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Topic: steel players who also do rc model planes |
Mark Greenway
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Lake Kiowa, Texas
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Posted 8 Jun 2015 4:58 am |
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| Oh John, that is sad and so funny at the same timeðŸ˜ðŸ˜€ |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 8 Jun 2015 5:27 am funny
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I'd say that's not the first case of runaway
model plane luck
it is sad and funny too
mine always go up ok
and they come down even faster.........
once I almost hit a tree but pulled it up just in time 
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Henry Matthews
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Texarkana, Ark USA
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Posted 10 Jun 2015 1:10 pm
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I have a P51 Electric that I fly at times. Right now the landing gear is messed up. I also fly electric helicopters. Have 3 of those. One 3D and other two are just fixed pitch.They are a blast to fly but I'm not very good at it. Just able to keep them aloft and maybe a loop or two and land, hopefully.
Never got into gas, just seems like you have to have to much stuff to fly gas.
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Henry Matthews
D-10 Magnum, 8 &5, dark rose color
D-10 1974 Emmons cut tail, fat back,rosewood, 8&5
Nashville 112 amp, Fishman Loudbox Performer amp, Hilton pedal, Goodrich pedal,BJS bar, Kyser picks, Live steel Strings. No effects, doodads or stomp boxes. |
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 10 Jun 2015 3:56 pm
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I picked up the RC Flying bug from my Dad. He built the best planes you ever saw because he was a great model builder, but he couldn't fly for crap. After several losses he just built them and gave them to me.
I'm also a private pilot, but don't let that fool you. just because you can fly a Cessna doesn't mean you can fly an rc plane. I proved that several times.
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GFI S10 Ultra, Telecaster, a Hound Dog, and an Annoyed Wife
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2015 5:38 pm
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Been in and out of it a couple of times for a bunch of years starting in the 60s. When 2.4 Ghz radios came out about 10 years ago I got back into it. Prolly got about 20 flyable planes at the moment. I need large red airplanes at this point in my life so I can see which way they're pointed at 300 yards. Jeff Newman was totally into these big ones also.
I also like these aerobatic profile planes with big 4 strokes like this 67" Fusion with a YS 120 cause they just fly really well. Love the sound (and smell) of a 4 stroke nitro engine w/a crack pipe muffler. The electric planes everyone's into now are OK but I'm old school. I like to get greasy....
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2015 5:42 pm
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Wow,
Your planes could eat my planes 
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GFI S10 Ultra, Telecaster, a Hound Dog, and an Annoyed Wife
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Henry Matthews
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Texarkana, Ark USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2015 9:17 pm
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Wow Michael, that's a really nice plane, is that a 1/3 scale? I have a friend that has a 1/2 scale piper cub. It flys like a real airplane. He let me take it around is few times, easy to fly.
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Henry Matthews
D-10 Magnum, 8 &5, dark rose color
D-10 1974 Emmons cut tail, fat back,rosewood, 8&5
Nashville 112 amp, Fishman Loudbox Performer amp, Hilton pedal, Goodrich pedal,BJS bar, Kyser picks, Live steel Strings. No effects, doodads or stomp boxes. |
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2015 11:10 pm
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| If you're talking about the Sukhoi then yes it's 30% scale with a 3 meter wingspan. It has a DA 120cc twin 2 stroke gas engine and is controlled with a JR 9503 nine channel radio. The profile plane pictured is 1/4 scale size. Most of my planes use 60-90 sized 2 or 4 stroke nitro or gas engines. I have a couple 40 sized 2 stroke planes plus 3 large electrics - a 52" Ugly Stik which never gets old,a 1/4 scale SBACH 242 that I haven't flown yet and a big profile Extra 3D that's seen better days but the big 5-6 cell Lipo batteries for those are friggin expensive - not to mention dangerously volatile. It's like flying around with a hand grenade in your plane. Many a brush fire has been started out at my RC club field from Lipo batteries exploding in a crash. I have a couple small electric fan jets too but they're getting difficult to keep track of with my present eyeglasses.... I'd like to build a 3 meter sailplane some time soon if time & finances permit. I think that'd be kinda relaxing for a change and there's some nice places here in the L.A. foothills to fly such a thing. |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 12 Jun 2015 5:48 am jeeeps!!!
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jeepers that's a big boy Michael!!!
I made it my screen saver just now
love to see that one fly 
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2015 5:50 am
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You could put a chimpanzee in that thing !
