Ep 217: RC Fest, Ring of Fire Redemption, and Piper Takes the Mic

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Piper joins Ron, Dave, and Tom for a lively recap of RC Fest! She shares her adventures with the RC car “Try Me” courses and introduces the two new vehicles she brought home—including an ARRMA Mojave Grom BLX.

The crew also talks night flying, Tom’s new airplane trailer, Ron’s Falcon 56 nitro project, a pair of bargain FMS Super Scorpions, and the impressive new E-flite Pilatus PC-21. Ron returns to the Ring of Fire seeking redemption after his memorable crash two years ago, while Tom celebrates having his first review published in Model Aviation.

Along the way, Piper asks the important questions, the RC car collection keeps growing, and bedtime becomes increasingly negotiable.

In this episode:

  • Tom flies Dave’s fleet of night flyers
  • Tom finds a custom 7-by-12-foot tandem-axle trailer
  • Updates on Dave’s and Ron’s latest airplane projects
  • Piper tries RC NASCAR racing and RC soccer
  • New Axial and ARRMA vehicles join the collection
  • Ron scores two FMS Super Scorpions
  • A successful return to RC Fest’s Ring of Fire
  • First impressions of the E-flite Pilatus PC-21
  • Tom’s CAP 231 review appears in Model Aviation
  • A look at upcoming Warbirds, Classics, and vintage fly-ins

More RC Fest

Want to hear how Ron’s first run at the Ring of Fire went? Let’s just say the redemption part of this episode was earned. Go back to Episode 158: RC Fest and the Ring of Fire for the story from RC Fest 2024.

More Night Flying

If you’re into flying after dark, Episode 215 has more night-flying talk, including how Ron powers and switches the lights on his airplanes.

Timestamps

  • 00:04 – Piper joins Ron, Tom, and Dave
  • 01:32 – Tom flies Dave’s night-flying fleet
  • 07:57 – Tom’s new 7-by-12 tandem-axle airplane trailer
  • 17:41 – Dave finishes Reggie’s E-flite Ultimate biplane
  • 21:05 – Ron’s Falcon 56 nitro project and AR637 setup
  • 26:07 – RC Fest returns and Piper takes the mic
  • 27:48 – RC NASCAR “Try Me” course
  • 35:21 – The RC NASCAR collection grows
  • 38:50 – RC soccer and Piper’s new ARRMA Mojave Grom BLX
  • 46:12 – Ron brings home two FMS Super Scorpions
  • 48:32 – Ring of Fire redemption—and a head-on midair
  • 54:26 – E-flite Pilatus PC-21 first impressions
  • 56:11 – Tom’s first Model Aviation review
  • 01:00:14 – Upcoming Illinois RC events
  • 01:02:11 – Illini Warbirds and Classics at Eli Field

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Episode 217 Transcript

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Read the full transcript [0:04] Piper: Hello everyone welcome to the RC Plane Lab podcast I’m piper I’m Ron I’m Tom and I’m dave.

[0:20] Tom: Well what is that buddy it’s the whole game we are all here right now how amazing is it.

[0:26] Ron Plus one plus somebody else. Hold on just one second. I’m trying to check something on here because, okay, Tom, you got sounded weird just for a second there. Oh, my apologies.

[0:41]. Ron, You sound like this. My apologies, we’re recording right. Yes, piper, we are recording. So my daughter is here today. She is going to talk a little bit about the rc fest event that we uh went to last weekend. She was kind of excited about it and she wanted to come on and talk about it, and now I’m nervous to hell. Oh god, no, stop it. We don’t. That’s not no, we don’t use that language.

[1:10]. Ron, You can at least edit some. We’re not editing anything. Watch your mouth. Let’s move on. Okay, everybody, hi, let’s, uh, let’s, yeah. So rc fest. Rc fest was fun, but we’ll get to that in a little bit. First off, I want to talk about what you, tommy and dave right, did while I was gone. Yeah, so I got, I got.

[1:32]. Tom Lucky and I- uh, I got a week away from here and was able to go home for a visit, which was really nice, uh. And while I was home, I, you know, went to the state fair a couple times, saw you at the state fair. That was awesome. And then I got to fly with dave. Yay, I wasn’t there. Dave was gracious enough to allow me to fly pretty much every single one of his night flyers, which I greatly appreciated, and

[1:56]. Dave Really needed to be honest. Yeah, yeah, it was really nice to be out there that night. Weather was good. Yeah, the weather was great, company was great. Yeah, what? What are you saying there? Dave Ron wasn’t there.

[2:09] Ron: That’s hurtful he was saying it without saying it but he did say it oh yes he did so anyway tell me.

[2:17] Tom, Would you guys fly what’d you do? Oh gosh, dave, let me fly his uh. Hey, I’ve pretty much let me fly everything: his ultrix, the mctwist, the shadow seeker- which actually I don’t think I flew- the shadow seeker, yeah, I don’t think he did. Yeah, but uh, the, uh, the piage. I got to fly that. And man, let me tell you- I know dave has talked about it before, but that little piage is very nice, very nice. I’m gonna have to like so nice I’m actually thinking about buying one myself eventually. Yeah, I can’t believe.

[2:47]. Dave, I stumbled into that thing at a swap meet and somebody didn’t want it. You know, it’s just amazing flying airplane. Do they still make them? Yeah, oh, really still buy them. Yeah, nice, and they’re cheap.

[2:57]. Tom, Yeah, yeah, uh, was it motion rc? Yeah, yeah, motion has. Yeah, yeah, for, like, I forget exactly the price, but it’s very, very reasonable. So I’m gonna get one of those and then the other pattern-ish plane.

[3:11]. Dave, You let me fly, dave, what was? Oh, that was a yak. The yak 55 from um, not the ra cores, the other one, yeah, all of a sudden it’s slipping my mind: it’s the um.

[3:25] Tom: Dancing wing hobby one and thing wings that’s it um also a good flying airplane but I gotta tell.

[3:30]. Dave You that piage like night and day difference, oh yeah, the weight difference. Um, the piage is so light versus the much heavier. Uh, yak, pretty sure you could fly that piage in a gym. Oh yeah, we talked about it.

[3:45] Tom: While we were flying and like absolutely could fly that in the gym and be aerobatic with it yeah.

[3:51] Ron: Exactly uh yak not so much now the that yak is the one that’s got the actual uh the wings are oh my.

[4:01]. Dave, God, my mind went. It’s an airfoiled, airfoiled wing. Yeah, okay, yeah, that’s the one I had to change the servers in to make it flyable, right, because the stock ones were not cutting the job. Yeah, it was me, I’m.

[4:11] Tom: Sorry but all in all it was a it was a great evening and I thanks again dave for letting me.

[4:16]. Dave Fly, all of your stuff. Anytime feels like I’m missing one though. Uh, what else do we have out there? We had the piage, the yak, the uh, all tricks, mctwist, mctwist, and then you flew the shadow seeker. I’m pretty sure I guess that was it. Yeah, that was it. Yeah, you just didn’t know you. Uh, yeah, that’s right, you did.

[4:37] Tom: The uh remaden of the uh oh gosh dang it not the beaver oh yeah I had the beaver out there and it.

[4:44] Dave: Was a beaver okay yeah I did a remaden flight on the beaver so pretty good too with the dave redid.

[4:50]. Tom The nat or the uh the beacon and uh. Actually, you know it’d be awesome if you did like a how-to on that. We put it on the website or something, because that strobe looks really, really good.

[5:00] Dave, Uh, I can do that, but there already, technically, is a how-to on the internet. I can find a link for it for everybody to watch the video that I copied. But you can just do your own.

[5:11] Ron: That way we can all watch dave doing it okay yeah and then watch dave cuss when he makes a mistake and.

[5:16] Dave: Burns himself yeah watch me do board work I suck at board work uh yeah so anyway it was a great evening.

