Ep 135: Ron got a Twimber! Oh… And Reggie’s Back… :)

[00:00:02] Hello everyone, welcome to the RC Plane Lab podcast. I’m Ron, I’m dave and I’m Reggie. So Reggie has been begging, begging. I say to come on to be a guest, especially after much begging, or.

[00:00:26] Be honest it was just a question one question on a daily basis I can pull out the text messages.

[00:00:32] As proof. Oh, tommy’s gone. If you really, I’ll come on, I’ll come on, we can, we can talk, we can talk. And I was like that’s a good idea. I was like that’s a good idea. And then every time I’ve seen you since then, but anyway, begging to come on, so we sit down, like all right. What do you want to talk about? Oh, I don’t know. So this is going to be amazing. I am just going to follow the lead here.

[00:00:54] You guys normally have something to talk about I’m just going to interject here and there that’s about.

[00:00:58] It. So here’s the thing: dave and I sat down less than 48 hours ago and recorded our last episode, so we don’t have that much to talk about. So this is all you, bud. We have done literally nothing. Well, that’s not true. I did have a day yesterday. Oh yeah, you were on the road all day, should we? You want to start with that, and then maybe Reggie you’ll, you’ll feel more comfortable to be able to talk about stuff and go for it and whatnot. Okay, are you sure? Yeah, I don’t want to steal your thunder, no ready, yeah, okay, so yesterday, excuse me, wow, dave and I recorded thursday night for friday’s release.

[00:01:36] After that, friday we ended up having off because, remember, we had storms go through, took out power to a lot of springfield still out. Actually, they’re getting better slowly, but there are some places that are still out. However, friday I had off work. I was planning on taking it off anyway, but I had off work because we had no power there and, long story short, I went to brian’s, ended up taking some stuff up there to get rid of and then I wanted to come home with

[00:02:07] A couple new airplanes. I actually ordered another. He didn’t have it in stock, which is fine, but I ordered another of the axial capras, the rock crawler. I know you’re looking like I’m talking about a plane, but I’m not. I figured out another rock crawler so I have a matching, one different color, but a matching one to pipers. So now we can do that together. I bought- I never remember what this one is called- the stick, the e-flight stick, that’s the actual aluminum tube stick, a mini stick or mini slow stick, micro, whatever the ultra, I don’t know what it was. And then I finally came up with I bought the twimber.

[00:02:46] Did you buy a twimber I bought a twin timber which is the dumbest name by the way I don’t know why.

[00:02:50] They didn’t just call the twimber. I’d like to have that. Ec 1500 is what I’d like to have. He didn’t have one up there yet. You should order it. I am fighting myself on that why I got no room? As usual, nobody. Well, you have all kinds of room I have. Have you looked around here? I have no room. I see the Telemaster touching the ceiling and the floor: damn near, yes, darn near, darn near, wow, no, no, but it’s. You’ve got a little bit of room. Well, okay, that’s maybe not, yeah, and actually,

[00:03:23] Since cody has left, since he moved out, I’ve taken over that room also. I didn’t know he moved out. Oh yeah, oh gosh, that was last fall. So we’re going on eight, nine, ten months. Oh wow, so that room has like five airplane storage. Crystal loudest is she? Okay, there’s. Yeah, give me an inch, I’ll take a mile. You did so. Yes, there are planes everywhere. So your complaint about not having room is null and void and you should just go order your new airplane. It’s not that big, no, it really.

[00:03:57] Isn’t it’s it’s pretty good decent size I still think isn’t it’s about what five foot wingspan.

[00:04:03] Or so I don’t know I wasn’t planning on talking about it so I have not looked it up okay well it.

[00:04:08] I still have a few things to get rid of before I can actually drop something that big in there. There’s, there’s a lot of stuff now stacked around the floor, nose down, all around the room. So and then I’m trying to keep that table that I just got cleaned off, as you saw in discord- clear, which is slowly- I don’t remember that what I took pictures of my work table as far as the bench- both of them, oh, where my chargers are now at and where I can actually work on something at, versus have to take it in the kitchen or living room or dining room or on the back porch or somewhere. So on the back porch I have

[00:04:44] A patio porch? Well, yeah, but still, if I have to go outside to work on the airplane because I didn’t know you worked on airplanes, yeah, I don’t bring everything today. Every time I actually do work on a

[00:04:55] Few really I didn’t know that yep I do I do so what do you do on them replace free tracks.

[00:05:02] Motors, whatever I gotta do if I can. But as far as interior body work or whatever I know may come see one of the masters on that. It’s a good idea. I wouldn’t trust you to do it either. I appreciate.

[00:05:14] That, thank you, actually on one of your planes that would be. He is really getting a lot better. He really is busy. I’ve checked some of his work. It looks really good. I’m thank you, dave, I’m happy to.

[00:05:22] Hear that’s good because I know he used to be scared to touch anything yeah that’s a lot of.

[00:05:27] Money and everybody’s safety around me yes we appreciate that okay so you’re worried about.

[00:05:35] Fixing your own airplane but not flying over highways and all that kind of I tend not to do.

[00:05:41] That no more, but I still worry about safety of others, not to mention even if it’s by myself. I don’t want to bury five, six hundred bucks in the ground over something stupid. Yeah, so rather not be over.

[00:05:55] Something stupid, just over something. Okay, rather not be over anything, to be honest with you, so but okay, well, and because see you brought something out today for dave to work on, so that’s.

[00:06:06] Why I thought perhaps what is that actually called is it a parasail or paraglider or what is.

[00:06:12] Supposed to be called paramotor, paramotor, and I keep my bad. I keep calling it a paraglider. It’s not a glider, it’s got a motor. Yeah, I have no idea what to call it, but it’s a paramotor. Paramotor is what.

[00:06:22] You should call it. Thank you, Ron. Well, you just said you had no idea, so I’m just trying to help you out. Before this conversation, I had no idea. Well, now you do. Thank you, I mean, you’re on top of this.

[00:06:32] But yeah, trying. I brought it out because I really have no idea what the hell to do with it. So dave’s gonna show me some insights and help me put it together. I do believe. So you’re just like I’m what.

[00:06:45] I thought we were just programming but oh that too that too oh that too see we’re gonna do the.

[00:06:51] Reggie’s the gift that keeps on giving. Thank you, multi-layer shell -huh. After seeing dave’s what last year, or the yeah, it was in streeter last time you saw it fly- I decided to have one, and of course they had a flash cell, so I got one. They are a blast. I mean, they’re very relaxing. What kind.

[00:07:12] Oh just the hobby king paramotor okay I don’t think it actually has a name it is hobby king.

[00:07:17] I forgot now well you bought it I mean I bought it a year ago it’s still sitting in the bottom a year.

[00:07:23] Ago. It’s been in the box the whole time. Wow, it builds fast and easy. Well, I hope so. It takes way longer to program it. There does to build it. Hopefully we can just download mine to his. Hopefully. What’s the matter? I mean, why is it so hard to program? It’s the ailerons. You have to make it, so one goes up and the other one does nothing, and so there’s some mixing programming going on in there to allow you, when you move right aileron only as right arm moves. Okay, nothing happens on the left, got it?

[00:07:57] Yeah, I’d rather leave somebody that knows what you’re doing versus me trying to make an attempt and having a tree or get ate up again by another set of blades. So I’m hoping we can just transfer my.

[00:08:08] Program to your radio and ding bang done because I think it took me like three hours to program it.

[00:08:13] Last time. Oh I. So you. What do you have, dave? What radio dx9 and you’re going to your new one, probably so the nx20. That should be doable, I hope. I mean, I thought dx9 save and files the nx, the nx series can read. We’ll find out, I guess. So if not, I guess you’re going to be programming a lot.

[00:08:40] For a radio that I’m not familiar with either that’s going to be great well neither that is.

[00:08:45] Well, back to the 18.. Why would you do that? Yeah, I don’t know. I’m trying to be picky, choosing what I’m going to put on that radio, yet I don’t know what exactly I want on there. Why not just move everything? Everything? Yeah, why have two radios? Why not? How many radios you got? Well, I only use one, just one. Yeah, that you still use the, the 12 or whatever. You had no 14. I use that as a spare.

[00:09:13] Radio as in like a buddy box radio, no, but no. Everything I fly is. I converted everything over from the 12 to the 20 and now it’s all in that one, because I, like I said, I don’t see a reason to have to have multiple transmitters to remember what is bound to what, and all that right. So then I like the 20 so much better than the 12. I would not want to go back to that. That would annoy me.

