Ep 145: Tommy’s Back!

[00:00:00] Imagine it. Hello everyone, welcome to the RC Plane Lab podcast. I’m Ron, I’m Tom and I’m dave and I’m Reggie. We got two ands, but the most important one is the second name. That was said. Thanks, welcome back. Hey, thank you very much. Been gone a bit in a few months of silence. Yes, I was gonna say the.

[00:00:31] The second round draft, whatever, but I don’t really know about sports. Oh, come on now. We’re all the a team here. I meant me too. Don’t worry, dave, I was including myself. Yeah, I think, dave, I think he.

[00:00:44] Just, I think he just pooh-poohed on all the effort you guys put in on while I was gone. It’s so nice to have you back so I don’t have to do anything. Wow, I mean that I don’t know if that hurts or not, but welcome back, tommy. Thank you very much. Yeah, it was a long five and a half months. Good to be home. Took a nice little vacation when we got back or when I got back from the deployment, so that was nice to catch up with the wife and all that before I got back.

[00:01:11] Which I go back to work next week so you had to satiate her before you could come play with us.

[00:01:16] So of course understood isn’t that how it’s supposed to work yeah no yeah you should always take care of.

[00:01:22] Your spouse first. Well, yes, we should, but you should always take care of us first. Oh, I see. No, I don’t think laurie agrees, I know I’m sure she doesn’t. I’m sure crystal wouldn’t either. No, I said I should take care of my wife first. You should, but when he comes back, it should be which we still need to do, the dinner and stuff when you come home too. We haven’t done that yet. Okay, you’re not officially.

[00:01:45] Back yet till the dinner. Oh, I, I see. Okay, yeah, we’ll do a dinner, we’ll figure it out. I go back to work friday, this coming friday, which is when this comes out post, yeah, it’ll be. Yeah, the day this airs, I will be at work. Unfortunately, you have to go back on a friday. I know, and guess what? It’s a drill.

[00:02:03] Weekend. Well, isn’t that awesome? No, that’s terrible. It’s actually kind of funny. We had somebody, after you left, sent an email in and asked whether you were going, and what happened and said is: is tommy going to prison? Wow, well, in a sense, yes, and I responded back: no, he’s being deployed, blah, blah, blah. But let’s be honest, if you were going to prison, we probably would have just said you were being

[00:02:29] Deployed anyway. So I was not in prison. Okay, I was wink- there’s no winking close to it. It felt like prison a few times. But no, I was not in prison, I was deployed. I can say where I was now. I was in qatar for almost a full five months. By the time I got there and got in processed. It was almost a full five months in country, so hot and very humid there, no flying whatsoever. That would be the worst part.

[00:03:01] Well, funny thing, like air force bases over there, they don’t look too kindly on strange objects flying in the air above the base and they have a tendency to get either shot down or knock down with some of the technology that they have. So, yeah, there was absolutely no flying, not even remote helicopters like before. Yeah so yeah, it was a bit rusty when I got back and it showed when we went flying. I didn’t think so. I felt rusty.

[00:03:31] Well what do we want to talk about first what do we want to get into anything.

[00:03:34] In particular that you guys have, or well, I’m obviously all about listening for this episode, because I haven’t had an opportunity to do much with you guys, so, oh, that’s not true. Well, I mean, some of the stuff that you’ll probably talk about, I’ll chime in on, but

[00:03:50] Okay, well, the first thing I want to talk about. The day after we recorded last time- dave, because we recorded day earlier than normal, it was wednesday night instead of a thursday night- e-flight came out with a new airplane, and it actually is one that I could not say no to you. So they came out with a umx, conscendo, consendo. How do you say that, crescendo? I think it’s.

[00:04:13] Conchendo. But I don’t, I think, I don’t think, I don’t think there’s an r in it. C-o-n-s-c-e-n-d-o con conchendo. Yeah, there’s no r in it, so it’s not crescendo, right. Well, they came out with this.

[00:04:26] Airplane it’s a umx version right you say it yeah umx version cool it’s big for umxo yeah we so we.

[00:04:33] Talked about it is a glider right yeah but it has ailerons and all that right but it would be.

[00:04:39] By umx standards, I would think big, bigger. Yeah, I mean, we’ll see, yeah, but so this was, this was the. This is what made me actually buy this size airplane now. So I have to buy these batteries. So now that I’m having the batteries for this type of airplane, that opens up a whole another.

[00:05:01] Ball game of. It’s weird how that works. You won’t buy an airplane because you don’t have this size battery, but then an airplane comes out that makes you want to buy that size battery. So now that you have that size battery, now you’re going to buy more airplanes that uses that battery. Well, yes, that is really messed up logic. How is that messed up logic? It makes perfect sense to me, because you still end up buying the battery that you didn’t want to buy originally, but there has to be that one airplane.

[00:05:25] That one airplane to tip the scales on whether or not I’m gonna okay actually he never left to make.

[00:05:31] That it’s like he never left. What’s that supposed to be? Dave’s petting the cat? So I see that it’s like time he never left. He hasn’t skipped a beat at all. Well, it’s only five and a half six.

[00:05:43] Seven months, whatever it’s been, I don’t know. And we’re only like 20 seconds into this and he’s got you already. It’s a couple minutes, Reggie. Oh, a couple minutes. Okay, we’ll give you that, come, but anyway. So I ordered.

[00:05:56] And batteries that you that you weren’t gonna get oddly enough I have not ordered the batteries.

[00:06:00] Okay, I don’t know what’s perfect come out, so when it comes out, then I’ll I’ll, I’ll buy the batteries. So yeah, anyway, okay, but then. So, since this happened and I got those batteries- thanksgiving, by the way, how’s everybody’s thanksgiving? Have a good, that’s great. Yeah, I had two of them actually nice.

[00:06:20] So I kind of had two of them also. Like we went to laurie’s sisters for thanksgiving on thanksgiving day and then we were out here day after thanksgiving doing airplane things and I had thanksgiving again. I ate your leftovers. It was leftover thanksgiving, so I love thanksgiving.

[00:06:37] It’s my favorite meal that’s the only holiday where you don’t have to worry about anything except.

[00:06:42] Eating pretty much yeah oh and then also giving thanks right for eating for being in such an.

[00:06:48] Awesome country and not falling asleep it’s staring while trying to get back home after eating well.

[00:06:54] Yeah you probably shouldn’t drink and eat no that was from the food comatose what food comatose.

[00:07:01] You never had that no where you just eat too much and all of a sudden you want to go to sleep.

[00:07:07] Like want to go to sleep or like couldn’t drive because I’m so tired no I wanted to go to sleep just.

[00:07:12] Kind of one laid back and just get a little too comfortable oh that happens to me every time I have.

[00:07:16] Anything to eat imagine and it’s the same way before I eat all right I don’t know if the food.

[00:07:20] Does you beat me to it anyway ewt driving my turkey.

[00:07:27] Yes, the nice thing about thanksgiving is I was on facebook and saw that tower hobbies actually posted that they had blemished e-flight umx turbo timber evolutions. I’d not heard of that before, but they were on sale for 89.99 And I bought one of those also, motion rc had that for the t45 goshawk.

[00:07:51] It came in, it was yellow. They knocked the price down on all of them. Did you buy one? Because it was yellow? It went right through it because it was so ugly yellow. Yeah, it was basically yellow, something with.

[00:08:01] The tinted the phone it wasn’t a pure white oh it wasn’t painted yellow it was the foam was discolored.

[00:08:08] Yellow. I got you okay, oh, okay, well, so there was actually a note because I don’t know what to expect with. It’s supposed to be here today, by the way, so maybe, maybe while we’re recording. You never know, I’ll have to see, but anyway. So it says on there: please note these blemished umx. I hold on. Let me start over these blemished e-flight umx turbo timber. Evolution models have various imperfections, typically including bubbles in some of the decals. Okay, big deal blemishes will vary from model to model, but because there is no impact on the function or performance, they are sold as is. I mean, like I get.

[00:08:42] That, but no impact on the function or performance, and it’s fine. 170 To begin with? No, I think it’s 169.99, Isn’t it? I have no idea. That’s great. I’m not into timbers either. 159 Or 169. And then I got it for 89.99 And then I got a 20 coupon after that. That. I wasn’t a good deal I know for, so I’ll probably end up buying a battery through them for pretty much free. Nice, yeah, so I thought that was free. Batteries are.

[00:09:12] Always good especially those expensive spectrum ones yeah anyway so two new airplanes for Ron.

[00:09:21] Well, no, no, oh, there was a. Do tell there was a swap meet last weekend that you didn’t go to because you weren’t back in time. Yeah, we were still on vacation. And dave didn’t go too, because I was teaching class. He’s a bah humbug. So I went with: hey, I’d go, you would go, I would go, you just do. The dogs really need to know that day what to do. Can’t you just leave them for once? I mean like

[00:09:44] Let’s just put a bunch of less than six month old puppies in a room together and say hey.

[00:09:48] Learn your lesson go have fun I’ll be back yeah that’s all you got to say here have some treats stay.

[00:09:52] Back just stay for puppy preschool that’s great yeah stay and then be gone for eight hours no.

[00:10:01] Problem, perfect, and it wouldn’t have been eight hours. You could have done it in four, yeah, I suppose. But decatur, illinois, had their swap meet. That is one of my favorite swap meets there is.

[00:10:10] Always it is good because it’s local and it’s only less it’s less than an hour away which is awesome.

[00:10:17] Yeah, 40 minute drive from my house and, like I said, they always have good deals there. Yeah, and you found some more than yes, no, I just so. I ended up with three new airplanes, and they’re not all technically airplanes, because there are some, so that doesn’t go on my completed list, but anyway, so I got tower hobbies a few years ago made a piper cherokee. That was a 43.2 Inch wingspan. It’s according to their website. It was bind and fly and it once again the battery thing.

