channels. Yeah, it looks like they took the ix12 carcass, yeah, and just got rid of everything that was extra, yeah, and said the screen is bigger though, which is odd- same size as the ix12 or the- sorry, the ix20 though. Oh, is it? Oh? Okay, that’s why I said it looks like it’s the same carcass, but it’s not touchscreen.

[00:18:48] It’s not touchscreen which I’m okay with yeah me too yeah touchscreens and I don’t get along.

[00:18:53] Say, I like touchscreen, but I don’t want the nx20. So, yeah, I want the ix20, which one of these days will happen, but it will probably not be anytime soon, because I’m in the same boat. You are well you.

[00:19:05] Have a other toy that you got that is more expensive than that: your jet. I’m talking about your jet. Yeah, someday I will. You want to talk about that? You feel some kind of way about that.

[00:19:17] No, I just I wasn’t quick enough. I feel bad for you. Well, it’s no big deal. I wasn’t quick enough so I’m not going to make the first shipment, so I’m going to be waiting a few months. That’s okay you.

[00:19:27] Went to second shipment when they work out the bugs they find in the shipment one and here’s the.

[00:19:32] Other thing like: so the first edf flight was maybe not as successful as you, but time to practice. But now you will have time and you have another jet that you can practice with, so you’ll be more comfortable when the time comes to finally fly the big one. Yeah, so that’s maybe not.

[00:19:52] A bad thing. No, I’m, I’m. I’m not complaining that it’s going to take a while, that’s fine, but I’m just. I wish it was sooner because I’m excited for it. Yeah, well, that’s. I think that’s normal, that’s.

[00:20:03] All I’m saying: yeah, okay, sure, so yeah, your radio purchase is going to be. You’re going to be holding off for a little while. Yes, that’s fine. And they came out with another airplane too. I don’t.

[00:20:16] Know if you saw that one, the twin timber. Oh, twin timber. I don’t know why that was. That was a terrible like. Moving on to the next thought: no, in my mind, I’m tired of listening to me talk about radios. Well, no, in my mind I’m thinking I don’t have money for the radio. Well, I see I should not buy airplanes, but I fail at that, however. Well, yeah you, the twin timber is kind of a cool looking.

[00:20:40] Airplane yeah another timber well it’s not just another timber it’s a twin that’s what horizon.

[00:20:45] Says yes I can tell this one apart from all the rest of them yeah exactly I like you got a point.

[00:20:50] Because I don’t. I don’t know the difference between any of them. There was a lot that have been out and I don’t have the history in my head to know what’s what, but there’s a night: timber, timber.

[00:20:59] X timber. It feels to me turbo timber, turbo timber x. Shiver me timber, shiver me timber was one of them. Yeah, yeah, timber by kesha. I think that was one too, I don’t know. Sorry, pop music reference. Oh,

[00:21:15] You’re old, I know I caught it, but to me the timber, like I know, getting off the rails here, twin timber, cool, okay, but the timber to me feels like the modern foam version of the stick. Pretty much what I’m saying, because there were so many scale like yeah, there were so many different versions of sticks. There was a, the regular stick, the low wing stick, the sweet low stick, the big stick, the, what I’m saying, there’s a lot of sticks and now stick in the mud and there’s a lot of. Yeah, now there’s a lot of timbers, shiver me timbers or twembers as the

[00:21:51] Case may be. Yeah, so the new one is a twin, I know, and I just think it’s cool, and what I like about that, though, is it’s like the motors are mounted high enough to where you’re not worried about prop strikes. Yeah, so I don’t know why that even is something I would worry for, like a bush flying plane you can smash.

[00:22:07] It around a little bit more and not have that and I like the bush type plane so you do and the big.

[00:22:12] Wheels and this one has big wheels big wheels yeah so and it takes batteries that I already have.

[00:22:17] Yeah so of all the timbers the twin probably interests me the most me too because it’s different.

[00:22:23] It’s. They had the night timber that I’ve seen a couple videos on and the night version is kind of cool, but I don’t know enough about it to be excited about it. Yeah, I just like the night version. Well, the lights are fun. Maybe there’s going to be a night version of the twin night twimber. A night twimber, that’d be fun. That would be kind of cool horizon. Yeah, just throw some leds in there. Yeah, I mean, that’s all it takes, that’s all they do, right? Yeah, just throw some leds in it.

[00:22:49] Throw some leds in it, add a hundred bucks and, yeah, make sure at least one of the leds doesn’t work, though you’re still a little upset about not better at all. Oh yeah, gentlemen, all right. So

[00:23:03] What’s next which should we talk about oh speaking of sticks I’ve got to tell this story I’m.

[00:23:09] Sorry is it too early to talk about the swap meet you find no because what I was going to say.

[00:23:15] Is- let’s talk about new airplanes- when we went to the last swap meet- okay, that we actually went to after toledo, yeah, before now, yes, it was a swap meet- you actually got to come with I did. Well, I met you there, but you still came with us. Okay, I guess it took three vehicles to get. It took three.

[00:23:32] Vehicles to get the three of us there but yeah we all met at the swap meet down in jeez.

[00:23:38] I know my mic. Yeah, columbia, thank you. Yeah, that’s. That’s usually a good swap meet and it wasn’t bad. There was a lot of stuff there. It was a lot smaller this year. I was then last year, I was for sure by that.

[00:23:48] Yeah because last year they had the other room opened up well they had it open when I got there.

[00:23:52] And then they closed it off closed it they had people that were set up they closed it before I.

[00:23:57] Got there they had it was you were only there like 15 minutes before I was I know but they didn’t have.

[00:24:02] Enough people coming to set up there. So the people that were over there they brought over to the main room and closed that partition off to make it a third smaller. I mean, I think that was about a third, isn’t it? Where the partition is roughly probably so. Yeah, well, that’s sad, I know, but

[00:24:18] Overall, I was not disappointed. I mean, there was still stuff, a lot of stuff there. I bought an airplane, you bought an airplane. You bought an airplane. I bought an airplane, they bought two.