[00:09:37] That I feel so out of date you guys are talking about 20s and 12s I’ve got my dx9 and an 8103.

[00:09:45] Well, either it’s time to upgrade or you’re just going to be stuck with. I’m happy with the nine. Well, if you’re happy with it, then that’s fine. I like a little bit really. I guess no reason, but I like a little bit more bells and whistles and I like how easy it is to set up stuff on the 20. I think.

[00:10:04] I still have my four, six, seven and 18 and 20 now I think I even had the- what was it? A d e or d l e or something. I can’t remember what it was- d, d x e. Yeah, d x e. Yeah, I still had one of those at one point.

[00:10:22] I don’t. I don’t have all of my radios. I started off with a d x4- right, yeah, d x4, super cub. Yeah, that was a garbage radio. Yep, got a five, got a six, skipped a seven, bought an eight dx8- the original one, mm-hmm, let’s see, that was a gen one. Then from that I went to the ix 12 and then the ix 20..

[00:10:49] That’s a lot of radios, yeah, but I’m done. Now I’ve given away a six. I had thought about taking the rest of them into maybe a hobby shop or something just.

[00:11:00] Offload them say here you go I mean if somebody else can use them and you’re not going to why not.

[00:11:05] True, true. Of course there’s still a few of them that come with a radio, but I think they’re all trainers now, like the apprentice e flight apprentice and whatnot. Yeah, maybe another one, but yeah, I’m trying to weed them out. Yeah, I’m hoping these are my last two piper’s.

[00:11:23] Aeroscout came with a radio too, but I programmed it onto the other actual radio, like full-fledged radio, like having the dx4, and starting with that one, the range was terrible. Oh, it was, so I’m still concerned about that. On lower end radios, if I didn’t have anything else, that would be fine, I would fly it, but since I have the other radios to put them on, it’s better, in my opinion, just to put it on.

[00:11:51] There it’s more of a backyard flyer because you’re not going to go too awful far with it.

[00:11:56] For what? The four? Yeah, I, the four. I lost signal in my backyard even. Wow, yeah, so just flying and how big it is back, it’s not terribly huge. I had a couple times where I lost signal on it just here. So that’s why I quickly went to a five, because that’s all I could afford at the time, and then a six and then moved up from there. We have gone a long ways. I know it’s kind of funny, like I, I, I guess I don’t realize how many radios I’ve gone through until you list them out and then it’s.

[00:12:26] It’s more than I’ve had more rios than all of you combined, because back in the day we had one radio for every airplane. Well, you’ve been doing a lot longer too. So I had a whole battering of dx4s and six not dx’s- good god, conquest four and six channel radios. Probably I had six of them at one time, maybe. I don’t even know what that is. I don’t either. Yeah, they’re am wide band. Oh, with the crystals and all that good crystal. Oh yeah, I had a whole bunch of those. And then, of course, then, when

[00:12:58] The synthesized stuff started coming out we dealt with that but yeah I remember tommy talking about.

[00:13:03] The synthesized and the modules and all that stuff but that’s all kind of over my head having not dealt.

[00:13:09] With it oh yeah I may see them in a case at a hobby shop somewhere like a mom and pop yeah come to my.

[00:13:16] House. There’s a whole box of them, yeah, but at the hobby shop they’re on display and like a museum thing. That’s the difference. I have still got one that’s still flyable. It’s in my electro glider. Oh nice, it’s a conquest four channel am. I didn’t know you had an electro. Yeah, built in 1989 I was eight, that was my oldest airplane I own right now. That’s kind of cool, kind of scared to fly it. It’s really brittle, is it? Yeah, but it is. It’s still legal. It’s does not have the wide band receiver anymore. It’s.

[00:13:48] Got a narrow band receiver so it’s still legal to use and I could pull it out and fly it anytime I want, but man, it scares me. It’s just all that old glue. Yeah, I get it. That’s cool though. Yeah, and it’s pink. That late 80s, early 90s, ew, yeah, sort of like tommy’s mtv sticker.

[00:14:11] The old days, oshkosh- and you go to the actual ea eaa museum, you’ll start seeing probably a few of those radios sitting around in there. Oh really, yep, yeah, that’s coming.

[00:14:23] Up in next month, this month, this month, yes, into this month. This is now july. Wow, it is, I know, day one of july to give away when we’re recording, but, yeah, so hard to believe. So what’s hosh kosh, like I’ve not been, you’ve been before. Right, it is huge. I don’t know if it’s.

[00:14:41] As big as joe knoll, but it’s huge. From the way you guys described it, I would almost think it’s bigger than joe knoll. It’s way bigger, I’m sure I would expect it to be. I’m thinking of the museum right at the moment, but oh, because that museum area and off to the sides is where the helicopters flying now for helicopter rides- oh, they have helicopter rides. I might have to do that. Horizon hobbies little setup is also in that little area over there and there’s quite a few planes sitting in that area. But as far as the actual airport itself and where all the planes are, there’s for sale, demo and all.

[00:15:16] That? Yeah, it’s, it’s monstrous, it’s. I wish you could have a golf cart in there and run around on, but you’ll spend a lot of time walking. I don’t like to walk. No, they’ve got those. What are they? The shuttle buses, things do they? Yeah, but still it’s. Even when you get over to where the planes are sitting, it’s, it’s just acres of planes and that’s just this one’s for sale and whatever he decided to go.

[00:15:47] To: oh okay, oh yeah, interesting, from just about every area. Wow, bring your checkbook. Oh yeah, there’s. There’s quite a few. That six, seven figure. It seems like I wouldn’t be surprised. That’s kind of a.

[00:16:02] Huge place to go for that oh yeah so what’s horizon set up for what do they have they have one setup.

[00:16:09] That’s actually in a warehouse for just basically selling product, and then they have another massive tent where you can actually go over and take test flights, kind of do a whole little here, try this really how you like it. Yeah, oh, yes, right there by where the actual helicopters are taken off and on. It kind of makes you wonder a little bit, that kind of close, but it’s in a tent where they’re doing it. Yeah, so now it’s over 10. They actually have you come out there in the field and you buddy box or, if they actually think you can fly, give you the controller. I didn’t know you could do that.

[00:16:42] A controlled airport with that live traffic? Yeah, no kidding, it was different. Did they let you try? I’ve never made they know about rad jake. They have a picture on the wall. No, biggest customer, don’t.

[00:16:57] Let him touch anything. When you was telling me about the, the sales they had there at joan, all I was kind of thinking I don’t recall seeing big sales like that there as far as what they get knocked off this knocked off of that, so. But they do have some pretty good stuff out there to look at and of course it’s also in a filled with everything else you could possibly buy for actual aircraft. So, yeah, you actually kind of have to find it, but I think there’s. They sit up in the same place every year, I do believe.

[00:17:33] Interesting. I’ll have to see what they have, although we don’t have room to bring anything home. So that’s okay, I’m not. What are you driving? I’m gonna take my suburban up there. I see, maybe I’ll have to use you to bring something home for me. I can bring something home for you. I can do that. I’ll give you that man. I’ll have to see what they want or what they have. I’m taking that full week off.

[00:17:56] But I’m gonna go friday as we discussed really yep why are you taking the whole week off well I.

[00:18:01] Guess never mind it’s fine I was gonna say you don’t have to save it for joe and all at this year.

[00:18:07] Yet that’s next year so I still have a week yet I get two weeks every year and if I roll one over.

[00:18:12] I end up having three or four so we’ll save it for next year not this one but save one make sure you.

[00:18:18] Have enough time oh no I’m gonna use every year so speaking of which I guess I am going for sure.

[00:18:26] Now, so I can’t wait. Are you for sure going? Yeah, I’m gonna go. So that means we don’t know if he’s gonna make it yet. Is that what that means? I know, Reggie, that Reggie, speak, for I will be there is.

[00:18:39] Eh it’ll be friday night it’s like eh yeah edgy you coming yeah I’m coming I’m coming I’m coming all.

[00:18:46] Right be here in five minutes we’re leaving I don’t think I’m gonna make it guys hmm one little.

[00:18:51] Time one time one time that I can think of oh I get burned for it every time wow it’s not the.