[00:10:48] 3S, 3s, 2200. So how you gotta, how can you not? Yeah, it’s a good looking airplane, like. Did you notice it sitting over there? I did not, I did. Oh wait, I did. Yeah, I did, I saw it, okay, cool. Well, you didn’t compliment me on when you saw one, so I apologize, you didn’t. Well, there are so many new airplanes to take in down here, I may have missed that one. Stop, that hurts. No, actually, that’s true, because you’ve been gone a long time. Yeah, like a lot of stuff is new. Yes, realize was. Yeah, yeah, when I went into

[00:11:18] The other side of the basement and saw stuff stacked back there because I was like, okay, Ron’s been busy spending a little bit. You act like that’s a bad thing. Oh no, I’m not saying, I’m not judging. Yeah, you are.

[00:11:32] I’m not so. The next thing I got the next airplane. Oh, there’s more, there’s more. But wait, there’s more general hobbyists who I think made it there. It’s not easy to tell, because there’s really not a.

[00:11:46] Manual in the box, that kind of sucks. I didn’t realize that, but anyway, so it’s a. Yeah, it’s a cessna 337 81 inch wingspan. Oh, the old suck and blow. I know, and I’d never heard of this plane until you were talking about that a long time ago. So just because of what you call, it made me want to buy.

[00:12:05] It. Actually they’re great twins because if you have an engine out, the thrust is still along the center line, so you don’t have those nasty adverse yaw- or not adverse yaw, I guess- just yawing, yawing motion to the dead engine that you get with twins that are not on the center line.

[00:12:28] Very, very good. That was explained very well. But it’s made run on two 40 size nitro engines, which I have a lot of those. So you can hook you up now. I would not do that. It would be electric. If I can find a place to put a 65, four strokes, oh man, that would sound awesome. I don’t have those. So you have one. I don’t. You still have one out there on that, not a 65, but that was a sure 52. Oh yeah, maybe a 52. Yeah, well, I’ve got a couple of 65s. We’ll see. We’ll see, I don’t know. Okay, so there’s that one.

[00:13:04] Yeah, that’s cool looking airplane I like. Then the other one. Then the other one is one that Reggie decided he wanted after I bought it. Oh well, I kind of like it too. Well, then tommy also wants it. Seagull models, pc9, the 120 size, r, 71 inch wingspan. That one is made to be either nitro or electric.

[00:13:23] Oh, a 124 stroke would be perfect, which I happen to have several of. Well, they need homes. Already I have several extra of, I should say. Of course you do remember we bought three- I’m sorry talking, I’m talking about the ys120s for the tri-motor. Yeah, I bought three and then I ended up with like three more, somehow by word of mouth and finding other deals when I didn’t know I needed them, and just

[00:13:50] Trying to mark it up my ass 120. I got a bunch of them and they all run awesome by the way I’ve.

[00:13:54] Ran them all well good maybe we can actually build an airplane for them sometime we got one we can have.

[00:14:01] It done in an evening, does that? Actually? I’m going to be honest, the way we’ve been going on this other project, we probably could have that done in the evening, absolutely, with two of us knocking it out, oh yeah.

[00:14:13] Easy this is going to be our building winter I still I know this is off topic but speaking of.

[00:14:19] Building arms. I still want to go to toledo and do what dave and I used to do at races: buy an airplane at the swap meet, put it together and fly it at the swap meet. It would obviously have to be a small like electric indoor or something like that, but wouldn’t that be cool? Scary but cool. I think it’d be awesome. Maybe, anyway, we’d have to plan for it. Well, yeah, take all your tools and

[00:14:43] All that stuff but it’s like an indoor flyer no like a big turbine or something what the.

[00:14:50] I mean, I’ve never been. How the hell would I know? You’re going this year, though? Right, I’m hoping to. Okay, twin 60s: yeah, just slide that inside. Yeah, no, it’s. It’s a good swap meet. It’ll be fun, all right, hopefully I get to go. Just wait and see my schedule looks like. Yeah, definitely worth the.

[00:15:12] Vacation if you have to take vacation to go it’s definitely worth taking it because it’s a.

[00:15:17] That’s that’s a friday saturday show right so we usually leave thursday yeah so yeah I’ve.

[00:15:22] Already got my time off on that. I took the thursday off, then friday, saturday for the show, sunday- coming back sunday, then hooking up the trailer, then hauling it down south for the eclipse, and the eclipse is on monday. Coming back tuesday: total eclipse of the heart.

[00:15:40] So it’s gonna be a busy week for dave. Yeah, you’ll be putting a lot of miles on the on the old bum eclipse. Is it a lunar eclipse or it’s a total solar eclipse? Oh okay, might be kind of cool. Yeah, I’m gonna go south to see it because that’s where it’ll be. Yeah, I’ve got to go down to. I don’t know why would he go south if I don’t know, trying to escape it. Listen, maybe there’s like a society of solar eclipse observers down there that he wants to go and spend time with. I don’t.

[00:16:16] Know, but if he’s going for the eclipse, why would he? I mean, like, the way you ask is: are you going to see it? Well, what else would he do? I mean, like I said, it’s either you go to see it or you go to escape it. And the escape thing is just kind of weird. Escape it like, so you don’t have to see it if.

[00:16:32] It’s coming right to where you are oh I saw the last one four years ago and I really need to see this.

[00:16:39] One. Okay, cool, just have to go down. How far south are you going? Have to go to carbondale? Oh, that’s not so bad, okay, yeah, that’s three hours from here. Carbondale’s not three hours. How far is it carbondale?

[00:16:54] I can get to carbondale probably what two and change yeah almost three with the trailer it’ll.

[00:17:02] Be closer to three. That sounds like three hours, seriously. Wow, okay, I go down that way every year for that river to river thing. Okay, yeah, so it’s not bad. I guess I was an easy drive. Yeah, if you’re hauling a trailer probably take a little more time anyway. So dave has a lot of plans that weekend, yeah, so we need to like be mindful of that and don’t push him into buying really big airplanes or anything like that while he’s there to try to have to drag home. I believe we’re

[00:17:35] Bringing a trailer yeah we gotta figure that out so I’ll be hauling a trailer for a week I’ll probably.

[00:17:41] Have a suburban then. So we’ll have the suburban and probably a trailer if necessary. You’re getting a suburban. Nice, what? Nothing, it’s very. It’s beautiful. Well, I think it is. It’s an old man, suburban, yes, but I like it- 1972, and the beautiful thing about it is it has no rust on it whatsoever. So I mean you’ve talked.

[00:18:06] To the guy already so you’re actually okay so it’s fresh from the factory with no rust on it.

[00:18:11] What’s a it’s so it’s a southwest car they don’t they don’t get rust on down there not like here in.

[00:18:17] The rust belt. No, this is terrible here, yeah so, but you think it’ll make it back and everything. Though if you go by, sure it will, okay, why wouldn’t it? I? I saw pictures, I just wasn’t sure. I’m kidding, I’m.

[00:18:28] Not gonna. Yeah, it’s an older one, it’s a 94, but it’s a. It’s the old, without all the electronic stuff, so I can work on it if it breaks. I think it was the color that made it look old. Yeah, yeah, it does.

[00:18:41] It’s brown, isn’t it? No, it’s not brown. It’s like it’s not burgundy. What am I thinking of? It’s like a champagne gold color, yeah, with a burgundy hint or a tinge of burgundy. I was checking your bottle see if it said zero sugar, but apparently it does not. Of course it doesn’t, but it does not say zero. I can tell that extra sugar in there. It’s been a long time. So what color is it really? It’s like a

[00:19:05] Champagne gold metallic. Where did I get a? It has like a darker champagne, like it’s two-tone, like the running boards and the lower quarters are like a darker champagne color. But I would have.

[00:19:18] It’s not up or down. It had burgundy on it somewhere. Well, even if it does, I don’t care. That’s fine, it’s your car, so that’ll be nice. It’ll be good to be able to fit airplane- my big airplanes- in it. Just cheers, though I. I caught that if I make fun, but I can’t make use of it. That’s exactly right.

[00:19:35] Well you have your own vehicle now you don’t need mine yeah but it’s nice to ride together well yeah.

[00:19:40] We’ll just take yours that’s fine anyway what were we talking about we were talking.

[00:19:46] About toledo and I drove us off topic by talking about buying an airplane and building it to be at toledo, at toledo, golly. But you were talking about all the stuff you’ve bought recently, I think.

[00:19:56] You took us off topic to talk about toledo probably and I because I’m excited about it I like toledo.

[00:20:01] Were you was that the last one yes that’s all I bought okay no you bought all the parts and stuff too.

[00:20:08] I did buy a bunch of parts and stuff too, which that was a really good deal- like kind of thumbing through the containers, plus that starter that you got the big, the heavy duty one from solo.

[00:20:18] On the 1224 or whatever it is. Yeah, so I got that. And then I also got so the hanger nine covering iron, not iron the covering heat gun. Heat gun, thank you, I never had one, or I hadn’t had one that had the diffuser on it. This one came with a diffuser, so it’s one thing I missed about my wagner. It doesn’t.

[00:20:37] Have that diffuser yeah I’ve lost mine over the years too and I miss it and now I have three of.

[00:20:43] Them because for some reason I just see them cheap and buy them in case one goes out, because I’ve had to throw one away already. It like fell apart, like literally like fell apart. Really yeah, the handle separated from the top part and it just yeah, yeah, top flight, mine did the same darn thing, really yeah.

[00:20:59] It just fell apart in my hand yeah that’s mine well that’s slightly unnerving.

[00:21:09] Yeah 110 volts plus whatever hot they get yeah that would that would yeah it was probably like.

[00:21:16] 10 000 Degrees when it fell and hit my hand yeah of course of the sun approximately the same.