[00:24:29] Airplanes so it was a package deal well I don’t even want one of them.

[00:24:36] So what I want to talk about like oh yeah so let’s go back to you yeah sorry it’s always about me no.

[00:24:41] This actually I love this story it’s it’s kind of cool so go ahead and yeah so I get there and.

[00:24:46] You guys are already there, which is fine. I don’t feel any kind of way about that. You were late on your own accord, not that’s true. But I walk in and like as soon as I walk in you pay your five bucks or ten bucks or whatever it was. You walk in and there’s a guy there right off the bat with the several tables. He had a bunch of old cocks of plastic 4049 stuff laying up there and then this ugly looking 40 size stick laying up there and I it caught my attention as I walked by and I looked at. It’s like, oh, that’s okay, cool low wing stick.

[00:25:21] And I thought of that or I thought of you when I first walked in and saw that too I was like oh.

[00:25:26] What if tommy’d like that? So I walked by it and I’m like: oh, that’s for some reason, it was just. It was like a thorn in my brain, like a, not a thorn. What do I think? Oh, splinter, it’s like what. There’s something about that stick that like is really interesting to me. So I walk around, I meet up with you and watch you buy your airplane and then, and then I keep looking because you can the venue is so small, you can see everything from, no matter everywhere, yeah, no matter where you’re standing. So I keep looking over and it’s like: man, there’s something about that.

[00:25:58] Airplane that it’s like either familiar or it’s something really interesting to me, like I, it looked old, it, yeah, it looked old. Vintage, let’s not say old, let’s say vintage. Right, well, there are synonyms. Well, right, old, I guess, is a synonym for vintage, but anyway, in this case there was something about it that just the colors, just it just looked really familiar. So finally, after helping you carry out your airplane- and I helped somebody else carry something out, I think, and anyway I

[00:26:29] Finally went and then I talked to the guy. I said, hey, where did, where did this airplane come? Like, did you fly this or whatever? Just trying to make conversation, trying to figure out where it came from. He’s like no, I bought it. He said like two weeks prior he bought it at some flea market. Yeah, I’m like, well, that’s odd. So then I’m looking at it and he’s got the wing off of it and it’s an upside down stick. So an upside down stick is like the old great plain sticks. You could build them upside down and turn them into low wings without too much work. Honestly, it was really

[00:27:02] Easy to do, minimal. Yeah, you just mount the gear ahead of the wing. Or if you were really fancy, you could build gear blocks into the wings, whatever. But this one was done in the simple, more simple way. They just- when I say they, I mean I’m talking about- mounted the, the dubro fiberglass gear on the anyway, and I’m looking at the- on the on the fuselage instead of in the wing, gotcha, so it’s farther. They took the easy route- is what I’m saying, which is fairly common. Right, they half ate it. Yeah, half aid it. Sure, I didn’t after I wouldn’t say that after I said half aid, I don’t want.

[00:27:35] To confuse that with the well you just confused everybody now so what I meant was half butted it.

[00:27:40] Half butted but like. So, speaking of butt, but he had it displayed with the wing off but it was sitting on the gear. So I happened, I picked the airplane up and now I’m looking really closely. I’m like man, there’s something about this airplane and I look, I flip it over and I look inside the wing cradler and I’m like I see handwriting on some of the parts, like the fuselage doublers, where the wing saddle would go, like assembly notes. Yeah, I’m looking at them. I’m like that’s my handwriting. Oh, now I remember and it dawned on me that I built that airplane when I was going to college down.

[00:28:17] In that area and when- and that’s when it like, that’s when, like this whole flood of like- I don’t know you call it emotional nostalgia- just like flooded over me. I’m like, oh my gosh, this airplane that I built back in college is at a swap meet so many years later. It’s just really like. It started making me wonder, man, what kind of journey has this airplane been on? That is still in pretty good shape. It’s not all beat up or anything like. It didn’t really look like it had been, although the fuse of the firewall is oil soaked. Yeah, and I’m pretty sure I

[00:28:52] Didn’t fly it enough to oil soak it in college anyway, so it had been flown some. I just find it absolutely amazing it still exists, right, most airplanes don’t live that long. Not been recovered? No, has. It’s the- yeah, original ugly, metallic green, trans yellow and charcoal color scheme on it, and then the, the piece, the resistance. What I pissed the resistance cherry on top was this ugly mtv decal that I had stuck on the nose right behind the engine and I- and I remember it, I remember.

[00:29:25] The sheet that decal came. It was made by autographics, you probably remember them. So funny. But yeah, I mean it. And then it’s like. Then I’m just standing, I’m like, oh my god, and I’m thinking in my head. I’m like I have to, I have to buy this. I have to, I cannot leave this swap meet without this airplane. And I go and I’m talking to dave, like dave, what do you think? Should I take this? Should I buy? I don’t know what I would do. And then, finally, I just made up my mind like you gotta have it. I was, yeah, I was not leaving that swap meet without it. So 20 later, I went home with that piece of nostalgia.

[00:29:55] Nostalgia and so that piece of nostalgia the vintage piece of nostalgia yes vintage would have been.

[00:30:02] Built. So the- yeah, I was thinking about that. To the best of my relax recollection, I built that either in 90 or 91. Wow, yeah, 32 ish years ago. That’s amazing. It hasn’t been crashed, no, it hasn’t been just hang a rash to death. No, I mean there’s a few little bumps and bruises on it. But. But, like I could put a radio in it and an engine and it would, I would be able to fly it right now. Well, and that’s in that.

[00:30:28] Good of shape so that’s an hour and 45 minutes two hours away from here yeah roughly so yeah it didn’t.

[00:30:36] Move too far. Yeah, well, I mean honestly, yeah, exactly, yeah, it’s. It’s. It’s home now is not very far away from its original home. I’m pretty sure it started off as a midwest kit that I had built upside down. Where did it start off? So it wasn’t here? No, no, I built it in college, down in cahokia.

