Ep 156: Let’s Talk Swap Meets!

[00:00:12] Welcome to the RC Plane Lab podcast I’m dave I’m Tom I’m Ron I’m daniel we got daniel with us hi.

[00:00:19] Daniel. Hey, he had to come on this one because he went with us to- I was gonna say- dayton. He came with us to toledo. Yeah, he showed up at the eli field swap meet, wow, sweet, and I missed both of those. More importantly- not more importantly, but more excitedly- he’s coming with us to joe noll, yeah, that is exciting, just because I need a pack mule life story. That’s what brothers do. So how’s everybody been? It’s literally been like a month.

[00:00:53] Since we’ve all sat down tommy’s back, it’s been, yeah, longer. Well, I guess, yeah, since the we, me included, a little over a month, yeah, a little over a month. We all sound so excited, by the way. Well, we, we’ve got a lot on our minds, we’ve got a lot to talk about. There we go, so should we just

[00:01:09] Dive right inside. Right started. Let’s just well hold on. Okay, was there anything new this week? I didn’t see anything. No, I’m disappointed. Yeah, it’s been like a month since they’ve come out with anything. Are they holding back? I don’t know actually, that’s a good question. Efly usually releases more than they have recently. The last one they came out with is the f86- f86 with a painted canopy and that which really bothers dave, by the way, can you tell? So I’m sorry I’m trying to hide it off topic. We’re going back to your rj gritter conversation. Yes, the decathlon for the

[00:01:46] With the gray windows. Yes, so I’ve seen one in real life now, in person, and it would not have bothered me had you guys not pointed it out, to be honest, but it’s earth shatteringly disturbing, isn’t it? No, I actually don’t know what it would look like if it was black only because all the other colors on it are light, they’re vibrant, they go like, they look really good on it. I don’t know how much or how different- oops, how different- that would look if it was stark black on that. So I’ve been

[00:02:18] Thinking about that, like if I, if I, ultimately buy one of these things, which they fly- great, they do. I mean, we say that all the time, having seen one fly in person. But I think what I, what I will do if I buy one, is I’ve got that cool color changing paint. Oh, the stuff that goes, the flip-flop stuff that goes. I’ve got some that goes from like kind of a gold to green color and I think, and it’s black. Yeah, straight on right that with a dark black base. I think that would actually look, because I painted a canopy like that once, the inside of a canopy, and it actually looks kind of cool. So but it’s.

[00:02:54] Not as stark as just black. What I mean it’s got, I don’t know, it’s like a smoked color where it’s a little bit lighter than well. I mean, it’s definitely not pitch black when you look at it, but it also has color in it. So I don’t know. I think that would like the light would be reflecting. Yeah, the chromatic or whatever, right exactly chrome illusion is what dupont used to call it. But I’m thinking if I, if I get one eventually will, yeah, I’ll paint the windows with that, and maybe that won’t be as stark as just black, but even black, I think, would look better than the gray, that’s.

[00:03:26] On it. So I’ll be honest. If I end up getting one, I’m gonna be way too lazy and just leave it gray. That’s just me, though. Fair enough, this is. Yeah. Your mic stand is very noisy.

[00:03:40] It’s not annoying at all. I can’t lock that in. Well, you’re gonna have to deal with it, and so or you could just not move it, but I move forward and backwards so I don’t hurt my ginger little back. It’s been sore lately so, yeah, I’m trying to make sure I’m in tip-top shape for joan. Yeah, it’s coming up soon. Yeah, anything else, by the way? No, I’m sorry, I just didn’t.

[00:04:03] Know if there was. Go in order of what, sorry- and what we’re doing, seeing if there was anything new. I didn’t recall saying anything, so I didn’t want to miss it. What I mean? I know what you mean, okay, so you guys went to dayton- toledo, toledo. Now I’m doing it. Yay, we went to dayton.

[00:04:19] But that’s late. You and I went to dayton but we went to toledo first. So this has been three out of the last four weekends have been travel distance swap meets. Mostly ohio, yeah, a lot of ohio, lots in ohio. So what do you guys think of ohio, toledo?

[00:04:38] Pretty good yeah pretty good busy such excitement I didn’t consider it I wish I could contribute but.

[00:04:46] You guys went without me we did you get to see the fly through I did yeah Ron sent that to me.

[00:04:51] That was pretty cool. Our table was on there. Yeah, you could see dave’s. Yeah, and if you could see me in there too, I don’t know, did you guys see me? I didn’t see you, so there was so this okay. So they did a fly through and I remember the drone flying. Yeah, it was saturday morning early before everybody got there. Yeah, so, and actually it looked like part of that fly through was before anyone was there except, like the volunteers, like before it was open to even us as swappers to come in, but anyway. So, yes, there’s a when the fly through that they did, that was posted on the Toledo R/C, the facebook page, whatever, I don’t remember what it’s called now swapping, anyway, the expo, blah, blah.

[00:05:26] Blah. Yes, if you’re on their page on facebook, you can see it, but anyway, so it was a fly through with this little tiny drone. I mean, it couldn’t have been more than six inches, you think? Yeah, it was about six inches, it was a small one, but anyway. So they flew through and they

[00:05:43] That you took my mind way off, but anyway. So they flew through. There was a that big racetrack, yes, that they were trying to. I was trying to sell it, that was. There was one table or two tables between it and us, I don’t remember. I think one, it was just one, just one. So after he flew around on that kind of came right over our table and that was before we were there. So you could see dave’s pawnee that was in frame all nicely displayed, looking nice and sharp.

[00:06:15] And then they flew later when I was walking around. So they have all the big tables set up in the middle for the static displays. I was looking at one of those and it flew right over me and you can see me in the video. You got to look quick because it’s a split second, but I tell you what that’s: reflection off your head, or I was wearing a hat. Thank you, sorry much. You would have said the same thing to me. That’s the best split second of that whole video, just so. But no, it was interesting. It was cool because you got to see the scale. You got to see how big it was. It looked to me.

[00:06:49] From the from the fly the drone footage like it might have been bigger than we went than it.

[00:06:56] Was last year it was more crowded okay there were more tables well good yeah they jammed a lot more.

[00:07:01] Tables and I think they were even adding some that yeah, on that friday they had rain out because they were moving things around to add more tables. Did the? Did they spill over into?

[00:07:13] The flying area where the no, no, no, our trailers were in there. That was so nice. Oh, really the difference. This year you got to leave your trailer. Oh, that is nice, that’s awesome. So they didn’t have the outside trailer parking like they did last year. Apparently, the price on that skyrocketed. Yeah, well to be.

[00:07:29] Honest I don’t recall seeing a lot of trailers in that parking lot last year when we had to park it.

[00:07:34] There what would you guys guess 25 oh back there in the back room yeah so I take it they didn’t fly.

[00:07:40] Then, oh, they did, oh, they did just, they just pushed the trailers up against the wall and then used the rest. So they stood up like their backs towards the trailer and, yeah, I’ll tell you what was perfect.

[00:07:52] Like, when we got there, we like daniel backed in, because daniel drove, took his trailer and he backed into where. So you’ve been there, so you have the walk door in the middle, yes, and on each side is a bigger opening right for walking and doing whatever. Yeah, so he pulled right up to that walk door in the middle and that’s where the trailer stayed the whole weekend. Oh, that’s awesome. So by the time we would buy something. Yeah, just walk it right, something else or buy something. There was no loading.

[00:08:23] At the end of the show. It was like put it in the trailer as we bought it, hop in and I mean you could see right through that door, the back of his trailer, and it was. It was perfect. Oh, that’s a great setup. It really was good deal. I think I overheard them talking about possibly having to put tables back there next year though, if it gets bigger. Yeah, well, they did this year apparently quite a bit, and I think they’re expecting growth next year too, which makes sense, which is awesome. So, yeah, and we’re prepaid for next year already. Yes, we did. We already paid for the tables next year. We probably will after.

[00:08:55] Talking to tommy, maybe buy another one just because, just because I mean. So by the time you do the math, tables were 30 bucks more to have a table than just to get in, because 20 bucks to get in both days and it’s 50 bucks to have a table both days. Table comes with an admission, so why not spend the extra 30 bucks and have an extra table? That’s my thought. Yeah, I mean, and I can buy the table. It’s not a, not a.

[00:09:26] Big deal. I’m not worried about that. But like, honestly, if you would have gone this year with what you, there was no way we would have had to have four tables at least. Well, we were on two and it was full.

[00:09:39] It was very full, but plus, all underneath, mine was full underneath, and I say mine because, well, we’ll talk about it when we get to. Okay, we’ll keep talking. I have, when we get to, when we get to dayton, we’ll talk about that. But yeah, the tables that I had were like full and underneath, but anyway.

[00:09:57] Kind of like we had stuff set up too, but what was okay? So I think dayton was cool for me. Ah shucks, no, toledo, here we go. Toledo was cool for me because I took a lot of stuff to sell and I almost sold everything I took. I think I- I don’t remember what was- I think I ended up taking 20 or 22 flying things- they weren’t all airplanes- some more drones that I had that I just don’t care about anymore and I got rid of all I.

[00:10:34] Think but I came home with two that’s awesome is that right I should have made notes something like.

[00:10:39] That yeah I bought one for me and turned around sold it I forgot about that so oh god what was it.

[00:10:45] That was the. Did you make money on it? No, that would have been. So this is, this is this is the best part about it. So there is. This was the space walker, the umx space walker? Right, yeah, yeah that was it. People come up, they open it up, they look at it, they close it, they put it down. I had a very low number on it because it had been glued together. That’s how it was when I bought it I. It was not that nice, so they had- I mean, like I said, I don’t know how many people open that up- looked at it and

[00:11:18] Just put it back all day long that for some reason that bothered dave, like it got to the point where he just told me he’s like, hey, can I give you 20 bucks for that? And then just I’ll take it off the table and I was like, yeah, that’s fine, we’ll do that. Well, he ended up leaving it for sale up there. But after he gave me money he went to reprice it. He thought I had it at 25 bucks. I had it at 20, so he offered me what I was asking for it, and then he ended up selling it for 20, I think right.

[00:11:48] I broke even. Yeah, yeah so, but I owned it for like 10 minutes it was. It was impressive, like I just the look on his face when he saw that I was actually because he was going to try and make a little bit.

[00:11:58] Of money on it, which I don’t know why you thought I wanted to make five bucks. I don’t know why you thought that was going to happen if people looked at it all day and wouldn’t take it for 20. I’ve done this before. I’ve had something that wouldn’t sell, wouldn’t sell, wouldn’t sell. I mark it up and it goes. It’s happened to me more than once with the craft shows.

[00:12:14] Huh. Well, we had somebody come back and say, oh, this was 20 before, and I just sat there and thought it’s not mine anymore. I’m not even gonna say anything, but that might have been. That was the guy.

[00:12:27] You sold it to or not? Yeah, and he just handed me 20 bucks. So he didn’t even he didn’t even look at the tag on it that said 25, he just handed me 20 bucks, it’s like. So it was somebody else. Yeah, now.

[00:12:38] It’s gone and I don’t have to deal with it. I thought that was funny. He thought I had 25 and was trying to get a deal out of me. Would you take 20? Yeah, that’s what I have on. Of course I will.

[00:12:47] And then the best part somebody comes by later says well this was 20 years earlier price went up.

[00:12:53] That’s awesome. And then he just walked on. I think, yeah, that’s all right. I had same guy try to haggle with me on those videos too. I don’t get it. I would have thrown the. Okay, go on. I had a 10 pack of world war ii videos in a nice little steel can of what, though? World war ii- 10 pack of what.

[00:13:15] Dvds okay very 2003 just saying go on it had five dollars on it five dollars.

[00:13:23] Five dollars, too much for my blood. But yes, one guy came by. I said: will you take two dollars? No, no, it’s gonna be five. It comes back about half an hour later. Three, no, five dollars. Somebody else came by: will you take four? No, it’s more effort to break a five to give you four singles than it is to just give you the five dollar bill. Five dollars, you can’t even buy a hamburger for five.

[00:13:49] Dollars, not to mention 10 dvds. I mean dvds though I have. I don’t even know if I have a way of playing dvds or blu-rays right now. To be honest with you, yeah, no, he’s playing my computer. There’s no drive on that one. Yeah, and this is old, like this is probably an eight-year-old computer- and

[00:14:09] Even back then they didn’t have one at least they weren’t vhs I must be stuck at a time warp because.

[00:14:16] I use dvds all the time. Yeah, I’m not sure. I think I can you play a dvd, like on the playstations? Yeah, yeah, okay, so, casey, okay, so the playstation at our house, so we have that. I can do that too. Then

[00:14:30] Just because of it, I think same thing, yeah, but it’s funny because we have a whole tub full of dvds and literally overflowing 12 years because crystal won’t let me get rid of them. She even has vhs. That is why I completely well, I still have some of those too. I got a machine in the background, but

[00:14:47] They’re, but they’re like under the entertainment- sniping entertainment- it’s the tv stand and we never see them because we’re never open those doors, but like, when you open the doors there they are so like family videos or something. Because we have some, we have a few of those. Yeah, that we’ve.