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Jb in Ohio
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 13 Jun 2015 11:46 am rc stuff
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anyone out there that has some kits or engines
that are not going to build or fly and wants to
get rid of it let me know
im on a shoestring budget these day but I could maybe do some trades
mike
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Karol Wainscott
From:
Kokomo , Indiana
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Posted 13 Jun 2015 5:30 pm
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| Hi Mike. I have built and flown RC planes since 1965, and still do. I am also an instrument rated single engine private pilot . All airplanes ,big or small are fun. But the steel guitar, mandolin and guitar is right there equally as much enjoyment . |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 13 Jun 2015 5:46 pm rc
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Karol
well me too ive been at plane building since
1963 I started with the little .049 u control
jobs at that time the kits were cheap and the
engines were about 5.00 then 2 years later
we moved to a housing project and a fella behind us
his name was Bill and he was in the navy(we lived
in Sanford fla and the base was right at the end of the housing project) and he mentored me in model building he was a wonderful man
I also started electric guitar in 1963 and then in 1983 I started steel guitar what a ride its been
on the road for 20+ years and in pigeon forge
with TG for 2 years and road with him 2 years
worked with Tim MaGraw 92-93 left right at 94
but these days im a home body cant go out and play no more to many health issues and my accident last year pretty much killed my pickin so I started building planes again course that's a expensive
hobby so I cant do much but I have fun with what I have that's cool your a pilot!!
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 14 Jun 2015 1:29 am
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| Michael Johnstone wrote: |
| 4 stroke nitro engine w/a crack pipe muffler. The electric planes everyone's into now are OK but I'm old school. |
I could make a crack about that... like, did you get it used?
I had no idea there are electrics now. Doesn't sound like any fun, sound-wise.
Imagining a four-stroke plane that small, old-school cool. |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 14 Jun 2015 4:58 am glow for me
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im into glow engines 2 stoke .40 .60 size
I have 2 .60 I need a .40 engine
im about to give a .074 size a try ive got a new one ive had for 7 or 8 years a norvel
theres 2 planes im interested in one is a spacewalker the other is a high winger cant remember
what the name is.......it dont matter with me it wont last to long in the air hehehe
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Jerry Berger
From:
Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 14 Jun 2015 8:32 am
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| Does anybody remember the name brand of the model airplane fuel that was used in the late 1950's and early 1960's? |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 14 Jun 2015 8:52 am planes
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well I remember these
jetco / steerling/ sig/ top flite/ carl goldberg/
testers/ ..... maybe ill have more come to me later
mike
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Karol Wainscott
From:
Kokomo , Indiana
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Posted 14 Jun 2015 10:53 am
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| Mike, my first plane was a cox cub u-control. I was 8 yrs. old at the time. They just didn't seem to fly real well but boy they sure did crash nice. It had the cox .049 engine that would pop back and about break your finger with that sharp plastic prop. Boy , those were the days. I have been in giant scale (81" wingspan or larger) and am now trying electric power. My largest engine was a G38 gasoline on a 1/4 scale aeronca champ plane . Great flyer. |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 14 Jun 2015 11:16 am yeah
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oh yeah I forgot about the cox planes
yeah if you could get one to fly for sure
spring starter let it go and it sounded like a dog sneeze sometimes they would flood and catch fire BLUE FLAME whew!!!
I got a german stuka cox for Christmas broke the wing off and got a new one and like you I got a cub it flew nice... once I got a .049 cox stingray car
ran on a line with eyelets man it was fast
I guess when your 8 or 9 years old a plastic airplane looks real good it did for me
and when your 27 years old an old little buddy steel looks good too till it breaks a 3rd string 12 times hehe
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Jerry Berger
From:
Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 14 Jun 2015 11:56 am
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Thanks Mike,
The model airplane fuel that I was trying to remember was "Testers." I also remember flooding out the engine and occasionally, the engine would backfire causing the prop to hit your index finger! (OUCH!) |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 14 Jun 2015 12:04 pm yes
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yeah done that too that sucks!
it must be a state law you get your finger
zapped on .049s but ive also done it on .35s too
hence forth a chicken stick and now electric
starter hand held....
remember the cox fuel and battery and clip and wrench kits? and the bulb fuel squrter...
and as you said testers! howabout ambroid glue?
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Jerry Berger
From:
Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 14 Jun 2015 12:39 pm
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| Yeah Mike, I remember all of that stuff. Those were the good ole days!! |
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Jan Viljoen
From:
Pretoria, South Africa
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 5:36 am RC gliders.
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As I am on the board of the Palaeontological Society my other scientific interests are fossils and related subjects.
My opinion is that RC models and pedal steel playing
use the same parts of our brains- the thinking motorised parts of our brains.
So lots of parallels there-- close watching, hand control, thinking ahead of moves and manoevres, planning, etc.
So I bought a flying reptile glider kit, Ramphorynchus of 180 m years ago, and it looks awesome and attracks lots of attention.
It takes too much time to fly, so I am stuck to psg lately.
Let the games begin.
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Bill Liscomb
From:
MA
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 5:53 am
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1/4 scale Zuni II sailplane, at Los Banos, CA
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 21 Jun 2015 8:51 am wow
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hey guys that some cool gliders!!
ill bet they soar to great heights and fly so nice
im going to try to post some pics of my builds
that are on going
mike
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