[00:30:57] So I would have purchased it there in that general oh so it’s not moved very far at all it’s in that.

[00:31:02] St louis area it’s been within 100 miles its entire life for over three decades right thanks Ron.

[00:31:11] I don’t know what I’m gonna do with it. I mean, to be honest, it’s been such a long time ago I don’t even remember if it flies good or not. I mean, I’m sure it does. It’s a stick. None of them fly bad, I don’t think. But I don’t know what I’m gonna do with it. I mean, all I know is that I have this airplane that’s 32-ish years old, that I built in when I was a kid in college, and you could tell too, like I’m. I didn’t really look closely at it yet because we’ve been really busy since we got back. But yeah, looking at like the construction and the build quality, it’s not quite what I would.

[00:31:45] Produce what you would do these days. I’m so glad your color scheme eye has changed. Yeah, that thing is just it is. It is pretty ugly. That almost looks like a real college student. It’s what you do now. It’s just gorgeous. And but back then that color? Oh, yeah, it’s. It was probably covered with scraps.

[00:32:04] From one of the other college students that I flew with probably yeah what I mean that’s a.

[00:32:10] Good way to cover your butt at this point I never made that decision well no I mean dave’s probably.

[00:32:16] Right, it probably had more to do with the amount of money I had to buy covering at the time, although back then covering wasn’t as expensive as it is now. But true, a lot of things weren’t as expensive. But yeah, just a fun story that I found a, an airplane that I built 30 plus years ago, at a swap meet.

[00:32:32] You just never know what you’re gonna find at a swap meet I wish you had more like a behind the.

[00:32:37] Scene foot and a half gourd yeah gold one at that yeah toledo yeah well hopefully we find.

[00:32:46] Something good this weekend dave I hope you guys find something cool too and send me pictures I have.

[00:32:51] Got to sell some stuff, man? Well then, go down for five bucks. Yeah, tables were cheap. Yeah, there was nothing, do it. I gotta get home and get this figured out. Well, yeah, because we would leave in. Let’s see.

[00:33:03] 12 Hours or so, oh my, so much for sleeping in this weekend. Well, it starts. It starts at nine tomorrow and it’s an hour and a half ish drive, so that’s not too bad. And less for you because 7, 30- yeah, you’re already by the interstate. I have to drive to interstate. What say interstate by the interstate I might have? I don’t know, your sickness is wearing off on me so well, sorry. So what did you get dave at?

[00:33:30] That good. I got two umx planes. One of them was a s-boc- I can’t remember the 232 or whatever. That s-boc is 242, 242 and a yak and I got the pair of them for 30 dollars. Nice, a yak, no, that’s the.

[00:33:48] Su-26 su-26 su-26 su-cloi he said yak and I’m like why didn’t I buy that I get them confused too.

[00:33:54] The su-cloi and the yak they look so similar yeah I thought that was a yak when I first had I.

[00:34:00] Counted that one, this one up here that I’m pointing at- that nobody can see me pointing to. I counted that as a yak for I don’t know how many years until I finally, like, started making my list and saw the box. I was like that’s not a yak, what? Anyway, the su-26 had some damage to it. The.

[00:34:17] Vertical fin was cracked off of it and the rudder was missing the lower half and it was just kind of hanging by some tape. Didn’t really want that airplane, but the package deal you. You can’t pass up two planes for 30 bucks. It makes it 15 a piece and they all look like an attack, both of them banged up a little bit. The s-boc is bounced off of something, but it’s it’s in really pretty good shape. It is the older one without the AS3X+ in it, so I’m a little bummed about that, but it’s okay. It should fly. Okay, this little one flies great, I’m just windy weather. Oh yeah, I get. It does limit.

[00:34:49] Yeah, it doesn’t limit here, but that’s beside the point. And I started playing around with the little su-26 trying to figure out what’s how to repair that, and I pulled it out of the box. I got a real good look at it. It wasn’t just the fin was busted off. Somebody had repaired it with their own type of glue which had basically dissolved the entire rear end of the airplane. Oh, that’s the thing. So I’m gonna have to manufacture the entire, everything from the middle of the elevator back.

[00:35:13] Oh that’s unfortunate that’s okay well that’s hard it’s so hard to find or to determine that.

[00:35:19] Sort of stuff at a swap meet. Well, I wasn’t even really caring about this airplane, that’s true. I mean, if it is what it is actually, my thought is I’m just gonna get it and make my own out of.

[00:35:28] Foam board. Yeah, you can do that too. I thought that dig was at me, by the way, about not being able to see what you’re buying at a swap meet. No, that was not a dig at you. I knew this one.

[00:35:38] Was fairly well damaged but didn’t realize that it had been dissolved well some damage is easier.

[00:35:45] To see than others oh now the smile’s coming now he’s got it because I know what you’re getting.

[00:35:49] Ready to say yeah. So I ended up for the, the umx beast that I thought I bought that. Well, you bought it. You don’t think you bought it well, I thought I bought an actual airplane that was able to be flown. It has now seen its death by fire. It is gone. However, I did it. It did make a donation, because I stole dave’s idea and I actually cut the or I took the handle off of it and I put it on the umx- or not umx- the ultra x600 box. So that now is.

[00:36:21] Pretty much how it should have been designed, for. That box really needs a handle. It does, and mine has one freaking twenty dollar handle. But every time I pick that up I’m gonna think that

[00:36:33] Beast and get po’d every time now, but that’s okay. Well, you can’t win them all. It’s sukhoi parts. Yeah, I hope I don’t ever need that. Well, you have to fly it to crash it. So I flew it last year. Last year, well, it’s been windy. This year that’s tiny, that’s true. We’ve not had a lot.

[00:36:50] Of good a lot of good that purchase unfortunately pushed my number over 50 oh over 50 wow nice I don’t.

[00:36:58] Even know where I am right now. So put me at 51, 51. You have to go to the swap meet this weekend and sell one or two, or buy, or buy, or buy your four. Well, you’re over 50 now. I mean, now it doesn’t matter, what matters, what’s more? Yeah, what’s five more? Now, at that point I gotta agree. So, yeah, you should.