[5:25] Tom, And, like I said, I’m really thankful, dave, for uh you let me fly her stuff, because it was, you know, not a uh in the cards for me to transport an airplane home, just to fly it for a few days, all your.

[5:35] Dave: Support equipment and exactly yeah I like having somebody else fly my stuff so I actually.

[5:40] Ron: Get to watch it I mean yeah it’s a different perspective I was gonna say I hope you watch.

[5:45]. Dave It when you’re flying it. I was gonna elaborate: okay, that’s: you’re flying it, you’re flying it, you’re watching it to fly it, but you can’t relax and enjoy the sight. Right, you can’t take in the beauty.

[5:56] Tom Of it. As much, right. Yeah, it’s like a. It’s a different perspective too because, like, when you’re flying it, you kind of know what’s coming. Well, I hope you know what’s coming, because you’re flying it like if you’re watching somebody else fly, you don’t know what’s coming next. So they could do something really cool and be like: oh, I didn’t know my airplane could do that. Yeah, you did some.

[6:11] Dave, Really nice rolling circles with the piaget. I really like that. Yeah, I gotta get one. Somebody’s been practicing makes me feel like I suck, but yeah, I get about halfway around and then things go.

[6:21] Tom: Haywire I get upside down and I go oh they weren’t beautiful but that airplane makes it makes it easy.

[6:28] Dave, Though, oh, it does it just. You know like I am horrible at hovering. But man, that airplane will just let you just hang it on this prop with no problems. Don’t even think about it, nice yeah.

[6:40] Ron: Big fan I’m a big fan did you have a question piper you said you raised your hand which one was what.

[6:49]. Piper, Get up. I had two questions. I don’t know what either of them were. One was: if you do, if you like, copy a video and post it on like your own website, is that copyright? That’s actually a really good question.

[7:04] Ron: That is but if you make your own video and it’s all of your own then no it’s not and also.

[7:14] Piper: The mind of a nine-year-old yes it’s okay a couple times it sounded like dave’s voice was outside.

[7:21] Ron, Yeah, it. Sometimes this kind of changes your voice and makes it sound a little bit weird because you’re not used to hearing people in headphones when you’re standing right next to.

[7:32] Piper: Them um yeah and that’s okay and I’m so scared don’t be scared anyway you’re you’re doing just.

[7:41]. Tom, Fine, so far, we’re gonna talk about your stuff pretty soon, and then you won’t be scared at all. You’ll just be excited to talk about the stuff you liked and it’s all good. Your new toys.

[7:50] Ron: Oh yep don’t give it away okay we won’t we won’t we won’t so what else that happened.

[7:57]. Tom, Tommy, I guess after you got home, oh, yeah, well, home away from home, where, yeah, where I’m, where I’m currently at, uh, yeah, so once I got back, I bought a trailer. Of course, you did, out of all things, of all things, yeah, more of a structure out there than you do here, I know, yeah, so, yeah, so where I’m at, it’s a, it’s a larger area, uh, so there’s more stuff to choose from. So facebook marketplace is really kind of the bane of my existence, honestly. Well, you’re, because I have a lot of time on my hands.

[8:28] Ron: I was gonna say you’re bored half the time there’s nothing around to do so you shop yeah so uh so.

[8:35]. Tom, Yeah, I found a uh, it’s a seven by twelve- uh with a v nose, and I call it a drop v nose because it goes to a v but it also kind of slopes down at the top, if that sort of makes the top yep. Yeah, uh, which I like because, uh, I don’t- you know how well my car is going to haul. You know a trailer which actually I know now it hauls it just fine anyway, um, and it’s a tandem axle, which is hard- I don’t want to say hard, but it’s not. It’s unusual to find a 12 foot trailer with tandem axles. Yeah, that small.

[9:05] Dave: With a tandem is really an oddball setup yeah but when you buy them and have them built you can have.

[9:11] Tom Them built, however, by the way, just well, that’s and that’s uh. So this is an older one, it’s a 2001- um, I forget the brand. Oh well, actually it’s a rance r-a-n-c-e, I think, uh, but the guy that bought it actually ordered it custom and he had the door installed on the drivers or the left side, which is different. I don’t like that. Actually, it’s a european trailer. Yeah, yeah, I don’t mind it actually, uh, because you just get out of the car and there’s the door. It’s, it’s, uh, it’s convenient.

[9:38] Ron. So what’s going to be nice, though, honestly, is when we both go places and have to park next to each other, to have the doors facing each other that way. Oh, that would be cool. We could even put something like above it and then we could have like an awning between the two of them. Yeah, or we could hop. Sure, if you’re going to talk, talk in here, remember. Oh, yeah, hop from one trailer to the next. Yeah, I see.

[10:03] Piper: What you’re saying they will they will do that too it would be so funny imagining that even.

[10:10] Tom: Yeah welcome to my world.

[10:14] Tom, Oh, but uh, yeah, I’m really excited. Um, like I said, it’s a tandem axle, has lightweight um axles. It does not have the 3500 pound axles, has 2200 pound axles, so they’re torsion um, oh, those are nice, though it really does right. Really, like I hooked it up to my, to my x5, and like I barely knew it was back there, except, you know, looking in the mirror and that’s all you can see. But yeah, yeah, and I was, I was a little worried about the extra width because I know, Ron, you had mentioned that, you know you liked yours because you can see around it in the mirrors, um, and that is a

[10:48] Tom, Slight concern I have, so I’m thinking I may go with like a wireless uh backup camera that I can use, you know, like kind of as a rearview mirror kind of a thing. Yeah, the other thing you could do is:

[10:58]. Ron, Just get the mirror extensions for your, your side mirrors for towing too. But that’s something I didn’t want to have to do. That’s why I- yeah, that’s why I went with the width, I went with.

[11:07]. Tom, I mean, but uh, but the price was right. I didn’t have to pay new trailer price, which for an older trailer, which I was. You know, everything I buy requires work and I’m okay with that.

[11:19] Tom, Yeah, but this one doesn’t require that much. I was gonna say it’s in good shape and it’s set up well. So far it should have no corrosion, correct? Nope, there’s, there’s zero corrosion. Funny story, though. Funny story like there’s a sticker on the side of the trailer: uh, from the dealer that it was bought from. And it was bought from a dealer in morris, illinois. So just down the road, yeah. So somehow this trailer was ordered custom in illinois and somehow ended up.

[11:49]. Tom, Here where I’m at, and now it’s gonna end up back in illinois, which is kind of funny. I think it’s up many miles away and I’m back, yeah, um, but yeah, it’s gonna, it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be cool. It’s not gonna be the way you want it. Yeah, it’s not gonna be as bougie as Ron’s trailer, but it does have air conditioning. Uh, there’s an air conditioning unit already on the on the roof, so

[12:08] Dave: Which I think is worth about what you paid for it you’re in pretty good shape you’re in you’re in.

[12:13] Ron, Good shape, I think so too. Next I’m really excited. I was gonna say: next you’ll be buying a generator, um, I mean maybe, and a fan carry with you and a fan. A fan is a necessity, absolutely. Fans kind of a.

[12:25] Tom Necessity: I’ll, I’ll be getting a fan for sure. But yeah, generator is not outside the realm of possibility and I don’t know if I’m gonna go with the battery inverters set up like what you have. I don’t know. I’ll think about that, but you have at least in the meantime- yeah, at least in the meantime- I have a good usable trailer that I can use right now- absolutely awesome- which you’re probably gonna

[12:47] Ron: Need I have a feeling that’s that was probably one of the reasons you bought it I mean yeah I have.

[12:55] Tom: Bought a lot of stuff since I’ve been here and I may need that trailer to get some of that stuff home.

[13:01] Ron, Yes, I mean, that’s gotta. That’s gotta make it easier to, to help you sleep at night, knowing you’re not worried about constraints, of trying to get everything in the back of one, right. So what questions do you have, piper? She, she passed me a note. Oh, okay, that’s what that was. Yeah, talk into it.

[13:23] Piper: What’s your question what’s corrosion if I’m even saying right you are so remember talk right into this.