[00:15:00] Converted to dvd though but nothing like commercially produced movies yeah we have a few of those oh my.

[00:15:06] Gosh, yeah, I’ve got several, and it’s not because I’m sunday, it’s just because I haven’t thrown them, thrown them out yet. Yeah, but eventually that’s where they’re going. Yeah, but we have, and it’s funny.

[00:15:16] Because so with the camper we’re taking it has a dvd player in it so we see we could have watched.

[00:15:23] World war ii videos we might have to go through my tub and see I got a dvd player in my trailer.

[00:15:28] There you go perfect see although I don’t plan on watching tv except for I don’t either probably.

[00:15:33] Yeah you’ll probably I’ll be back there in between naps getting ready to go to sleep yeah in between.

[00:15:37] Naps, yeah, anyway. So it’s alito gosh, we got off topic again, go figure. So, yeah, we first got there park the trailer. Dave took two airplanes, yeah, his pawnee, which we converted, the skyward thing, which I tell you what. There was a ton of people that liked that airplane. Nobody bit on it, no, and

[00:16:03] I thought it was pretty reasonably priced did you bring it home yeah oh you came home with a good.

[00:16:06] He didn’t want to take it well I don’t blame him that’s a cool airplane I like that it’s like.

[00:16:11] And I was kind of on the fence and I was like I don’t really like it but I do. So I took it and didn’t put a stupid cheap price on it. But the price I put on it I thought was not awful. And there was others selling for more money. May ask 375.. I think that’s reasonable for a bind. It was a binding fly. It was ready to fly. Yeah, so I think it was four something. No well, at one point I took and did change it to four and a quarter. Okay, dave changes the prices. All I sounds like they go up.

[00:16:47] That’s weird usually well that’s when I decide I kind of want to take it home aha so later in the.

[00:16:53] Day the prices go up versus the other way around usually it goes down the late way man I’ve been doing.

[00:16:58] It wrong. I know the second day is supposed to be cheaper, no, but anyway. So he brought that one which there was, another hanger night. This is the, the teal pawnee, the one that they made hanger night, made several years ago, a while back. That was still. There was one there that was still the teal, still, I mean the motor. It was still a two stroke, it might have been an os or a four stroke. I.

[00:17:22] Mean do you remember that I can’t remember what he had in that I think it was an os something or.

[00:17:27] Another. It looks it was a little rough. The motor itself was not in great shape, looked like it had been perhaps ran into the ground a couple times. Okay, just by looks. I mean, I have no clue how it ran or anything, but he was only like 25 bucks off of your price, like lower, and mine. Look brand new, yeah, and custom, absolutely yeah. So with a little light on the top, that drop tanks, yeah, yeah, thanks.

[00:17:54] Yeah but so it came home and I’m not upset about that I’m not upset about that either I like that.

[00:17:59] Airplane. Now the other one dave took, even though it’s gray, what was the other one you took? Because this was slept with, pup interesting. So how long did it take you to put that together when we

[00:18:11] Got there I’ve gotten it down to a system it takes me about 20 minutes so I had my stuff pretty much.

[00:18:17] All carried out to the table. Daniel helped me carry stuff out and all set up. Dave stayed in the back because they had the round table set up by the trailer, like in that back area, and he spent, he says, 20 minutes- I think he’s being conservative. Well, that was the bell time. It had some dust on it so I did clean it okay. So we’ll say an hour and a half. No, it wasn’t that long, but anyway. So he got that all prettied up and brought out to the table and we’re standing in front of the table. We were talking and then brian stops by. He’s walking by and says something about brian burkar. Brian burkar.

[00:18:54] Balsam. It says something about: oh, I need to find out who owns this one. And dave’s like: well, that’s mine. So brian’s like: well, how much do you want for it? No, dave shot him a price. He said I’ll take it, I’ll be darned. So it was up for about seven minutes, I think, and then you had to take it apart and then he had to take it back apart. So for the next half hour he was taking that apart. Yeah, but he had cash in his pocket, so that helps. I don’t remember when that happened, but

[00:19:24] Yes, well, he got paid and the plane went over to- that’s awesome- to brian’s table and then he sold it for 50 more. No, he took it home with him. Actually he might have, so I don’t know, but knowing brian that’s funny. So it didn’t even start. I mean, like, honestly, we sold probably two or three planes the setup day. Yeah, like there was a lot, like really that’s the other thing about buying. Oh, I took three, I forgot about the glider. Oh yeah, I forgot about that too, and that one sold a lot of stuff.

[00:19:58] Sold though like I was I was happy yeah I have a pen I just had a thought and I don’t want to forget.

[00:20:05] There, don’t click, it’s already out right on. Well, gosh darn here, go ahead, continue. Well, I lost my train of thought again. Oh so, no, yes, brian bought that back. So brian bought that off of him. Like I said, I had a bunch of airplanes I took. I actually did sell these.

[00:20:30] Sold the twin timber. Can you believe it? Yes, those things are terrible. No, I disagree like I enjoyed it. I thought it flew well, it was fun, but ironically- I- well, not ironically, but I didn’t like the way it’s stored. I get that. It was a pain with the nacelles on the three blade props, the nacelles on each wing, two-piece wing- just hard to find a good spot to successfully store. It took up a lot of room for what it was and I didn’t want to give up that much room to it. I get that. And then, ironically enough,

[00:21:03] We’ll get to it later. But one of the planes I picked up the next weekend was the same style of my airplane, so I don’t learn. My purchase a twimber? No, it wasn’t a twimber, but it was a twin similar burr, but no. So what else? Daniel didn’t bring anything to sell, he was solely in buy mode.

[00:21:25] Nice I love that I love it when people are in buy mode because then like I love to help facilitate.

[00:21:32] That makes me feel good I brought back less this year than I did last year well last year you brought.

[00:21:37] Back a third scale cub. That is true. He’s got like it would be hard to beat. That, honestly, it’s true. I challenge you to do it next year, or at joan, or at joan, yeah, there will be lots of.

[00:21:49] Days we’ll talk about it we’re getting there we’re getting there yeah we bought g38s in bulk.

[00:21:57] Yeah, oh yeah. Ron mentioned that you guys came back with quite a few engines. No, I wasn’t even talking about this one. I forgot about toledo more. Yeah, we bought back what? Four, five, five, I think there’s.

[00:22:10] Five, five g38s. So now, wow, so you can bend as many crankshafts now as you want to. There’s a couple of them that are going to be parts motors, but I think three of them are going to be decent.

[00:22:22] Motors. Okay, yeah, oh, and there was more, but I, yeah, he kept telling me: stop, you got enough motors. Did you buy them all from one guy? Or yeah, the whole tub? I was looking at one. He goes: I’m gonna get a deal on the whole, the whole tub. Yeah, so that’s how they do it, the whole tub. Hey, that’s how they do it.

[00:22:40] That’s right I mean that and again that was he was happy to get rid of them and you were happy to take.

[00:22:45] Them yeah that was it was like within oh a half hour of the doors open and he sold those so to you.

[00:22:53] Yeah, yeah. So I finally bought myself a mini draco. I bought one there. I had one ordered through horizon, but I wasn’t going to get it until I have another pen. I wasn’t going to get it until it was either late april, which that had passed, or no, not. At that time I thought that was going to pass because I didn’t think I was going to be in that shipment, or late may, from what I was told. So I canceled that and went ahead and just picked up the one that was right in front of me. Yeah it.

[00:23:24] Was a damaged box by which the boxes over there I’ll show like it looks. Like literally the corner, maybe quarter inch. Somebody just put it on a table and went thunk just very lightly like thunk and that.

[00:23:37] Was the only that was the only damage my damaged box there wasn’t much left of it but not like a.

[00:23:42] Not like a wrinkled decal or something because something like that too right the plane was.

[00:23:47] Perfect. Yeah, this was just a box and it was 30 bucks off, so it was cheaper than if I was to buy it. Well, about what I would have spent for that man, you didn’t get any points. Well, that’s why I think, with all that stuff, it probably ended up being about this, but it was in front of me and that night in the hotel I got to open it up and look at it and pet it and put it in bed next to me and sleep with it, because I had my own bed there -huh, all by myself. We’ll talk about that one later.

[00:24:16] Okay, but anyway. So I got that, I did get it home, I did fly it. They have a lot of cool details. Oh, you’ve flown it. -Huh, it’s good. Yeah it, I’m gonna have to do a little bit of.

[00:24:27] More in-depth, not programming. It’s a little bit twitchy and I don’t think it’s supposed to be some expo or something, maybe. Yeah, and I didn’t spend a lot of time like literally I bound it up and it’s been windy, fluid. Yeah, I got two flights on it, I think, and it for what it is I it doesn’t fly as good as like the umx turbo timber evolution. That’s a mouth, that’s a. It gets me every time that little plane flies amazing. I was kind of expecting it to be more like that, but maybe more.

[00:25:02] Like a slower, stole type airplane or airplane and flight characteristics, but it’s not really. They’re fairly heavy, right for as big as they are. Scale detail, yeah, adds quite a bit, and I, you can tell, I did not fly it on a 4s, though, I just had a 3s, so that might make a difference too. I haven’t bought one of the 4s batteries, for it will certainly make it heavier but give it more power, yeah, which kind of loses the scale part. But all those little bits and pieces just kind of scare me, though that I’m going to break them off. Yeah, it’s definitely an airplane that would look okay being hung up or

[00:25:37] Displayed. I mean it looks that good. I think that’s really cool, neat, yeah. So the other stuff I bought then, if we just we’re going to talk about that, I bought a 450 size e-flight club or cub on floats- perfect on floats, solely for the joe knoll. Yeah, it’s a good size. 3S, 2200 battery, not too big, not too small. Yeah, it’s transportable, yeah, but it’s still big enough to fly good and have fun with. So

[00:26:09] It did come with regular gear- tiny wheels on it, though, so that if I ever put the regular gear on, that will have to change you and your big wheels. I like big wheels and I cannot lie. Lie the small ones, just you other brothers can’t deny sorry when a plane walks in.

[00:26:29] Anyway, but no, the small ones, just I like that the bush look, the bush plane look just does it for me. I like those, yeah, small ones, just okay when it doesn’t roll as well, like if you have taller grass or anything like that, like I mean, they actually do play an actual role. Yeah, and how far.

[00:26:47] Serve a purpose you can roll and how well you roll okay yeah but anyway so I got that for.

[00:26:54] The sole purpose of flying at joe knoll. Yep, I think I got a decent enough deal on it to where it didn’t upset me to buy. It didn’t have a receiver, but I had an actual home. I threw in, I think, a six channel something or another, just an old, old style six channel, not park flyer, I don’t know what one it was, though. Sport receiver, yeah, it had a satellite, but I don’t know what one it was, considering it might take a bath. You don’t want to put a good one in there anyway. Yeah, okay, come on.

[00:27:25] That’s just a fetus. It is not going to take a bath. If it does, actually it might, I don’t know. I mean, I don’t know. You’re not having fun, unless you’ve got it up on its wing water. We’ll see. And then so I bought two more. The other plane I bought- it actually was a first for me, and it’s one I’ve I’ve been wanting to get for a while because I’ve never had one, but I finally bought a one meter elf dlg discus launch glider. I haven’t showed that to you yet, have I? Well, I’ve seen you a picture of

[00:27:59] You trying to launch it? That was not trying to launch it, that was launching it. By the way. Okay, fine, I was actually proud of myself for doing that. So 39 inch wingspan and I 27 inches long, so it’s a good. That’s why you’ve got a sore back. No, that was a little while ago. I actually know exactly what I did to hurt my back and, embarrassingly enough, I was bending over to get something out of the chest freezer and I think I just twisted wrong. I was like, oh god, that’s gonna hurt later. Yeah, the laundry, by the way. Yeah, exactly, it’s sucks to be getting old, doesn’t it? But anyway,

[00:28:36] Weird. It’s a small and nice and easy to be able to just throw it here. It’s a carbon fiber. It’s carbon fiber. Yeah, there’s a little bit of balsa on it. It’s made by vladmir models out of the ukraine, which I thought was cool because they’re not making them right now because of everything that’s going on over there. Not cool that they’re not making them, but cool to know the actual company that made it. I did like, before I flew it and stuff, I downloaded the manual, read through it- one of the things that was not done on mine that I’m going to have to do.

[00:29:12] So the little finger hold that goes on the end of the wings is just square. That’s how they came in the. In the manual it said you can shave them to kind of round them off so it’s not so sharp on the edges. I definitely can tell that I need to do that. Like I only launched it maybe 14 or 15 times, I think. I don’t remember. I’ve written down but I don’t remember. And by the end of that, like I could tell just the tips, my fingers were starting to hurt a little bit because it’s, it’s a, I mean.