[00:37:17] Definitely go this weekend. It’s just a number. It’s just. It’s just a number. It is the amount of airplanes, that’s. You don’t need it to stop. I know where you’re going. Stop, all right. Every freaking time we talk about airplanes you don’t have to pull it up. But I said I was going to get rid of some because I’ve bought. You’ve bought more, fine, well, yes and no, so I, I won’t get too much into it, but at okay, so, knowing I had what, why are you, you, you? I just like you’re trying, like I’m justifying.

[00:37:51] I know I get it I do trying to find the words yeah he’s trying to find the words to justify.

[00:37:57] So, since I listened to you and tried to fly the f-18 and crashed it, thank you, I ended up. They had a stinger 90, which I think that’s at the swap meet, the one that we all went to and bought an airplane from, I think, is that free wing, is that? I don’t remember who that is. That’s very sorry. Yeah, I forgot to award you. Is that? I think it’s free wing? I don’t know. I don’t honestly know. I think it’s probably either. I think it’s free wing. Oh yeah, one of those two, but anyway, so that’s my first edf, of non e-flight origin, I guess, but it’s 90 millimeter, so I should hopefully be able to fly.

[00:38:33] It at the field without any issues. It’s going to work much better on the grass. I figured same battery, so why not actually get something that’ll use that battery? Yep, and I feel like you got a pretty.

[00:38:44] Good deal because you got a few spares with it too I got a lot of spare parts yeah so all new.

[00:38:48] Hopefully you don’t need them. It looks. It looked like the guy had crashed one before and then just saved like what he could from the old one because there’s there. I think there’s a gear sequencer in there. There’s the three gear that are still in it, a couple servos look like they’ve just been torn out of an airplane, like it was crashed and you tore it out. I’m trying to think what else there was, and that reminds me I got his card. I need to get in touch with him because he said there was going to be. He was going to send me some rear stabs because he had a set of the whole back end that he was going to get me, but I have not heard from him yet. So that was.

[00:39:24] That one. I had that, and then there was a guy there that was also selling a g1 5s or, I’m sorry, a g1 6s 5000 battery. It had been used. So what’s the difference between a g1 and g2? So g2 or better, so.

[00:39:42] We’re talking about the e-flight batteries not e-flight spectrum batteries so spectrum has smart.

[00:39:47] Batteries, their g1 smart batteries. The two biggest differences: the g1s have the charging lead that comes off the normal one, and then it also has the balance lead, so you have to plug two things in. That makes it sound terrible, but I don’t like that. You don’t have to start your charger, you don’t have to do anything. You don’t have to tell it what it is. It knows what it is when you, when you plug it in. But you still have to connect a balance lead. You still have to connect one extra lead, okay. The other difference is the g1 batteries are able to charge at 3c, whereas the g2s.

[00:40:23] Are 5c, so that makes a big difference in how many amps you can throw out, especially on the bigger batteries. Yeah, so with the charger I have I can charge 15 amps on the g3 or the g1- wow, or because it’s three times- or 3s or 3c charge- my god, I think I’ve had a- it’s been a long week- but the g2s will charge up to 25 amps, the 5s or the- my god, the 6s, 5000 will charge up 25 amps.

[00:40:56] 5 Amps and that charge is very fast. Yeah, I’m sure, and they only warm at that rate. Does the battery get warm a little bit? Oh, does okay, not anything. I mean like when I touch it I can feel a little bit of warmth, but nothing to make me go. Oh, it’s getting warm, so it brings above room, but I’m sure.

[00:41:11] But yeah a little above ambient but at 25 that’s crazy to me yeah and I like my 1c thanks yeah.

[00:41:19] Oh see, that’s the point. I love it because they charge so fast. I charged that, the gen 2, which, by the way, the other thing gen 2 has that gen 1 doesn’t is it’s just one lead, so it has built-in balancer and everything was is built into the actual battery to where, when you charge it, it charges through that lead but then it charges and balances. So are all the g2s hard cased? No, okay, so you can get them not hard case. Yeah, well, that’s a pretty cool little feature. Most of my g2s are not.

[00:41:50] Hard cased so it so it’s really charge rate and whether you want to plug one thing or two things in.

[00:41:56] That’s the difference, that’s the biggest difference. And the g2 are more expensive. Obviously, right, but you might have to plug in one extra thing. Yeah, see, you mock me, but it’s so worth it to.

[00:42:06] Me I’ll pay extra to not have to plug this second thing in I okay so extra for a battery with less.

[00:42:14] Stuff on it. I like I’m just teasing the ease of use. I like not to think about things and if I can take one more thing off my plate, that is a. I don’t want to say it’s getting in the way of flying, because it’s not, but one less roadblock to getting to where I want to go of just a simple plug the battery in and be done to where it charges in less than 20 minutes. Yeah, as opposed to. Like I said the last time I charged my 4s 5200 huvu- or, I think, is who makes that one. It was almost two hours by the.

[00:42:48] Time it was balanced. Yeah, so makes a big difference. Yeah, and I’m a fan of them. So now I have two batteries, by the way, for the three minute flights on these edfs, but it’ll be worth it in the long.

[00:43:02] Run I think yeah it’ll it’ll definitely be a tool to help you prepare for the big one the big one and.

[00:43:09] Then the other thing I got that very ironic I just picked up is the e-flight f-16, the 80 millimeter, brand new. I haven’t flown it yet, nobody’s flown it yet. It’s been crashed, though. Well,

[00:43:23] That’s the part that is funny. It’s funny to you. So I brought it home. It was, it was put together. Yeah, I brought it home, took it out of my trunk and I set it down here in my basement, set it on the floor and I looked at it. I was like I like that and I walked away. You came over tonight and you’re like, oh, I want to see it. So you come and you pick it up and I immediately proceed to.