[00:21:22] Temperature as the surface of the sun. Yes, that’s pretty hot, pretty close, enjoy. So my SkyID unit shipped. Yeah, I don’t like. I still am curious why you bought one. I know you tried to explain it to me, but I still don’t understand why you spent the money to have one to see what.

[00:21:48] It’s like to know what they do and to out of curiosity out of the man yeah no honestly I could care less.

[00:21:56] About the: yeah, the id like that’s dave. That pretty much. That’s exactly what I like. I’m gonna buy this and I’m gonna spend the money and bow to the man, but I don’t have to with where we fly both right. So why buy one? Why spend the money? Why? I put money in their pockets to see what it does and

[00:22:14] Into whose pockets, by the way? Whoever’s manufacturing it, whoever is the one that made it, so I really don’t care about buying something from them. Okay, I mean, it’s not like it’s a dot dove business doing it?

[00:22:26] Yeah I’m sure I got the furry little fingers in there I was gonna say I’m sure there’s.

[00:22:32] A pocket getting lined somewhere. I don’t know that, so you can’t say that. So, anyway, the reason I bought it was just to know what it does, to have it, and I’m curious to see the extras that were added to it.

[00:22:43] Whatever they’re, sheep, sorry. No, I think it’ll be. It’ll be curious to see what they’re capable of. But I am not buying one because I don’t need to. No, because I did. Well, even if you didn’t, I wouldn’t it was, if it was the

[00:23:01] Full hundred dollars I probably would not have. But they had the special going on and I think it’s over. Now you could early order, pre-order whatever for like 70 bucks. So I mean, like I said it, if it does the gps and stuff, like I think it’s going to give speed and all that kind of stuff, I could and you can put it in any airplane easily, yeah, then I get that for the price. I think just for that feature alone is a no-brainer, so it’s. But yes, whatever else with, we have that free.

[00:23:32] Gps that we got last year at toledo thanks to dave- and the crew can’t remember name, just say dave. Yeah, that pretty much covers it in toledo, doesn’t it? But anyway, yeah they, we still need to play.

[00:23:45] With that by the way we did a little bit but you kept it when you were gone so I didn’t have it.

[00:23:51] All summer. What’s in the car? All you had to do is go get it, go break in. Just tell laurie, hey, open the car for a few minutes. I need to get what I know it was in the car, by the way, I don’t know okay.

[00:24:00] God, details. I don’t know what you keep in your car versus what you keep in your not car. Everything and nothing gotcha, wow, wow. So yes, that is on its way to me and they also have the updates for the ix-14, ix-12 and the ix-20 and the nx-22, I think. Yeah, so I got the notification for that. It’s like, how do I get this? I have a dx series. I have a gen 1 dx4. Why, why, what? Because that’s what I had you had.

[00:24:33] A gen 1 dx4. That was my first, my first spectrum transmitter. I thought you said it was a dx8, my first one. Super good, right? Yep, oh, that’s right. Yeah, I don’t have that name. Is that? Is that update easy to get to? So no, I mean yeah, no, it really is I. It took me longer than it should have because I’m a dumb, dumb. So, no, no, you’re not. I appreciate that. So when you go to your google play store and you search

[00:25:04] For the app on your transmitter to update it. Okay, it just gave me the option to uninstall or open. I was expecting it to say update, so of course, then I shut it off, restarted it, updated or not updated, but hoping that it would update to get, like, the new information through from the google play store. Because I was expecting it to say update, which it still just said open when I went through and searched for it again. So I hit the open button and after you open it and it shows all the information on the app. When it said open, I thought it was going to actually open the app. Oh, I said which it didn’t.

[00:25:38] Yeah, that would. It confused me a bit. Yeah, so, intuitively speaking, open means open the app, right? Yeah, so I had to hit open in order for it to say update, update, okay. And then, after I hit the update, it went through and

[00:25:50] Did its whole thing and you did that from the transmitter, right? Yeah, yeah, okay, all right. Well, I asked because I’m gonna have to do your 12. That also because I’m sure there’s other updates I’ve missed in the last six months. I don’t think so. Actually the last 12 months, I should say, because I updated it in.

[00:26:07] A while maybe. I haven’t done the 12 yet, I just did the 20, so I didn’t want to wait to do the 12.. But you don’t use it anymore. Well, I guess it’ll work without the update, but might as well put it on there anyway. I’ve used it, your ix12. Why? I use it? For the buddy box stuff. Oh well, that makes sense.

[00:26:29] Did that with piper a couple times, yeah, so what does the update give you then? Well, I haven’t seen anything different yet because I don’t have the module. Oh, it’s okay, so the update is for the SkyID. Yeah.

[00:26:42] Okay that way it can read all the gps stuff and I gotcha hopefully it’ll give speed and all that.

[00:26:47] Too, but once again, we’ll see. I didn’t know it did that. Yeah, I haven’t read anything about it. I thought it was solely for- oh no, tracking and altitude and all that gotcha. No, if it was just, it’s a gps module.

[00:26:59] Also, it has that built into it and it connects through, I think, to get all that information. Brother knows where you’re at to get all that information. I’m rolling my eyes- to get all that information to your transmitter. And I think it hooks up to the s bus or something on the receiver and then transmits all that back. Hmm, yeah, I’m still not buying one. If you just hook it up to power, then all it does is transmit, like for the free of stuff or not free stuff, for the id stuff, for the faa stuff, so they can know what you’re doing. Yes, okay, within 2 000 feet. That’s like all the farther you get. So I wonder.

[00:27:34] How many tickets the faa is going to write people for people who have a SkyID that goes above 400.

[00:27:39] Zero, we’ll see. I don’t fly about 400 feet, that’s right, it’s 399.999 And actually, depending the over to eli, a couple times this year when they had events, they were cleared to 1200. I think the jet meet and the- yes, they do that. What’s it called? Jet and glider? But we regularly I shouldn’t say that we don’t. Yeah, negative, we don’t fly over 400 feet, never actually.

[00:28:11] I don’t think I like I really don’t think I do really well with your foamies- you probably don’t, because that’s really kind of all you’ve been flying. It’s been too easy, they have been easier, yeah.

[00:28:22] So we did that with the drone when we borrowed that to find the airplane, and it went up to 389 feet or whatever, and that’s where it stopped. It wouldn’t go, it wouldn’t go any higher. And how did that look, by the way? What? Well, it’s a small drone, so it was a dot, pretty small. Yeah, did I know about this? For what? Yeah, it’s when we use the drone to go find my tundra, tundra, grand tundra. Oh, I wasn’t out there for that, but yeah, I remember you saying it. Yeah, yeah, we. So when we, after we found the tundra, we

[00:28:54] Were playing around with the drone and, yep, it went up to like 389 feet. Actually it was in metric. I had to convert it and it was. It was like 389 feet or something like that. Yeah, and that makes sense.

[00:29:04] I mean I did the same with that little drone I have went up to 400 feet and sure enough.

[00:29:10] It’s small. I just have this uncontrollable urge to chime in on this for some reason. Yeah, it’s just like, please do. I mean that’s why we invited you to the podcast. I appreciate that. Yeah, you’re gonna talk right, talk, yeah, once you guys eventually slow down a little bit. Oh sorry, okay, okay, ready, okay, everybody, hold on the fms fox glider. That’s been up to about 1400 feet and you can still see it pretty well, but that’s a glider. It’s a much bigger, exactly, but being over 400 feet, it’s not unusual for you. So what’s your contact? Yeah, what’s your contact?

[00:29:43] Address? What’s your email? Where do you live? It’s Reggie john doe, Reggie john, Reggie jonathan, for anybody that is going to try to look that up. Yeah, I mean, let’s get real, I can’t do a loop with a dualist, probably in less than 600 feet. I mean, yeah, that thing eats up a lot of sky man. And to limit us to four, I’m sorry we’re getting off topic. Well, we don’t have a topic, so that’s okay. Yeah, to limit us to 400 feet, outside of events where they have special certs for that, I, it’s silly, I think.

[00:30:21] Yeah I don’t especially in an area where there is uncontrolled airspace all around you.

[00:30:27] Well, see, now I want the SkyID thing so I can see exactly how high, because the few times I’ve flown, 400 feet seemed to be high enough when I had the telemetry received. Most motion receivers are already.

[00:30:37] Telling you the telemetry in them as far as how high you’re well not all of them only the ones with.

[00:30:41] Variometers: yeah, I think most of them were already. No, no, no, just the ones with variometers, to my knowledge. Yeah, the ones that end with the t. Well, even all of those, I don’t think all of those some.

[00:30:53] Of the older ones don’t have variometers. I say the newer stuff, yeah, you’re probably right, I think the newer stuff with t’s will have with telemetry will have it. But well, some of the older, like I, have a lot of older receivers and yeah, me too I had to go buy a receiver to get a variometer to put it in my glider.

[00:31:09] Wow me too actually so anyway yeah I think I only have four or five of them that have it yeah I don’t.

[00:31:17] Fly a lot of foamies like: so I go out and I fly. I try to fly the bigger airplanes which I’m telling you, man, it’s easy to get above 400 feet. Yeah, if you’re not careful, you’re, you’re up there. Yeah, even with the big cubs. I feel like when we were doing our trying to do the formation stuff, I felt like we were knocking on the door. At least of that, I don’t ever think we exceeded it.

[00:31:39] But I know we were pushing it, yeah. Yeah, I don’t think so either, because that I mean I don’t know. We’ll have to do some testing when we get it, just to find out for sure. Yeah, because I would be. I would

[00:31:49] Be curious. Yeah, yeah, I. I fully expect that when I start flying the vomana with the variometer in it, I will regularly exceed 400 feet. At events, I can see when I flew. What do you? You don’t think I will. At events, yeah, yeah. At events where you have special certifications that allow you to go above 400 feet. Yeah, I will regularly up go above 400 feet at events where they have those, but not at our field.

[00:32:19] Ah oh yeah I gotcha wink oh god Reggie you are special that’s your sugar talking Ron calm down.