[00:18:59] One time, one time I would forget patterns. I remember no, but that’ll be fun like I, like this past year for joe and all. Like I said, I don’t want to go over every single episode, but this year was fun like I had a bunch of fun with it. Tommy and I enjoyed ourselves. It was good to meet a bunch of people. If we all go next year, it’s going to be just that much better. I think I listened to that episode about.

[00:19:24] Five times oh did you five times which one did with fits and oh what’s the other guy’s name.

[00:19:33] That would be lee, sorry, sorry, lee, lee, sorry man, I was gonna say tommy, but yeah, so did you enjoy that you got a shout out, or a shout out? I did, I laughed for about 15 minutes.

[00:19:47] Listening to that. Is that your ringtone now? Not yet. Not yet, probably because you didn’t know how to do it. That’s exactly the reason why. So, yeah, oh, that’s good. That was awesome. You guys sound like you had a blast out there and I was just. I mean, I was actually listening to everything around you as well, and it’s.

[00:20:04] Going to go. I was glad to get to experience that because it was a gorgeous night and just having. I mean, we were out under the stars, under the airplanes, under everybody flying, it was just all going on around you and it was. It was very, very consuming, like there was just so much to take in.

[00:20:21] But it was awesome yeah I don’t know if I’ll take anything to fly though I don’t know oh well take.

[00:20:27] Something small, buy. Okay, buy something small you don’t really care about. All right, and buy a float plane. That was my whole reason for buying the twin otter was taking it to.

[00:20:38] Joe and all well. Dave gave me some floats that’ll fit on my carbon z cub. Okay, that would probably be what you wouldn’t put them on. I could do that. I didn’t like I told you there. One of the members from our club here in springfield actually lives on the lake and has invited me, and anybody else.

[00:20:58] Wants to come out to fly off the lake over around his place. That’s funny, that ironic. So the other part of my yesterday story we didn’t get to is we went out, my wife piper and I went out with dave and lori and dave’s brother, daniel, on the lake on daniel’s pontoon boat. There is apparently on the lake somewhere I get lost so I couldn’t tell you where. Well, I couldn’t even get back to it. But you go under like what felt like seven bridges, and back in a corner there’s just

[00:21:31] Like a completely like almost glass smooth part to the lake and it’s like that’s where I want to take.

[00:21:37] Airplanes no boat traffic no houses it’s not the party code was it yeah that’s way for far away that.

[00:21:44] Much I know it was. It’s twice as far. That’s towards chatham already. Yeah, wow, we went farther than I thought. Then, yeah, we went a long way. So that’s one I would like to actually do, plus it’s really.

[00:21:56] Shallow back there so if the worst case scenario happens I’m leaving it doesn’t matter what I.

[00:22:01] Am not getting in that water. There were too many fishies swimming around and all that stuff that scare me. And there’s snakes somewhere. There’s probably alligators. There’s probably sharks, that’s.

[00:22:10] Back where you saw the bobcat too oh that is yeah daniel saw bobcat so bring an rc tow boat or.

[00:22:17] Something pull it back to the boat well we’re out there on the pontoon the big boat moves to the.

[00:22:23] Small boat yeah but yeah it’s it’s ideal back there plenty of room yeah glass smooth no boat.

[00:22:30] Traffic, no houses. Excellent, I want to do that. I want to do that very much. Yeah, then count me in, just let me know. Okay, just let me know. I’ll be ready for that, definitely, but you don’t have it ready yet. So how are you ready for it? I can get it ready in a night. Well, plan on that, get it ready and then, when we set it up, we can actually do it and we’re not waiting on you. All right, thanks, yep, I’ll get it done. I’ll.

[00:22:53] Get it done okay I’ve even had the bright idea of buying an extra umx all tricks and putting it on.

[00:22:58] Floats I love that I think it’s doable I love that idea I would love to see how that works a little.

[00:23:04] Concerned about the exposed open framework servos on the bottom of the wing. So I gotta figure out some way to get those kind of- put some vinyl over them or something, I don’t know- somehow to water resist those a little bit. But I think, other than that it’s gonna be, it’d be a blast. Well, it does have the.

[00:23:19] Plastic caps over them. Yeah, so that should help a little bit. You get that spray stuff. You can spray on them. Extend those all the way out, maybe. Yeah, that’s what I just got right. What isn’t that? The one I just got from the? You don’t read how do? Why do I have to remember what airplanes you bought, because you talked me into it? Yes, that is, that is one erratics, and I think it was the old tricks. You bought the erratics and you bought the umx- all tricks. Yes, okay, that’s my sales skills. By the way, that was at rc. Fast called nagging. Talked him into two of them, nagging. You’re gonna love those, though I have not steered you wrong on telling you an airplane to buy. Have I? I can’t say you have see.

[00:23:55] I’ve got both of them I love both of them you will love both of them also.

[00:23:59] And eventually gonna end up buying the bigger version of the all tricks? I do believe. Are you probably depending on flies? They were on sale not that long ago. Oh, it flies. Great, I’ve got one. Anytime you want, all right, I’ll try not to do no thud. Yeah, let’s. Let’s not go to whomp noise or whomp thud, whatever it was, why. That’s half the fun. No, I’m good. I’m good. I remember that day. I do, and that’s what, like that was third crash, wasn’t it two or three you had that day.

[00:24:31] Yeah, I did several bumps. Yeah, I’d rather not. Oh, I’m gonna try the pancake thing you guys always talk about, though. Yeah, that sounds like that’d be pretty fun it is. I still have not taken either one of those out of the box. Of course you haven’t. I have not. Let’s act like you’ve been busy. Oh, I have.

[00:24:47] Been? Yeah, that’s what I said. Some of those actually work for a living. What all right. So the umx ultrax, that’s a throw in the truck. Take it with you. It comes in a box the size of a pizza. I’m sure you can.

[00:24:59] Hide a pizza in your truck a small pizza yeah but it’s the problem of where I would fly it.

[00:25:03] You can fly it in inside your trailer it’s amazing how small an area you can fly this thing.

[00:25:10] That is pretty true though yeah I better try it out first I can see myself doing something stupid.

[00:25:16] In a way is nothing so yeah run into a state trooper with it you’re gonna be fine yep apparently I’m.

[00:25:22] Going to jail no maybe have you do you have the batteries and stuff for it already I got everything.

[00:25:29] Yep then what are you I just haven’t got around messing with it I’ve been having everything else.

[00:25:33] To do just chores. And well, that one. Literally there’s nothing to do on it. You put the- I say literally nothing, and I’m going to tell you what to do- almost nothing to do on it. You stick the rear stabilizers in and you put a battery in. That’s it. That’s it. Since you haven’t hooked it up before, it’s going to go into bind mode because it’s not going to connect to a radio, right? So it’s going to go into bind mode and then load the files onto your controller to have those downloadable, and that’s all it takes. It takes longer to charge the battery. Oh, oh, it takes a lot longer to charge the.

[00:26:08] Battery than to get it ready all right yeah you guys got any plans to go into the field anytime soon.

[00:26:13] Depends on the weather it’s 99 humidity out right now yeah when I walked outside earlier I.

[00:26:20] Started sweating from walking which I guess I do that a lot anyway because I’m fat but that’s okay.

[00:26:26] I’m right behind you don’t worry oh you’re you might have passed me I don’t think that not yet.

[00:26:30] I still got a hundred pounds to go oh my gosh that hurt anyway.

[00:26:38] So the rest of my day yesterday after I went up to brian’s, he wasn’t actually at the hobby shop but I called him and actually I texted him to make sure he’s going to be there. He called me, said he wasn’t, but he said he’s going to champagne for the fly-in that was in champagne. They were having a warbird classic fly-in kind of thing, which I forgot. That was this. This actually it’s this weekend still, since it’s the weekend, but anyway. So I told him. I was like that’s cool, I’ll meet you there afterwards. It’s a little bit out of the way. So I drove from his place to champagne and when I got there, this is:

[00:27:10] Perfect. When I got there, the gates are closed. Oh no, gates are closed and locked. Oh, I’m like: what am I in the wrong place? So I called him and he’s like: oh no, they had a. They had a big storm roll through, so they closed everything up. I probably should have called you. Oh wow, you think so. I mean, I just went an hour out of my way and then have to drive a an extra hour to get home, but no big deal. Thanks, brian, I appreciate that, but apparently there’s a big storm that came through by the time I got there.