[00:43:48] Drop it on the floor because the wing is not bolted together. The wing slid off and the fuselage slid off the wing and right onto the floor because I had made a mistake of assuming I thought it was assembled like with the bolts in the wing and I could handle it somewhat safely without the wing.

[00:44:06] Person slide off. No Ron set me up for failure. I did not set you up. As I said, I have not touched that, I have not looked at it. I have not done anything to that airplane other than carry it.

[00:44:17] In and sit it on the ground well now it’s pre-crashed and broke off the wingtip missile rail but that can.

[00:44:22] Be glued back up I know like the little pieces it’s not going to hold on well I know and it’s my fault.

[00:44:29] But it’s really your fault for setting me up and I’m going to blame you forever you can blame me.

[00:44:33] Forever but I’m not taking blame for that it’s your fault I don’t think it is did I tell you pick.

[00:44:37] It up. I don’t know what do you guys think? If he set me up, just say he set me up and tell me on discord. That’ll make me feel so much better. But why would they lie? Well, they’re not gonna lie. They’re gonna take my side, because who displays an airplane complete, without the wing bolts in it? No one. That’s the tail bolted on, or oh yeah, that’s the other thing. The vertical is just sitting.

[00:44:56] On it. As soon as I flipped it over, it fell off. As funny thing, though, as you put the pieces back together and set it down on the ground. I took the canopy off and the wing bolts are sitting right.

[00:45:10] In. Oh yeah, they’re right inside the fuselage, right there where you would not expect them to be. Where I would expect them to be would be an in the wing but, as stated, brand new, never flown, pre-crashed. Now pre-dropped well by you. It’s broken, so it’s crash. It is wait a minute. You said because I said you didn’t crash the erratics, and you said you did because you broke it. So if it’s broken, it was crashed. There’s a difference in what broke.

[00:45:37] Like with the erratics, it actually broke the. Did we tell people? I don’t think we talked about me crashing the erratics. I think we mentioned it. I don’t think I even know about the erratics being.

[00:45:45] Crashed. You were there. You were there. Erratics- yeah, yeah, a little flat crystal was out taking pictures of him while he was flying it. For the article he wrote: yeah, yeah, yeah, what was I not supposed to say that? I don’t know. Oh, it’s fine, move on. Well, can I talk about it then? Since- is it since? I just let the cat out of the bag? Ron wrote an article, a review of the erratics, and it’s going to appear in model aviation. I think that’s exciting. You should tell people, well, when it’s out. Maybe I

[00:46:16] Would well, what does it matter whether it’s out or not? Because it’s not out, it will be in july, apparently. So well, that’s what the ama told you anyway. So I crashed it when I was doing. I just I.

[00:46:28] Wasn’t going to bring that up because it’s not finished I mean I guess it’s finalized but it’s not.

[00:46:33] Out does that? Anyway, I would be really the looks I am getting I would be excited about. You should be excited because it’s it’s really cool. I read what you wrote and it’s very good. I’m looking forward to the finished product. I think it’s very exciting. You just got a cat that came up and sat on.

[00:46:50] Your lap sat on my lap. So, anyway, we I had to get pictures taking or taken of that and stuff, and so it was very windy, but that was the last day that I had to make the deadline and it was supposed to get windier. You were feeling the pressure. I had to get it done and I was trying to get a little bit lower so chrystal could take a couple other pictures of it and the wind took it and I was just too low to recover. Yeah, no big deal, it wasn’t broken, broken like it glued back together.

[00:47:20] And I just had to tape the aileron back on so it’s got blender on it now okay I was out there for.

[00:47:26] That I just didn’t realize it had actually been wrecked I was messing with the f-105 so yeah I wasn’t.

[00:47:30] Paying attention what you were up to. Yep, that’s all I did. I’ve flown it. It’s been put back together. It doesn’t fly as well as it did before. Really well, I think it was windy when I was trying to do it. So I need to, I need to get it out again. It’s the wonders of foam, yeah, but I mean, like I said, it’s anyway, where were we? I got so confused. You were talking about the stinger 90 because you bought that at the swap. Oh, you, you, we were talking about you wrecking my f-16. Oh, yes, yes, so that we crashed f-16 and that’s what brought up the crash on the erratic. That’s right, but anyway, so

[00:48:02] Yeah that was not a very good day for me crashing two airplanes the only two airplanes I brought well.

[00:48:08] And I still take full responsibility for the f-18 crash as stated before we’re not going to get into.

[00:48:14] It you should not because I am an adult so I would not worry about that at all yes that cat does like.

[00:48:20] To just claw into you. You can kick her down. So far, I feel like if I try to kick her off, my lap retrieval claw where she’s sitting and where she’s sitting. I don’t want claws.

[00:48:32] She’s sitting in my lap, everybody, just in case you’re wondering. Well, nowhere do I want claws, to be honest? Well, right, so especially there, especially there. Oh, she’s okay. Anyway, before we move on, I have a couple things I wanted to thank really quick. I wanted to thank gary for sending us an engine. Oh yeah, we were looking at that today. This is the first time we’ve all had a chance to sit down, yeah, and look at it. I don’t know what it is. It’s apparently an old, so gary gilbert. If anybody listened to the episode way back when, when he was on what? Oh yes, the cat licks you too, I mean.

[00:49:06] Wonderful. Like I said, push her down. Well, I’m afraid, if I anyway go ahead. Gary, thank you for the engine. We’ve looked it over and I determined that it is a 61 and a half cc. Yeah, it’s got that etched on the side. Big motor: yeah, it’s not a small one, that’s for sure. Not sure what we’re going to put that on, but someday we will hopefully put it on us, at least run it. Put it on a big, oh, a giant stick would be.

[00:49:30] Perfect for that say put it on the giant Telemaster I already got a motor for the giant Telemaster.

[00:49:35] Already has an engine on it. Now do you want the cat down? No, it’s fine. You look, so I’m mauled over here. I know you look so uncomfortable, like the tiger king or something -huh, but anyway. So, yes, gary, thank you very much for sending it to us. We got it, we appreciate it and we will put it to use.