[00:29:45] It’s smaller airplane but by the time you start to spin it around you get a little bit of centripetal force on there and it does put. What centripetal force? Yeah, yeah, I was surprised that’s a bit. Yeah, that’s a big word, force, or. But it was nice I was able to maiden it at home. It comes, I think I- I mean, I don’t know, it was more than I was expecting to pay for it.

[00:30:11] I mean it was 200 bucks. I don’t know if that’s fair. I mean, it’s carbon fiber. It’s not cheap and when you look them up they’re not cheap at all, especially some of the bigger ones. Yeah, but there’s no. Ailerons just has a good amount of dihedral. So, yeah, it’s just running an elevator and the whole elevator moves like it’s the. The whole thing is just hinged. It’s going to take, like I said, a lot more practice to launch it, because I was always paranoid that I was going to hit the wing on the ground. So, instead of flying or throwing it up at an angle, I was throwing.

[00:30:43] It like almost straight out, and so then I would get scared and pull up on the elevator which is like jolt straight up. But I think, actually flying it more and getting the hang of it, it’s going to be a fun little airplane. I was getting minute and a half flights out of it, which that’s.

[00:31:00] About what I got with that spirit elite on the. Yes, but that was after walking a thousand feet and all that stuff. You only had to walk 15 feet or so to get this thing right, and I was actually.

[00:31:12] Doing pretty good, like landing within 10 to 15 feet of myself. I had to walk one time because I misjudged the wind, but that wasn’t more than 30 feet or so, so it’s going to be a fun learning experience. I like trying different things that I haven’t tried before, and I think that was the most economical way for me to get into a little. Dlg came with two or no, came with a charger, came with five batteries and it takes two at once. Two batteries- yeah, it’s a little one cell.

[00:31:46] That they run in series. Yeah, they run series. Yes, I had to think if I was in that voltage, bump up the voltage and then, like I said, came with charger and five of those batteries.

[00:31:59] But it interesting it flies you’ll have to try it flies good it’s fun you don’t think so.

[00:32:04] Maybe we’ll see it’s different. Are you taking it to? No, okay, I mean maybe, like I wasn’t planning on it, only because, first off, I don’t know where I would fly it, like it’s not really the electric line, maybe I don’t know, but and it’s it’s. It scares me to take it places because it’s very fragile, oh, even being carbon fiber, well, the wings, and there’s not much structure there. Yeah, it’s a light airplane, very light, okay, but anyway. So, yeah, my first dlg, I’m excited about that. I might end up.

[00:32:40] Getting more in the future, who knows? I don’t know if you do like gliders. I don’t know if bigger would be better, though, like I, it’s a good size, especially for here. But as they get bigger they get so much more expensive, but I do wish that it had a lot. Would it be hard to put them on there? No, you can’t. It’s not. It’s not made for at all, so that airplane will stay the way it is. What else did you get? Last thing: I bought- actually I bought off of daniel at the swap meet. At the swap meet. There’s a little.

[00:33:13] Story behind it. We were walking around, daniel and I were, they stayed at the table and stuff and this is the first time I had seen the airplane was when you and I were walking around and it was a three channel six- well, actually almost probably six foot wingspan, you think. I mean it’s a good wingspan, it’s good size, I mean it’s, but it was a like a goal wing type thing and the tail was weird.

[00:33:47] Because, like, it wasn’t a full t-tail but it was almost like a small t-tail. Does that make sense? To where the, the actual horizontal stabilizer was mounted halfway up? Oh, yeah, right, a little about halfway up on the vertical stabilizer and it looked neat and they were asking 40 bucks for it. Yeah, and I, I saw it, I liked it, I talked myself out of it. Was this a glider or like a little electric airplane? Oh, it’s like an. It looks like an old.

[00:34:18] Swooze oh okay yeah it means nothing to me I think I think I know what you’re talking about.

[00:34:25] So I looked at it, daniel and I both looked at it. Maybe an old ben buckle kid or something. Yeah, well, I can. I found out what it’s called. Okay, it’s actually called the mystery man. Oh, okay, there you go. I googled what was on it and I was like, oh, that’s actually the name of the airplane. That was kind of neat, but anyway. So we looked at it, walked away and it was sitting up on like a table that was on top of a table. I think it was on top of a table. It was pretty high, yeah, and so from where we were sitting, like where our tables were, I could see it and I kept like in my mind, I keep going back and

[00:35:00] Forth taunting you and I talked myself out of it again. Well then daniel and dave asked if, or said something about walking around themselves for a while. So I was like, yeah, I mean, I’ll sit here, I don’t have anything else to do. That’s fine. So then they went and walked around. Well, in the time they were gone, I had so many conversations with myself in my head and I decided: as soon as I get back, I’m gonna go over and buy that. Like it’s 40 bucks. I will regret not doing it more than regret not having.

[00:35:31] It, just in case something happens. 40 Bucks, I can always absorb that and not have to worry. It wasn’t expensive and so I kept looking over at it, was still there, kept looking at it, still there. So fine, as soon as they get back I’m going. Well, they were gone for like it was probably an hour.

[00:35:47] And a half five, six hours something, because we went up to the front where all the vendors were. So we’re kind of going through there. So we- yeah, we were gone for a little while, yeah, and then I look back.

[00:36:02] And it’s gone. Oh, I’m like son of a, I was. I was a little disappointed. And then they come back and I said something about it being bought, yeah, and nobody said anything. I was just like I planned on going back and buying that it’s gone. I was a little disappointed. Well, then, an hour or two. Well, I mean we already know how the story ends because well, yeah, then an hour or two later we go to put something.

[00:36:30] In the well we had to load up as the show was over so we were okay that’s what it was yeah we were.

[00:36:35] Loading all our stuff back in the trailer and the trailer door opens and this airplane is sitting in there. Well, my mind just goes to: oh, they bought it for me. They knew I wanted it. Like I don’t know, that was the first thing I thought. I’m like because I had all the conversation in my head, not with anybody else, but in my head. I knew how much I wanted it. And all that stuff like where I left them was, oh, I’m not gonna buy it, it’s, it’s no big deal. So daniel went back and bought it before.

[00:37:01] Because I did I liked it too so I didn’t want it to if he wasn’t getting it yeah I’m gonna.

[00:37:08] Yeah, one of us is getting it right at home, right. So, and I didn’t know he liked it that much either, because he walked away from it the same way I did, yeah. And so, yeah, he told me, pay me for it. If you want it that bad, you can have it, and then if you decide to get rid of it- which knowing me, I probably will before too long- he gets first you’ll get it back. Well, I mean, I want to fly it first. I don’t know why, but I just think that would be a fun little old airplane to fly. You do like your three channel. It was neat it was, it was just different looking right. Yeah, I’ve not seen one like that.

[00:37:38] Before so it’s like it’s going home one of us if it looks like a swoos yeah and it wasn’t an awful.

[00:37:45] Shape it was I had little dings in here and there but it should be recovered it should be.

[00:37:50] But it’s doable, as is, but it’s, yeah, you could fly it the way it is. I mean, it has motor esc servos. It doesn’t have a receiver, but oh well, that’s not the end of the world. Cool, yeah, for 40 bucks, I mean exactly. So, yes, now that’s in my garage for some time, we’ll see how, until next year when you and if you really want getting ready for toledo, okay, we’ll figure. No, okay, you have your fun, was it? But yeah, it survives. Oh, it will survive. I mean, it’s a three channel. How can you?

[00:38:26] I don’t know. Things happen. You get a side wind, trees happen. Yeah, I won’t do that here, but anyway, so is that. It is that how you bought all the stuff that I bought, daniel. What’d you get?

[00:38:42] Well you bought Ron’s little three channel airplane yeah and then turn around sold it and he didn’t.

[00:38:48] Even make any money it must be a brotherly thing yeah must be and I got the box of motors oh.

[00:38:55] That’s a tough motors. How’d you get a? You got a beaver, beaver, nice beaver, mm-hmm on floats for general- perfect, he’s thinking about the flow, yes, so yes, I did get that, because I was looking for float.

[00:39:10] They. There was a two for two right now, by the way. Two for two right now, two guys went to a swap meet and bought float planes out of the four of us so far. Yes, so there was a set of floats. I was looking.

[00:39:23] At to put on my little electric stick but and then the beaver showed up which beaver is it is it the.

[00:39:31] It’s the one they just reissued it’s a great mess oh the fms fly zone fly zone oh so okay.

[00:39:39] All right. So it came with the regular landing gear also. So cool, excellent. What else looks brand new? I mean it’s. Yeah, it’s a little dusty. That was about it. Yeah, that’s about it. Nice, put a receiver in it. But again, yeah, I’ve got receivers sitting around. Have you done that yet? No, I know we’ll have time at.

[00:40:01] Joe no I’ll have time in the evening we got 14 hours in the vehicle well there’s that too you’re gonna be.

[00:40:06] Do it in the vehicle though are you I could do it in the trailer no you could ride with us for the.

[00:40:13] First wait a minute. Hold on, daniel. Are you suggesting that you’re gonna leave dave in the truck all by himself for 12 hours on the way to joe? No, so you can tinker around in the trailer.

[00:40:25] That’s gas stops that’s a foul you gotta keep it’ll get done you gotta help keep the driver awake.

[00:40:32] I’ve made that trip to florida 15 hours I know multiple times if he’s gonna suffer you have to.

[00:40:39] Suffer or vice versa see I don’t know I won’t I don’t have that I know you don’t.

[00:40:47] I’m so thankful Reggie’s gonna be helping out with driving. I would have stayed up with you if it was just the two of us in the camper. Well, yeah, because you have skin in the game.

[00:40:56] With the camper well I did in the car last year too you had my golf cart on the back.

[00:41:04] On your trailer yeah that you strapped down yeah so that was all on you no but I mean like if you.

[00:41:10] Fell asleep or something yeah I would still lose my golf cart which I like you did drive some I have.

[00:41:15] To give you some credit you drove for like 15 minutes or something like that coming home I drove.

[00:41:19] For a good 45 minutes. No, actually it was. It was three hours. It was a full tank of gas. Yeah, it was like three-ish hours. Oh gosh, thank you. It was the beginning and end that you did, and I took the.

[00:41:29] Middle. It sounds like my wife. When we go to florida I’ll drive first. I can get some sleep because I’ve been up for a while. She drives for a half hour she drove to litchfield, which is 50 miles about. Yeah, that’s not very far. I drove the rest of the 15 hours. That’s funny. Okay, thanks.

[00:41:47] What else is that? It is that all you bought, daniel. What was that? Another plan, that same place. I got the plan I sold you. It was that black and yellow. I don’t know what it is. Oh, it was a little.

[00:42:00] Little trainer looking kind of trainer looking yes I don’t know what it is but it was cheap yeah.

[00:42:06] Cheap is good, cheap is good, but I guess it was nice looking like it looked brand new. He had just recovered it, so, oh sweet, it’s all recovered. I mean good deal, I need a receiver, but he threw a receiver in if I bought it. I’m sorry, so he, he gave me a receiver for it. So nice, perfect, it’s. Actually it’s not very big. It looks like a trainer is what it looks like, but yeah, it looks just like a good.

[00:42:29] Flying little airplane that you’re not going to look like it flies. Knock around, throw it in the trunk. Yeah, yes, it looks like it flies good. That was one thing between all three of these- well, mostly toledo and dayton. If I had a dollar for every time I heard somebody say: the plane flies good, the plane flies great, the plane flies awesome. When somebody’s looking at it, oh flies good, I mean that’s like the, that’s like the hello of the swap meet world. Yeah, it kind of is. Oh, plane flies good yeah.

[00:42:57] Flies great yeah it’s good too how are you yeah I even said it a bunch I know and you did.

[00:43:04] That flies great, but it’s. It was funny that caught me off guard, I think, because we always make fun of that. Oh, it looks like it flies good. It’s not just us, I know, yeah, but it’s just one of those things I’ve never heard somebody say to swap meet that flies like crap. Yeah, why do you think I’m getting rid of?

[00:43:23] It, yeah, anyway, and you see, I would see that as a challenge really. Oh, I bet I can make a flag. Give me that thing really. Yeah, sometimes I would take that as a challenge. I’ll remember that when I have something I want you to buy, okay, and I will not buy it because it doesn’t fly good, because it doesn’t.

[00:43:43] Things a total pos. Really give me that. Yeah, I don’t know. So what’d you buy, dave? Dave, not much. Dave sold. Dave was in sell mode. I sold everything I took, except for the pony, which I’m okay with that. I like that pony. Air war skyward. Excuse me, didn’t buy much either. I ended up buying a box damaged, ultra slow stick and my box was beat to death. Yeah, plane inside was fine. Well, that’s good. Box was not so good garbage, and that’s right. You’re not flying the box. Well, that’s not when you store in.

[00:44:17] The box I’m just surprised that the quality of the aircraft inside this garbage box was okay it was.

[00:44:22] Fine, not a dent on it, that’s all. I did more damage putting it together. Those planes, god darn it. They fly so good. I mean they do, though I love mine, it just flies so good. If they ever quit being windy, I’d.