[13:30] Ron: Don’t mess with that there we go do you want you can take that one since you talked about yeah piper so.

[13:36] Tom: Corrosion is basically a fancy word for rust do you know what that is yes same thing it’s just a.

[13:43] Piper: Fancier word for rust that’s all it is why do we have to use fancy words instead of normal.

[13:48] Ron- Understandings for kids, because that’s how your dad likes to talk. Well, and let’s be honest, so rust comes from iron. Well, right, and yours is an aluminum trailer, so you get that white and so mostly right, so it is corrosion. It’s not necessarily rust. Rust is what happens on iron, so it’s corrosion is.

[14:10] Piper, What happens on other metals too. So it’s way different and not basically rust, but yes, actually rust is corrosion. Rust is a type of corrosion. Yes, I think talking about this is making me even more.

[14:23] Ron: Confused okay well then we will move on we’ll discuss this later yes yeah we can google it later.

[14:28] Piper: And if wow we use google for depend on our lives yes even though google can be wrong okay well.

[14:36] Ron, Everything can be wrong, unfortunately. Um, if you have questions like that while we’re talking, just wait till somebody’s at the end of a sentence and interject, but then someone else is going to interject.

[14:46] Piper, Well then you interject faster. I’m not good at interjecting, it’s interrupting. Well, we don’t want you to my friends always talk all lunch, then we have to line up, and I didn’t get to say a single.

[14:59] Ron Thing. So I’ve learned to interrupt, okay. Well, let’s interject and talk into the microphone, not dance back and forth, because that makes it hard to hear dance back and forth. Oh boy, he’s ready to kill me on this.

[15:11] Piper: One so.

[15:15] Ron: Yeah so you got a trailer and it will be exciting to get it home yeah and is there any racking in it.

[15:20] Tom. Yet, or is it just an empty box? Nope, there is a. Uh, there’s a craftsman tool bench and a couple of craftsman cabinets in it that I plan on removing. Okay, and then I’ll put the rack system and all that kind of.

[15:32] Ron: Stuff because I don’t need a workbench in there have you figured out what the what track you’re.

[15:36]. Tom Going to do- uh, it’s going to be the x track, like, like what you have. Are you going to do the black one? Yeah, let’s see, look at you go. I like the looks of the black and I’m going to probably end up painting the walls instead of putting the paneling on, because there’s already some kind of paneling on it. I’ll just paint it white, you know, for the light. Uh, and then, and then, yeah, I’ll put the black.

[15:59] Ron, Track system. On top of that, see, and I might, I’m I probably have more of the wall covering. If you want to do it that way, we’ll. We’ll talk. How’s that sound? We’ll get it taken care of. I’m going to keep everybody up to date. By the way, I just had a note passed to me from my daughter that says I farted. So oh, she did, and thanks for sharing. Apparently that’s why she is waving that. I’m the. I’m glad I’m where I’m at and not where you were at. Ah,

[16:32] Tom Piper, if it’s anything like your father’s, oh boy, hey, speaking of that like we’re going off topic, but that’s okay. Like, can I mention what you did to me at the top of your stairwell last time I were there?

[16:45] Ron: I don’t remember what I did to you yeah oh yeah you do I do what did you no we don’t have.

[16:50] Piper: To talk about that it’s okay no what did you do seriously I’m gonna make you say that I’m not.

[16:54] Ron: Gonna say it tommy’s gonna spin the yarn and tell the tale well it’s not much of a tale other than.

[16:59] Tom: Ron trapped me at the top of his stairs in a fog of stench that I had uh never experienced before.

[17:07]. Piper, In my lifetime wait. I remember that I had to smell it for a long time too. Yeah, I could taste it, it was.

[17:15] Dave: It was so bad I followed five minutes later and it hit me in the face and in the face it had some.

[17:21] Ron: Lingering capabilities I will tell you that right now definitely had somebody to see a doctor.

[17:28] Tom, Yeah, are you eating? Oh, anyway, I don’t think it’s. Just, I don’t think you ate that. I think it crawled up in you and died. I think is what that was. It had to come out somehow. Oh, burped it out, so dave you.

[17:41]. Dave Finished Reggie’s airplane. Yeah, I did. It got picked up. Yeah, no, he gave me a e-flight ultimate uh 300. I don’t know what it was anyway, e-flight ultimate um had, uh, some odd 90s covering on it. That was very, almost like mica film. It was very, very light and clear. Um, was it brittle? It was brittle and it had like no adhesion to it. I tried to like tack it back down with an iron and it just

[18:14]. Dave Wouldn’t stick, and so I ended up stripping the wings, um, and recovering them with, uh, the china coat- I can’t even remember which brand it is. I use um, value cover, value cover, yeah, um, and that stuff. That stuff works really well. It does like. It does tear a little bit easier than like monoco. That’s the only thing I’ve noticed. So if you get like a little nick in it and you put any pressure on it, it really tears quite easily. Other than that, uh, it works almost exactly like ultra cut. I really like.

[18:45] Ron: It yeah I’m I’m happy with how I’ve or how that’s covered before um and it’s a good price and the.

[18:50] Dave: Price is excellent it really is a roll for less money yeah there’s no paper roll in it so there’s.

[18:55] Ron: No throwaway yeah it’s great it’s nice and compact when it’s rolled up um yeah the stuff the.

[19:02] Tom: Stuff I’ve used it feels like the best compromise of both ultra code and monocoat it’s like the best.

[19:09]. Dave, Of both, best of both. Yeah, sorry about that. Um, so really like that stuff and got it nice and covered. It looks good. And, um, the white is much brighter than the white that was. I did not read to cover the fuselage, so fuselage is a duller white than this stuff, but I think it looks okay. It probably won’t last long anyway, so it doesn’t matter and it’s got a couple other issues with the fuselage that I just kind of like patched up. Yeah, and if he flies it and likes it and wants it redone- I was just I had a fair amount of time involved in it, I’m sure and sure- try to keep his price down a little bit.

[19:44]. Dave For him. So I got it flyable. If he flies it, likes it and wants to proceed, then we can finish. Yeah, do it right. Tricking out the fuselage, yeah, but if it comes back to you in 100 pieces you’re not gonna have to worry about then. Yes, moot point um. So we’ll see how that goes. I was glad to get that out of my shop, though, because it takes up. It’s small but it takes up a lot of room. Yeah, well, that’s the wings. I was gonna say that’s the problem with the biplane.

[20:14] Dave, Yeah, but they’re so pretty and I thought the beaver was a pain in the butt to put together. This thing is really bad to put together. So, yeah, I’m not surprised. Yeah, that beaver was troublesome. Yeah, troubles with beavers. Yeah, that was a lot of work it’s still putting together. I’ve got it sitting on the bed and so it’s a one piece. Now it’s one piece. Yeah, I don’t blame him, you should.

[20:40] Tom: Have seen the wiring the mess of wiring he was trying to deal with yeah you got ailerons flaps and.

[20:45] Dave Lights, all from two, two different directions going into a tiny little space. Yeah, yeah, not worth it, but it did look good flying in the dusk. I’m just saying it really did. I was quite happy with it. Yeah, very nice. Sorry, it’s okay. Can we move it on? That’s all I’ve got. I really haven’t got much done.

[21:05] Ron, This last couple weeks. So my, my nitro airplane, I think after we last recorded, we figured out what it probably is. Yeah, without too much doubt. Yeah, 90, sure it’s close enough for me, a falcon 56. So the thing that you guys figured out was that there’s no wingtips on it. Right, it’s just got flat plate wingtips instead of the carved wingtips, which makes a difference in the wingspan and

[21:37]. Ron Converted it to a tail dragger. Yeah, it’s been converted to a tail dragger and there’s no canopy on it. So, yep, it is just kind of plain, but we’ll see. I did get, uh, I did get a little bit. See what you did there plain. Oh, that was completely not planned. Oh, that was amazing and I gave you credit for it, though. Yeah, piper looks. I said it’s kind of plain and it’s an airplane. Yeah, I’m kind of just

[22:05]. Piper, Zoned out because I’m so confused I have no idea. Well, remember to talk in here even when you’re confused. I’m just like, I’m just zoned out because I’m so confused because I have no idea about airplanes.