[00:49:53] Some at some point, yeah, yeah, I think a big stick would be perfect for that, actually, or a giant, another giant Telemaster. That’s a good idea if we could find another 12-foot Telemaster. That’d be, or plans, or something like that. Okay, see, she’s okay, you just get her down here, we go, just fine.

[00:50:08] You’re good, anyway, it’s better. Speaking of 12-foot telemasters, giant telemasters, whatever you are, tommy, you are finishing mine. I am, and I offered- I- I don’t know how I feel about this- like I will be happy to have it done. Yeah, but I did not want to do it, like I was to the point where I just there was so much other things going on, so much stuff that I needed to do the cat’s bag, but anyway, it was just not high on my list of things to do and you offered I did to finish it for me.

[00:50:40] And you said yes, please. I said yes, please, and then it’s like this: is I just, you’re uncomfortable, I feel some sort of way, because I’ve never had anybody work on a plane for me before that I can.

[00:50:49] Remember and I’m just going to assume that it’s not because you question my building skills no not.

[00:50:54] At all. No, I think you will do. Oh, that reminds me I didn’t build or I didn’t get the battery holder made for you. Oh well, I’ll have to try to finish it next week, then that’s fine. Anyway, no, it has nothing to do with your building skills. It just has to do with you looking down on me for not doing my own stuff, or me looking down on me for not doing my own stuff. Well, if you think I’m judging you, you’re right. I know I’m just teasing. I see the eyes all the time. That’s why I think I can’t say:

[00:51:19] Anything because I haven’t produced anything lately either maybe that’s why I didn’t want to do it.

[00:51:23] Because I knew, with a plane that big, you would see everything I did and you’d be like, oh, you did that, I would have done it. The cat’s back, isn’t she? Wow, we’ll just deal with it for now. Yeah, I’m dealing with it. So anyway, yes, you will have the Telemaster finished for me sometime, or close enough to where I will finish it before you leave. And yeah, the goal, get it back, the goal.

[00:51:42] Is to get it to the point where you can at least run it and then eventually fly it, yeah, when I hand it back to you. That’s, that’s the goal. We’ll see, because we got joe and all I know between and then I’ll have. I’ll have maybe a week to work on it between then and the time I leave, so that’s okay.

[00:51:59] Dave, we have a swap meet coming up we get to go to and think of all the fun you guys are going to have. Like when I’m not having the fun you guys are having, yeah, don’t feel too bad, no, but missing it.

[00:52:12] Then you guys have such a blast and I’m just gonna be doing dave stuff.

[00:52:18] Don’t be well hopefully you’ll be flying at home hopefully the weather’s decent enough here you.

[00:52:21] Can fly here, hopefully, hopefully. It’s supposed to be windy and rainy there. By the way, it’s finally close enough to get the 10 day forecast to look perfect. It’s supposed to be high 70s, low 80s, which is that’s really is perfect. Yeah, but then like 10 to 15, up to 20 mile an hour winds on some.

[00:52:37] Yeah, 20s, 10 to 15 with the stick, whatever bring it. But the foamies, yeah, well, there’s always morning, but we’re gonna, so we’re gonna. It’s true, that’s true. Yeah, when the sun is low it’s usually a little bit better, but we’ve decided to take the. The trash can Telemaster? Yeah, so we’re gonna hopefully get that all fixed up and fly in there so we and that can handle. That can that airplane can handle.

[00:53:05] Some wind, yeah, so we’ll have the trash. Can Telemaster, we’ll have. Oh boy, now I’m trying to think what I’m taking, so I’m not sure. I’m thinking about taking the 600 millimeter ultrax, thinking about taking the umx ultrax, which I probably will, because that’s just, you have to take that, it’s so.

[00:53:21] Small, it takes up no space and it’s so much fun to fly. Yeah, just not confuse it for a pizza. Yeah, and then maybe we can have an ultrax dive bomb contest while we’re there and you can lose again.

[00:53:33] That’d be awesome anyway I bought more props I did too by the way so hey by the way I still have.

[00:53:42] The two props that mine came with so I also Ron is giving me the finger I don’t know what you’re.

[00:53:47] Talking about so anyway, my I ended up buying a new body for the ultrax too. It’s 35 bucks. How could you not do it? Just swap everything over half the price of a new airplane, mine less than that. They’re 130 bucks. I was teasing, but they’re yeah. So I’m just gonna stop all that over, because the bottom of that one is kind of dirty, a little muddy, I mean, it held up. Other than that, though,

[00:54:13] I mean, really, the airplane itself is in good shape. Like really, what is the point of doing all of this flying and stuff like that? What for fun, right? Yep, and we had so much fun laughing at you.

[00:54:23] Laughing at me I had fun laughing at me too so that makes it okay and this yeah the sound they make.

[00:54:29] When it hits like nearly flat at wide open. Yeah, that was awesome. Well, I’m hoping it won’t happen again. I almost dropped my transmitter. I was laughing so hard. You were so happy about all. I was happy.

[00:54:42] Laughing at you. So I’m taking that one, okay, now that we’re back to not making fun of me, and then, like I said, the twin otter, and then, since I have another one, I have officially unretired.

[00:54:58] Yes, the shiny. It has come out of retirement. Yeah, unretired didn’t sound right to me, but no longer a nightlight. Yeah, no, it’s no longer. It’s not hanging over there. Yeah, I’m really excited about it, because apparently there’s a lot of night flying going on at joe knall. That was the cat the tail just whipping the microphone into my face, and so that was fun. It didn’t knock it off.

[00:55:22] So we’re good, it’s still holding on. But what so? My? We’ve talked before about how terrible my memory is. So earlier this week is when I got online and I ordered the, the replacement body, the shell, the airframe, whatever you want to call it- for the, the ultrax, and then I also had made the decision that I’m taking the shiny with me. Well, the shiny had a dean’s end on it. I don’t use dean’s anymore because everything is the ic3s for that one right. So I got on and I ordered a pack- I think it was a.