[00:44:35] Find out online we’ve had it since january and I haven’t been able to fly it yeah that’s a.

[00:44:42] Change of subject, but, like going through my head about all the planes we’ve flown over the years, there’s one airplane that sticks out of my head that I would have no problem saying: that thing flies like bleep. What I mean? Yeah, yeah, it’s great planes. That super decathlon 40 size, the red and white one on the box from the 80s- awful, the thing flew, awful really. That’s the only one I can think of, though, that I would ever say: oh yeah, this thing flies like crap. Everything else is yeah.

[00:45:10] Flies okay flies good yeah there’s really not been a lot of bad ones especially lately sorry.

[00:45:15] I can’t think of them off the top of my head, but there’s- I’ve got a couple in my hanger right now that they fly okay. Yeah, they’re not great flyers. Yeah, they fly okay. Yeah, do they at least look cool to make up for it? Well, one of them’s an f-105. That, yes, the answer to that is yes.

[00:45:32] Because those does look cool I like it I can’t remember what the other one is that I’ve got but.

[00:45:36] Yeah, the f-105, it flies okay. And then I ended up buying a used- I’ve obviously used- goldberg cub pre-built. Yay, l4, I love those. I forgot about that one. Yeah, that was a steel fish. Yeah, it was a steel, it was 50. As it can be two stroke with a pericarb on it, which that’s going to go to Tom if he wants it, because I don’t want it can be two stroke, it’s going to get a 91 four stroke in it. Oh yeah, perfect, or even better, a 120 twin. So it belonged to the gentleman’s.

[00:46:17] Deceased father a 120 twin it’s not too big for that a 120 twin makes about the power of a good 80.

[00:46:24] Single really that’s a small airplane for something that size for a 120 it’s just 260s.

[00:46:30] It’s actually technically smaller than a 90 it’s it’s on the verge oh we’re powering it but it’s.

[00:46:34] Fine it’d work okay it’s a small airplane like compared to what you guys say 60 size airplane.

[00:46:40] The goldberg cub was designed for a 60 size two stroke 62 stroke 94 stroke yeah so then the old.

[00:46:46] Ones must have been a lot smaller goldberg has made one cub exactly one cub only and it’s that one okay.

[00:46:52] So I don’t know what cub you’re thinking about you might be thinking about the great planes or that.

[00:46:55] Hangar nine one great planes had a 25 size no but I thought the one you bought was small like I don’t.

[00:47:00] Remember it’s not huge compared to my I’m sitting in the garage right now next to my big l4.

[00:47:05] And it looks minuscule I was gonna say the cubs you’re used to seeing are his third scale his.

[00:47:11] Quarter scale my quarter scale yeah but what do you have on your quarter scale what motor.

[00:47:17] On my quarter scale yeah it’s a 120 twin but it’s underpowered okay underpowered that’s why I got.

[00:47:23] That’s why that’s what was confusing me because that’s why I got that 300 twin to put on it.

[00:47:28] Okay for brian. Yeah, okay. Yeah, you came by when I was running it that one day. Yeah, that’s what’s going to eventually go on, the big cub I got, and then I’ll have a 120 twin, just not doing anything.

[00:47:39] Day, just laying around just sitting. Look good on a goldberg cub. I got the 91 surpass I picked up for cheap. Yeah, that’s, that’ll be okay. Anyway, you got floats for it? No floats. Oh, you want to borrow some for joe knoll? It’s not going to make it. I don’t have time. There’s like what? Five days left. Not even I mean yes, but by the time we get, yeah, I guess, loaded and all that stuff.

[00:48:04] Plus I need a hazmat suit yeah so that’s the other thing about the airplane it was.

[00:48:10] It got better. Well, the gentleman we bought it from it was his dad’s. His dad had passed. Based on the way this aircraft smelt, I’m having a feeling that the gentleman may have passed from a lung disease. Oh, he complained about my cub last year. The smells were it is. It has a strong nicotine addiction, very strong. What all does it need, though? I thought it was supposed to. Well, it has four- like what craft servos in it. I actually have not even really looked at what would it need to be?

[00:48:42] Ready for joe knoll. It needs new servos, a receiver and I’d throw a new tank in it, because I haven’t even seen the tank check, check and check and motor swap check. Well, to do it right, I would need a new cowl. But oh yeah, and I need a motor mount for the 91. Yeah, that’d be a lot of work for.

[00:49:01] Five days it could be done there though if we get rainy days it could yeah and it doesn’t have.

[00:49:06] The wind struts where we did last year we got a couple rainy days and we’re supposed to have more.

[00:49:10] This year by the way so anyway yeah no okay fair enough I’m not gonna push what float planes do you.

[00:49:17] Have to take. So I have the well hold on. I’m sorry, you’re right, I’m sorry. Well, you can get back to that later. Yeah, I, I went ahead of myself, I got excited, so, anyway, that’s all I bought was those two.

[00:49:28] Aircraft yeah he did so close like if you had gotten some floats for that airplane then we could.

[00:49:35] Have said four for four but yeah anyway is that all for that’s all I had for too late I get that pete.

[00:49:43] And paul oh I forgot those are fun yeah the little parasol wing thing yeah those are fun.

[00:49:49] Somebody had bought those fly. Good, so he comes over because I’d been looking at a couple. Well, there’s that real big one from national balsa, yeah, and this other table that had maybe like a state estate sale or something. They were kind of rough playing a lot rough. Yeah, they had one and I kept looking at for I think all day. On friday I looked at it. Saturday I go back, look at it and I was like what, I’m gonna go back just see what.

[00:50:23] And what do you do on it I go back and it’s gone oh so like oh well no biggie so what was it isn’t.

[00:50:30] That a terrible feeling, though, when you walk up it’s been sitting there whatever you were thinking about, doesn’t matter what it is, it’s gone and it’s like, yep, I should have. I’m kidding, that teaches you.

[00:50:39] The lesson, but does it though, because we still do it. Yeah, well, I just kept I do later in the day, the more they’re gonna lower. Yeah, one, get rid of it. Right, it was all right, barkham.

[00:50:48] Basement priced but yeah it really was like next to nothing yeah but it was like 50 bucks I think.

[00:50:54] Wasn’t it? Yeah, it was like yeah. So he comes over. Ron comes over an hour later and said hey, there’s a guy over there that’s got a pete and paul. I said really, so he walks me over there. And I said that’s the same one that was sitting on that table. I was looking at and I said I watched the guy walk away with it. So, guy standing there, and he had a rack, a bunch of other wings and stuff, so we didn’t know if it was for sale or this was his stuff that he was taking. And I said, is this all your planes over here? And he said yeah. And I said, are you, are they for sale? And he said yeah. I said what about that?

[00:51:29] Pete and paul he said well I just bought that one so okay but he goes I’m not attached to it he goes.

[00:51:35] If you want it, 50 bucks, so home, it came with me. I mean, yeah, because he had racks, just like they were just sitting. I don’t even know how to describe it, but it almost looked like they were. Just I don’t know it just, yeah, it was a weird rack system the way he had it set up, because it how he used to be able to get like sodas that would come on a flat pack or something that had the dividers between them- yeah, that’s what it was, but taller, and he just had airplanes sticking out of, like each hole, each one was what? 10 Inches square maybe, and then yeah, yeah, and then wings.

[00:52:12] Were in one, fuselages were in the other one, so mix and match, make your own airplane. Pretty much it was a different setup than I had been used to seeing for storing stuff. Okay, but yeah, daniel ended up going home with that one. Nice also that. And I got a willy-nilly kit -huh which one.

[00:52:30] What, oh gone? Yeah, what which kit do you remember? I can’t pronounce, it’s the. It’s kind of looks like a little mini stick. Oh, okay, like a. Yeah, more wing than fuselage, yeah, like a big, it’s wonder. Like with.

[00:52:46] A massive tail. Yeah, yeah, wonder. Yeah, speaking of willy, sorry not to derail, but did you see their new design? It looks like a mini patriot I haven’t seen. It’s pretty slick. They had one there at dayton. Yeah, took you a second but you got it. Yeah, so that’s the one I looked at. He was like, if they scale that up a little bit, make it a little bigger. Oh okay, I remember you saying that.

[00:53:06] Very jet-like. Yeah, okay, I think my eyes were going many, so many different places at that point, and still missing a lot. Yeah, what I was going to say, though, is crystal slides and touchers. It’s not finished, but anyway, we can move on. Mine’s pretty much what. What you saw I got today in that box is the.

[00:53:24] Missing, just missing pieces. Missing pieces I needed for the servo. So, yeah, which was the easy connector to go on the, because I didn’t have anything that tiny, that’s small. Yeah, and I only had one package, yeah, if it wasn’t, yeah, I’ve been waiting well since saturday or something for these. So this is.

[00:53:42] The final piece yay sweet so is that it for toledo I was gonna say we did today you guys had.

[00:53:50] Fun, we did have fun. Dave was actually good enough and smart enough to remember to ask couple people ah questions, say hi to say good deal. I think what did you ask him? I think you asked what was your.

[00:54:05] Number or how many planes do you have your first name where you’re from okay what’s your number.

[00:54:12] And blurb about toledo so there you go were these folks before you asked them for a comment or.

[00:54:20] Anything? Were they familiar with the podcast? I believe most of them were: oh, okay, cool, there’s only three, so most would be two. Okay, well, we missed a few because we left a recorder in the truck.

[00:54:30] Yeah, well, and there I mean, like you got some recordings, at least he said something to people about doing it. I would, I could not like I, just I that’s. I don’t know why. It’s weird and I didn’t.

[00:54:41] Want to overload on these just in case they were awful yeah well they’re not I mean I think they.

[00:54:45] Turned out pretty good so cool let’s do those first let’s do those now and we’ll move on so the first.

[00:54:49] One is cody. I’m cody ford from grand rapids, michigan, here at the toledo expo and I’m just trying to find some good deals to add to the already 45 airplanes I have. It’s a good number, hopefully. I.

[00:55:04] Can have more to the collection. 45. That’s a good number. It is a good number and that’s a good place to expand your collection from michigan, all the way from michigan. Yeah, next one was roger. Hey, this.

[00:55:16] Is roger from peoria, illinois, reporting you from toledo. I’ve been flying since I was 13 years old, control line and radio and just my third toledo, happy to be here having a ball. Probably have about something like 75 airplanes in some state of repair or flying. Understand that.

[00:55:42] Completely various states of assembly or disassembly is the case maybe yeah exactly.

[00:55:48] No I like them yeah you got one more one more and the last one is camden and greg.

[00:55:54] A twofer. Hi, my name is camden and I’m greg, and we’re from. We’re from cincinnati, ohio, and we have about 25 airplanes. Our number’s 25- yep 25. How long you been flying? We’ve been flying for about three years and he’s been flying a little bit longer. Cool, yeah, I like it. So that young man.

[00:56:21] Made me do something I’ve never done before in my life I had to sign an autograph nice yeah that’s.

[00:56:29] Awesome that was pretty fun no he was he was a nice young kid I enjoyed camden hey camden if.

[00:56:35] You’re listening hope you had fun at toledo I’m sorry I missed you buddy yeah maybe next year.

[00:56:39] Tommy will be able to go hopefully with us we’ll see we’ll be back of course god willing.

[00:56:44] And the creeks don’t rise. So I like it, I like the, I like the little interview things. That’s: yeah, we’ll, we’ll definitely incorporate that in toledo. Yeah, you guys should hear all the ones.

[00:56:54] Tommy didn’t dayton oh wait oh he didn’t and I can’t even use the excuse that I left it in the truck.

[00:57:02] It was in the box right yeah oh yeah like next to me every time I said that I didn’t even think.

[00:57:07] About the whole reason I bought it was because you said you’d do it. That’s okay, I know I knew I wouldn’t, so I cannot judge. Well, I will try to redeem myself until or I will have to say though.

[00:57:18] Those sounded much better than I expected yeah those sounded great yeah that little thing does.

[00:57:22] A decent job recording heck yeah so we’ll have two of them then right oh no is it the same one.

[00:57:27] You just bought the one yeah I just bought one okay well I didn’t know if there was two because.

[00:57:31] I don’t know, because what I? I thought you might have given weekends that we you’re not gonna do it. Well, I know that, but like you’re not gonna do it, so I thought maybe you got dave one anyway. No, I still need to do that way, when dave’s flying down on the electric line, I can go down to the main line or you still can not simultaneously with recording devices. We’re not gonna have that much.

[00:57:50] I promise you guys are gonna forget about it challenge accepted so if you’re listening to this.

[00:57:57] Podcast and you happen to see us at joe knoll. Please don’t be offended if I ask for a quote from you, because Ron has just challenged me to get as many as I can. Or come up and ask: hey, I want to record something. That would be even better. So if you see us, don’t be shy. Come up and we will be happy to record your voice and put it on the show, and, if you want to, you can even make fun of Reggie.