[00:27:41] It was nice out. So I mean I’m surprised they closed everything down right, because it was. I mean it was still overcast, but there was no wind, it was still. Would have been a good day to fly it’s.

[00:27:53] Actually a nice field. So runway, everything. See, I’ve not been to that yet it’s. It’s a nice field. It’s not very far off from e field, eli eve, damn, eli field. I could not think of any of that field, for saved my life I’ve noticed. But they have a nice paved runway, a nice little building there, I think.

[00:28:10] They have power out there as well so I hear they have do they have cross runways they have two yes.

[00:28:15] I believe so I believe so I’ve been out there think twice see that’s so much farther of a drive for me.

[00:28:20] Though that ends up being an hour and 25 minutes. Yep, so an hour is like just about as far as I can justify, but I’m glad. I mean it’s cool that it’s a nice field, that it’s that close. I would like to have seen it but I didn’t. So then on the way home we drove right by eli field, so I went ahead and stopped there to see if anybody was out. And there’s a couple guys doing helicopters and I’m like why? Well, I mean I don’t get it. I joke. Helicopters are cool. If you’re into that, what if you was over there?

[00:28:50] When I passed by then because I drove right by there and I looked over there was about three.

[00:28:55] Three or four cars sitting over when I drove by- yeah, there was three. When I was there, like I pulled all the way in, noticed it was nobody that I actually knew very well. So I was like, yeah, we’ll just head home. And then to make up because piper, like I wasn’t planning on going to the fly-in at all when we left in the morning, piper came with me up to brian’s and so after I talked to him and stuff, I asked her: do you want to go? I said it’s a place we’ve never been before and she was excited. She’s like: yeah, let’s go. So she was a little disappointed when we got there because that was a lot of car time for.

[00:29:28] Her right and then after we stopped at eli field, we didn’t get out or anything, so there’s even more car time for her. So we ended up stopping at the decatur zoo on the way home and spent about an hour there, so that made her extremely happy. It was a long day, and then you threw the boat on top of that, yeah, so then after that I got home. We got home probably like we left about eight in the morning, we got home about five ish, I think, right around five. We’re planning on having a little bit of time to kill before we went the out on the boat with you guys because, luckily, like you texted,

[00:30:03] And said it was going to be a little bit later. Dave, you texted and said there was a delay and stuff, which I was fine with that, and then everybody had power outages and stuff and ended up found out my mom and dad’s power came back on and she asked: how do I get off the generator? I’m like we’ll come in and do it. So then we had to hurry up and leave quickly as opposed to taking our time and having time to kill. But I’m so glad like I slept better knowing that they have power. I’m sure they slept better knowing they have power. So dave’s power came on last night again too. Finally it was.

[00:30:35] It was a long, long day and a half for a lot of people. Lori’s power came on at the same time as my mom and dad, so she was happy about that, so that helped out a lot. I came home to power, decided to throw.

[00:30:48] Batteries on the charger and took my air tractor back out to the church again. Flew for a while- nice. Everything was great. Until I came home today from working on the car to find out the power was out because the transformer blew up. So it’s been out for probably two or three hours now. That’s a pain.

[00:31:04] It was I. I get out of sorts when we don’t have power like I. I don’t know why I. Just I get to be kind of cranky and moody, which I know is surprising to you guys. Yeah, that’s what it is. I know nobody saw that coming. But yeah, just ask. Crystal, I’m not pleasant to be around, I’m.

[00:31:22] Jumpy, I know I grew up with that in the country. Our power was off more than it was on. So I mean to me the power I was like: power’s out. Oh, that sucks, and you go on. Yeah, nope, that’s not how I am.

[00:31:35] I wish I was but I just can’t handle it for some reason well I was home long to take a shower.

[00:31:44] And that’s about it took an led lantern inside the bathroom and showered underneath that.

[00:31:49] And here I am nice well at least you showered I appreciate that yes I didn’t think he was gonna.

[00:31:55] Like me if I came over here and showered what’s the difference there’s a difference.

[00:32:00] No, I mean liking me, liking you whether or not you showered or not, thank you. Thank you, yeah, that’s why I’m playing footsie with you now. I missed, but oh, there it is anyway. Ah. So what else, Reggie, this is supposed to be about you. You wanted to come on, we’re recording with you, and you said you have nothing to talk about, so think of something: new airplanes. What new airplanes do you have, like I?

[00:32:20] Said: I just bought the timber, I just reacquired your, your old thunder tiger Cloud Dancer on a trade. I got rid of that. Oh, what the hell is that thing? It was a rainbow 2000 from phoenix models. I did not like the way that thing flew at all so I got rid of it, and your plane was still hanging in the hobby shop so I got that back. I’m hoping to get that maiden soon. Hold on. So the. This is the.

[00:32:49] Cloud Dancer that I bought last year. Yep, I bought last year in toledo. Yep traded you for something, somehow sold it to you- I don’t remember how it went- and you got, you got rid of it and then you got it back. I got it back. Why would you do that? Like I don’t understand? Well, I, I don’t know.

[00:33:09] Why? Just something irked me to trade it in and I ended up getting a couple, three planes, I think. I got rid of like four or five and brought back two or three. So okay, so what’d you get other than that one? Oh man, I don’t even. I think it was that f-16 was part of that deal. I think he doesn’t even remember. I don’t. It’s been so long ago. I’ve been slowing down quite a bit on getting any planes. So, matter of fact, the last one- it doesn’t sound like it- last plane that I can remember getting was the one from:

[00:33:41] You that cabal or whatever the hell that thing was the hanger 9 model was it the 30 cc one oh the top.

[00:33:49] Flight the cessna no I didn’t get that it was a oh the satabria that yes you got this top I forgot.

[00:33:55] Which one you bought off me yeah that’s probably the last buy I’ve actually really that I could.

[00:34:01] Think of that. You got the ultrax and the erratics after that. Since then, that’s just been recently here. What are we? I’m so confused. You just said that was the last airplane you bought, and as far as something big and that was an ARF anyway, that wasn’t even a full airplane. Yeah, so acquisitions are divided into groups by size. I don’t know well, I’m trying to figure this out. The

[00:34:24] Ultrax doesn’t count because it’s small. Apparently I’m trying to think back. I cannot think back to save my life here. I just I remember that one, the ultrax, the erratics. There were some trades here beginning the year, I think it was. It was an f16 from e-flight, it might have been the. That rainbow job was in there. Oh shoot, I still have my.

[00:34:54] Jet that’s still sitting up there in layaway. That geez, I don’t know what the hell that is. Oh my god, where they’re at slotting wings. It’s a- yeah, it’s a- composite body jet of some type.

[00:35:07] You’re boring dave, so much he is over there yawning. Listen to that. You’re awake, right? I’m sorry? Some sort of composite jet? Yeah, is this an actual turbine jet? No, it’s an edf. Edf, it can’t.

[00:35:20] Be converted to turbine no okay but it I don’t even know what the hell it is it just I like the way it.

[00:35:26] Looked and it’s got everything in it so I don’t even know what it is I do not because they didn’t know.

[00:35:30] What it is. They had no idea what it was so, but it sure is pretty. It was, it still is, and I will have that eventually hit the house, but eventually, eventually, eventually, eventually, I got two other.

[00:35:47] Planes in here that I’m still paying off, so I’d say I forgot. You do everything on credit, I do. I cannot do that. Well, a few. If I don’t have the money, I don’t, I don’t get it. It keeps you from walking away.

[00:35:59] So but it matter I mean to be honest if I really want it then yeah I’ll just go ahead and make weekly payments.

[00:36:08] On it until I get it and bring it home. Oh god, I like it. That’s how you did this, atabria with me. Yes, yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah, it took some time, but anyway, anyway, let’s just put this way, I think.

[00:36:27] This year I’ve brought home probably five I want to say five I think calling you out sir that is a lie.

[00:36:37] How is it not a lie? Because I can think of three right now, four just that we’ve been talking about, and I’m sure there’s been more than one other one. This is july. No, I think that’s about it. That’s about it what you just said. You just said you brought in how many from the hobby shop that he traded, two or three, two or three, two or three plus the altrix, plus the erratics, plus the satabria. For me, so there’s.

[00:37:02] Six already. I’m off one there’s. I’m sure there’s more. I can’t remember what the hell they are. Then I don’t remember what they are. So then we have the layaways and the layaways. They haven’t made it home.