[22:16] Ron: Basically yeah she’s still confused about corrosion yeah but remember you wanted this you asked.

[22:21] Piper: Okay that’s before I knew it was gonna be so confusing okay I’m lost in my own siding we’ll.

[22:29]. Ron, Get you into it here when we talk about stuff shortly, okay, yep, we’ll get there. So just behave. So you’ll be in your element before you know it. I did do a little bit of work on it. Um, long story short, I put a ar637 in it. What’s that? It’s the receiver, that is, a spectrum receiver that now has the as3x on it. What’s the stability control? So that, uh, if the wind takes a little bit, it kind of

[22:53] Piper: Evens it out for me okay if I don’t stop asking questions we’re gonna be doing this for way over.

[22:58] Ron: Two hours well we’re not you have a bedtime coming up actually you have a bedtime that was about seven.

[23:02] Piper: Minutes ago so I don’t like that so I don’t care I know I’m not surprised I’m happy to stay up so.

[23:09] Ron, Anyway, I put a new receiver in it and, uh, also did the refreshed battery pack, the five cell nimh. So we’re going back to nimh batteries. Um, oh, just remembered. Yeah, we didn’t talk about our trip to brian’s.

[23:24]. Dave, While I was home. Yeah, we did, that was last episode, that was already of it. Yeah, oh, I guess we did. Okay, oh, that’s right now. I remember, yeah, right, yeah, because I bought a stick. Yeah, wait, what he was.

[23:37] Ron, Oh yeah, ultra stick, you did and anyway you didn’t. Yeah, you can talk about what you did on that too here shortly. Yeah, I forgot all about that, wow, um, anyway. So I checked the controls and servos and all that kind of stuff. Uh, it’s a can be something or another, I don’t remember what, but anyway. So as I was installing all the new electronics and stuff and had the battery powered up and doing all, that piper started messing around with controls on the, on the stick, uh, around the transmitter. Normally I would say, hey, let’s not do that, because you know let’s not do that, but then I thought you know.

[24:12]. Ron, There’s, there’s no reason not to let her just mess around with that for several minutes. It’s a good test on these servos that I have no clue how old they are or how good they are. See, if they’re overheat, glitch out, exactly. So she sat there and played with them for a little while I was doing other things and knock on wood. So far they seem to be okay. So I think we’ll good, we’ll fly with them and then hopefully not crash with them. Um, that should be fine. I knocked on wood, you said. You said I did say knock on wood. I don’t remember saying. But okay, god, not all the time. One knock is good.

[24:47] Piper, But why not three knocks? Okay, now, three knocks is fine, but not 19 I added a 10. I only did nine times.

[24:55] Ron, Not 19, you are right, she’s very factual, by the way, she, she is a numbers girl, um, anyway. So dave was gonna bring his a fuel pump for me, because that’s one thing I haven’t bought yet, but he pretty much just told me he couldn’t find it because he didn’t want to. Let me borrow one. Um.

[25:11] Dave: It’s a good possibility I either gave it to daniel or I sold it yeah and listen there’s a couple in.

[25:16] Tom: My basement laurie will be helping you will be happy to help you find them well I might I just need.

[25:22] Ron, To buy my own. I think that’s the only thing I’m missing at this point, because I had to buy the glow that I literally threw away less than a year ago, um, but anyway. So I still have to go through that.

[25:35]. Ron, This whole next week and all that is just ridiculously busy with stuff every night. So I don’t know if I’ll have time to fly this before the vintage fly-in. Uh, if not, then I guess I’m not going to fly it there, but if so I will and we will just kind of see how all that goes. Yeah, this week, this next week’s gonna be so crazy like cray, I know. So that’s all on that. Um, now do you want to talk about rc fest? Yes,

[26:07] Ron. So piper, I love how she’s so excited about it, I know well, okay, so here’s the thing. And this year was a little bit different, so they didn’t do rc fest. Last year, when we were talking about or when I found out it was going to be uh on again this year and we were getting kind of closer to it, I was told to ask them, uh, whether or not there was going to be a jump house, and that was at piper’s request. And then I was told to ask them what food vendors and food trucks are going to be there, at crystal’s request. So we know, we know what they found to be.

[26:43] Ron- Important at rc fest. Um, yes. Ironically enough, though, piper didn’t even want to do the bounce house when we were there, because she was too excited for other stuff. Can I talk about what I got now? Okay, well, you’re kind of leading it to that. That’s the point. I know we build up to it so that you can then do it. So I let’s talk a little bit about the event first. Just to make it more difficult, days like he’s pushed his microphone away. He’s, he knows, oh god, the earrings come off. He’s, he’s.

[27:19] Ron Picking up a plane he’s starting to go. What is that? Well, I wasn’t like that before, was it? Maybe I didn’t see it anyway. Well, he’s finding more things I have to do on that falcon 56 before he’s finding more problems. Before you fly it, yeah, before I fly it. Thanks, dave, um, no, anyway. So rc fest was back this year. They had a lot of stuff going on, some try me courses and all that kind of stuff. Set up that.

[27:48]. Piper, Piper did what try me’s did you do, kid? So I did. Don’t just call me kid. That’s my first rule of all things. Okay, child, what did you do? Nope, we’re moving on. What did you do? But, um, so the try me’s that I did at rc fest were. So there was like this nascar race one. Well, it doesn’t necessarily race, but I don’t know why I said that, but you’re, you’re okay. You did the nascar cars, the try me’s there.

[28:18] Piper, Um, like there was like a time, just like a random time. Yeah, like we were like they weren’t doing it, so we were gonna go get um our nascar car and turns out we got it from the very long walk. We came back they were doing it again. We had to do the very long walk again to put it away. Yeah, so they had the try.

[28:46]. Ron Me track set up. They were doing the try me stuff. And then we went into the hobby shop we noticed there was nobody on there. So I asked one of the guys. I said, hey, we have our own. Can we just go grab it and run it on there? He’s like, yeah, that’s fine. He said they’re trying to figure out if they’re going to do the try me’s on it again. Uh, he said they might start up in a little while but they haven’t got it all figured out yet. So we went and grabbed the car and it wasn’t a terribly long walk, but I mean it was probably 400 feet, maybe something like that. Um, so we went, got it, got the battery put in, got all that stuff ready to go, walked back up and by the time we got to the try me nascar setup.

[29:20]. Ron, They had- uh, they were doing the try me things again and like so we walked back, put it back, and then she got in line, put mine back in the car and then she got in line and did it again and like I,

[29:32]. Piper, Like right now, I don’t think it took a long time, but then I’m pretty sure I thought it took like 5 000 hours. Yeah, well, it didn’t take that long. It didn’t take that long, but it felt like it took a long time. I was sweating so much out there. Yeah, that’s, that’s my main dislike. It was it was on the warmer side but it wasn’t extremely hot. Yeah, but like they I also did. There was like but like for still like on the nascar, um, dad said well, Ron said I don’t know which one to say on here, it’s fine.

[30:12]. Piper, You can. You can call him dad. Yeah, he’s your dad, it’s fine. Dad said, um that he was glad that we didn’t use ours because, at the beginning, like I’ve never done a nascar on such a small track- well, I’ve never done a nascar. But so, um, I crashed into the wall like 5 000 times, no, and like not that many.

[30:37] Ron, But you know what I mean. I do like I know what you mean. I’m gonna be honest: those cars- probably six times those cars- take a licking. I mean there were. I mean like none of the, none of the kids that I saw do it, look like they had ever done it before and they might go three feet and then run right into a wall or turn around, go backwards, run into somebody else. Those cars are built very well, by the way.