[00:32:29] But anyway, yeah, I would be interested to see. Yes, most of your foam is your, like your, the air tractor and planes like that. Yeah, you, you won’t be able to see it above 400 feet, but right, but I feel like some of these bigger airplanes that we have, the jet that you’re putting together,

[00:32:46] I feel like with that the glider. Last time I was out there- though I don’t know what that one’s called, it threw me off, but it’s got a telemetry receiver in it. The six meter, or jesus the oh shucks.

[00:32:59] The two meter the six foot one the one I got in toledo what is it oh hg me2 that’s it whatever it.

[00:33:10] Is. That’s a wonderful name, it’s so hard to forget. It’s a gray glider it is, but like I was paying attention with that one because it did have the altitude on it. No, that’s, that’s a Reggie thing. Yes, it is even in non-gliders, but anyway, no, so that had it in it and I was never really up that high. I mean 400 feet with that one still looked pretty high. Oh okay, maybe I don’t know, but remember, Reggie flies three miles away and two miles high. Thank you for noticing. He likes to see a dot and then

[00:33:42] Try and figure out if it’s coming towards him or going I don’t lose orientation very much not like.

[00:33:46] That very much very much depending on the color of the sky not like ever but very much sometimes it.

[00:33:54] Happens. But the color of the sky. I’m glad to have you back. Oh gosh, which, speaking of color of the sky and orientation and whatnot, you Reggie just. You just made an airplane. Right, I did. How’d that go nice?

[00:34:10] Segue. Nice segue, thank you. Yeah, for anybody that follows us on discord are probably going to be familiar with this airplane because he posted a lot of pictures of it, which is good because it’s.

[00:34:19] Good to have before pictures because they’re helpful reference putting it back together.

[00:34:26] I’m sorry okay it was not that bad she flew great everything was awesome it was the landing.

[00:34:32] Which actually was a good landing it’s always landing is usually when they get messed up.

[00:34:37] Okay, folks, this is where I chime in completely. That should kill all your mics. But this is what happened. I landed, she was rolling, everything was great, but something, I think with the insert screw for the axle was backed up enough to where the axle pulled out. Wheel came off, strut, dug in ground, folded right, retract on it. I hate when it pulls out. I thought you said you hit a.

[00:34:58] That didn’t hit anything well you said you hit a divot yesterday.

[00:35:02] If it was a divot it left a divot it definitely left he did say that where were you flying.

[00:35:09] Flying over the church over there on. So you landed on the parking lot or in the grass. I was in the grass, okay. So, yeah, he probably had a clump of grass or a divot. It was just enough to pull out.

[00:35:18] The, the axle, and sure enough, she dug in. Did it pull it out, or did it just twist it? It pulled it out, the wheel pulled out, oh wow, oh the axle. Damn, I mean dang the. The retract stayed in, but it just folded forward, broke the wood in the front. God, it’s an easy fix. Oh yeah, who’s gonna fix that? I’m

[00:35:38] Fixing it? Are you really? Yeah, I’m actually fixing it. Good for you. Awesome, so well. We love that. When he got here today that he’s gonna have another project for me, but apparently we were wrong. No, no.

[00:35:46] I told dave I if I didn’t think I could fix it probably have has enough projects of his own and.

[00:35:51] Daniel’s so he doesn’t need any other ones well he already has enough of Reggie’s too he’s only got.

[00:35:55] One of mine. Oh, and it’s. It’s a project really do tell. It’s the cockpit kit for the hangar 9, 180, 150, 150, b51, and it’s going to require completely removing all your servos and relocating them. Oh, dear and vacuum form, and there’s a ton of work. You might want to think about getting a mortgage.

[00:36:19] Oh yes there it is cha-ching I got you not worried not too worried you look a little worried.

[00:36:28] Just a little bit pricing yet I didn’t think it was that I didn’t think it was that bad until I.

[00:36:33] Read the directions and it said you had to relocate the servos it’s like what yeah you charge by the.

[00:36:39] Hour. Right, Reggie, you may have to not buy an airplane for a week or two. That’s possible, which, by the way, speaking of buying airplanes and Reggie, he owes us a jet.

[00:36:50] Sorry dave I can’t buy that jet now thank you appreciate you for stepping in the way you did.

[00:36:54] When I say owes us a jet, I mean he owes us the purchase of a jet. He needs to buy a jet. Oh, I know.

[00:37:03] But I mean oh dave just canceled that I’m sorry thanks dave Reggie has a way of making promises no.

[00:37:10] No, no and then backing no, no, you did make a promise. It was a promise. Yes, I said I would try. No, no, no, not. You said a year. I will give him. No, no, he does not have a year. He has about six months.

[00:37:20] Yeah, because it was the fly at the jet meet when we went in 22. It was the both of us and this is the deal we made each other, yes, the act we made, the promises that were made, that was one year. So, yeah, us, yes, we’ll have a jet and we’ll fly it at the jet, the jet meet in two years. I am not going to.

[00:37:40] Be able to make that in time you’ve had a year you’ve had a year and a half I had to buy a suburban.

[00:37:45] You had to buy a. You bought how many other airplanes also in that time? They were small things. They add up, Reggie, okay, and I still gotta buy a trailer. Yet you don’t have to buy a trailer, you have a suburban. It’ll fit in the suburban. Jet will easily fit in your suburban.

[00:38:02] You have no excuse. I mean like, yeah, let me just say this: if you don’t find a way to make this happen, you will never hear the end of it. Oh, I won’t, from Ron especially, and probably me, yeah, even though I have no scam game, I am hearing it now, yeah, but I mean, there’s a chance.

[00:38:21] We could back off if you like bought one but exactly and you need to order it now anyway because you.

[00:38:27] Don’t know when it’s going to be exactly say you put your name in now it might be a year.

[00:38:31] Before you get. It might be yeah, so you need to get on the ball Reggie, otherwise you will never. It is not going to fly by the jet meet. Why? Why it won’t be we have- well, we haven’t talked about it yet, but

[00:38:44] We will in a minute yeah literally a day and a half and it’s almost done it’s almost ready.

[00:38:51] So nothing I would even be interested in it if it wasn’t that god-awful orange and blue.

[00:38:55] Well, you can recover it. I like the orange and blue. I mean like I’m not a huge fan of that particular jet, but it looks good in those colors, I think, especially in the sun, of course I like orange.

[00:39:06] Yeah I know I’m more of a red guy but red silver on me and white I know you’re right you’re not wrong.

[00:39:14] I know you’re right you’re correct moving on moving we then moved on yes Reggie is anxious for us to.

[00:39:22] Move on move on thank you and not beat him up about the jet anymore even though he made us a promise.

[00:39:26] You mean the lack of the jet. Well, that yeah, there’s still time. He could pull it off. I don’t. I don’t think so now. You could, by the way, if he sold some stuff.

[00:39:37] And saved his money yeah he could make it happen what I was going to say though is he could just go.

[00:39:43] Buy like a used boomerang or something like that you see listed every now and then for a couple.

[00:39:47] Grand that’s exactly right the promise did not specify what type of jet no just a jet just a.

[00:39:54] Turbine. When we originally made the promise to each other, this jet was not out yet the one I had was not even out, so I didn’t know anything about it. Yep, you notice, dave? There’s everything with the.

[00:40:05] Slap of the hand how they just coordinate back and forth like that I don’t understand you made the.

[00:40:10] Promise. See, even dave remembers. Dave wasn’t even there. I wasn’t there either, but I remember we’ve talked about it enough. Yeah, okay, why are you talking to the side of the microphone? I have no idea big difference. So anyway, it doesn’t have to be a four thousand or plus dollar jet, it could be a two thousand. It could be a like: if you can find a deal for a thousand, it can be. As long as it is a

[00:40:34] Turbine it just has to be a turbine powered model yes ladies and gentlemen not an electric here today.

[00:40:39] I see exactly why I’m here today why you two need to brush up on beating up on Reggie today oh I don’t.

[00:40:45] Think we need to brush up at all. I think we’ve managed to. You’ve been pretty good. You’ve been to fit right back in. I don’t. I don’t think we need practice at all. No, really good. So we did not invite you here for that. We invited you here because you’re integral member of the show. Thank you, I’ll.

[00:41:03] Watch what you say, don’t? No, not that too early, that’s, that’s too much. Okay, all right, he gives us lots to talk about. The comic relief is good. Yes, I like that. -Huh, poor Reggie. So, anyway, moving on.

[00:41:16] Since we’ve talked about Reggie’s crash and you mentioned and we talked about Reggie’s lack of a jet.

[00:41:22] Lack of a jet and then and how much he makes promises and breaks them this is the Reggie half hour.

[00:41:29] Okay moving on from Reggie well not yet we were supposed to record at noon today remember like as per.

[00:41:34] Reggie. As per Reggie’s request, that was the time he gave, and so we said, fine, noon sounds good. And then I got a call from Reggie at 11: 45 saying, hey, I’ll be here at 12: 45, moving wash and dryer for a.

[00:41:48] Person who has breast cancer no that’s fine so there you have it that’s fine yeah that’s a good thing to.

[00:41:54] Do for people I’m just pointing out my time frame and you were actually early at throwing a knife like.

[00:41:59] Once he said 12 45 he actually showed up at 11 or 12 35 so he was like 10 minutes early so that you.

[00:42:06] Know there’s credit 10 minutes early or 35 minutes late however you want to look right I still.

[00:42:12] Have the trailer attached to this back of suburban. Oh, do you really? Yeah, I didn’t have time to take back so I just came straight here. What trailer? A little cart. Trailers for the hauling the washer and.

[00:42:21] Dryer a good buddy of mine oh like a utility trailer yeah gotcha all right now I’m finished with Reggie.