[00:37:12] Yet oh thanks kmart there’s no blue light there god it so do you keep a list like I keep a list of.

[00:37:24] My airplanes I do I have not matter of fact I haven’t added a few now you didn’t said that.

[00:37:32] So you, you keep an outdated list- apparently mine’s outdated too, by the way. It’s okay like I haven’t updated in the last couple weeks, so the only thing I’ve been updating is the flights. I’ve been just

[00:37:43] Keeping up on my flights. I’ve been having what’s been going on, what batteries have been getting used, and that’s pretty much about it. I flew the s bach again for the first time since the accident. Yeah, how’s your hand? By the way, it’s still tight as it’s still tight, but it, as I was telling dave earlier, scared to death, it started. I was scared to death, it started. I literally was re-looking at everything, making sure it was anchored down this time. That’s a good thing to do it. What it? I’ve got one of those sullivan retainers where you actually put it in the ground, the arms slip up.

[00:38:16] Yeah I can actually watch it pull that thing forward yeah it does not give me a good feeling.

[00:38:23] Well, when you start it, you should be at idle, you shouldn’t be full throttle. So it’s not going to move it forward a lot, it’s not going to give, it’s not going to break, it’s not that big of an.

[00:38:32] Airplane yeah it’s big enough because I’ve actually stood behind it and I can actually feel the post.

[00:38:37] Come into back of my legs. So well, yes, but first off, when you feel that it’s not pulling it out, and secondly, with that’s tied down a lot more than you had it when you had your accident, very true, which was not tied down to anything. No, not much. It was just wrapped around, it was a cord.

[00:38:55] Wrapped around the tail end and it was just hooked onto a fence. Apparently moving around, it came out of the fence one- oh see, I didn’t think it was actually, I didn’t think it was something- came.

[00:39:03] Unhooked it was unhooked it was laying loose so it worked its way loose somehow oh see I didn’t.

[00:39:08] Realize that I thought you forgot to hook it up to anything. It was hooked onto something. Okay. Just I don’t think I had to hook properly on there, let alone just a piss poor idea of doing so. Trying to rush beat the sun. But I was telling dave earlier that I could still see that blade coming past my face and then seeing the second blade get my finger. So how it shut off, I don’t know I might have been. How it shut off. You killed it with your hand. You stopped the engine from rotating. I mean, I think about it.

[00:39:40] It actually could have kept going though the second blade was still on so well yeah but I mean when you.

[00:39:45] Stop. When you stop a blade hard enough, or stop a motor hard enough, it’s not going to continue to run. If you kill the inertial force of it right, it’s going to turn off, and that’s what you did with your.

[00:39:54] Hand. I was just happy it stopped. Well, me too. But yeah, yeah took it out- was it about two, three weeks ago for the first time. How’d it fly? Flew great. It’s awesome. I got a fuel leak going on as you’re pumping fuel into it. I gotta look into. But other than that, she flew great. It felt good to fly it again. Yeah, just scared to death to start it. Just, I’m looking at everything now. I mean everything and

[00:40:19] That’s, that’s multiple times I. I hate to say it, but that is the positive that came out of what happened. Yeah, I mean you it’s. It’s good to have a reminder, something to make you check everything over follow.

[00:40:33] Those safety protocols and if something doesn’t feel right stop yeah it’s just a toy airplane if.

[00:40:39] Something doesn’t seem right, don’t push it. That was my issues. I was rushing, always trying to beat the sun or just getting here as quick as I could, yeah, and finally come back to bite me in hand. Yeah, you always.

[00:40:53] Run late on stuff so you’re always in a rush to do things always so just take a deep breath and.

[00:41:02] Either that or just say what just forget it let’s just wait till tomorrow well that’s what.

[00:41:07] I mean, take a deep breath and just don’t like it’s okay to not fly an airplane if it’s getting too dark, because that’s the other thing. Like I get scared to fly when it gets too dark, no matter what the airplane is if it doesn’t have lights, because it’s easy to lose orientation, true, but, and when it’s dark, and that orange and black is going to turn black, yeah, well, black and black and white, red, yeah, yeah.

[00:41:30] On that one. We’ve been picking up quite a few planes here lately with nav lights or just lights running throughout the fuse. I thought you’ve only got five this year- I’m referring to everybody that I know of that’s been flying and, like that, night radiant has got lights all throughout it. The air tractor has lights on you. Do you have night radiant? I don’t, but that one of our new members just bought one. I love it. Dave has one, so, and then of course you have your all tricks. That has lights- was it all around or just on the wing edges, on the wing edges? And then it has the small umx- all tricks.

[00:42:05] Has the two lights on the back- tail lights. Oh see, I didn’t even know that if you buy the light kit, it comes with those two. Okay, the full size ultra- oh, I say full size, the bigger all tricks- does not have the tail lights, okay, which I don’t understand why you have to attack those on. Yeah, it needs it well.

[00:42:22] See I know you guys have been flying toward dark now I’d like to try that yeah I mean with the right.

[00:42:28] Plane you can easily do that it just has to be the right plane it’s the added challenge of not being.

[00:42:33] Able to see your plane and have to scratch mosquitoes at the same time yeah that’s unfortunate flying too.

[00:42:39] Far away no that’ll break you who yeah that’s a possibility that is a possibility well with you.

[00:42:47] Doing that at least if you crash at night you’ll have the lights to find it the battery stays connected.

[00:42:52] That’s true and the corn ain’t six feet tall yeah well okay you got me yeah I’ve been.

[00:43:00] By the way it’s over six foot now is it really yeah I haven’t been out to the field for a while so.

[00:43:06] I couldn’t tell you. I’ve been flying, still at the church over there and just pretty much just as sun setting, but I don’t get too much deeper than that. Yeah, I got an angle where, if I can’t see where the power lines are anymore, at least the top one. I’m done. That scares me so much. Well, I know where all of them are at, so I know my boundary of where to stay. Okay, and if I look over and

[00:43:31] I can’t see at least the top one, then it’s time to quit. So, yeah, okay, so you fly later with lighted planes, with the ones that have nav lights and stuff, but not with no. Okay, I gotcha. No, they’ll disappear.

[00:43:48] I mean like that, yeah, so yeah, I just the nav light ones are. If I can actually put nav lights on something, then I do that. But even that’s getting kind of sketchy, so yeah, but and Reggie never does anything sketchy- no, not at all. I’ve got nothing to say to that. Do you have any night flyers, like

[00:44:06] Anything that lights up like actual, like night flying airplanes, which I don’t consider the ultra could not, or ultrax a night flyer- not yet, not yet. You should get one. Oh, I’m almost following you guys.

[00:44:17] Lead on that what is it the night radian I kind of like that oh yeah I wouldn’t that’s a good one.

[00:44:24] And I like that for the simplicity and the ease of it. If you get one, you have to get. I don’t remember who makes it, but there’s an updated board you can get. Do you remember who it was? Dave? And no, I don’t.

[00:44:33] But just google yeah night radian light board and it’ll pop up yeah so there’s a an updated board.

[00:44:41] You can put in it, which replaces the stock light controller that comes in the airplane. Nice thing about that- the stock one, you have to have the balance lead to plug into it and that’s what powers it. With this new one it’s actually ran through the receiver and you don’t have to worry about having the balance plug to plug into it and it gives you actual nav lights, which is very handy. It gives you the side, the green and red, and it’s very helpful when you’re trying to fly. What do you? What do you?

[00:45:08] Have for as night flyers do you have a radian still or I have the radian the shiny is that it.

[00:45:15] Yeah, that’s about it right now. Actually in your actual, in your mini ultrax. See, I don’t consider those actual night flyers. As long as they’re in close they work. I can’t like we’ve talked about that before. I just I those. I don’t know if they move too fast or what, but it’s just especially going away. You don’t see it very well. It’s nice having the two lights on the back, but everything else kind.

[00:45:37] Disappears there was a was it the mamba 60 it actually has one of the versions of it where.

[00:45:45] The entire fuse is lit. Well, yeah, they make a night timber too. Yeah, I’m gonna do that every time I have timber, or say that word now, night timber, what was that? Night timber? Nice, anyway. Yeah, so you should get one of those. Yeah, those are good night flyers. We saw quite a few of those at joan.