[31:05] Piper: Yeah like but by the end of the day there were only like two cars and like at the beginning there were.

[31:11]. Ron, Like more than five. Yeah, I think they started out with six and by the end of the day, I don’t know if they just didn’t have enough people charging batteries or what, or if maybe they broke- who knows? Yeah, because they looked really rough that well. Yeah, and I don’t know like those obviously are used at other events too, so it’s not just rc or rc fest that they did it, so they take that track.

[31:34]. Piper, Um, to like other places to do stuff. Yeah, was it just an oval? Oh yeah, yeah, it was like banked, what’s banked mean? So it means it goes up at an angle, it’s not just flat, yeah, yeah. And of course, whenever I ran into the wall, like when I was going straight, then I went like sideways, of course I would slowly roll down and so I would keep hitting the wall because I couldn’t get the steering figured out, because I kept going down and I couldn’t figure out the six. But I also are we.

[32:09]. Piper Gonna move on to the other timey that I did. Well, I was gonna say it was funny. Yeah, we will, I was gonna.

[32:14] Ron: Say that was funny because like they had somebody standing in the middle of the oval to move the.

[32:19] Piper Cars when they got marshall. Yeah, actually embarrassing when you do it like are you talking about? Like when the car whams in and knocks the thing down? Oh well, yeah, and that was the other thing too. So the

[32:32] Ron: Track didn’t seem to be like constructed all that well because the inner uh guards like when you ran into.

[32:39]. Piper Them kept like falling off, yeah, and I kind of ran into them lots of times and I thought I broke it because, like I, I didn’t see anyone else do it before. I did it, go figure, because I wasn’t watching a lot. But so I was like, okay, so I just used your words and so like, um, I’m not good at talking instead of.

[33:08] Ron: Movie did you almost have no come on move on kid oh god well this is voice only so we have to be.

[33:17] Piper: Good at using our voices I know and using our words and now I’m nodding like let’s move on so.

[33:23] Ron: Let’s go back let’s get back to your story okay she is blonde everybody just in case we didn’t know.

[33:28] Piper: That um why do we need to know that I’m blonde I’ve I’ve heard just so they can get a clearer picture.

[33:33] Tom: Of you that’s all and dave is what you look like dave is scrolling facebook right now he’s just.

[33:40] Ron: Like oh he really is scrolling facebook I thought he was oh my god I like roller custer anyway move on.

[33:46]. Piper, Okay, where was I? You were talking about breaking the track. Oh, yeah, the breaking. Yeah, wait, like what was my last word? Uh, yeah, no, I mean like talking, I don’t know, piper, well, go figure, no one does.

[34:00]. Ron, Is that pretty much. But do I need to do? I need to put my foot on the gas and move this along. A

[34:06] Piper: Little bit no you david shaking his head like he is no we are would you just mean speed it up like.

[34:15] Ron: This okay so anyway she did the nascar thing she did pretty good on that a lot of the kids were.

[34:20]. Piper Running into the walls too and breaking them down. Breaking them down, but just a person in the middle. They kept like it kept having to like he would look at the person that did it and like make eye contact and then, um, like put the thing back. Yeah, and a lot of times, though, it was funny because

[34:37] Ron, The other kids didn’t quite know how to get to reverse on them, and piper at least knew how to. Yeah, so every time they would walk up and try and grab the car. She had just enough time to hit the reverse button twice, and so then it would like just take off and reverse while they were trying to grab it.

[34:52]. Piper, That’s kind of funny. Yeah, that happened so many times. Only a couple times he actually turned it. But so, okay, go on. At first I didn’t know how, but then I figured it out and like, oh, you have to press twice, oh, I get it, because they’re faster cars and you could really hurt someone if you did an accident. Not like exactly, not like the rock crawlers, yeah. But yeah, what do you want? Like the other, try me now.

[35:21] Ron, No, we’re not going to do that yet. So we ended up buying some nascar cars. So I already had the- uh, the one for my collection. Then I saw they had some pretty good prices on them so I asked, uh, some of our friends if they wanted any. Tommy wanted one. Told me he didn’t care which one, so I bought him. I think I bought you the number 22. Do you want me to go check? No, that’s the one that you said.

[35:49] Ron, Well, I don’t know which one’s a ford. Can I please go check 22 or 24? I don’t know? Nascar, so it doesn’t matter either. You don’t need to check, it’s okay. So, anyway, I had picked one of those up for you, and then they actually got cheaper towards the end of the day a little bit and sit down, thank you, and anyway. Um, so I picked up two more of them, two different of the uh, of the bodies and stuff, nascar, because I wasn’t sure, like I know cody had said something about maybe being interested in it.

[36:20]. Ron Piper might be interested if we can start teaching her to actually drive better. If you make a track, I will be happy and do it like a lot. Yeah, if I make a track, I know that’s just another thing on my list of things to do. However, that’s, that’s the next thing on your list, but anyway. So we, we did buy a couple extras of those, um, and then tommy decided- I sent you a picture of the three we got, because I don’t know who it is. I really don’t care what ones I have- and you decided you wanted the number five.

[36:48] Tom: That was after yeah that was after you told me that Reggie took the 22 okay yeah because he.

[36:54]. Ron Bought his own number 22, which is the shell pens oil, joey logano, um, and I bought the- uh, william byron, the number 24 raptor. That’s a cool looking one. Sorry, but I have no idea who the people were talking about. We don’t either. To be honest, piper, I don’t follow nascar at all. I’m glad that I don’t know something that you guys don’t know. Yep, we are all in the dark on this one, um. Yep, but anyway. So

[37:22] Piper: Understand that word of speech we’re in the dark figure of speech yes I do not understand means we.

[37:28]. Ron, Don’t know what’s what they are. We don’t know what’s going on. We’re in the dark, we haven’t seen the light. Well, already I have one, okay, five things from this. Yeah, you should sit on this like every time, right, dave. Um, so, anyway, we also, rc fest, brought in a couple other rc cars. Um, we, we actually might have to change the name of this to like the rc car lab podcast, with what we’re starting on now. Yeah,

[37:55] Piper, Or maybe RC Plane Lab plus what do you think? Yeah, I think I think that’s good. Okay, well, something else, because that’s kind of, but so I can make a list of we did. We did another uh.

[38:09]. Ron, Another try me. Can I talk about the time? You can give a short synopsis of the try me. What’s a synopsis? You can give a short time. You can give a short overview of the of the. What’s an overview?

[38:24]. Piper, An overview isn’t that where you like, you can tell us what you did, okay, so isn’t an overview like where there’s like a deck and you look over animals or something. That’s an overlook, that’s.

[38:38] Ron, An overview. No, that’s an overlook. So we’re talking about: just okay, let’s, let’s reel it in. So, listen, you can talk to us and tell us about the other. Try me, you did, okay. So about the other.

[38:50]. Piper, Try me. I did wait. How much time do I have? You have 13 seconds, what that’s. Are you serious? We’re not going to spend a lot of time on it. So about the other try me. It was like a soccer. Try me. And you had another like really fast car and um, like so there were a bunch of balls in the thing and um, like I did that try me like at least three times and um, the last time I did it, it was the last time- right where it like died- yeah, there were so many that died at like the exact same time. Batteries.

[39:25]. Piper, That’s yeah. Yeah, they were all ran about the same time, yeah, and it was a decently big thing and they had to like clear it up so fast once it was done and then get the batteries charged. Yeah, yeah, so these

[39:38] Ron Were the arma mojave groms the 16th scale little stadium trucks. Um, gonna be honest, I don’t know much about any of these either, but the one she was doing there. They had the brushed versions.

[39:51] Piper: What’s a brush version we can talk later it’s a it’s a slower motor what’s a slower okay I’m sorry I.

[39:59] Ron: Have like five no I know but we are really dragging on so we’ll we’ll do that afterwards what’s wait why.

[40:03] Piper: Can’t we make this long we’re not because you need to go to bed I want to but anyway bedtime I hate.