[00:58:20] Or any of us honestly. Yeah, but Reggie’s more, but Reggie’s more fun. Ah, okay, so is that all for toledo should be? I think that’s pretty good. That was a whole hour almost. Oh, that was. Oh, yes, it was.

[00:58:31] That’s all that’s awesome you guys had a good time I’m really happy for you we did I don’t feel.

[00:58:35] Any kind of way at all about not being there. You should, I do, you should. I’m lying. I mean, yeah, I definitely had fomo. Gonna be honest, like fomo is fear of missing out, by the way, yes, but without you going, without you not being able to go to toledo- how am I? I’m trying to word this. I think it’s wrong. If you hadn’t canceled toledo on us for work, making it okay, we would not have gotten to.

[00:59:01] Experience dayton, because if you went to toledo, we would not have done you’re, yeah, probably right. Yeah, so and yeah and we’ll. We’ll get to dayton in a minute first, because there’s something in.

[00:59:12] Between- and this will be quick because it was a single day, but we had the next weekend- after toledo was the first swap me to deli field. So I ended up going over friday night to help get stuff set up. Piper came with me. I was surprised she wanted to come with me but she did. It was so cute, she was such a big help like she was taking all these airplanes and all these pieces and putting them out on the table, laying them out, because we had a bunch of stuff that was donated to the club. Horizon donated a lot of airplanes. There were just a lot of things there that needed to be set up.

[00:59:47] For the club. Yeah, a lot of old transmitters like vintage transmitters, junk transmitters that I would say, call them junk, but yes, they were collector’s item. There you go, perfect.

[01:00:04] But yeah, I mean she ended up setting all those out, almost of those out. We were there a little bit late that night, it was after dark by the time we left. But she was able, she was excited, we took our cars and we had enough time to go up back and run them on the little crawler track and stuff. She had fun with that. And then, like originally, she told me I’ll go friday but she didn’t want to go the next day and I said that’s fine, because the next day is going to be very early. Like I left the house. Left the house like at 5, 30, oh my gosh, which means I was up at like 4, 45. I mean for me, that is to be honest.

[01:00:40] And for her that is. But she wanted to go okay, so of course, not planning on that. After I got home friday night I had to pack up everything that she would need for the next day, because she needs snacks, she needs a drink, she needs toys, she needs coloring books, she needs her batteries charged so she can run the next day. So I didn’t get to bed till very late, up early, going like I said. She got up though without any issue, like I was so surprised, I told her I was like, if you give me heck in the morning, I’m just leaving you like I’m not going to deal with a whiny kid because it’s too early and I was

[01:01:16] So proud of her. She I said my first time to get up. That’s all I said to her. And she got up out of bed, got dressed, awesome good for her. I know I was very proud. It took a couple planes to sell. I sold one of the two I took and that’s mostly because I priced the one that I didn’t necessarily want to sell a little high. It was one I forgot to take to toledo- yeah, toledo, but it was the e-flight carbon z yak. Like I said, I, I like that plane, I want that plane. Just I takes a different.

[01:01:51] Size battery than what I have and I don’t want to buy a battery for that plane. That’s the only thing that makes me want to get rid of it. But I ended up keeping it because it’s not costing me anything. Hanging where it’s hanging it’s not in my way, so I was okay with that one. I did sell the night vapor, the ready to fly night vapor. I mean. That was like right away in the morning. That was quick. There was no. That was one thing I noticed about this swap me too. There really was not a lot of dickering on the prices. I think the prices that were set on, especially the stuff that was

[01:02:25] Donated from horizon was so low oh yeah that nobody questioned anything yeah like some of the pictures.

[01:02:30] You sent me and the prices I saw on the boxes I was like oh my gosh it’s probably a good thing I’m not.

[01:02:34] There. Well, and you still bought one. I did, thanks to you, but I ended up- I mean, yeah, I ended up buying a few more this time, what I’m very excited about, actually. And well, I don’t know how it will fly, I’m sure it will be fine, but I bought the, the sea wind, the tower hobby sea wind for joan all. I figure that one’s perfect though, because I mean it’s a float plane, it’s, or it has gear, yeah, so I could take off on one line and land on another. I won’t, but I could. Yeah, I think they frown on that. I think so.

[01:03:11] A heck of a deal on that one, though, like I said, brand new in box, had. I mean I had a receiver at home. So no, which actually no, I ended up buying a receiver to put in that one because I wanted a decent, a decent receiver for it. So I went with the ar, that one, that one, yeah, with the AS3X+ on it, and then I ended up buying a carbon cub s2, the 1.3 Meter, which I also bought floats for that one.

[01:03:46] So that’s we have an addiction I know that’s another one well the thing is like not to get.

[01:03:51] Out of order. But float, flying at joan, all is just easy, it’s so much fun and it’s yeah well, it’s easy. I know you’re guaranteed to be able to fly because at least when we were there last year it was never particularly busy- busy to the point where I was uncomfortable flying with the number of the airplane, number of airplanes that were in the air. It’s just easy, it’s just and it’s so much fun and.

[01:04:14] So laid back, there it is. I mean there’s that’s especially on the float line. Yeah, that’s what I meant. The float line is just. Yeah, it’s all smaller airplanes. There are some bigger ones, yeah, occasionally.

[01:04:24] Yeah I think there was a turbo bush master the big 120 inch I think yeah but never obnoxiously.

[01:04:32] Yeah, loud, or in the way or busy or anything like that. It was just. It was a very relaxing line, yep, and probably my favorite line on at joan, all to be honest, oh yeah, mine too, yeah, so that’s why I think I think that’s why we buy so many airplanes- just for that, yeah, but they are dual purpose. To where it’s not only there you can. You can take the floats off or just flip a switch for the sea wind and be good, cool ended up buying a cessna 410 needs a little bit of work, not a lot of work. So this is

[01:05:02] A similar setup to the twimmer this is the one that I was talking about because you didn’t like the.

[01:05:06] Format mistakenly bought because I mean it’s bigger than the twimber, was fiberglass, but it came with, I mean, everything except retracts. So the other one I got was a beechcraft baron that was in really, really, really, really, really, really, really bad shape, but it had the e-flight retracts on it, which will, oddly enough, fit the cessna 410, which is why I got that one. And then, for some reason, piper wanted- and you can’t say no to piper- piper wanted the 50.

[01:05:41] Millimeter habu ss wow I know right so I got they do look cool I mean to be honest if you’re a kid her.

[01:05:49] Age and you’re looking at airplanes and you see the habu, and then you look at the apprentice or the yeah, or even the what’s the one that she has? The scout, aero scout, aero scout. The habu looks cooler.

[01:06:03] It does. But I told her, I said: you’re nowhere near flying this right, so daddy’s gonna fly it, and then, when she’s ready, she can fly it too. But I told her she needs to get a lot more flights in on the aero scout- which at the time she was very excited to do, which we didn’t have it with us so he couldn’t. And then it she’s. Yeah, you got home reality, and hasn’t habu? That one would be a good one to take to journal. Oh, it’s right, this is my stack, by the way. Oh, it is. So. That’s the stack that’s going. That’s the stack that’s going, not, I mean, there’s more to add to that, right.

[01:06:34] Right, but that’s yes, I like it. My stack, of your stack is bigger than mine, thank you. Oh wait, maybe that’s a bad thing, I don’t know. We should have room, so I’m not worried about. No, it’s not the room.

[01:06:44] That I’m worried about what are you worried about nothing you just have more you’re taking more.

[01:06:48] Airplanes, it looks like- than me I’ve got I need. Yes, I mean like I went through my list. Okay, we can talk later. Yeah, darn it so hard. Yeah, this episode is going to be like five hours. Oh, that’s all right. What do we got? Well, you don’t even work tomorrow, unlike the rest of us. That’s true, fridays off are wonderful, but that’s what I bought. Dave and daniel made it over. Okay, before we like before.

[01:07:14] Thank you. Yeah, thank you. I bought an airplane too, even though I wasn’t there. Yes, you sent me some pictures and I was like: well, actually you sent me a video and you were kind of scrolling through what was available. This was during setup. Oh okay, yeah, well, you sent me the link. I did. I thought you had taken the video, my bad, but anyway, in the video it’s scrolling past this number of boxes of airplanes and I saw: oh, I like that, I remember those, that’s, that’s cool. So I asked you to pick that up for me and you did. Thank you, you’re welcome. It’s a great planes factor 30 cc.

[01:07:47] Brand new in the box, only missing the cowl. So I’ll try to find a cowl and if I don’t, then I won’t fly without one. Fly without one. Yeah, it’s good flying airplane, yes. So dave and daniel also went to the champagne, the monticello- excuse me- club, the swap meet.

[01:08:11] What’d you guys buy about a box of SuperTigres? Box of SuperTigres, I got five SuperTigre: 40, 45s, huh. So I’m set for glow engines for a while, yeah, forever. Yeah, I want to upgrade. You do like your SuperTigres. I have to say, I do like SuperTigre. Yeah, nothing like nothing wrong with that italian.

[01:08:32] Horsepower. Are they italian, though, or are they the chinese? It’s a mixed bag, is it okay? I got a couple chinese, I got a couple italians. The italian ones will run good, guaranteed. The chinese ones, yeah, that’d be okay. So how do what difference? By the way, I’ll just they say. They say made in china, on them, oh, like on the actual oh, and then the box also, but the crank cases are stamped- a lot of them. You won’t get their cast. I guess you’re buying something made in italy. Those are the ones you.

[01:08:58] Want. Okay, you want the italianos. Yeah, anyway, I want to replace the motor on the blue max. It’s got the bad ring in it. So I think I know somebody who makes rings. Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. I know you could do that too. I put new bearings in it. I might as well put a new ring. I mean, no doubt you got it apart. Anyway, I don’t have to worry about that now because that’s.

[01:09:21] True you got five in the box yeah all new all these are all new if they’re not new they’ve only been.

[01:09:26] Ran once or twice. Two or three of them were so-called seized. Oh, just from their abc engines. They were left parked at top dead center and yeah, a little bit of heat, some oil, they’ll be fine. They’re unseized now, yeah. And a couple of them are missing muffler parts. Yeah, two of them didn’t.

[01:09:46] Even have mufflers is it the standard SuperTigre exhaust header with the muffler that slides.

[01:09:51] Over the stack yeah and then the side those slide over yeah they always get loose and then whenever.

[01:09:57] You finally decide to tighten them. You tighten them, and then the next time you go to take it apart, they seize together and then they don’t come apart. And then you have to pry them and then they break.

[01:10:04] Back ask me how I know, am I really supposed to? No, the aluminum gets galled, mm-hmm. Yeah, anyway, they’re missing a couple muffler parts, but then overall I think we turned out all right on those sweet, and then I’ve got a lots of those kinds of parts at swap meets, yeah, and then I ended up picking up a tower hobbies. I think it was, or great plans, I think it was- tower hobbies, sport.

[01:10:30] Which is just a low wing 40 size, cool. Yeah, I don’t know what the heck I’m going to do with it, but I’ve got it. Hey, whatever price was right. Probably price was real good. Yeah, yeah, daniel.

[01:10:43] What was I got what’s that you don’t even remember what you got do you.

[01:10:48] I’d be curious to know what daniel’s number is right now I don’t even I know that’s.

[01:10:53] What I’m saying he probably doesn’t know. I keep forgetting I got more. Wait, I got more. I open up the trailer. I was like, oh, I forgot, I got that. No, what was that vr? I meant to look before I came.

[01:11:07] It’s the low wing fun flight yeah from who great point great planes uproar yep.

[01:11:16] Those are awesome little airplanes actually they fly really good so yeah I got that and I won’t need aluminum spinner for a while.

[01:11:29] -Huh a bag of spinners I sold them I’m sorry we’re not there I think that’s.

[01:11:35] That’s all I got from there sweet yeah we’re looking at SuperTigre 2500 so.

[01:11:42] I’m glad dave talked you out of those are very thirsty those are a dollar a minute airplanes.

[01:11:47] And I’m trying to get away from nitro, so don’t blame you, smart man. Yeah, but cool. Yeah, all right, dayton, you’re up because you’ll be quick. What am I up? Oh, I did buy one. So, yes, we ended up going to dayton, Ron and I- unfortunately it was the dave and daniel didn’t- didn’t go, yeah, I was stuck in my box at work. Yeah, well, it was just tommy and I. Tommy made the director the, the.

[01:12:18] Reservations on the hotel. Technically, laurie made the reservations, but yes, oh so laurie, and they didn’t end up on my card this time. Yeah, they almost did, because laurie was anyway, that’s.

[01:12:30] Another story long story we’ll talk about some other time yeah okay but laurie ended up just.

[01:12:36] Getting us a king-size bed, but there was also a pull-out couch in the in the room that you told me. Nobody slept on that you like I was prepared to. I know I’m joking, it’s so yeah, it did not bother.