[00:46:11] The whole body lights up. So you’re fine. Whoops, right, right. Well, even at the rc fest for eli field there’s about four or five. Oh, that’s right there. You were there for that too. Wouldn’t for sure if they were trying to shoot those down or what they were doing, but it was pretty nice looking at them up there. Yeah, pretty visual. But yeah, maybe some point in time- I guess I got a lot of clearing out to do before I start bringing more and more in there. What do you have to get rid of? Maybe I want something, just whatever. I’m not flying so a lot there’s. There’s a few in it that I haven’t.

[00:46:47] Flown in a while. So some there’s a few things that need to go. I still have a an fms fox glider that I’d like to see going to dave’s hands at some point to see if it’s going to be airworthy and see how it does. I’d like to learn how to fly it. There you go, dave. Mark that up on your list of things to.

[00:47:08] Do sure.

[00:47:14] Well I trust dave as far as for sure gliders I know he knows everything about him so it can’t be.

[00:47:22] Any worse than that red and white thing I flew for Ron oh my goodness that thing was awful what about.

[00:47:27] That red and white thing you flew for me here not too long ago oh yeah that was sketchy too.

[00:47:31] Yeah, I, yeah, that would have been guaranteed. Why are they all red and white? Which one was I? I remember you flying out around- what plane that was, though I don’t. You quickly traded it off the next day. Oh well, that was the. Was that the super demona? No, that was a different one. I know what you’re talking about. Doesn’t matter, it sank like a rock. Yeah, it was not a great one.

[00:47:54] That thing, that big thing that you had- I don’t know what it was. It flew awful yep and it was gone, I think, the following week. So yeah, yeah, they were both bad. Thanks, guys, you’re welcome.

[00:48:07] I you flew that before I did right or did I fly it and then hand we shared a flight okay that’s what it.

[00:48:12] Was it’s like you were saying is this thing as bad as I think it is that’s been a long time yeah it is.

[00:48:18] God I wish I could remember what that one was now though they don’t look the same anymore.

[00:48:24] If you think about it those red and white ones there’s like three or four different models.

[00:48:28] That kind of look like that and they all look like crap. Yeah, and that one you had was: it was sketchy. I’m glad it came back in one piece, but it was sketchy, me too. Was it foam or balsa? It was really.

[00:48:40] The one I was talking, the one I had was, but it was foam and it did not fly very well. Yeah, was wrong that day. I don’t know. I don’t think you were probably not, although if I was I might not remember it anyway because I’m terrible memory. I’m just glad it’s gone, I never have to deal with it.

[00:48:57] Again yeah true enough other than that yeah get to fly the s-block again hands doing all right.

[00:49:07] Planes here in the air, just not much. But I got no crash stories other than the one I think you guys already know about and that was two edfs, an a10 and my viper jet, demised within 20 minutes of each other. This is back to back, back to back to back. I called my girlfriend and told her if this one goes down, I’m going to cry. About 15 minutes later I was in the car talking to her crying. Oh god.

[00:49:38] I wish you would have called me crying no I would never call you crying why be that no oh my god.

[00:49:44] I would record it now. I’m sure you would. That would be my ringtone. I would say that’s gonna be a ringtone, but, but, but, but it went down.

[00:49:55] Maybe we should edit this what happened like seriously what happened back to back.

[00:50:00] Well, what? I don’t know if I actually got the story, the a10, all right, I thought I had it set up the way. Sorry, which a10 is this? Oh, this is the free wing, free wing motion rc a10. Okay, so good sized, it’s a good one. It’s the biggest one I’ve seen yet at a phone. And this, what battery? Two batteries, two 50 c rated, six thousand, six cell packs, wow, okay, and so half a tesla, pretty much, pretty much.

[00:50:31] I was. I was, I was un for sure about a lot of things, but I even called motion rc about this and I swore I read in the manual that the expo was up around like 80 some percent. That seems high. It was extremely high. And was this a new plane? No, I bought it, used, okay, but it used. But whoever had it took good care of it, put brakes on it and everything it was. It was a nice setup.

[00:51:00] Was now it’s just confetti and I took off and I knew as soon as it took off the ground I was in trouble because I’m pulling all the way back on the stick. It’s just barely lifting off the asphalt and all of a sudden it just went straight up and I fought it the whole way, trying to bring in the land. I was even just going to stall it and let it drop and at some point it got- oh, halfway across a lot and

[00:51:32] I was giving it full elevator to come back up and I deployed flap to try to slow it down. It nose down. It went straight into the asphalt. It was not having nothing, it was. I literally watched both batteries almost come back toward me when it came out. So it held both batteries. Oh, my, held both batteries. That’s an expensive, expensive what those batteries cost at that time? Yes, wow.

[00:52:00] So made in flight made in flight and you tried to put the flaps down when you were having problems.

[00:52:07] Trying to bring it back in to slow it down. Yes, I put the flaps down, hoping that I had the flaps correct. I think I spent more time cleaning it than I did flying it. It was that bad. And, of course, any pictures. No, no, it was something I didn’t really want to remember. Real, see, I guess crashes don’t.

[00:52:28] Tend to bother me that much like no pictures it never happened I will take pictures the cost.

[00:52:34] Is what I was thinking so what I gave for that the cost yeah the cost of the batteries.

[00:52:41] I’m like, okay, I’m gonna salvage this day, I’m gonna fly my viper jet, I’ll be happy. And which viper jet is this? This is the e-flight 90 millimeter viper jet. It’s another very expensive airplane- about 600 and change. Also, same battery pack. What do you mean? 6 000 Right, but not the same one you just cracked. No, no, this is the third pack. Third pack, gotcha, and flying it as normal, I took it out of safe, no big deal, and I decided I was going to come by slow, pass flaps down just.

[00:53:15] Slow down as much as I could mistake. Mistake because I installed it and tried to pull it back out. I think I was probably about maybe 20 feet high. Yeah, nope, full throttle into the asphalt again, battery came out l-shaped, oh, and I just stood there, I had my radio at one point, to where I thought I was going to launch it. I had it in my hand and I had to stop all thought: look away, walk back to my truck. First thing lisa said was: why are you calling? I said: guess what?

[00:54:02] Put some more in there. Oh, poor Reggie, I could not believe that much money in 20 minutes. Give me a number. The a10 brand new was about 700, I think. I think it was 699. I ended up spending, I think, five for it. The batteries, I want to say we’re 150 apiece at the time I bought them, but I know they’re down to 125.. And of course, the wiper jet brand new is 629 or whatever it is, I’m not sure so

[00:54:44] Let’s just say I’ve looked at them before and they’re too expensive for me to buy.

[00:54:47] Well since you got me turned on to the whole spectrum smart charger thing I’m not buying any.

[00:54:52] More I’m good okay hold on we’ll talk about that afterwards but give me a number I’m excited.

[00:54:59] Oh, in a bad way. 50. Well, are we giving brand new prices or we just what you like? What did you spend? Okay, five, nine, fifty.

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[00:55:11] Fifteen just say I’m sixteen about 1600 bucks total 16 in 20 minutes 20 minutes I that’s.

[00:55:21] I was sick from an outsider looking in I was sick glorious that is hilarious I was sick only because I’m friends with you.

[00:55:30] I almost at one moment stopped thinking about ever flying rc anymore for a while I know honestly I can.

[00:55:39] See that would be very disheartening like it’s right now it’s fun to look back and.

[00:55:44] And it kind of hurts a little bit full of twinge in my chest talking about this but.

[00:55:48] Yeah it was it was a bad day that’s like therapy talking about it helps work it out so no not really.

[00:55:56] I could have took videos of the piles, I guess, yeah, but believe it or not, the hobby store that I got all this stuff from, he wanted all of it, everything I had wrecked. He wanted all of it and actually gave me a good chunk of change for it. So then you didn’t lose that much money on it. I mean, like whatever he, I turned in like five planes, five or six planes that were destroyed that had just been sitting in.

[00:56:20] The apartment hold on. I don’t have any crash stories, except for the two. But then you just turned in five or six. They were just laying there, laying where, just in the apartment I had just piled up a.

[00:56:32] Right. So how did you, how did you crash those? There was a 80 millimeter e-flight havoc that I flew four times before. I have no idea what happened. Just it took off and it just veered right. I had full throttle and she just veered right wingtip in the ground. She went rubble. An old b-17 that had been sitting in there forever- I mean ever- made the mistake of putting an ounce of weight on the tail end of it and went to take off and she just went straight up and then straight back down.