[40:08] Ron: Bed so the one do you want to talk or talk about what you bought then or what okay you got because.

[40:15]. Piper, You didn’t pay for it. Yeah, so I got, thanks dad. So thanks dad, but I got, so it, it, it already best. I got two cars and so I got like a five mile per hour or less, like probably less than five mile per hour.

[40:34] Ron: Like really small so she got the axial scx 30 ford bronco rock crawler a crawler.

[40:44] Piper, And then I also got a 50 plus mile per hour. Uh what? The wind, pink, blue. I didn’t realize it was 50 plus.

[40:54]. Ron, It said 35 plus on the box and, to be fair, I handled it well. To be fair, you did. You’re doing very good with it. So she bought 100 plus. She bought the, the army, or arma, mojave, grom, blx 20 or 223 s. For anybody that knows what that means, that should tell you something. Um. So out of the box it’s a two cell LiPo and 35 miles an hour four-wheel drive she did a pretty good job with. Now this does have the. What is it? The dlc or whatever they call them? Now it’s the. It’s the as3x for cars. What’s as3x for cars?

[41:32] Ron, Well, we went over as3x earlier. It’s the same thing as as3x for airplanes, uh-huh. So it helps you drive in a straight line if you start kind of getting out of out of kilter, like start going sideways. That.

[41:44]. Piper Automatically corrects your front wheels for you wait. So that’s hard because whenever I’m doing it and it’s like a turn, I actually stop on the throttle and turn it and it does like a like skid. Yes,

[41:58]. Ron, That is how it usually happens. Um, that’s called a fish tail, but anyway, we’ll do that later, so anyway, yeah, so on a 2s, it’s, it’s, uh, 35 miles an hour. I didn’t realize. You can run it on 3s, pretty much from stock, and it will do 50 plus miles an hour, so she’s excited about that. Now we don’t have a lot of areas at the house right now to run those, so I did cut grass in a very just to test. I cut a.

[42:30] Ron: Little square outside as low as the morrow would go which is 1.2 inches so no it’s really not that bad but anyway so in some spots yeah so we’ll have to go out and try those whenever we have a chance

[42:45]. Piper, We need to like go to the beach and get five full buckets- no 57 full buckets- why are the numbers for me always 57, I don’t know- but a lot of buckets of sand- and then like put it there, even though we would get like lots of sand in our eyes and mouth and get it in our poo. So, anyway, I ended up buying.

[43:05] Ron The army or arma- I keep saying army, I don’t know why. Uh, the mini kraton 3s blx, what’s so the one I got, I mean, I really don’t know. I don’t know what these are. I know there’s a bigger one, that’s just the kraton, and this is, or maybe it’s a kraton, I don’t know- k-r-a-t-o-n. Kraton, kraton. I’m showing my stupidity on all these, but anyway, same with me. It came with two 3s batteries, which I thought was kind of nice. Two 3s 3000 or 2000s and uh, yeah, I’m happy with the way that is that like a 10th scale truck or

[43:39] Ron, Something it is. No, it’s smaller. Um, oh, okay, it’s about the same size footprint as the 16th scale thing piper got, but okay, it looks bigger to me for some reason. Which thing did I thought your grom?

[43:54] Piper Thing, I swear it was smaller. I mean, yeah, it was. Anyway, it was a bit like what’s this called wider? No, the other thing longer. Yeah, it was a bit longer, but, um, mine was way wider. Yeah, I still think.

[44:14]. Ron, That counts as being with the work it could be, but anyway. So, with all of these new purchases and with all the little rc cars I have had in the past and, I guess, present with all this, oh wait a.

[44:27] Tom: Minute before you say it do I see a new spreadsheet entry what’s a spreadsheet entry no not yet um okay.

[44:34]. Ron, That’s not a half bad idea. What I was gonna say, though, is that I have started a collection of these little slt2 transmitters that come with every single car you buy. So basically, yeah, I have another one upstairs that goes to my car, I know, so we need to figure out how to keep them with each one.

[44:57] Piper And number them. So we know it’s what we need to label. We need to label and be like: okay. So this one is like, for example, my 50 mile per hour card that I got. We could like label that and say pipers, 50 plus mile per hour colors. So what I would probably do is just like number six.

[45:25] Ron: And then number six goes with the other one or color code them oh there you go oh yeah color code but.

[45:33] Piper: Mine’s yours already color coded mine’s basically already color coded but all the other ones aren’t.

[45:38] Ron, But anyway, we can talk about that later because we need to get moving along. Why I don’t, piper? I don’t want to go to bed anyway. I gave her the dad look, by the way. That’s what why she stopped. I saw that, yeah, um, I felt it all the way over here and you stopped talking too. I guess it worked. And so dave hasn’t said a word for the last 20 minutes. So, yeah, well, he got the dad look a long time ago. The other things I picked up- and this was, um, I’m gonna say this was a deal of a lifetime.

[46:12] Ron. Um, all through some comments on facebook, that worked out pretty good. I ended up with two fms super scorpions, is it two? Or like one and three quarter? Well, there’s two airframes, so maybe one and, if you want to call it that one, whatever. Um, one is completely bind and fly. I did break, unfortunately, one of the control horns and it needs to be replaced, oops, um, but that’s okay. Other than that, I mean it has the receiver and everything in it. So it’s. I already bound it up to my transmitter and

[46:48]. Ron Put the gear down, made sure everything worked and have kind of been chomping at the bit to get that one flown. The other one, oh, and that one is, is kind of in rough shape like. You can tell it’s been flown, you can tell it’s been um landed a little bit. Yeah, banged up landings were kind of rough on some of them, um, but that’s okay because that’s when I’ll fly and not care about really and just be able to have fun with it. So the other one- the second one is pretty much new, except there’s no power system in.

[47:18] Ron: It so there’s no motor or esc um it’s I’m sorry did you say what these were yet yeah fms super scorpions.

[47:28] Tom: Oh yeah okay good what you already bought yeah well mine’s the v2 but which is really the same thing.

[47:34]. Ron, Well, this is, I’m sure, v1s, because they’re older, yeah, um, and they weren’t new, but they’re still gonna be fun to fly. And yours is, yours is the- the- uh, oh, my god, the camo one success. Yeah, it’s the orange, though. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, so we, we have orange. That’s what I have too. Yeah, I like that better.

[47:55] Tom: Than I think you should put the yeah I think you should put the 8s setup in one of those I think.

[48:00]. Ron, That’d be a lot of fun. I might have to think about it. We’ll see. Um, yeah, we’ll see, but they will both fly eventually, I’m sure, because those going back to the, the swap meet where we saw them in decatur, decatur, yeah, um, I have wanted one for many, many years. So, yeah, fate has intervened. And now, not only do I have one, I have dose one, which means two, yeah, okay, two airframes, whatever, um, only thing was he.

[48:32]. Ron Couldn’t find the second uh wing tube, but he says he knows where it is. He just didn’t have a chance to grab it before he left. So he’s going to bring it to me at the next meeting next week. So, yay, okay, good times. So that was our haul, that we got at the uh rc fest. That was fun, and then we ended the night on what I would say is a high point of a redemption flight through the ring of fire. Anybody that remembers uh? Two years ago I did this and my first try at going through the ring of fire.