[01:12:49] Me, but it was like I thought you were joking because you didn’t tell me until we were like pulling in, you’re like: oh, by the way, it might just be one bed. I was like what are you talking about? It’s a twin. If it was a twin, I for sure would have slept on that. What are you talking about? He’s like: well, laurie made the reservation. I don’t know what she made. I’d be like: are you kidding? And sure that’s how we got the price we got. And then I even walked in thinking this is still. This is. I’m gonna laugh when I see two beds. And I saw one bed, I was like he’s not joking, yeah, this is. Is this still a joke? Like it’s somebody gonna run out and be like: hi, just kidding, here’s your bed.

[01:13:23] No, you knew before we opened the door, because I, the guy, offered at the when we checked in, would you like some sheets and blankets or whatever for the pullout? And I was like, yes, please, oh, I forget. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you knew before you got to the room, but still, I was still hoping, funny, yeah, I was hoping everybody was just messing with me and, by the way, you would have loved it. It was literally. The hotel was literally across the street from the, from the museum. Oh, can’t get any better than that. It was awesome. Yeah, looking out of the, the windows, yeah, you could see the music. So what are they?

[01:13:56] Getting cool sitting outside. Well, they’ve got one of everything sitting outside. Now I’ve got an f-15. They had, they had an f-16 they had on the mobility side, they had a c-17. They had the c-130a model. They had those two goofy things with the snouts. Yeah, what those were. I don’t know what those were, but they.

[01:14:12] Had like seemed like one of everything outside a-10 they had an a-10 out there it’s been so long since.

[01:14:17] I’ve been there, what you got to go, because they’ve added like two buildings. Yeah, they’ve added like two buildings since the last time I was there and the stuff that’s. I’m sorry. No, I get really excited because there’s so much cool stuff to see there. Sounds like it might be a winter trip for us. Yeah, so you.

[01:14:32] Could? What’s the airplane they had at the very entrance? That’s up on the? That’s an f-15. That’s an f-15. No, the one that was on the spear going up in the air. That wasn’t that 15 on the spear. Oh, I’m sorry, that’s an f-104. That’s what I thought. Yeah, that’s starfighter. Yeah, the dark, yep, but that, yeah, it’s an impressive, yeah, view from the outside. Yeah, we went, but well, not yet that we did, but anyway, so cool, make it quick. We ended up going thursday. Oh god, careful with my hands. I got excited, so we ended up.

[01:15:06] Going. Thursday night for setup was when we were going to get in. You ended up calling to see if we could drop some airplanes off or unload, which made a lot of sense, but that was nice it was, so we were able to quickly unload, I mean, not set anything out, but just throw everything on the table, so we could just show up friday morning and actually set it out nicely two hours early, by the way. Yeah, well, that’s how it wasn’t. No, I like I’m just saying that’s awesome, I hope.

[01:15:33] They continue to do that. My only beef with that and that’s what I wanted to. Ah, write my note earlier. And this is not just. It’s not really a complaint, I guess, because if you buy a table, you get to be part of the setup and you like, even though the website says we discourage buying and selling before we technically open the show, it happens like as you’re walking in, other people are walking out who have just walked in with their own stuff looking at you like you can’t, like you can’t not let people swap before.

[01:16:07] The doors are open, especially if they’re all there setting up at the same time, and that’s unfortunate for the people who aren’t swapping, so that when they come in at nine o’clock a lot of the good deals are probably already gone, or maybe the airplane that they wanted is not. So I mean, maybe they should have gotten the table. Well, I mean, that’s honestly. No, I get that, but that’s like I don’t. I’m offering a complaint without a resolution. There’s like no way to fix that. But I feel sometimes I feel bad for the people who buy tickets to come in, who aren’t paying for the table.

[01:16:38] But you don’t know what you think well that’s true that’s so they don’t know what you miss and.

[01:16:43] That’s absolutely true. Like I said, the nice thing, like with toledo, we had that whole- I mean there was several hours on thursday, half a day, yeah, for setup and it I mean it takes a while. It really does take a while to set up, oh yeah, and then, yes, you have time to go around. Like I said, I think I sold three airplanes on thursday, yeah, and it was well, that’s what I was gonna say: yeah with them.

[01:17:05] Letting us in thursday night to unload. I was, there was, but there was no buying stuff because there was nobody in that. No, no, not thursday night, yeah, but like friday morning when they opened it up at seven for us to come in and everybody else to arrange. Yeah, like it took me no time at all to get my stuff arranged and I had sold probably- I forget one or two, I think- airplanes before they even opened the doors to like the public at nine o’clock. I mean, that’s part of I get that, but there’s

[01:17:34] No like solution negative to the people that are coming in to buy stuff. I see that as a pro for the people that are there swapping and supporting because you’re paying more for a table, that’s more for absolutely putting your stuff in there and it’s oops. That’s just how it’s going to be. I.

[01:17:50] Am hitting. I guess that’s just the empathizer in me. I guess I just feel bad for because I know I had fomo when you guys were in toledo, toledo, thank you. Why is it so hard? I don’t know, and I guess I don’t know. Just empathetic to folks who miss deals. Yeah well, but anyway had a great time.

[01:18:08] I’ll be honest, like in monticello, two of the planes I bought were the first night, and I actually had somebody come in saturday and ask about one of them that he wanted to buy that I had bought the night before, and I just told him it was sold. I’m sorry, yeah, I mean it could have been somebody else five minutes before he showed up too. So true, you just don’t know, yeah. So there’s, there’s really.

[01:18:29] Probably no way to fix that, and even putting it on the website, which toledo did. On their website they say: dayton, sorry, yes, dayton, they discouraged swapping before.

[01:18:41] The doors open, but there’s no way to police that. So, yeah, anyway, Ron went, and so, no, I didn’t. So that first night, when we got there on thursday, I saw right on the table behind us one of my unicorns, which is the e-flight f-18 blue angels, brand new in a box. Boxes taped closed, yeah, factory sealed, still no price on it. And so that whole night I’m I didn’t sleep very well anyway, because it was just

[01:19:16] Different place, different sounds, different, all that kind of stuff. And so I just kept thinking about it and I had a ridiculous high number that was my top limit, stupid, in my opinion, high number for what it was. And oddly enough, when we got there the next morning, we got there right when it opened and the guy was there and I saw him price it and that number was my stupid high number, top of the line number. And so I was like I gotta think about that because that’s I know I want one but, and so

[01:19:54] I was helping you set up and watching you do some stuff and all of a sudden I heard or I saw somebody on his phone walk by that guy’s table and say to the person on his phone: oh, I just found it, I’m going to come over there and get money and I’ll be right back. So he was talking to somebody else that had was set up and was set up in a different part of the, the swap meet, and he was looking at that airplane. And so at that time I got out my wallet and one of the guys said: here, I’ll take that. And I was like

[01:20:27] Oh cool, thanks and stuff. So I bought it and I took it right out to the car and came back in. As I was coming in, that guy came back and asked about it and he said I just sold it. I’m like you gotta be quick so I paid way too much for it. Thinking like in my mind: this is the other thing.

[01:20:48] That got you. Do you not want to say the number? I don’t necessarily want to say okay. I mean, I guess I’m not gonna have four chances, so and I just didn’t know if you were building up to that, or you’re just really not going to tell us how much you paid for it. Well, it kind of came back to bite.

[01:21:02] Me too, because I didn’t look at the box. Well, you were, so excited I was, I would have done the same thing. I assumed it was the bind and fly. It wasn’t the bind and fly. When I found out it wasn’t the blind and fly, it was like, oh, okay, p and p, that’s fine, I’ll buy a receiver, play, I’ll get a receiver. And I was like, oh, hold on, this isn’t even that. So it didn’t come with the receiver, didn’t come with the fan, or didn’t come with the esc or motor. Yeah, that whole setup. So you just got the ARF.

[01:21:35] So the arm plus is what it’s called, so it’s armless servos. It came with foam that was painted. It came with the gear, which it’s very nice, the gear, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it did come with all the servos and stuff pre-installed, just yeah. So I, I it, I mean I think I’m still happy I got it. I don’t think I over. Okay, so I, it was 500. How much 500 for a box of foam? I’m not, I’m just

[01:22:11] Laughing at the way you’re so sheepish about it. Well, it hurt a little bit, to be honest. I mean I really don’t see what the big deal is. I really don’t, because it’s like it’s my money, it’s well, but I mean like well, true, probably, but like I’m, I’m not judging you based on what you spent for it, because it’s like you said, it’s, it’s a unicorn, they’re. They’re just not around. Yeah, and plug and play rf, plus bind and fly whatever you’ve got. I mean probably anyway, between when that airplane

[01:22:43] Came out and now the 80 millimeter- yeah, fans and fan units have gotten better anyway. Yeah, and speed controllers- like avian speed controllers- weren’t available then they are now, so you can totally outfit this thing out to go with your yeah and have a thousand dollar piece of phone. Well, I mean.

[01:23:00] Yeah we’ve completely that’s kind of where I’m at with the f-15 I know that’s the only thing that.

[01:23:05] Keeps me, so we’re grounded. Okay, we’ve complained about the price of these foam airplanes, but it’s just something. We, that’s what we do at this point. We have to live where we are, yeah, but it’s no, I’m, I’m.

[01:23:15] I’m. I think I’m glad I got it. I haven’t. I haven’t lost any sleep over it, so I think I’m in good shape on that. It can sit for a while. I’m not in any, it’s safe in the box. In the box it’s stored.

[01:23:28] Away 80 millimeter fans aren’t they’re not going to stop making them tomorrow no so yeah you’re fine.

[01:23:33] I’m good. Yep, I’m happy. That was my only purchase. Airplane- wiser airplane- okay. Okay, see how I did that. Yeah, that’s why I did that. We both ended up the second day before we left. Yeah, we can, yeah, go ahead. Okay. So we bought the new hanger 9 covering iron. Yeah, I’m excited to use it. I can’t wait this brian had two of them out on the table. I don’t even know why he brought two of them, but he brought two of them. Yeah, and you bought one, I bought one. Yep, so it all worked out okay. Yeah, so those are my

[01:24:00] Only two. I feel like we paid a fair price for those too. Yeah, we got a deal. Yeah, he’s always good to us. He thanks, brian, but anyway, so that was my, and you didn’t sell anything and I didn’t. I’ve got to say this: I felt bad and I and I didn’t really make you go right, but I felt bad that you made the trip all the way to dayton and you didn’t have anything to sell, because you sold everything that you were going to sell in toledo and okay, I know, but I’m just saying, like, the trip for you wasn’t.

[01:24:31] As meaningful as it was for me, like I went there with a mission and you really were just kind of along for the ride and I felt bad that you split the gas and the hotel and all that. And you didn’t really need to, because you really did like if it weren’t for if I didn’t go, you would.

[01:24:47] Probably would have been like: yeah, okay, I don’t need to go. Oh, absolutely, so that, so that we have been. We’d been talking about it for no, but multiple years. If you had backed out, I would have totally.

[01:24:57] Understood I’m like yeah he’s got all this stuff sold no the occasion arose I had it planned I enjoyed.

[01:25:01] The trip it was fun so I feel no we dropped everything off thursday night yeah which was nice.

[01:25:08] And took me no time at all to set up friday morning oh and by the way I drove all of it you did I.

[01:25:14] Just want to put that out because even though I offered numerous times, you did, but I offered, get heck from Reggie. I offered on the way home from joe knoll last year. If that’s what you’re talking about, I last year I fully put out there, I was sleeping, you did, you knew that before we left.

[01:25:29] No you drove the whole way there and back so I appreciated that and the 20 minutes each way.

[01:25:35] Because somebody’s hotel was forever it was not every was 15 minutes like big deal I know and it was in.

[01:25:41] A great location I mean it was actually I mean it was clean yeah there’s no fish hooks in the floor.

[01:25:49] Anyway, so anyway. So friday morning comes, I get set up and, like I’m so, as everybody that listens to the podcast knows, I was on a mission like sell, sell, sell. I was telling everybody come buy my stuff. Well, they did. People came and bought my stuff, which maybe I was low on the prices, maybe I wasn’t, I don’t know. I don’t care that it’s gone. I had. Yeah, I left with a wad of cash in my pocket that I can now comfortably spend, or at least towards a jet. I don’t have enough for the whole thing yet, but

[01:26:21] It’s getting there. Yeah, it’s funny because two of the airplanes you took, I thought you were extremely low on by 100 bucks or so on each one, and then you might be right one of them I thought you were extremely high on for what it was, but you got what you got out of all of them. Yeah, you mean.

[01:26:43] You got, I didn’t. I didn’t. I didn’t haggle much because I felt like I’m I don’t like to haggle, I don’t like the whole process, I’m uncomfortable with it. So, like, when I price something, I price it. This is what it’s. This is what it is like. If you don’t want to pay that, someone else here probably will, so you can just move on. I don’t like the haggling part of it. But so that’s probably why you thought the prices were low, because you expect to see a price that’s a little high and then you expect to try to work them down. I, yeah, I get it, but I didn’t have to haggle too much.