[00:57:06] Why’d you put an ounce of weight on the tail? Because I had it on an actual one of those balancers like the CG, machine things. Yeah, and sure enough it just it. It leveled out on here. But apparently I must have had the actual measurements wrong as far as on the CG and sure enough she showed me real quick it was wrong. Wow, there was something else in that pilot. I can’t remember what the hell it was now, but nonetheless there was about five of them. I just took the rubble to him.

[00:57:36] He wanted all the electronics out of it. Well, the electronics are still pretty good. I mean, I’m sure they’re not damaged too much. No, well, you get the odd servos. You gotta toss right, but esc motors, all that.

[00:57:49] Stuff should be good. Oh, they were all on the pavement. All that was on the pavement. Hey, it was that bad. I didn’t have to dissemble much of anything. Well, the narcells were off, everything it was bad, wow. So I say it was a bad day. It was a very freaking bad day. As much grief as I give you for it, I am

[00:58:10] Sorry it happened like that’s oh no it’s not while we joke about it’s it’s a terrible feeling we’ve all.

[00:58:17] Had those days? Yeah, well, not quite like that. This is why I come dave, you, tommy, and maybe a few other people, why I ask questions so much, because I try to not want to be in this predicament anymore. Yeah, and that day I should have been asking more questions. I should actually hounded you to the point of: okay, I’m.

[00:58:41] Hanging up now. So we’ve learned: is 80 expo is a good idea? No, on a fighter jet, no, no, no. Therefore, we’ve learned on anything 3d, something maybe 3d, maybe exactly those extras that I’ve got those.

[00:58:56] Are in the 60 range on the, but still it’s not 80. No, yeah, no so, but I’ve had a shot to get another one as far as an a10 and I’ve actually let that one pass me by, but I’m gonna have another one I will have.

[00:59:09] Another one. You should get the. It’s a little bit smaller, but get the horizon a10 or the. I’ll be. Was it 64 millimeter? I think so, isn’t that? That’s what that one is? Right? I think it is. I think it’s gws one just sitting around here somewhere. Yeah, there is, that’s on my to-do list eventually.

[00:59:26] We’re not turning this around on me dave this is a Reggie episode I have one you have one tommy has.

[00:59:31] One, oh, and never mind. I took that as mine’s not done. A guilty conscience on my part, I guess. I know I’m, I’m, I’m thinking, but I just got another viper.

[00:59:45] Jet I’ve replaced all those batteries I actually bought nine of those so nine okay so you have.

[00:59:53] Started to go down the route of the spectrum g2 batteries yes I actually just bought the big.

[01:00:00] Charger the 2200 I think it was 21 or 22 it was 22 is it a single port or double.

[01:00:08] I don’t remember oh yeah I think that’s 22 because the second two I think is two port.

[01:00:14] 21 Is 21 anyway. Just picked up some spectrum batteries, some of the smart batteries here for the ultrax and the radix. I already had four, four cell 2700s. That man, literally about 15 minutes, I think 15, 16 minutes they’re fully charged just like that. Yeah, what size did you get?

[01:00:37] For the radix. Do you remember- because I know it recommends different sizes- that you can run three cell 850? I want to say that sounds about right because I got the big? I don’t is it 850, it’s somewhere around there, but that’s what I have too because you can use. I think the lowest one is like a 650 up to an 850 and I just went with the biggest one that you could get for it. You still fly.

[01:01:00] That yeah, quite a bit. Okay, I’m gonna fly mine, I’m gonna break it up and fly it. I will kind of do it around that field, but I don’t know if it’s a good idea around what field by my house I fly that one out.

[01:01:13] Here all the time, okay, all the time. Well, like I probably have more flights on that, I have to look to be sure, but probably have more flights on that than about anything else. If you remember, I lost my.

[01:01:23] Carbon seat cub out of that field due to a bad elevator plug it unplugged yourself yeah that was.

[01:01:29] It went off into the neighborhood. That was a huge, huge airplane. That was a huge mistake. So but I guess my point is: if you lose an elevator or servo on something like this, that’s a slower airplane. It doesn’t, and it’s more one that you’re going to practice with. It’s not like a. I’m just going to go out and fly this for fun. I mean you can, but to me it’s more of a. I have other planes that I enjoy flying more than this one, but it’s, it’s a different, it’s a tool to me. So that’s the whole plan. You’re going to keep it closer. You’re not going to fly it a mile or states away and if something happens,

[01:02:01] It weighs next to nothing yeah if something happens you just kill the throttle and it will fall to the.

[01:02:06] Ground and you’ll be fine wasn’t much building on that at all I think it took like 10 minutes to.

[01:02:12] Put together okay it was it’s a good airplane all right well that’ll be a weekend project here soon.

[01:02:18] It’s a 10 minute weekend project well I’m gonna get both of them out and kind of play around in the.

[01:02:23] Yard. The other one is like a three minute weekend project because the ultrax, like I said, goes together really quick. No, that’s in fact you build it every time you take it out of the box. Yeah, pretty much all the ultrax. Yeah, okay, because I mean you don’t glue the stabilizers, then they just pop in and you pull them out and store them in the box and you’re good. That keeps the box nice and

[01:02:46] Thin. Okay, I actually haven’t even flown any of my umx’s at all this year. Now I think about it, I’ve flown a lot of mine. I haven’t flown a single one umx radian- I love that one.

[01:02:58] How big is it about? Yay, big really, is that some little tiny? It’s sitting right over there. You’ll have to look at it, okay, but just remember before we leave, or no? I’m sorry it’s upstairs, I can grab it though. Yeah, it’s, I don’t know, 24-ish inch, maybe give or take five inches, I don’t remember, it’s not.

[01:03:16] It runs on the one s 150 batteries all right I think I have a I have a umx citation waco.

[01:03:27] Mini vapor. No, oh, night vapor, not the night vapor, just basic vapor, right? Yeah, what happened to the night vapor? I don’t know what the hell. I think I gave it away. Yeah, he said you’re gonna.

[01:03:38] Give it to me you never did I don’t recall that I do I don’t I do I don’t it’s okay.

[01:03:44] I need to say. I think there’s a couple more. I can’t think of what they are. I think I’ll start doing some of that over in the field. There’s one of the vapors, right.

[01:03:57] Over there on top of the fridge oh maybe I still do have that well that’s not a night one that’s a.

[01:04:05] Regular vapor okay last one I have is that one there the night vapor is was it green or white.

[01:04:11] Or green, clear or whatever. Maybe I think there might have been a couple different ones: one I’m thinking I was yellow, maybe in black or yellow, one. I seem to remember black, but yeah, I thought.

[01:04:21] It was kind of odd for something night yeah well the lights are all you’re worried about actually.

[01:04:27] I’m gonna be honest with you. One of the things I thought about doing is trying to find small enough, light enough leds and put them on the- the radian- but umx, radian right, because that I love flying that out here, but when it gets darker, obviously it gets harder to see if it’s coming or going. If I had the nav lights on it, that would make that a perfect airplane for night flying out here- not night flying, but dusk, right. Right, you should get one of those too. No, they’re like a hundred bucks. I actually am thinking about getting a second one so I can put night stuff on it. I’ll tell you.

[01:05:02] Wait then while you’re flying it I’ll fly the first one oh I don’t know if I trust you to fly my planes.

[01:05:06] That kind of hurt I let him fly that 105 that was enough that was a lot that little joker was pretty.

[01:05:15] Quick and it survived it did wow they did I’m impressed they let me fly quite a few of these.

[01:05:23] Planes huh he must like you he does or he trusts me one of the other kind of combination of both.

[01:05:30] Truth be told Reggie I thought I was handing Tom the radio ouch no is that yeah.

[01:05:39] I was like oh that’s Reggie okay ouch oh I love confessions that is awesome I am older than Tom.

[01:05:48] So we just thought I was an older guy standing there well he’s he’s not paying attention to who’s.

[01:05:52] Staying next to him because he’s flying, then, apparently, is how I just took that slightly dodgy airplane. Oh, here, tell me if this fly is okay. Oh, shucks, it’s Reggie, damn it. Oh, it’s still up there, I’ve.

[01:06:04] Been holding my breath all this long you did great give it back give it back you could have said that.

[01:06:10] Get right back. You’re not who I thought you were. No, I’ve been talking to tommy about it. You need to fly this thing because he was talking about he liked the f-105 and everything and it was actually flying pretty good. I finally got it kind of straightened out and he was standing right there and it’s like here, here you go. It’s like handing the radio off to the side, still staring at the airplane, and I said: oh, it’s Reggie, okay.