[00:55:55] Two pack- yeah, I think that was a two pack of airplane end ic3 connectors and so I got them and I came downstairs to put them on and, sitting next to my, my soldering iron- I had forgotten that I bought a 25 pack of the ic3 connectors for the airplane side already. I can’t.

[00:56:25] Tell you how many times I’ve done the exact same thing yeah but that’s expensive mistake well you’re.

[00:56:30] Gonna use them, I will use them. That’s true. But the other thing, by the way, that I found out- and I- I don’t want to say this for sure because I might have made a mistake or not- looked right- but the ic2 and the ec2 are not compatible. Well, that’s convenient, because when I was that, so I the that mini convergence that had the, is it the jst? What’s the small red connector, small red ones, jst that had the jst connector on it, and I knew I didn’t have any batteries that had that connector on it that I would.

[00:57:02] Use for that. I wanted to use the 3s850 that had the ic2 on them, the g2 batteries, so I went ahead and got- I’m trying to think- from one of the vendors there. I got a jst connector to go to ec2. I thought that would be perfect. However, they didn’t have it to where it was directly compatible. I had to go from what was in the middle, I think it was albuquerque. Yeah, yeah, pretty much, because it was two, two adapters I had to use and I had the xt60s on it. Oh, okay, and

[00:57:36] There’s not a lot of room in that fuselage anyway for all that, but I wanted to see if it worked in all that before I went through the hassle of changing out the connector. So, long story short, I tried to hook that up, the ec2 to the ic2, and they’re not compatible. They did not go together. Yeah, the ecs, like the ec5s, ec3s, they’re, they’re all backwards compatible. Really I don’t know if I was doing something wrong or what, but on the ic2s they were not okay. So I had to buy a pack of ic2, also on the airplane side, which they don’t have those in two packs, they have those in five packs. So I have.

[00:58:12] A five pack of those that I’ve used one out of and I don’t- I mean, I don’t think I’m gonna have another airplane small enough for them, but you never know. Yeah, you’re going to a swap meet this.

[00:58:21] Weekend so you never know you never know what you’re going to find that’s right you might find.

[00:58:25] An airplane you build 30 years. Oh wait a minute. I was barely alive 30 years ago. Okay, that’s not true. In 90 I would have been nine. David’s shaking his head. I was married. Were you really 91? Oh, that’s close enough. Yeah, I remember the air shows in 91. I don’t know why. I like that would have been the time frame that we had the air.

[00:58:50] Shows here. So what else you’re taking? I think that’s it. So the shiny. I think I talked about all the airplanes, okay, yeah, yeah, and I’m just going to take the stick on floats. We’ll load the trash, can Telemaster? And then I’m gonna take my electro street- yes, I can’t do that. And then I will throw my. I’ll probably throw my ultrax in there somewhere too, just because it takes up. No, you got to take an ultrax. I mean, there’s plenty of room, yeah, so I’m yeah excited. I got new golf cart batteries. Yes, you got a, just like it was right there. Describe it to me. Shelf, oh, a shelf on the

[00:59:30] Front of the golf cart. Oh okay, like a basket. I don’t know if I’d call it a basket. I’m not sure I would call it a shelf either. Well, tray, there you go. Maybe a tray, storage unit, storage tray. Bought one.

[00:59:41] Of those for the front, so that’ll we can put stuff in there when we drive around. Yeah, ended up getting the armrests for the rear seat that folds out. If we need to have it folded out or if not, we can sit on it to watch things. So yeah, I mean I think we’re in pretty good shape. I’m excited, yep.

[01:00:00] So I was just thinking about it this will be the last episode.

[01:00:05] Oh yeah, it will, from here that I do with you guys for a while. Oh my goodness, it is. You’re gonna be gone. Yeah well, unless we, unless we do one at joe.

[01:00:17] Null and you publish that while I’m gone well we’ll probably record something there because I’m.

[01:00:21] Planning on taking stuff but they won’t be with us it’s fine go for it guys I need a vacation.

[01:00:26] A vacation from us for sure yeah that’s what he’s trying to say he’s got to build up like he’s got to.

[01:00:31] Rest so he can come at it full speed ahead when you’re gone yeah and we this is gonna be tough to do.

[01:00:37] It actually. It is like I don’t know. I’m so used to just interjecting as needed but not actually having a conversation. Well, it’d be mostly Ron talking. Why? I hope not, because Ron talks a lot, I don’t talk a lot. Our listenership is going to plummet. I know it’s just going to go down to.

[01:00:56] Nothing yeah so but that’s okay we’ll be down from five to three yeah all five of our listeners.

[01:01:03] Will have left and we will have gained two. Oh, you guys are terrible. No, we do. We do appreciate aprisionate god. What is our problem? Well, it’s just Ron and I. Dave hasn’t had any issues with speech tonight. Yeah, I know. Well, you got to speak first. I just want to say like, real quick, I do appreciate our listeners. That it’s it’s, they are great. It’s humbling, actually, when you, when you look up the numbers of downloads- to me that is just crazy, like the amount of people that download.

[01:01:33] Go out of their way, get on a podcast app, download our podcast and then actually listen to these three goofy guys. Yeah, babble on about who knows what. Thanks for everyone that listens. I appreciate.

[01:01:44] It about toy airplane about toy airplane adult men talking about toy airplanes yeah so before we I’m.

[01:01:51] Assuming you’re getting ready to wrap it up. Well, I mean I’m, because we’re about that time and we need to publish. We’ve got like 10 minutes. Well, that ain’t gonna happen. Well, just real quick, I just want- I forgot what I was gonna say. Oh boy, it did it. Just totally it’s kind of hitting you, yeah.

[01:02:06] Yeah, I, you were totally lost talking about the listeners, and then I want to say something. You were like building up, you were like I was everybody listen to me, I am gonna talk anything to do with. You’re gonna be not recording with us for a while. You’re gonna be well. I mean, I was gonna say something.