[01:27:16] On any of it. I stood my ground on most of it and got what I wanted. I sold all the airplanes I took, which was made me very happy. Came home with a couple of kits that they probably weren’t worth much anyway, except for the, except for the ccc kit, which, oh, I’m just stuck with that. But whatever, I’ll put that for the balsa, yeah, that’s a good idea, except most of it’s laser cut. But anyway, sold all the airplanes that I took, sold most of the doodads that I took, sold a huge box of nitro.

[01:27:51] Engines, which I have plenty still at home. But I probably sold what 40 ish, 30 to 40 nitro engines- yeah, probably give or take, and a big chunk of that was to one guy who bought the whole box. Yeah, to resell, of course, but yeah, yeah, towards the end, after they were picked over, and everybody pretty much got the ones they wanted out and I was okay with that because I mean, there were, you’re done, there were engines that I was not going to use. Probably, so probably, but I

[01:28:22] Still have. Don’t get me wrong. I still have plenty of my own, mostly four strokes, but anyway I did very well. Thanks to everybody that came and bought my stuff. I have a very good start on my jet now, yay.

[01:28:38] So when are you guys going to buy a jet now that’s going to have to be right I mean.

[01:28:44] That ain’t gonna happen. I mean, I still don’t know which one I’m getting, but I’m yeah, yeah, I’m not making any promises. I see what happens with promises. Yeah, no kidding, just ask richard martin man.

[01:28:56] So anyway, that was, yeah, that was, dayton had a good time. But given the choice between toledo and dayton, I’m not sure I mean they were both good shows. I thought, yeah, I, yeah, I don’t know if I guess what I’m saying is I don’t know if I can afford to do both in the same year- yeah, what I mean? Both, but there I the and the dayton show is getting bigger, like it’s been continuously growing, and they’re building a new building. That’s what I heard.

[01:29:22] To open up more tables so it’s weird because we’ve gone to toledo so much toledo kind.

[01:29:30] Of feels like home, home, yeah, yeah, like you it now, and dave, especially because you’ve been going to toledo for 20, 25 years. Yeah, yeah, so that’s. I mean. I think that one’s always going to.

[01:29:41] Be on our yearly thing as long as everybody’s available to go and all that stuff, and even if they’re not, well, what I mean like it’s not going to be one of those things to where.

[01:29:51] We’re all available, we’re not going to do it. Yeah, it’s close enough. It’s a, it’s a good weekend trip. It’s a lot of fun. So, yeah, we’ll redo that. But the other thing that dayton does offer, that we got to experience very quickly: the museum. The museum I had never been before. Yeah, there were a lot of cooler, is it not? Earth shattering it was well, see, here’s the thing. We had literally two and a half ish.

[01:30:17] Hours what I? I did buy something, sorry. Oh, dayton, I bought a float plane. Of course you did. Yeah, fms kingfisher. Yeah, it’s the one that comes with all three gear. Oh, float skis and big and big wheels. Yeah,

[01:30:34] So anyway nice looking wheel and why did you buy that what was the sole purpose for joining for.

[01:30:39] Jonah, yeah, and also I don’t, I don’t, I don’t need to take the stick now. The stick can stay at home. So, no, nitro, I don’t have to fiddle with the nitro there yet. Yeah, that’ll be good, I get it. Yeah, convenient nitro sucks, I know. No, it’s just less convenient than electric.

[01:31:00] And you’re not going to worry about damaging the engine if you dunk it exactly when yeah when.

[01:31:05] Because that one went upside down because it did it was upside down in the lake.

[01:31:11] No that’s it that’s all I got okay so we went to the museum and so the biggest.

[01:31:19] Drawback about doing that when we did it is we really only had like two and a half hours, which is not a lot of time. That’s no time for a place like that. So literally I think I, I, I took over a thousand pictures and it was tommy didn’t take a single picture like the whole weekend. It was awesome. Yeah, why bother? Yeah, well, well, so I can go back and see what I saw, because it literally was just: oh, walk, click, click, click. It was so big, it took a long time to get through and we were quick about it, like we didn’t stop- that’s what I mean- like if there was something written out on a plaque.

[01:31:51] I just took a picture of it so I could read it later- which we were. We were. We were on a time crunch, right, we only had two and a half hours before they closed and we knew we weren’t going to be back the next day, so that, literally, was the only time we had to be there. Luckily enough, dayton closed the, the swap meet closed early enough. It closed at two which, let’s be honest, for toledo that’s probably a good time to close to four o’clock. Yeah, it’s definitely not busy from any time after, like actually from probably 12, 30 to- yeah, I was gonna say noon to one. Yeah, at toledo is where it just drops.

[01:32:26] Off and the rest of the day should be closed, but anyway, because dayton closed earlier, we had the time to go over and do that. There’s about a 15-ish minute drive to get over there. So by the time we got out and stuff, we had about two and a half hours which you ate first, which took like five minutes, and then we just literally just went in order. From how are you supposed to go through all that? I got so lost like I can’t do that, it’s not hard- and just took pictures as I went, like I said, of all the airplanes to go back later and enjoy what I saw. That’s one that I honestly think, if you go,

[01:33:00] To that museum you should go by yourself like go with a group but don’t stick with them that way you.

[01:33:07] Can yeah everybody has their own pace travel at your own speed well yeah your own interest yeah the.

[01:33:12] Same yeah the same thing doesn’t interest everybody right yeah so no I get that I agree the one.

[01:33:18] Thing that I didn’t re. I would have spent more time looking at, had I realized before I got home and was reading the things, they actually had one of the, the capsules there that was on the moon like an actual, real one, not just a mock-up. That was the one thing that I didn’t actually pay enough attention to. Looking back on it. Yeah, but there’s- I mean there’s- a lot of cool airplanes there, a lot of

[01:33:43] Oh man I’ve never heard of yeah that I just yeah just weird looking yeah we got to take a.

[01:33:49] Weekend trip stuff that’s popping up in. There are drones like the, like the. They had the rq4 there, they had the that they had an mq9 and armed one there, which is pretty cool. So, yeah, you should make a, make a point of it and you could weekend trip. Like I said, I could spend.

[01:34:07] An entire weekend yeah it’s a two-day deal and it’s cheap it’s free I mean it doesn’t cost the.

[01:34:14] Park doesn’t cost to get in. No, no, it’s actually fairly conveniently located, like it’s. If we stay in that place, it is absolutely right. Well, but I mean, even coming off of the main interstate that’s going through, that’s not that it wasn’t hard to get to at all, so, but yeah, nice highly.

[01:34:30] Recommended. Yeah, literally across the street. Across the street, yeah, but no, I, I would definitely be up for that. I think that would be cool to take a weekend trip and go through. Maybe we could do that, like this fall or something. Yeah, I think piper’d like to go back or go. Yeah, she saw some of the pictures and stuff and kind of thought they were neat. I like the sr-71, I like the b2, I liked a lot of the newer stuff that it’s always neat, like the f-117 too. It’s always neat to see these airplanes that you’ve seen pictures of. I’m not around them, I mean, like I know military guys around airplanes more and all that stuff.

[01:35:05] But I’m not around them to get the scale of them, like the f-117 tiny sr-71 long, xb-70 b2- huge. What was that? Is that? That’s a big white mach 3 or whatever, yeah, and then you throw a b36 in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that I mean, that was just very impressive. Yeah, they have a fully assembled b52.

[01:35:25] Inside yeah that’s a big airplane too and xb-70 makes it look small yes yeah a lot of like I said a lot of.

[01:35:32] Neat stuff, a lot of stuff you don’t see like anywhere else. Yeah, that was at the yf-12, or what’s the yf-23? No, the precursor to 71. Yeah, what was that? Y12, the yf-12, yf-12? Okay, yeah, I had one of those. Didn’t realize they were different until I was looking at pictures afterwards. I was expecting.

[01:35:50] To see a half blue there, but they- I didn’t. They had the. They had to have blue there. When I was there 18 years ago. They have the, the radar mock-up that they used for radar testing, the small like 30 or so, but the have blue was not there. Now they had an f117 there, maybe it’s, maybe they painted it or something, but yeah, I was expecting to see it. The have blue was like the predecessor to the 117. There’s a box, yeah, and it was painted in like shades of blue. It was actually. Oh, it’s actually in pictures. Yeah, it’s actually pretty neat, the same shape, ish. Yeah, yeah, close, yeah, but

[01:36:24] Yeah, I was expecting to see it there and it wasn’t there interesting. But I was really happy to see the xb70. That was the first time I had ever seen it like and able to touch it. It’s so tall. Yeah, it’s.

[01:36:37] There’s a lot of cool things there. The, the avrocar, I think, was one of my favorite ones. That was the old flying saucer looking thing. Oh yeah, you always see the videos from the 60s or 50s from nasa or whatnot. They had that one there, number two I think, and like I said that it’s it’s neat to spend the time and read stuff so you actually know what you’re looking at. Yeah, but a lot of the stuff there is real. I mean it’s stuff that has flown and flew there and got there. I mean not all of it- space shuttle mock-up and all that’s kind of cheesy, but there were a few things. So the mock-up was they. They.

[01:37:12] Took the crew simulator module and then they built like a like a building plywood that kind of looks.

[01:37:18] Like that wasn’t there when I was there so yeah that was which I thought it was cool I thought the.

[01:37:23] The, the crew training module. I thought that was neat because that is an actual. I mean, that is the. Yes, it didn’t fly in space, but that is the cockpit like that, I mean the cockpit of the ones that went.

[01:37:33] In space yeah look just like that where are all of them now was there six that made it or I don’t.

[01:37:38] Remember I think there was four, five, right so, and then two of them crashed. One of them’s in new york and I think, yeah, there’s one in, I think there’s one in cannavro. There’s one in california sitting, I think, on a carrier at as a display, I think same with the new york one. Okay, so I think there’s three on display various places. Is there one in chicago? Now there’s three that flew into space, but there’s also at least one that was just a drop test ship. It was set up exactly that endeavor.

[01:38:08] That was the enterprise, enterprise, enterprise. Yeah, endeavor flew. Yeah, I was thinking endeavor was the same as star trek. Yeah, and I don’t know where, I don’t know where they’re all are, but

[01:38:18] I think it’s a google search away yeah that would be neat I think there’s like three maybe four.

[01:38:25] Counting the drop test ship, but anyway, awesome, awesome, awesome museum. Of course we’re talking about the national museum of the united states air force at wright patterson air force base. Yeah, yes, we are, and you don’t have to get on to the base to go to the museum. A lot of I’ve heard people get that confused. No, you don’t have to go on the base to get to the museum, you get to the museum.

[01:38:46] Without going on base the naval museum is one that’s on the base yes exactly but technically.

[01:38:51] So I went to that one down in pensacola when I was down there you can get to that without going.

[01:38:55] Through the gate guard oh they’ve changed that because last time I went you had to go through.

[01:38:59] The gate guard. Yeah, my sister and her husband just did that a couple weeks. Well, well, he can get on because he’s got an id. But well, yes, but he made the mistake of originally, like the first day they went, they didn’t make it, the blue angels didn’t fly because of weather, but he waited in line forever because he was in the civilian gate. Oh, whoops. And once he got through they told him: oh, you can just go to the military gate next time. So they went the same time in the morning. Apparently he just had to sit in the car for like 50 minutes because there was no line like he would. They were like able to go right through, so he didn’t have to wait in line like he did before, yeah than the day before. So yeah,

[01:39:34] And that’s a good museum too. Mostly naval airplanes would make sense, very neat displays, but they do have. They do have some air force airplanes in there too, which I did not see at the at the air force museum. Like I didn’t see an f-89 there, I saw one at pensacola, didn’t see an f-18. Well, that’s.

[01:39:51] That’s a navy, I know, but probably won’t see that at the airport. Still have one. Why? Well, because it’s a cool plane was a new one’s, not any who’s so? Joe knall, joe knall’s next. So we’re getting together this.

[01:40:13] Weekend to start the packing progress or process. Excuse me, still got some decisions to make about what. About what we’re doing for cooking stuff? We’ll see what we have to take and what food.

[01:40:29] We can fit and what cooking materials we can take yep we’re gonna host a dinner with the rhode.

[01:40:36] Island guys and then they’re gonna host a dinner for us, so that’ll be fun. I don’t know if you guys knew that or not, but yeah, yeah, so the rhode island guys have invited us to a dinner with them and then we’ve invited them a dinner with us. I want to do a chili night. Chili, ah, oh, that’s takes one thing off our list we have to worry about. That’s awesome. We could do a chili night. Depending on the which days it rains there, that’d be a good day for chili. Why what? It’s better when it rains, chili goes good in.

[01:41:06] Like cold, wet weather. True, you disagree? No, oh okay, I just wasn’t sure what your point was. Oh well, a cold, rainy day is great for chili. I guess that’s what I was trying. I was thinking like it was easier to make it if it’s cold and rainy, because we- I think it probably is. The difficulty is probably the same. I know, that’s what was throwing me, so I’m a little dumb sometimes. It’s no, no, no.