[49:09]. Ron Was um flying into the ring and breaking my airplane ring one Ron, zero, yeah, um, yep, and it just. I’m glad dave came back in just to make fun of me, but anyway it, uh, it was perfect timing. It beat me um. So, anyway, this was my redemption time. I was able to go up again and there was a bunch- I mean I don’t know how many people, but there was a bunch of us going through it. Um, so if you don’t know or don’t remember, the ring of fire from, like, this setup kind of originated at uh air meet in germany and

[49:47]. Ron, There’s a little bit different. They actually soak rags in some sort of fuel and light the rags on fire, which I didn’t realize. That um rc fest here, though, uses a trampoline that they found on facebook marketplace, and it is plumbed with propane, and then they just light that on fire, and there’s a really cool flamethrower mounted on the very bottom of it that shoots flames up, uh, via a command, I was gonna say via an rc transmitter. Uh, that they went into the, the audience, and let some of

[50:19]. Ron, The kids press to try and take some of the planes out. Um, so I took the slow ultra stick there again and the first pass through there I was. I was so nervous because a lot of people around, a lot of people that know what they’re doing compared to me, and it’s kind of getting dark, which means your depth reception is kind of off, plus you’re. It’s just an odd setup because you’re not used to flying through something like that. That is literally lit on fire. First time that I went through I almost

[50:53]. Ron Doinked it and had the same ending as last time: hit the right hand side of the uh wing on it and it spun around and did a full 360 and luckily I thought fast enough to just full throttle and it was able to pull away. Um, so did it go through the ring twice? Then no, no, no. So it kind of hit it and then as it went through it just kind of pirouetted around, oh okay, and then I was able to, like I said, save it.

[51:24] Ron, Luckily. So that was the first time. Then I was able to go through, I think, two more times nice, and successfully the third time, though I’m gonna say this wasn’t my fault, I am completely innocent in this one. One of the guys that was there decided that it was easier to start going backwards through it, so he was flying the opposite of the pattern and we had a mid-air head-on collision in which my fuselage went through the ring of fire. My wing did not.

[51:55] Ron. Um, it’s funny because I saw a couple different angles of videos that people had taken. I didn’t realize how far in front of the ring of fire my airplane was when we hit, but it was a lot closer to us than I thought it was when it happened, because you know depth perception, all that kind of stuff. But he was flying a night timber and it took him out also. It just kind of sucked and ended or ended the day, but it was a lot of fun. I already ordered replacement parts because, let’s just say I knew this was going to happen- had to get a- uh, so that little center wing joiner part, the

[52:31]. Ron, Little plastic one that holds the wing on, had to replace that because it tore it off. Um had to buy a control link set too, because the uh on the- I think it was the elevator, the control horn, the little piece that goes through, whatever that little you know on the clevis uh broke off. So got that, and then they were out of course of the propellers and the uh, uh, what’s it called the spinner. They didn’t have those in stock either, so I’ve got to get those next month when they’re back in.

[53:02]. Ron, In uh, in stock. Unfortunately, the led strips and all that stuff were also torn in half off of the wing. Oh no, so I will have to redo those and find out exactly what needs to be repaired, because I have not even plugged it in yet since I have been home. But at least I have some of the parts and I do have enough leds to fix it based on whatever goes wrong. So we’ll get that back up and then next year, when you’re back, rc fest is going on. We will, uh, we’ll- have to all go out. I’m really, I’m really glad that.

[53:35]. Tom, The ring of fire came back because I was like, was it last year or the year before? It got in pretty rough shape and they said, yeah, we’re done with the ring of fire, right, and then I’m glad it’s back it.

[53:46]. Ron Wasn’t until well, actually it was after we recorded last, because last I heard the ring of fire was not going to happen. And then dustin came through and pretty much did it all on his own. So, yay, happy that happened, happy that we’re able to have fun with it again, and I can’t wait till next year. Yeah, it’s.

[54:06] Tom Gonna be. Hopefully I get to. I get to participate next year too with my- oh, my very own- uh, slow ultra stick that you put lights. That you put lights on too. That’s so awesome, I did. Yeah, I should put.

[54:16] Ron: Pictures out there somewhere you should you should have done a build log on but that’s okay a little.

[54:21]. Tom, Too late to think about that. Well, I was in a hurry. I thought maybe I would get to fly it with dave. But

[54:26]. Ron, I didn’t get it done on time. It happened, yeah, um, I would want it looks really cool. Yeah, speaking of looking really cool, I saw the new e-flight. Oh, I’m gonna, I’m gonna do this. Pilatus, pilatus, there you go. Pc21: um, they had that at rc fest and they were flying it. Man, that’s a nice looking airplane, looks like it really flies. Good, I know right. Um, it’s 1.3 Meters, so it’s about 51 inch wingspan and it’s actually longer than it is wide, so it’s 57 inch. Uh long, yes, honey, pov of dad. Oh, where can

[55:05]. Ron, I get this plane maybe, um and so anyway, 100 plus miles an hour, and that I don’t know. I can’t decide if I want to spend the 529 dollars on it, which sucks. But man, it’s nice looking airplane. It sounds good.

[55:21] Tom: Too it does especially with that five blade prop yeah is that a 6s 5000 setup or that is uh between.

[55:28] Ron 4 000 and 7 000 milliamp hour batteries on yes 6s. So yeah, might be worth looking at. It does sound really cool. You know what else I we were remiss about talking about, and I’m glad now we have remembered because I wrote it down, do you know? Do you know what I’m saying? You know what I’m saying? No, I don’t. So tommy has become the last of the RC Plane Lab hosts to become published. Oh yeah, I mean there needs to be more fanfare than that, I guess do, do I don’t remember what button that is?

[56:04] Ron: Dang it that’s not the right one but anyway it might be yes so yeah those I don’t know how many.

[56:11] Tom: Those who’ve uh are members of the ama and get their uh monthly model aviation magazine yeah it’s.

[56:19] Piper: In the august issue so take me through this what are you guys saying so tommy okay so you know.

[56:28]. Ron, How I’ve written reviews and stuff for the magazine. Dave also did that. He did repair log that was published. Tommy just did one for the august edition of the magazine that came out and he has his own review in print now. Has that never happened before? No, this is the first time. Yeah, it’s the first time.

[56:45] Piper For me. So you said he was the last one of the last one of us three. Yeah, yeah, of those three, yeah, but.

[56:51] Ron: Of all the people who have done it now well no of us three hosts of this podcast I know but I’m.

[56:58] Piper: Talking about like all of us that have been on the podcast not no that is absolutely correct.

[57:04] Ron: Of the three hosts let’s let’s let it go that way but yeah tell us a little bit about what you did.

[57:10]. Tom Tommy, do you remember what the airplane was? So yeah, I do, uh. So it’s a airplane I’m actually quite fond of that. Uh, actually brings back good memories too, you know, because it’s been a while since I’ve been to toledo. Uh, this was one of those um samson rc hobby cap 231s, and you know I’m a huge fan of caps. Uh, and this is the matt chapman splat scheme. So, uh, it was an airplane I was drawn to at the toledo swap meet. I bought one there and I put it together and basically did a build review. Uh, and that’s in the august issue of model aviation, and I’m really happy with how it turned out.

[57:41] Tom, Yeah, it’s good. I had a lot of help from uh, from you, Ron, and uh and terry helped me out too a lot. So, uh, for that I thank you guys, but it was a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to doing another one.

[57:54] Ron, Yeah, maybe someday, I think you should. So this is also the one that: uh, you got the wing signed. Yes, you didn’t. You didn’t put anything about that in the review though. Yeah, I didn’t, I thought about.

[58:09] Tom It. Um, I really did, but uh, so I, you know, I didn’t have the airplane with me to take pictures when I finally finished the review, wherever I was at the time. Um, so I couldn’t like get a picture of the signature, so I felt like that needed to be part of it if I was going to mention it.

[58:27] Ron: Does that make sense I mean any one of us or including your wife could have taken a picture of.

[58:31]. Tom It just saying, well, that’s true, that’s yeah, no, I get it, but yeah, yeah, it’s a, it’s a pretty cool, it’s a pretty cool airplane and the fact that I- you know that I have matt chapman- the actual matt chapman’s signature on one of the wing panels- is pretty special. Yeah, because that’s the, the splat scheme that he made famous. Yes, exactly, yep, so yeah, it was a, it was a lot of fun to do and uh, to anybody who was thinking about doing it: um, take it from a guy like me who’s not really good at writing things and uh, describing things and all that it was. It was a lot of fun and uh, getting.

[59:04] Tom: Outside the comfort zone was actually pretty rewarding yeah it is it’s I don’t want to say.