[01:02:23] About that, but that’s not what my train of thought was. But, yeah, I will miss the, the podcast for the, for the few months that I’m not going to be here, but I know you guys will carry on just fine without me. So I’m gonna ask the listeners for a little help. Maybe they can email us or contact us via the website for some content, like: if you want to hear these two yahoos.

[01:02:49] Talk about stuff in my absence hit them up I don’t plan on doing anything grandiose while you’re.

[01:02:56] Gone oh that disappoints me a little bit you should do something really cool without me like what I.

[01:03:02] Don’t know I’ve seen how upset you get with us we just go down to a swap meet okay so can I be honest.

[01:03:08] I would hope that you’re always honest mostly that’s an act like I really I don’t want you to.

[01:03:13] Not do fun things just because I can’t do them. I understand, okay, like I, I wasn’t planning on like quitting this, no, I know, for a while, or anything like that. But I understand you’re playing it up a little bit and that’s cool, like, but honestly, if the tables were turned I would be a little upset if

[01:03:29] I had to work and I didn’t get. Well, I am upset that I have to work on a weekend, not because I’m missing a swami, but just in general that I have to work on a weekend. But that’s, which, in turn, makes

[01:03:39] You miss a swap that’s the nature of my employment so yeah you’ve dealt with it for a long time so.

[01:03:44] It’s not anything new, but I do appreciate all the listeners and, like I said, if you want to help these two yahoos out in my absence, yeah, hit them up and send them some questions, or.

[01:03:55] Just recommendations, whatever. Will you still have access to your email when you’re gone? I’m pretty sure I will. Like I’m not, I’m not going out into the middle of nowhere, nowhere. So I’m anticipating that I’ll still be up on my discord. I’m hoping. I’m hoping I’ll still be up on my email and hopefully- I mean, I don’t know, we’ll have to see what the connection speed and all that kind of stuff is like there. Maybe at some point I might even be able to call, maybe do a call in or something. Yeah, maybe, but yeah, I imagine, I imagine the connectivity there will be pretty good, cool. So

[01:04:30] Maybe even better, like maybe better mine, no, no, what I was gonna say was maybe even there I’ll be able to do some of the podcast stuff at work, like you get to do sometimes, like when I say podcast work, I mean like looking up stuff and getting on the. I don’t ever do that. What are you?

[01:04:46] Talking about anyway yeah I had a slow day at work today too so yeah well I’ll miss everybody but I.

[01:04:55] Don’t think that it’ll be a complete blackout I’m I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to communicate well good.

[01:05:00] Deal so roving field reporter hey there we go and I’m actually so funny story I’m actually taking.

[01:05:06] Planning on taking my ultrax with me on this trip, so I’m hoping that I can at least fly something while I’m there. That’s a good one for that. Yeah, and it’s small enough. It’ll fit in that ginormous bag that I’ve got to pack, and in the box I feel like it’ll be protected. Well enough, you get smashed. Just 35 for a new one. Well, right, and then? And then I could do like I did last time I was at this particular location: when it’s time to come home, I just pack it all up in a big box, mail that home and then take six months to get back. Well, what are you taking for a transmitter?

[01:05:39] I’m gonna take my only transmitter my x12 I wouldn’t do that why it’ll be with me at all times.

[01:05:45] But I won’t check it. You, he was talking about sending it home. That’s going to take a long time. Just take like a. I have like what do we have like a five? Or I have a dx6 you can even take. Well, I could take my dx8, I guess well, but you use that also seriously, if you want to have a dx6, you can take. It’s an old one but it’s going to work fine. It has just regular batteries, double-a batteries. Oh, my radio will be fine. Okay, as long as they let me through the terminal with it, which

[01:06:11] I’m not going through regular commercial terminals yeah it should be okay well anyway.

[01:06:17] Anything else are we gonna no that’s this one up and put a bow on it that’s it we’ll tie this one.

[01:06:22] Up and this will be- and not, yeah, the last one with all three of you together, for all three of us together, for at least face to face. Yeah, I’m gonna joe. No, it’s gonna be so much fun, I can’t wait.

[01:06:33] Sorry dave you’re missing can’t wait for the swap meet too oh I need to talk to terry see if we can.

[01:06:39] Figure something out, yeah, yeah, next year. Man, we’re hitting it all. I’m just telling you right now: save your leave. Why, sure, save your leave? I was gonna say doing everything. Dave is going to be the one that.

[01:06:52] Yeah I accumulate really slowly yeah because I have really good benefits I just collect leave on.

[01:06:59] Slow rate slow rate yeah well I think laurie does too she’s on the same plan I think well good then.

[01:07:04] She won’t be worried about not having the same time off as you do now when I was over at the hospital.

[01:07:10] I collected leave like there was no tomorrow. I think I was two years. I had like 12 weeks of leave, oh my wow. So you made a weird face when I said I didn’t know what you were saying. Like if you.

[01:07:23] Have more time off than she does -huh then she’s not going to be oh you’re taking all this time off.

[01:07:30] When you should be doing it with me kind of thing she never gets mad at me for taking time off.

[01:07:34] Well, I get it, that’s. That was a bad attempt at a joke, like crystal. Now she has like half the time off that I get. So, like the next week of going to joe and all isn’t something where it’s, I’m either going to do this or spend time with you going somewhere else. Does that make sense? Sure, whatever, not stuff we even need to be talking about in here. But dave’s pointing at his watch. You need to wrap.

[01:07:58] It up Ron well I’m finished oh he’s finished all right yeah oh yeah I don’t want it to end yeah.

[01:08:09] We could keep going for another hour easily probably I don’t want to we have stuff to prepare.

[01:08:14] Yes we have to get ready for jonah yep okay would you like to take us out tommy for your last time.

[01:08:21] Oh yeah thanks everyone for listening I’m Tom I’m dave and I’m Ron that’s just weird.

[01:08:27] Good night good night out of order geez I know you can say good night no we hope you enjoyed this.

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