[00:42:28] What do you want to talk about? Well, you mentioned the jet. Do you want to talk about your? We’ve started putting it together. It’s almost finished. It is like I mean it’s really, it’s really close. I’m you’ve got about eight hours worth of wiring to do it’s conservative. Honestly, the hard part is cable.

[00:42:46] Management. Yeah, turbine, like I. Just I’ve got to figure out the plumbing and stuff for that. But other than that, I mean like I feel like the hard part- wiring wise- is finished. I mean everything’s mounted.

[00:43:00] Everything’s hooked up, that is ready to be hooked up. Yeah, hard part, yes, but the most time consuming part, I feel like, is yet to come with it, like dave said, cable management and getting everything nice and organized. And oh, you act like I care if it’s nice and organized so long as it doesn’t melt, yeah, yeah.

[00:43:18] I mean like there’s nothing around the turbine that’s all up in the front and it looks yeah.

[00:43:23] But you’re enough you’re not going to be happy with a rat’s nest of wiring in the nose of that.

[00:43:28] Thing. I think you underestimate how much I just am happy with what I have. We’ll see. I mean, I don’t think it looks bad right now. Well, no, I didn’t have everything in it yet. Pretty much everything up front is in it. The only thing I have to add is the wires for the wings. Well,

[00:43:45] There’s a fuel pump that still needs to go in there. Right, there’s a. There’s an air tank and all the plumbing that has to go with that. There’s the I’m talking about. I mean, go ahead, I was gonna.

[00:43:55] Say you’re right, but I was talking about just the electrical stuff that’s in there now. Oh, like I wasn’t, I’m not even considering all the turbine stuff yet. Oh, okay, because that I have no clue what to do.

[00:44:07] That manual is thick. It’s thick and, like from what I read last night, as far as the physical, like layout and how to mount it, it’s it’s weak, it’s not very detailed. There’s a mount, thusly, yeah, there’s there’s like a lot of information in there on the programming and how to start it and all that kind of stuff, but as far as like the physical mounting of it and how you route this now, it’s lacking, honestly. Well, and the nice thing is, though, that it looks like a

[00:44:37] Hand-drawn sketch on how to wire everything like summit, but if you try and read all the text it’s so low resolution you can’t even read what it says. Yeah, so there’s going to be a little bit of research going into that and, unfortunately, I think you’re probably right about eight hours on.

[00:44:57] But other than that, it’s so close it’s so, it’s so close. Did you want to talk about the quality or do you want to save that? There were some issues. I can let you talk about it, not too much in depth if you don’t want to. Yeah, hold judgment until you’re done. Yeah, I mean it’s an ARF overall. Yeah, overall it’s.

[00:45:16] An ARF and it’s average. Can I just say average? There’s some things that we had to re or we had to address, and you can talk about that, specifically the flaps. Right, and I- and I haven’t done any research at all- you apparently said you read something somewhere that this was potentially an issue on one batch or another or something. Yeah, but the flaps appear to have been. Obviously they were drilled for the hinges in a jig of some kind or a fixture, and I don’t think they

[00:45:49] Had the flaps lined up correctly in the fixture, because I had to re-drill the holes to get everything to line up correctly and I don’t feel like you should have to do that on an ARF of that price tag, caliber and price tag, yes, yeah, but aside from issues like and unfortunately that sort of set the tone for the rest of the build, because that was step one, I know your servo plates don’t match up either and the servo plates, yeah they, they don’t line up perfectly in the pockets, the recesses of the

[00:46:23] Wing, like. So the hatches in the wing or the aileron servo mounts in the flat, they don’t. They don’t fill the holes exactly so you can see wood in the gap around, and just things like that. You would not expect that. And the egregious gap between the nose and the midsection of the fuselage, I mean that’s the only one that really bothers me and it really bothers you because it’s so noticeable, because the gap is so like you could throw a dead cat in that gap. It’s huge, a small one.

[00:46:57] Perhaps it’s a big gap, I mean especially there at the top, and I mean so the gap could be fixed with covering, yeah, but you would see that. But yes, don’t think you should have to do that, right? I mean, we looked at different ways of fixing it and a little like caulk, well, I mean maybe, but unfortunately, like anything that we would have done to shorten it, to bring it closer, would not have worked, because there is no room in the hatch where the canopy to go, or canopy, yeah so, but just

[00:47:28] A little that spans the two. There are more of those sort of issues with this ARF than I would be comfortable with paying what you paid for it. So see, I’m still not there because I look at everything.

[00:47:39] That came with it and I’m I don’t think it’s overpriced for what it is. I mean, look at the finished canopy, look at all the- I mean look at the size of the plane, look at what you get with it. It’s.

[00:47:50] A nice hardware kit it is it’s that’s everything that definitely one plus is I’m a fan of the.

[00:47:56] Hardware they give you. It’s good quality, beefy hardware. It came with the wheels and the retracts and the brakes and extra tires- which I thought was funny- extra mains. So as long as you can live with yugo size panel gaps, you’re getting. There’s only one. I mean now I feel like I’m defending it more than I should be, but it’s. It’s not just the gap on that irked me, but the fact that we couldn’t even get the plates on the inside to line up without drilling them out. Yeah, majorly, yeah.

[00:48:28] Oversizing seriously had to oversize the holes to get those plates to fit yeah or to get the screws.

[00:48:33] Go and then the thumbscrew business with the fuel tank tray. Remember that those holes didn’t line up so you had to oversize those. Those also. Just a lot of issues like that, like if we, we should.

[00:48:44] Probably write down everything we found and, well, we’re going to have the build log online that I haven’t put up yet, but by the time this comes out, there should be something. Yeah, up from where we.

[00:48:54] Are but otherwise it’s not related but yeah like from 15 20 100 feet away it looks.

[00:49:02] Really good that bad? No, it’s not that bad. You’re exaggerating. I hope I am. I’m happy with it. Hey, I’ve got my glasses off and it looks fine. I was thinking the same thing, like I can’t see too far away, but I

[00:49:14] Still. I can see it in the reflection of the tv here behind me. Yeah, it looks great, no, the. But you’re right, though, that the cockpit is very well done. The pilots look good, the instrument panels look really good. I was very impressed with those. It’s just it looks like some areas of the airplane they focused on and some of the areas of the airplane they’re like: ah, this is close enough.

[00:49:34] The fit and finish could have been a little bit better yeah I’ll give it to you yep but it’s.

[00:49:40] Almost ready I mean like it will we’ve spent between the two of us what would you say hours wise.

[00:49:46] Well, you six ish total. God, no, are you serious? You came out yesterday- I guess it’s more than that. You came out yesterday 8, 30 and we worked on it. We had lunch break, we had dinner break, but you left around nine at night. Yeah, so that’s 12 and a half hours. I did some probably an hour and a half on it this morning, okay, before you came out, and you got five plus another hour, plus another couple hours.

[00:50:09] Today so far. So 30 ish hours so far between the two. It was probably that’s not bad actually for an airplane of this complexity and not knowing what we’re doing and not knowing what we’re doing.

[00:50:20] Like if we had to do it again it would not be as bad because we wouldn’t have to spend the time.

[00:50:26] Well, and I also feel like step one right out of the gate. We had to. We probably spent an hour and a half or more just trying to figure out what we were going to do about the flaps. It was more than that.

[00:50:36] Because I looked at my- I’m trying to think. I looked at my watch: at 10: 30, it’s 10: 45 and we had not done anything. Yeah, I mean not a hole had been drilled yet nothing. It was still just reading through things and trying to figure out, yeah, what to do and to be fair, to be fair, to be fair.

[00:50:56] Probably worried too much or more than we needed to on the flaps because they turned out. I’m like I’m really happy how they turned out and the fix was really, yep, minimal. I just yeah the holes a little.

[00:51:06] Bit I for the hinges. Yes, so I, and that’s kind of why I didn’t start before you got back either. I knew you wanted to help with it, but I did get stuff out and I saw that as my first step, literally step one, and I’m like: no, I’d like I, I can’t, I, I’m gonna wait and get input. It did get better, at least from

[00:51:29] There like there were hiccups here and there but like that didn’t actually that’s not how the.

[00:51:35] Whole build went. No, there were only a couple big ones and we’ve talked about them, and other than that, I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Not surprised but pleased. Well, and some things that we thought.

[00:51:48] Or that I thought would take longer, didn’t take long at all, like the thrust tube. Yeah, it didn’t take long at all. Never done one before because when, when we eyeballed it has to fit. It’s a very snug fit through the tail of the airplane and when you look at it’s like man, there’s no way this thing is going to fit through there, but it popped right through. This is bigger than the fair, than the.

[00:52:10] The cutout yeah than the fuselage but no you’re right I mean so yeah but it was also.

[00:52:18] Because the instruction said something about using a flat metal ruler or something to try and get it through. But what you did was actually pretty smart and it was just the top. Yeah, well, I mean, I’ll give props where it’s due and that one was really good. We just used the top of header card- is what they’re. Yeah, header card, off of it doesn’t even matter hardware or whatever, and you wrap that around and it reached around over half of the, the exhaust tube thing, whatever you call it, thrust tube, the thrust tube. I should remember that.

[00:52:50] But anyway. So by wrapping that around that, you kind of were able to use that as a funnel to get it in. You guys are so stupid, but anyway, you were able to use that as kind of a funnel to get that through the hole, like how nobody disagreed with you I know. Oh, I don’t even know what I said anymore. Thrust tube got me so far off. Why is everybody?

[00:53:15] Like jousting when they hear that because it’s funny. Thrust tube- those are two words. I just I like the two words and especially together. So anyway, yes, I wrapped a header card around the thrust tube and used that as a guide, if you will, to guide the thrust tube through the hole- our first pg-13 cast. So, yeah, some things didn’t take as long as I was expecting them to. So, yeah, we’re really close. I’d say we’re within, probably.

[00:53:50] Realistically 12 to 15 hours worth if you take the turbine out of it we’re probably an hour and.