[01:41:30] But anyway, yeah, so we’ve got a few decisions to make easy stuff. I know you’re still you stress about stuff like that and I just want to make sure we have. I’m a little less so, but I’m the closer it gets, the more excited I get, like it’s like exponential too. It’s not like a gradual excitement, it’s like

[01:41:47] Yeah, so this is tomorrow night. I will have the camper out here. Saturday we will daniel’s bringing his trailer out and it’ll be time just to freaking hit it and get it gone. I almost had the other word. Yeah, no, you’re that excited. Yeah, it’ll be time to load up and get all our stuff put in.

[01:42:07] It’s tomorrow night, I’ll probably go ahead and buy that, the grill from walmart, I think. Are you going to? I think so? Yeah, I think that just makes the most sense. It’s convenient ish.

[01:42:16] Why don’t you wait okay only because once we get stuff loaded if we have room for my grill.

[01:42:22] Oh okay I don’t think one yeah if we have room I don’t mind I mean we don’t need that much grill.

[01:42:29] We don’t need to buy a grill just to take if we own a grill.

[01:42:33] Which grill are you talking about? The big silver one? That’s a lot of grill. That is a huge grill. I know that’s what I mean. If it fits okay, you’re not worried about it getting damaged or anything like that? No, we don’t. Mine’s smaller too. Like a cheap 90 grill I’m more comfortable taking than your.

[01:42:47] However much that grill was we don’t use that one anymore like I mean since we got the griddle I have.

[01:42:53] Not used that grill? Oh okay, regardless, we got a lot of decisions to make. Yeah, my trailer needs a bath. Still got tire residue on the side, oh yeah. And did you say you can’t get that out here? You don’t think it’ll come in the it? I can get it out here, but it will drag. Okay, then we’ll have to figure.

[01:43:12] Like we’ll exactly times and stuff for friday that we’ll meet and where we’ll meet probably meet at.

[01:43:18] That gas station, yeah, unless no, that’s probably less convenient for him, so we may have to catch up with him, like on the interstate or something. Yeah, we’ll catch up. It’s. It’s fine, we’ll figure it out.

[01:43:28] Well, I mean that wouldn’t he take we’ll? We’ll talk about that off. Everybody doesn’t need to listen to us talk about that. That’s true, boring, but anyway, we all have flow planes to fly at joe knolls. Yes, if you’re joe knoll, come see us. Yes, please do I. So I will say a little programming note. I don’t know if we are going to have a delay with our next episode. It is very possible, likely, that we will. Yeah, only because the next time we’re supposed to release will be the friday before we leave to come home from joe knoll- and I’m going to be honest, that’s going to be my vacation week and I don’t

[01:44:00] Know how much effort and time I want to put into editing and uploading and doing all that kind of stuff, and I have nothing else to talk about other than joe knoll. So well, that’s, I mean that’s, yeah.

[01:44:11] We’re going to try to record with the road island guys we’ll see if they want to I mean I’m taking my.

[01:44:16] Stuff to record but that was fun there’s a good amount of time that does go into.

[01:44:21] Process and all that stuff that you guys. But at least if you get it recorded, you could do all that when we get home and then, oh yeah, absolutely upload it late. I don’t think. I think there’s a 12 hour drive. Blame us, yeah, well, but he’ll be sleeping, not on the way home, I’ll be awake. That’ll be the.

[01:44:38] Saturday after we’re supposed to release, but maybe- yeah, we’ll see- I can sit in the back while you guys are driving and well, hopefully I don’t get a headache. I mean, we’ll see. I don’t know if I can look at a screen.

[01:44:49] While we’re driving or not you do I do I get carsick not cars but the woozy that’s the word I like to use.

[01:44:58] So yes joan all that and trying to get rid of or get ready for joan all I did go and get my eyes.

[01:45:05] Checked yesterday. I don’t know why. I think that’s funny. Are you gonna get the shut up? Yes, somebody’s getting bifocals. They said it’s time for bifocals. Progressives, which just say progressives- that.

[01:45:19] Doesn’t sound as bad it does. No, it doesn’t sounds just as bad. Progressive sounds progressive and I, I, I got and I don’t even know if I’m gonna have it in time. That’s the thing that sucks. But I did order new contacts which I’m gonna have to buy reading glasses for when I have my contacts. Yes, how wonderful is.

[01:45:40] That can we get him the little cables yes there’s a guy hey let’s get him the ones that have the.

[01:45:45] Magnetic things. You just pop them off. There’s a guy that has those and I love those. Yeah, it just yeah, exactly what I’m talking about. Oh, yeah, I know what you’re talking about, yeah, but anyway, so I did that and of course, they go through and it’s always stressful because they ask you which one is clearer, and I’m afraid I’m going to make the wrong decision sometimes because I, you can’t tell, like, so that’s what you tell them. Well, I show you the same ones over and over. Well, maybe that’s a good thing then, because that’s why I kept saying I, I can’t tell, like, I don’t know, they’ll jump back to it. Okay, well, I feel a little bit better about that. But then, of course, after she gets everything, all

[01:46:20] Situated and stuff and finds what my new one is. At the end she’s like: okay, which is better, one or two. She goes back. I’m like, oh, I can tell one’s a lot better, two’s, two’s blurry, it kind of sucks. Well, that’s your current prescription. Like, oh, son of a, really like it was that bad, I had no.

[01:46:38] Clue it sneaks up on you it sure does so I wore the contacts home because obviously that’s what.

[01:46:44] They gave me and I wasn’t going to throw them away oh yeah like trees have leaves big difference.

[01:46:51] And all that stuff. So I’m I’m hoping that will help. Yeah, wait till you look at an airplane in the sky with that. Yeah, that’s what. That’s the whole reason. Yeah, did you get the ones that auto start.

[01:47:00] Darkened too. No, so I haven’t actually ordered my final version of glasses yet. Okay, I did get online. I don’t know if you guys have ever bought anything through zenni optical. I, I love them. That’s where I got my glasses, my last pair of glasses, like these frames, were seven dollars. I mean, they’re just so cheap on their glass and they’re actually pretty good quality, but anyway. So I ordered a.

[01:47:22] Disposable pair if I didn’t, actually for trial or whatever. Well, I didn’t get the bifocals yet and here’s why progressives, progressives. I didn’t get the progressives yet because she told me it will.

[01:47:34] Take some time to get used to really oh I didn’t have any problem at all oh really I’ve heard other.

[01:47:41] People like all sorts of problems like you may be at them then the last one like maybe a day it took me.

[01:47:48] To get used to I have more trouble jumping back and forth between single vision and the progressives.

[01:47:53] Because my sunglasses are just single vision okay oh see I don’t I don’t do sunglasses anymore mine do.

[01:47:59] The whole transition. I went tuesday, had my eyes checked. Oh yeah, just for this, pretty much. Yeah, see, you’re making fun of me, tommy, you’re smart, I’m not making fun of you. So I did get the, the tint. I love them. I was on the lying about it and they talked me into it and I said: some people don’t like it, I’ve got. I didn’t go with the gray, I went more with the, the brown or tan, which makes things like brighter, so more like those orange flight glasses. So I don’t know, we’ll see, but I

[01:48:33] Don’t have time, I don’t like, I know, right, that’s I don’t even have to think about. She said two weeks. Well, well, two weeks is. Hopefully they’re coming earlier. So here’s the thing. Zenny optical, I bought a.

[01:48:44] Full pair of glasses with, like I said, not progressive lenses, just the regular single vision lenses, and I actually bought for them expensive frames. They’re like 35 bucks. The whole glasses delivered was 64 or something like that. But that’s only because I could get those rush shipping, so I’ll have them in three to five business days, so I will have those before I go, and shipping was 19 of that. Yeah, well, so isn’t that well, I know, but I’m just saying like it might be worth looking.

[01:49:15] Into that and ordering an extra pair so you have them before we go mine were considerably more than.

[01:49:20] That but I didn’t pay any of it my insurance paid for it well my insurance paid for a big chunk but it.

[01:49:25] Still was a big chunk I decided it wasn’t worth buying the insurance because this is the first time.

[01:49:33] I have actually done it. You may want to reconsider that, especially if you’re going to redo your glasses every couple of years, which you should, because your eyes will change, but I have no problem, like:

[01:49:42] I said with the place online that I bought them. I have, and actually it’s kind of fun. The last time I did it, I bought, I think, 11 pairs of glasses through them, just so I had different ones that fit my mood. I had the harry potter glasses, those exact ones I had, the big like drew carry glasses I had. I’m trying to think what else. I had a whole bunch of different ones. Okay, yeah, I think I’ve said too much now.

[01:50:06] Actually, at least the good part, mine- is I still had a stack of contacts, mine didn’t. She says your vision didn’t change that much. She upped my, my progressives- okay, she upped that, but my contacts aren’t. Yeah, my contacts changed enough. Yeah, so she says you can still use the contacts you got. You didn’t change enough. So that’s that’s one reason I didn’t buy new contacts. Yeah, I had to buy.

[01:50:35] New contacts. I’m hoping I have four now so they gave me. They give you a pack of five to try on. You have to try one on there when you get the contacts. So I still have four good contacts, one like the one a days, so we’ll. I’ve got four days at least where I can wear contacts there, which I. I never did the dailies, I always did the. I don’t wear them enough. Oh, like I’m honest, I did the.

[01:50:59] Dailies. But the problems I had with that. I couldn’t get them out. They were like, because they’re like so thin, I really, because they make the dailies thin, okay, I had problems getting them out and I would fight and, fight and fight. I just went back to the monthlies and I don’t have a problem. Oh yeah, I would.

[01:51:14] Wear the monthlies for like four months oh yeah me too and I didn’t have any problems well see I buy.

[01:51:19] Six months worth and get almost two years exactly I mean it’s I refuse to stick my finger in my eyeball.

[01:51:24] So well, I can’t anymore. Like, as you get older, apparently your eyes get dry and also develop a sensitivity to the plastic they’re made of. So I forgot about that. I can’t wear them anymore. I forgot that happened. Yeah, sucks getting old, but I’m there too. It didn’t matter because I needed progressives anyway and progressive contact lenses are insane expensive. I’ve got them and I don’t like.

[01:51:47] Them okay I had problems with them I bought the first set and it just gives me problems well then.

[01:51:53] They. I’m sorry we’re. Yeah, yeah, this is all mono vision the whole way. One close one. Did you try that? Yeah, oh, my brain just flipped out. I could not. That’s really. I don’t wear the contacts, I wear my.

[01:52:04] Contacts to fly and when I go on the boat yeah see that’s the same with me anytime I don’t see that’s.

[01:52:11] Why I like these I wear these no matter what I’m doing yeah but I don’t want to like when I wear.

[01:52:15] Sunglasses if I have my contacts in, I want the ones that block me out completely, because I have a pro. Like I have a light sensitivity. Like I could not just wear sunglasses like you have, with that shape where it doesn’t wrap around because too much light gets in. Oh, like I can’t fly without sunglasses and a hat and all that stuff. It just well I have to wear a hat. It’s not because of my

[01:52:37] Vision, though, because you’re bald head. Anyway, we’ll see how much of a lobster I turn into it, and all because my new heart, med, makes me light sensitive. Oh, you wear a hat. I’ve seen your floppy. Yeah, I got.

[01:52:52] The military. Take it with you. Oh, it’s in the trailer. I’ve got two or three of them. It never leaves the trailer. Yeah, I bought a new one, but I’m really excited about nice. A new hat, cool. Yeah. It’s big like wide. I can’t wait to see it. And then it’s got a tolly thing on the back. Oh, the hat you got. Yeah, but just mine’s not big and wide. Mine doesn’t say ama, proud sponsor, or whatever yours says, no it.

[01:53:14] Was just ama something, but I did get the horizon hobby. Elite hat, the big straw hat. Nice, that one. No, maybe I’ll take that to get made fun of. You should definitely take that hat. Oh, anyway, I need to actually hats. That’s one thing to put on here. See, as you talk, I remember more stuff. Listeners are long gone. Oh yeah, there’s nobody, it’s just for us and that’s okay. That’s big.

[01:53:41] So, anyway, if you’re at joan, I’ll come see us on the on the float line- that’s where we’ll probably be hanging out most of the time- or electric or the e-line- yep, I’m easy to find. We saw a figure where dave’s gonna be camping. Oh yeah, I don’t. We can talk about that offline. Yeah, okay, that’s it for me. Me.

[01:54:02] Too pretty good I checked out a long time ago I know he’s I’m good any parting shots he’s been.

[01:54:07] Saved rounds. Round, no, okay, but any saved rounds. I think we had cross conversations. Oh, did we? I think yeah, because I was looking at dave and I said he’s been ready to like run off for I don’t know how long. You could tell okay, okay, I’m good, all right until next time. I had jonah, I’m Ron, I’m Tom and I’m

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