[01:06:37] Oh that’s funny yep it makes me so much better well you did great though you didn’t.

[01:06:43] Great so there you go I was nervous the whole time I would have been too that’s why I don’t ever.

[01:06:48] Say yes to that. Mm-hmm, dave’s got some pretty nice planes he does, and I enjoy flying like that. Wow, what the heck was that? A bird was a hawk or something. Oh, my little eagle, yeah, yes, well, anybody.

[01:07:02] Could fly that thing. I did fly that one. You just said anybody could fly it. Well, I did, though I’m saying like that’s one of the few I’ve ever taken off of somebody’s hands when they were flying.

[01:07:11] It and there you go I don’t know whoever designed the movements and everything on that they really had.

[01:07:16] Their stuff together because it does fly great. So by eagle you’re talking about an actual eagle, eagle, eagle, eagle, which is made by whom? That one was the dancing wings. Dancing wings, eagle. This bothered.

[01:07:28] The birds too when you fly that oh yeah it gets the little birds all upset up in arms I remember that.

[01:07:34] In streeter yeah not like that last year or whatever it was I remember that too but.

[01:07:42] I’m looking forward to everything we’re getting ready to jump into here soon. So what are we jumping into? We’re jumping into oshkosh and then here in 11 months, joe and all and whatever else that may come up. So, yes, months, yeah, 11 months, 10 months, whatever it may be. I’m I’m actually getting, slowly but surely.

[01:08:00] More and more hyped up about it. I’m still excited. I’m I’m still on the high from coming home from the last one, so I want to make the next one even better. One thing I wanted to ask you, though: we made a pact. Do you remember our pact last year when we were at the jet event in monticello? Oh for crying yes, I.

[01:08:21] Remember the pact about getting a jet and I got a suburban instead no I mean the pact was.

[01:08:30] Or the goal we had set and we both agreed upon in two years, right to get it was to have, and we’re still not even a year into that, so we still have over a year. Do you think you’re going to make it? Do you think, in with the amount that you’ve progressed in this last year, you will be able to make that happen within the next 13 months, or whatever it is, I do not know. To be honest, if I had

[01:08:57] To sit here and tell you right now I’d tell you I have no clue I bought us bourbon and I bought the.

[01:09:02] Nx20. Okay, you’ve also bought, according to you, five or six airplanes, which is way under, but if you get rid of a bunch of them, you will be able to have money to pay, and you said you’re getting rid of them anyway. Why not, instead of spending 200, 300, 400, five, six hundred dollars on some of these other airplanes you have, instead of buying the seven of those you’re going to buy, buy an actual turbine jet. It’s.

[01:09:32] Possible. I’m actually kind of sitting back watching you now see what I’m you’re going to do, as far as once you get it, get it set up, of course you got ally and your corner on this, so I’m just kind of.

[01:09:46] Watching. Well, I’m, I’m just in a holding pattern. So once that happens and I get it, that’s all. Bets are off. I will be working on it and hopefully flying it as soon as I can. Well, obviously we have time, or I have time. Well, you should order one. Anyway. Shoot, that’s still not until what september or so, I don’t know. I mean, I don’t know how much they’ve sold and what they’re sold out on, or when. Like, if somebody puts an order in now, it might not even be that container, who knows? I’m not gonna say no, so say yes.

[01:10:19] And go order it. I’m not gonna say no, not right now, that’s for sure. I can wait a little bit and I’ll wait till next year. Of worse come worse, but I’ll wait. Well, I know you’ve been looking like you.

[01:10:29] Sent me a couple of them that were for sale, but I don’t know how serious you were about anything like that, or if that was just: oh, look at this, just looking. Okay, just looking. I wasn’t sure. I mean, I know what he said last year, so I wasn’t sure if he was going to back out on that or what. Where are we going with this, Ron? No, I was just asking. I was asking a simple question. I’m still

[01:10:50] Looking. I’m not saying no, but right now I just got a couple other things I’m trying to take care of and, no, I didn’t want to buy a damn truck, but I did buy a truck. So yeah, there we are. I get it like I had.

[01:11:01] Not planned on doing this right now anyway, like I was hoping to get until probably next spring or early summer before I actually purchased anything or pull the trigger on something. But honestly, with that jet coming out, that just seemed like it was perfect timing and well worth doing.

[01:11:18] I know you didn’t plan on buying that radio yet either, but you did because it was perfect timing. It was right there on a decent sale, so I did not plan on buying mine, but sure enough last day came with a 20 channel receiver. Price was right and there it is. I mean I know like

[01:11:39] I don’t know, I’m. I’m very glad I bought that radio, like I am too. I was afraid because that was a lot of money for what it is. I was afraid that I was going to have like regrets, buyer’s remorse the next day. That has not hit me, and every time I turn it on and I use it, I like it that much more. It’s a lot faster than at 12, was it? Oh my gosh, yeah, a lot like literally switching models on the 12 I you, from the time that you select the model that you want to switch to the time that the radio is.

[01:12:11] On and you’re able to get in the menu and change it. 15 Ish seconds, which not bad, like, don’t get me wrong, that’s not terrible, versus the 10 minutes that was on the other one. No, no, no, 15 seconds on the 12, on the 20, oh, it’s like half a second. Like you watch that progress barns, just it’s quick. I’m thinking of tommy’s radio. His is, yeah, his is- pretty bad. I don’t know, my dx9 still blows both of you guys.

[01:12:40] As a way, as I mean you turn it on, it still seems like it takes forever for me. I love my 813 click. It’s already well, and see that when you move on- and I honestly I don’t know how- the nx series.

[01:12:50] Is with the ix series being android based and stuff, you turn it on and you leave it on all day, like you don’t turn it off between flights, like I did with the dx8. Like when you are done with the dx8, you flip it off and the whole radio is turned off, like with the ix series. You turn it on, it boots up, it goes into the spectrum, airware and all that kind of stuff, and then when you’re done with it between flights- not for the day- you just put it to sleep and it’s still in sleep mode, but it’s on.

[01:13:25] Okay we’ll explain the very big battery it has on it well you have the same battery in yours so how.

[01:13:31] Does that one work? I charge it once, I have it. No, no, I mean like, do you turn it on and then put it in sleep mode? Or you turn it on, turn it off? I’ve only used it once you. Oh my god, all that you haven’t.

[01:13:41] Even have you flown with it yet. Yeah, just one plane. One plane’s on that one. Oh, that is the only thing that’s on there. Is that f-16? And I left it on the whole time I was messing with batteries or doing whatever and it never moved nothing as far as the power moved. Oh yeah, they last a long time. I didn’t know. Yeah, that was one of the things when I was looking at it. He was, I remember me explaining that about how big the battery was on that and I was like, okay, that’s better, yeah, better- than what I’m used to, but the 18 is actually getting a little old, so I was kind of thinking maybe it might be time.

[01:14:15] To upgrade and did it on wi-fi. It was like that. I couldn’t believe how fast it was. Just, oh, the nx20 upgrade you mean? Oh, yes, yeah, and I’ve had one other software update since then and it actually alerted me on my phone for that, really. So when I came home I just turned the radio on and boot it up and it gave his own self the software upgrade. Nice, I was like, yeah, so you registered yours, then you.

[01:14:42] Registered yours yes I have not done that yet I need to yes I’m I’m actually happy with it just.

[01:14:48] Gotta start using it. Yeah, just gotta start using it. Oh cool, so we’ll see. We’ll see. I can’t say I’m not happy with it. Anything else you want to talk about, or are we? No, I think we’re good. I think we’re good, I think I’m bored. Everybody else all what’s the time you say five, oh god, six or seven, whatever it is now?

[01:15:08] I don’t. You might be up to seven. Well, you might. You might not download this one, Reggie, since you’re on it, so that takes us to four. Yeah, anyway, all right. Well then, we’re done. We’re done, dave. We’re done. I’ve got nothing. Dave’s got nothing. Dave’s just sitting over there ready to go home. He’s wondering why he drove out. He’s, he’s so tired. You bored him anyway. Well, everybody, thank you for listening until next time. I am Ron, I’m Reggie and I’m dave. You just snuck right in front of dave on that one. I wasn’t trying.

[01:15:36] We’re out of order man I know we can do it again if you want good night bye good night.

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