[00:53:55] A half away from being done. Honestly, yeah, I would agree. So, Reggie, there’s no reason why you can’t have one ready. Oh, exactly, we’ll even charge you to put it together. Yeah, by the time we’re done with this, we’ll be experts. Oh, people will pay us to put these things together, oh, Reggie. Well, so there’s no reason, other than, other than the money, that you can’t have one ready by the jet meet.

[00:54:28] Into the mic. I thought we moved away from Reggie. No, we’re back. No, we’re back. I see that we did for a little while and the reason we’re not beating dave up is because dave didn’t make a promise he hasn’t delivered on yet. It’s been pretty quiet, so he’s a man of his work. I’m watching, I’m learning. Nice, I like that jab as everyone’s talking. Yeah, so what’s next? I’m like I really thought we’d be running this jet today, but sadly no, because somebody didn’t buy the battery. They.

[00:55:01] Really looking at you really, yeah, actually, you probably have the battery I need say what I have it. Why would I have one that would work? It’s just a life, something or another, I don’t remember what it.

[00:55:11] Well I have yeah what size I don’t know I’d have to look it up why does it have to be a life battery.

[00:55:16] It could probably run off of just an mh. No, it could probably run off of a LiPo just for testing. But they recommend the life battery. I think it’s life bad. I gotta look. No fromco battery probably. No, no fromicos are live. Well, it could be, but it’s got 5200. You need it. Like I said, I don’t know, I have.

[00:55:35] To look it up but anyway we won’t be running the jet today no and that makes me sad I wouldn’t be ready.

[00:55:41] Anyway, like mentally ready, there are a lot of leaves that need blown. There’s right, yeah, there’s. There’s a lot that I want to look at and double, triple, quadruple check before it gets started up.

[00:55:53] Okay, sissy, pretty much you’ve been building a plane I have. I’m finally building the plane I got from brian like three years ago or something like that: chip hide, double vision, a big biplane. Yeah, I know, sorry, Ron hates them. No, yes, no, yes, too many wings, too many wings. But yeah, it really good quality kit compared to compared to the one we’re putting together now. It’s actually I’ve not had to.

[00:56:23] Rework anything. That’s nice. It literally bolts together. It does, yeah. So I’m going to try something new for me anyway, on this pipeline. A while back I came across my facebook feed, I think- pro modeler servos. I don’t know if any of you guys have heard of them, but heard of them, so I did some reading about them and the guy that, john, the guy that produces them. He actually produces a lot of stuff for the military, which, of course, gets my attention, so the stuff that he makes meets.

[00:56:55] Mill standards and things like that. So I was anxious to try some of his servos and they’re very competitively priced. So, for example, I bought a bunch of 270s. These are: these are an iron core, a pull regular dc type motor type. They’re not a brushless servo, they are digitals, but they it produces 270 ounces of torque at 8.4. So I’m not going to be running it that high. I’m going to run it probably at whatever LiPo 7.4 Or 7.2, Whatever those are LiPos 7.4 Right when they’re fully charged.

[00:57:33] They’re 8.4, Oh okay, well then that’s when I guess I’ll be putting through them, so that a lot of torque and they’re, they’re all aluminum. Well, the mid cases are aluminum, but the top of the case is like a, a nice resin, reinforced resin, plastic. And then what he does: he takes brass inserts and embeds them into the case where the servo shaft or the gear shafts go, so they don’t waller out like they do in a plastic case, so you get a lot longer life out of them. And he does a lot of other things.

[00:58:04] With these servos to get long life out of them and a lot of torque. And the thing that really sold me on these was the he kind of guarantees that these are, like the best centering servos that money can buy, and that’s a. In my opinion, that’s a bold statement because there’s some really good quality servos out there, right. So I took the plunge and I ordered eight of them, or whatever it takes for this biplane. So I’m anxious to try and they should be here today. I’m anxious to try them out. Very nice, yeah, something different for me. Like normally, I’m like a spectrum guy, especially on a brand.

[00:58:36] New build or high-tech at a minimum, but these are less than spectrum servos and less than high-tech servos, so money-wise, if you compare servo to servo, they’re significantly less money. I remember when

[00:58:50] We tried to cheap out too and got the amazon servos that didn’t work out well these are not amazon.

[00:58:56] Servos. These are he like. Now I get it. This guy johnny, he stands by him and yeah, so I’m, we’ll see something, so try something new. And if they work out, then maybe I’ll equip all my future models with pro modeler servos. Mm-hmm, like what models? What do you got? What are you buying? Well, eventually, I mean, you and I both know what I’d like to eventually buy. I know, but put it out.

[00:59:18] There so I can go back to this and call you a Reggie if you don’t I’m not saying I’m going to buy it.

[00:59:23] I’m just saying I would like to buy at some point in the future one of those hangar nine ov 10 broncos- but that’s no secret, I’ve mentioned that on the show before. They’re so beautiful, I mean they really are. And I will say this: and you can, you can, make fun of me if you want to. I’m thinking I might want to go electric on it. Why would I make fun of that? Well, because I’m such a an internal combustion guy, icy, geek, yeah, but easy use and a twin. Well, here’s why, let’s say, you put

[00:59:54] Two da, or yeah, da 35s or dle 35s or whatever. They make engine noises, which I like, but the ov 10 wasn’t the reciprocating engine powered airplane, it was powered by turboprops. So I feel like electric makes more sense because it would sound more accurate than a pair of gases hanging. I don’t know. Yeah, and I’ve seen both fly, because we saw them both fly at null this year. Gosh, it feels like it was last year already. But, and I just I like the sound of it better with electric and I’m me, I’m

[01:00:27] Anti-electric, but in that case I think I may want to do that. I think what might change your mind is when you see the batteries you have to buy. Yeah, I’ve looked at them and they’re scary, both price wise and voltage wise. I’m the voltage is what scares me, having that kind of voltage.

[01:00:48] If I remember- if you’ve looked at them, tell me if I’m right- then 12s, mm-hmm. So there are two success, two success, five thousands per motor, per side. So you’re running four. Yes, each time you fly it, yeah.

[01:01:01] Yeah, yeah, and that’s a lot of money in batteries but and chargers, if you- well, if you invest in one of those nice g2 smart chargers like what you have, and I mean, I’ve seen that thing in action and it’s.

[01:01:13] Pretty cool, yeah, but you’d need two. Yeah, because it’s four batteries. If you want to be able to fly every 10 minutes, right, but it’s nice though, like I said, with that one, it’s nice to be able to have or you’re charging down, or down time to be so low. Are you saying four batteries per airplane? No, not per airplane, that’s like two per side. Two, yes, but it’s actually more than four batteries. By the way, because those are just the motors, right, you still have a radio battery and your three tracks and dual set up for that, so I think you’re running seven batteries in that airplane. Yeah, it’s a lot of.

[01:01:48] Batteries, but you don’t have to recharge the, the plane flight batteries, whatever you call them. Yeah, it’s a lot of radio batteries. Don’t have to be recharged every time. Yeah, especially if you go.

[01:01:59] With life. They, yeah, they don’t. They don’t have the high discharge rates that LiPos do. But yep, yeah, it’s a lot. Would be a lot of money and batteries, but a lot of weight. For me it’s made it just. It just, I don’t know- makes the sound more accurate. It’s, it’s a I. I like the airplane. I do too, after seeing.

[01:02:19] It fly more and more yeah it’s yeah I even sent you a picture of it this summer you did no you ignored.

[01:02:26] Me. I did. I don’t know what that was, because I knew what was coming. It’s like: what the hell? Hey, doesn’t this look nice? You need to buy one of these. I know, I know I have not made a promise, though I did not say I would buy one. I would like to. There was no pact. You are correct, there was no. Hey in two.

[01:02:45] Years we’re both gonna get one of these and fly them Reggie’s looking at his watch can I get out of.

[01:02:51] Here he’s thinking: by the way, Reggie joined eli, yeah, sweet. So I mean, like everything is in place, I know, except the jet. Except the jet, I mean you got the place to fly it, you got the vehicle to haul it, mm-hmm, you’ve got the experience, kind of you’ve flown a lot of edfs, probably more than Ron has. Oh,

[01:03:13] Absolutely more than I have did you fly any edfs this summer stop it this is not about me right now.

[01:03:19] Well, it’s about you. It’s about you. I mean, like I’m trying to think I don’t, wasn’t this like? I’m pretty sure we had a conversation- there was before I left- that said, yeah, I should probably. You didn’t make it. You didn’t make any promises. I’m not saying that, but I’m pretty sure you said something to the fact of: yeah, I should probably fly some of these edfs that I bought for the purpose to get ready for this jet that’s almost ready to fly, by the way. Yeah, did you, did I? What? Flying edfs?

[01:03:48] This week this summer? No, why? Lots of reasons, then, valid. You’ve got time to fly one. I’ve got the trump card. My dad died. Oh, that’s true. I will use that when I need to. No, honestly, there’s just a lot of stuff going on this summer that I did not fly as much as I wanted to anything, let alone eds.

[01:04:16] Yeah, I tried to fly the f-86 last weekend. That didn’t work out. What happened to that? Well, last time I tried to fly it, we dumped it in the ditch because of the battery. Yeah, okay, and being stupid trying to clear the grass out, it sucked up some lee, some leads, so I replaced the leads right. I put the wrong ends on so I went to put the wing on it out the field.

[01:04:40] And you can’t plug a mail into a mail plug a mail into a mail it doesn’t work on airplanes.

[01:04:46] Reggie this is the guy you got that’s working on your stuff.

[01:04:53] Don’t look at me. Weekend before I left spars at home, so it’s okay. Well, I’ve done that. Yeah, I mean, that’s normal, darn, I’ve done that. I didn’t hear what you said. Good, good, you may have to go back and bleep, good.