[59:10] Ron: Harder than you think but it’s more involved than yes you would initially I agree yep and pictures are.

[59:18] Dave: Very difficult to get that’s always the hardest part for me pictures are the worst part yep I can.

[59:23] Ron Write all day long, it’s pictures. Yeah, I agree. Well, dave kept crashing, so we never really got good pictures of it. Can you bring it closer? Nope, oh well.

[59:39] Piper: What are you gonna ask son okay we’ll move on then I forgot you can’t blame me about that I’m not.

[59:48]. Ron Blaming you, I’m just saying we will move on. Um, so anyway, yeah, check out your august edition of the ama magazine that came out like a month and a half ago now, because we are so woefully behind in discussing things. Okay, upcoming events. Do we want to talk about that? Right, quick, yeah, and then get out of here. Why are you, why are you so excited, piper? You’re not going to any of them. I don’t, I don’t.

[1:00:14]. Ron, Oh, that’s why, okay, so anyway we have. Now we’re not going to be going to this one, but the street or fall scramble- uh, warbirds and classes or classics- is coming up september 10th through 12th in streeter, illinois. That’s a good event, but things just are not lining up this year for me to be able to go. No, me either. Um, really want to. Can’t do it, yeah, but that’s okay because next saturday we have the- uh, sirs vintage fly-in, the. Uh, what is that? Central illinois radio society- yeah, central spelled.

[1:00:48]- Tom, Incorrectly with an s, which may or may not perturb me, but I will get over it. That’s the one you and I went to last year, Ron. We- yes, yes, it is that- are geez, yes, it is- had a very good time we did, and um.

[1:01:02]. Ron, You won’t be here for this one, but next year, about you guys? Hopefully we’ll be able to do it with the whole group. But dave is coming this year and so is daniel. Good, dave and daniel are spending this weekend doing what I should be doing and getting their airplanes ready for that event. Um, I will not be doing that. I have other things going on. Kids, you know, make us do other things, but it’s okay, don’t kick. Um. So yeah, slap, not a kick, that was a foot slap, but anyway. So that’s september 12th.

[1:01:35] Dave: If you guys are anywhere near mclean illinois which is central northern illinois north central.

[1:01:40]. Ron, North central. Um, yeah, then come out to that event and say hi to myself, dave and daniel- um, not sure what time we’re going to be there yet. We still have to get all that stuff ruled out, but luckily it’s only like an hour drive from here, so it’s not bad at all. Too bad. I’m not leaving at 4 am, I can tell you that. No, I don’t plan on that either. Um, that would be weird, uh. And then the most important one that we have to talk about really quick is the illini warbirds and classics coming up.

[1:02:11]. Ron, September 24th and uh through 26th. This is being held, obviously, at eli field. This is the one that I am the cd for. Um, what am I coming if? Maybe if you want to come over with your mom on saturday, or

[1:02:27] Piper: Something okay cars there won’t be any cars there well they have the track oh well you can run the.

[1:02:33] Ron Cars, okay, I got you. Yep um. So anyway, if you have any kind of uh warbird classic for classics, it’s just a airplane where the full scale one was flown over 50 years ago. So actually I guess even like my cub would be fitting for that, because cubs are old, is it? We didn’t mention that when we were at brian’s. Um. You are correct, tommy. Um. Actually I don’t think there’s anything on here about

[1:03:02]. Ron, Do, because I look just to be sure. I don’t think there’s anything on here about it being, uh, large scale. No, there’s not. There are many giant scale planes there, but I don’t think that’s a necessity anyway. Registration: 40 bucks. If you can make it, fine, that would be awesome. If you can’t make it, to be a pilot, whatever, come out and say hi anyway. Okay, I think that’s about all I have.

[1:03:31] Ron: Is uh we can talk about anything else you guys want to talk about I’ve got nothing I’ve been busy.

[1:03:36] Tom: All week is uh steve providing the food at the warbirds and classics we will be figuring that out.

[1:03:44]. Ron Next week are there. He’s, he’s gonna. I don’t think he’s gonna go out as much obviously as for the jet meet, but there’s gonna be at least at least one, maybe two meals in the evenings provided by him. I mean, it makes it worthwhile. Honestly, I know really that, yeah, he’s, he’s so good at it. If he quits.

[1:04:09]. Ron, Like attendance for the jet meet is just gonna plummet because I mean that’s honestly, of all the places I’ve ever gone to, any fly-ins or been to or seen or flown in. It’s the best food we ever had. Yeah, very amazing. I concur. I tried to cur once. I concur now too, because you couldn’t. Yeah, yes, piper.

[1:04:31] Piper: Two questions so one is there going to be food trucks at any of the events food trucks no in two.

[1:04:40]. Ron, Are you getting served meals? Probably on saturday, because I’m sure we’ll have something served, because saturday wraps up at these events. Uh, with the, uh, the align our warbirds and classics, we’ll have a- um, oh, my, my just went blank- an awards banquet, kind of thing. Three, so what times are they? Uh, usually that’s between five and six on saturday evening. Four, oh,

[1:05:11] Piper: Are the meals free no five how long are the events so the event runs from uh thursday friday and.

[1:05:21]. Ron, Saturday 8 am to like 5 pm. I said events. Well, that’s all the other ones. I think they’re probably 8 am to a little afternoon, maybe up to five. What I wanted to. I wanted. Okay, go on. Last question: make.

[1:05:38] Piper: It a good one um let’s see I’m trying to find the best question then we can come back to it one of.

[1:05:43]. Ron, The things you said reminded me when we went to rc fest I- I have a little bit of a gripe. That was nobody’s fault, but they had food trucks there and there was one- it was a pasta truck, you know me in and pastas, and I was waiting for crystal to get there because she was doing some stuff at home. Piper came with me first, which I actually think if crystal was there I we probably wouldn’t have been able to get as many cars, because you know she’s a grinch, but anyway. Um- no, she’s not the grinch, the store, but anyway there was a food truck there and I was so excited because it had a lot of.

[1:06:18]. Ron, Good pasta stuff on it and I was waiting for her to get there. They left at like four o’clock they packed up and just the pasta truck was gone. I’m so sorry. I know it did kind of make me sad. You do like pasta, I. Yeah, that’s my downfall, but anyway, what was piper’s last question? So my last question.

[1:06:39]. Piper, How many rc’s things are there? Name every single one, like drones, planes, boats, cars. Name all of them, even helicopters and motorcycles. Name every single thing of rc. Well, thank you everybody for listening.

[1:06:57] Ron. Um, I think it’s time to no get out of this one, because piper is doing her darndest to get out of going to bed, but it is no. No, piper, there’s a lot of them, and I’m now giving you the dad look, so you must behave you. You’re starting to give me the dad look. I’m I don’t want to have to go full. Dad look, should I check my mouth? Yeah, that’s a good idea. Oh, and what was that? Is that here? You can hear that, yeah, is that by you? Yeah, yeah, oh, is that an airplane? No, that’s yeah, sounds like a siren.

[1:07:32] Ron: Anyway okay dave would you like to cover anything else before we get off of here.

[1:07:38]. Piper, I’ve got nothing to cover other than she needs to go to bed. I do not need to go to bed. I have school tomorrow, when I only get up at six. Anyway, I do not care about school, I get good enough grades.

[1:07:52]. Ron, For me it definitely is. She does get good grades, though, so we’re not too worried about it. Anyway, I’m five minutes from my bedtime, actually only five. What time is it? It is 8: 52 right now. 8, 52. Okay, listen, it’s time to. Would you like to take us out? Thank you everybody for listening.

[1:08:08]. Piper, Yada, yada, yada. What do I say? Well, okay, so I will do it then. No, I want to do it, um, is it? Thank you everyone for listening to the RC Plane Lab podcast. Bye, see you next time. That’s pretty good.

[1:08:23] Ron: Until next time I’m Ron I’m dave I’m Tom I’m piper there you go good night good night everybody.

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