[01:05:05] And I said: it’s okay, dave, it’s okay. Yeah, I could not believe I did that. When I went to plug it in, I was like: what is this? What idiot did this? What is wrong with me? Yeah, yeah, and not only did I do it once, I did it on two different leads, jeez.

[01:05:27] Well, you probably assume- okay, well one- that the more important one is in the fuselage, so I’ll put the less important one, which would be the male. By the way, females are always more important. I don’t know if you do that or not. What are you talking about? It’s a weird logic that.

[01:05:44] I use in my brain don’t worry about it ignore the two other connectors right next to it yeah.

[01:05:51] I’ve made it to the field before without a transmitter, so forgetting a spar, yeah, and that’s been child’s play- twice on the receiver, the transmitter. Oh, really, twice. I’ve probably done it, at least that many times I know I’ve done it once recently. Well, when?

[01:06:05] I say recently in the last couple years yeah glow igniter that was another one I always used to.

[01:06:11] Leave at home. Yeah, that’s why glow plane sucks. Yeah, I’ve showed up with the glow igniters but not charged. They were dead. That’s good. That’s like I’ve showed up with everything but the batteries- wrong battery for the plane. That’s another one done that showed up to. Oh wow, I went all the way.

[01:06:31] To eli field without gas once I know that was you should have just asked I know there was like.

[01:06:38] No, anybody. There’s like 15 gas cans right over there. It’s not their fault, I’m an idiot. Well, they shouldn’t have to, but they would have. I know they would have. They’re very, very nice folks there seems like the one time I’ve been that was a hundred dollars well spent. Well, okay, well, whatever.

[01:06:59] You’re joining again right yes okay so I have to like if I want to see you fly your jet because you.

[01:07:04] Told me you’re not gonna fly it here I don’t jerk at this point I don’t plan on it why off a grass.

[01:07:09] Field. Why, yes, arthur flies his every weekend. Yeah, but I’m not used to it yet. I mean, it’s going to be over with somebody that knows how to teach me to fly it. I’m not saying you should maiden it off the.

[01:07:28] Grass field I’m just saying eventually hopefully you’ll be comfortable enough to fly it off of our.

[01:07:33] Home field. Oh, I guess, yeah, sure, but I mean, like my goal is not just to fly it there. Well, like I’m not doing everything just to fly it, you can take it to null. You think you’ll be ready by then. I don’t know it.

[01:07:48] Depends how the spring goes we’ll see you should put a smoke system in it you should promise.

[01:07:52] No, Ron doesn’t do that. I don’t promise. Unless I know I will do it. See, like I promised you- the jet thing and the jet sitting over here- that I did. That’s like four. We’ve gone around four times.

[01:08:05] With that’s awesome well I’m just pointing out have you thought about a smoke system though I.

[01:08:11] Have putting smoke in it that’s all the further I got you get the smoke pump here I do you do you have.

[01:08:16] A smoke pump from dave you don’t remember that from toledo no he’s gonna help himself to it.

[01:08:24] Oh, was that on the table? And I said I want that you had. And he, oh, I remember now. Oh, and he stole it. Yeah, is that what you’re gonna say? So you’d have to put another tank in it, right? Yeah, I don’t know what all would go into it. I’m gonna be honest: a smoke system on that right now is not. No, I get.

[01:08:39] That and the list of things for me to figure out. I think that would be cool. I do too. And speaking of that, weird how the wheels in my head turned. But I was thinking back to joe and all and how cool that those 3d jets were when they were doing the spiraling thing with the smoke and stuff. Yeah, and then I was thinking about back to like we were talking to them about that particular jet or one very similar to it and they were selling one there. Remember that there was one for

[01:09:11] Sale yeah that was a little different and we asked the price of it and it was he said forty five hundred.

[01:09:15] Dollars, absolutely a steal. Yeah, why didn’t we buy that? I didn’t have that much money then. Oh, I, neither did I. That’s that’s why, yeah, and no way to get it home, and that. But that was a, that was a car rebel. No, it wasn’t a rebel. Wasn’t a rebel, I don’t know. It had the. It had the thrust vectoring.

[01:09:36] Business on it and it was ready to go like it was like bind to fly. I think he even said I thought so, yeah, but it was definitely not at my skill level. Well, he said though he told us he said, oh, anybody can fly this. Once he didn’t. I don’t remember him saying once he didn’t, but I am. But with the. I think what he was getting at honestly was with the, the gyros and all the stuff that’s in these things they probably are, relatively speaking, easy to fly. You would actually expect that, like for an expensive

[01:10:09] Airplane. I would expect it to be fairly easy to, yeah, because who wants to spend five grand on something that’s difficult, right, that you don’t enjoy? Yeah, I get that. So, but yeah, why? I think I’d have to look back at pictures. I don’t remember what that was. That was the what’s that called the triangular wings- delta, delta wings, right? That’s that one, right? Yes, yeah, and it had. I think it had.

[01:10:35] Canards on it, right, I think so. Yeah, I don’t know the name of them, but it was cool looking kind of urofired like, yeah, yeah, very, yeah, very similar shape. But obviously it wasn’t called a urofighter, because I’d probably remember that, and it was definitely not painted like a urofighter, but it was a nice plane. Yeah, it’s a good size too. Yeah, and looking back, though, that was a heck of a.

[01:10:58] Deal it was a great deal it seems like now I knew it was a great deal at the time but yeah I also knew.

[01:11:06] Yeah I mean by that time I had mine ordered that’s true so it only took what 18 months to get it.

[01:11:14] I’m teasing no I’m exaggerating seven yeah seven months yeah and that’s out here for a while.

[01:11:24] Now it’s almost put together after two days. Hasn’t sat here long three weeks because you got it. Yeah, it was about three weeks. Well, yeah, yeah, didn’t. I picked it up for you. So that was no, you didn’t.

[01:11:35] You picked up the turbine you didn’t pick up the jet oh that’s right you went with me to pick up.

[01:11:40] With you this yes but I yeah so it hasn’t been sitting that long less than a month so that’s.

[01:11:47] Pretty good it’s probably the quickest ARF that was ever put together here to be honest yep so what.

[01:11:54] Else, what else we got? I’m that’s, that’s me, I’m done. Yeah, I wish I had more to talk about, but I’ve been gone a while, so I look forward to doing stuff so that I can talk about it. I look for joe knoll, but, yeah, toledo, though that’s first. I know that’ll be good, but is it weird that I’m looking forward to toledo almost as much as joe knoll? I don’t know why. I love that. I love that swap meet, though I did too. The guys, that the people there are really cool and I don’t know. Brian,

[01:12:27] Says he’s gonna go and have a booth this time so that’ll be interesting to see what he takes that.

[01:12:31] That will be cool yeah it’ll be good Reggie’s asleep yeah all right Reggie are you like how do.

[01:12:39] You feel about joe knoll are you excited about it because this will be Reggie’s first time hold.

[01:12:43] On a minute oh are you promising that you’re going no I’m not promising but I should go just checking.

[01:12:49] Because that’s a word I’m like I use Ron you ever again I’m looking forward to seeing jeffrey and the.

[01:12:55] Guys again, me too. Those are. Those are really great guys. And matt and all this- yeah, matt too well, I mean everybody pretty much, but it was really fun hanging out with, with the boys from rhode island, you, you would really like them. Actually, they cut up just like us, or maybe even more ruthless than us. Oh, I.

[01:13:14] Yeah well I can enjoy that with Reggie there oh yeah it reminds me I gotta go buy another trailer tire.

[01:13:20] Yes you do you said that last time I think he did he did yeah trailer tire month yeah.

[01:13:29] What are the dates on toledo april four five six yeah which by the way if you’re going to sign.

[01:13:36] Up for joe knoll. They have a cyber monday ish deal, like that’s all I know. We don’t know how much it’s going to be, but it is apparently according to joe knoll or tripletree, it’s a. It’s a discounted entry monday, yep. So if you buy, if you want to save a little money, yeah, and if you’re going to joe knoll, so I’m buying my ticket, I’m going to buy my ticket as well. Monday. So, Reggie, are you going to buy yours? When’s this monday is coming monday, cyber monday, which is usually the monday after thingsgiving? Yes, I don’t keep up, none of that. All right, yeah, I’ll take a look at it. I’ll take a look.

[01:14:12] At it. I will take a look at it. He didn’t make a promise so no, no, I would really. I think you would really dig joe knoll, like, if you like, eaa and air venture and that sort of show with the airplanes. This is like the eaa of models kind of. That’s better than that. It’s better okay, because it’s everything. Man, it’s like I mean 3d helicopter, I mean any sort of discipline that you’re into is represented at joe knoll. Crashing- crashing is crashing intentionally. Float planes- yeah is like.

[01:14:47] I did that well. I didn’t really crash intentionally, but the goal was to not come away with a flying airplane, which you accomplished all 25 seconds it took. Yeah, we’re gonna figure out what airplanes.

[01:15:00] It take just for that too yeah that’s gonna make me sad no matter what it is really yeah you have.

[01:15:07] Airplanes here that you’re just so emotionally attached, or all of your airplanes here. Are you just so emotionally attached to that if you didn’t come home with them, you’d be devastated. If I crashed them, it wouldn’t hurt my feelings, yeah, but you’re kind of the goal of that is to hurt my feelings. Go to brian’s, spend 50 bucks. Yeah, I want to go with a nitro.

[01:15:32] You can it’s on the electric line oh yeah that’s right I shot that one down yeah all right well.

[01:15:40] Just a big electric, then I don’t mind being the target. That was fun. Yes, for 20, whatever seconds it was. We should put that video on the on our website somewhere, just so people know what we’re talking.

[01:15:56] About the fall fair so that we don’t have to do it don’t make promises that you can’t fulfill right.

[01:16:02] Exactly oh Ron what you should do is that’s what I meant to say Ron you should put that yeah because.

[01:16:09] You don’t even have the video I think it’s on my phone it is so yeah that’s exactly right because I.

[01:16:13] Was flying, not for long, not very much. So what we’re talking about- and in case anybody is not, because I’m pretty sure we talked about it in the wrap-up- but they have a basically a demolition derby in the air as one of their events. So yeah, and that’s common when you go to different places.

[01:16:34] Like that. They have those. Oh really, that’s the first time I’ve ever seen that. I don’t know flight there, but I’ve heard of them there. Oh, combat’s a thing even just well. Combat, yes, but like demolition.

[01:16:48] Derby. No, this is the same thing. This is just combat, that’s all it was. Well, combat, don’t you? Usually I’m at a streamers. This is full contact. This is full contact. Yeah, combat usually means you’re pulling a streamer and you’re cutting it or whatever. That’s the combat. So, basically, any electric plane, anything you want to fly that you don’t want to bring home, that you don’t mind if it crashes.

[01:17:09] Something for Reggie that’s all of them obviously no not quite not quite I could pick up a few there.

[01:17:15] Is a certain amount of strategy, because some planes lasted much longer than others. Yeah, and I think cheating by just staying away, well that. But like airplanes that seem to float and are very, very small, yeah, like wings- flying wings. You say you’re flying wing, there’s not much to hit, right, and they are difficult to hit. And they can, it turns out a big, ginormous float plane is pretty easy to hit. Yeah, it’s the blimp of the, but there was no, there wasn’t anything bigger than that in the air at the.

[01:17:52] Time. So yeah, but it was fun. It was a real hoot. Hopefully we get to do that again. It was a hoot- and hopefully Reggie and dave get to go and experience it as well. Dave’s going, I know he’s.

[01:18:06] Going. I don’t question his. His stick-to-itiveness, yes, his trustworthiness. Dave usually does what he says he’s gonna do- not usually always. You okay, Reggie? You look like you’re about to fall out of your chair. No, I’m okay. Okay, all right. Any other promises you want to make before we get on?

[01:18:29] Promise to leave here in a moment okay I promise he can keep I hope so thank you tommy.

[01:18:40] Oh we’re so mean to Reggie I’m sorry Reggie I’m sorry I we do it because we love you yeah like in.

[01:18:47] All seriousness tommy is sorry that’s he you can tell by the way he’s talking he’s he’s sorry about.

[01:18:53] Me mean. To you I’m gonna say he is. He said tommy’s sorry. He knows he didn’t say anything about Ron is sorry. No, I caught that looking for the power button on your board over there. Hands off, okay, goodbye quick.

[01:19:07] All right that’s it for me anything else dave you said like four things anything else you want to talk about I’m enjoying my vacation.

[01:19:16] Now, all we got you then was that we got the big cub flown finally. So, oh, that’s right, I forgot about that. Golly, we kind of like started talking about it. Really, Reggie was here, oh. So this is the cub.

[01:19:27] That daniel purchased at toledo last year, the big green and white one. Yeah, the big ugly. Yep, big cub. What is that? 140, 140.. That’s a big one. It’s bigger than anything I got. How about you? Nope.

[01:19:43] It’s not the master’s bigger, is it really? Yes, yeah, it is like four, four inches. I thought the Telemaster was only like 122 or something like that 144. Oh, dang it okay. So like, actually, it kind of pisses me off because it’s a 12 foot Telemaster, but it actually is like 143.5 Inch wingspan, so they’re rounded, yeah, so if I ever recover it, I’m adding like a couple pieces of balsa to the wingtips: winglets, yep, yep, but anyway that I took over your story. You did tell us about your cub flight.

[01:20:16] It’s what I do, went through it. We’ve been putting this off as long as we can. Winter’s coming sounds like you could have put it off a lot longer, just saying, yeah, I mean, look at me, you can put stuff off for a long time, but we got it running. Taxi tested without the wings, it ran fine.

[01:20:36] Put it out on the field, put the wings on it. This first time he’s actually had the wings on it- it was for the first flight, because you can’t put the wings on it at home, yeah, it’s too big. So we got it out there on the runway, pointed it down the middle of the runway, popped the throttle forward and well, it flew like a cub. Yeah, and that’s a good thing. Yeah, last.

[01:20:59] Episode at least that I listened to you’re having some engine issues with it yeah he had to rebuild.

[01:21:05] The carburetor just dried out diaphragms, yep, common, possibly a little goo in the screens? I don’t. I didn’t look inside the carburetor. That was all his job. Yes, I like how you gave the dirty stuff to.

[01:21:19] Daniel to work on. It is his plane. Well, that’s true, it is his airplane and, by the way, probably the loudest airplane I’ve ever heard. It’s not quiet, it’s. Yeah, it’s probably what- 185 decibels or so I’m exaggerating, but it’s, it’s really, really loud. He likes loud planes, yeah, and I’m okay with I’m not like I’m not like judging him, but it is the loudest plane I think I’ve ever heard: 70 cc, so yeah, and a just basically an open muffler, basically not even a square box, yeah, which I’m sure there’s.

[01:21:57] Nothing. It might even be a sound augmenter. It doesn’t muffle anything. Let’s give it a nice pop at idle. It’s a resonator. It does actually sound pretty cool at idle, but once you open it up, man, it is like deafening. And I’ve only heard it on video like I can imagine how loud it is like in person.

[01:22:15] Yeah, it’s definitely not my taste but obviously, based on some of the comments he’s made, he likes, likes it. Yeah, okay, cool. Yeah, it took off on its own after 50 foot takeoff, roll, zero trim changes, nice, I love when that didn’t even touch any of the trims. I’m sure the router probably needs trimmed, but yeah, close enough. Yeah, it’s a cub, it’s a cup. We just flew big loops with it. Everything was fine. I.

[01:22:45] Landed it, the motor rich was a little bit rich. I landed it right after one lap, floated in like a cub, yep, leaned it out half a turn and took off again exactly the same thing, just pointed direction: you want to go and off it goes. Off it goes nice. No up elevator, it just lifts off when it’s ready. I love.

[01:23:07] It when you don’t have to mess with the trims on the test flight or the remaden yeah it does have.

[01:23:14] A severely warped aileron and I was a little concerned about that but no issues no issues.

[01:23:20] Whatsoever pretty forgiving airplanes cubs yeah well and the bigger you get the more forgiving they are.

[01:23:26] Exactly gave it to him. He flew it around a little while and he ended up landing along with it- first time he’s landed that far down the runway and he dorked it a little bit.

[01:23:39] Kind of like I did with the Telemaster at joan all that’s exactly what I was thinking but I didn’t.

[01:23:44] Say it. Yeah, and it’s supposed to have bungee cords or o-rings around the landing gear. For functional landing gear, those were fixed in place with bailing wire, just make it flyable, and that’s why we got it. And he just never bothered to fix it, which was fine. But he did dork it and the wire was soft and it broke. Ah, okay. And of course when the landing gear collapsed it popped the 65 prop. Ouch, they are the more expensive. That was it for the day. We could have rewrapped the landing gear.

[01:24:17] And flew again if we had another prop. But yeah, nope, what size props on that, 70s from 22 or 24 by 8. I was gonna say 24, but yeah, not small. No, it’s significant. Yeah, but it flies beautifully, it’ll be no problem. Now he’s got to decide cosmetically what he’s going to do with it. So nice, and he’s not.

[01:24:38] Going to. He’s not going to get rid of the green and white, is he? He bought a can of primer, so I don’t know. Oh, I really like the green and white. I think it’s. Maybe he’ll put it back that way, just refreshed, or maybe he’ll just paint over the ugly black portions. That’s a possibility, I don’t know, it’s.

[01:24:53] His plan he can do with what he wants that’s true green and white is different yeah and it’s not.

[01:24:58] Like a little extra weight’s going to hurt that thing if he just paints over it he could add 10 pounds.

[01:25:02] Of that thing and he wouldn’t even notice it yeah that much wing candy drop candy drop we can’t afford.

[01:25:09] That much candy it would take a lot of candy to fill that thing that’s for sure very well I’m glad I’m.

[01:25:16] Glad he finally got to fly it that’s awesome yeah and it’s a really good flying plane yeah.

[01:25:21] Paul csa always does a good job. Dumb question. I think I know the answer to this, but where is he going to store it? He’s got it taken apart and it’s in his basement. Really, yeah, I figured he would leave it in.

[01:25:32] The trailer? Yeah, he’s left it in there most of the summer, except when he’s working on it, but he has emptied his trailer for the winter. So it’s as far as I know it’s going to, if it’s not already there.

[01:25:41] It’ll be in his basement soon. That’s so sad. Emptying the trailer for the winter, yeah. But I mean it’s good, but it’s just. Yeah, it’s a sad thing to hear. I’m just glad I don’t have to store it.

[01:25:56] Yeah, where the heck would you put it? It’d have to go in the garage. I’ve got a small electric. I can’t find a home for now. It’s just sitting on a box in the garage right now. Yeah, what’s that like, I don’t know? Yeah, strange, weird, oh. And yeah, the 60 decathlon sitting on the floor in the garage and I got like two more weeks and the mustang has to go in there. So

[01:26:20] Because it goes in the garage december 1st. Wow, did you get the mustang fixed, by the way? Yep, it’s fixed, except for the paint on the hood. It’s paint. I might take it out this winter and have it painted. I don’t know really. You don’t want to paint yourself. You’re talented just to fix the hood, not the whole car. It’s not worth my time or money to take and buy all the supplies I need just to paint a hood. Yeah, that’s true. Yeah, because if I was going to do a whole car, that stuff is.

[01:26:51] Expensive yeah but just to buy supplies for the hood yeah it’s not worth it I get that.

[01:26:58] Okay, okay, well, I’m done, I’m done, done. He’s like he’s done a long time ago, ready to be out of here. Why do you not enjoy it? No, why no? I don’t? What is wrong? We’re done. Tell us all about your woes.

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