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Ace wrote;

I read that as, 'I'm trapped, please help me...'

 

That must be a southern thing Wives don't "allow" us to do things up
here, we just do them and then invite them to join us. If they don't want
to, we re-lock them to the sink and **** off. I've never felt that I have to
give something in return for either biking or modelling. When I got my Zed,
I didn't even tell my wife I was buying it, I just showed up at her shop and
she asked me if it was a new toy.


If this guy's already lost

I wouldn't hold out hope for ANY burd married to a modeller with an
obsession if she's not prepared to take 2nd place. I know, I know,
chauvanism and all that, but modellers are fucking weird people and I don't
think it's a case of him not understanding anything, more a case of "If she
doesn't like it, she can lump it".

Probably a classic case of biting one's nose off to spite one's face, but I
can see his point. Modelling isn't as important as life for this bloke, it's
*more* important.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

I thought something along those lines too.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Now if that'd been a Jet-cat powered Aerospatiale Alouette, I could REALLY
feel bad for him.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

But they last longer.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

They all taste the same when they've been in a few lug 'oles.

 

ahhh now I see... R/C chopper fan are we?

I must confess to being an R/C fixed wing fan, mind you I don't fly owt with
less than a 120 stuck in front )

 

Used to fly out to Iran in them, late 1960s, early 1970s. Lovely planes.

 

*waves*

 

Bloody chewy, I'll tell you that.

 

<desperately tries to remember if the packets were sealed>

 

*acknowledging wave*


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Just a bit.

I was a plank flyer for a long time before heli's became available in the
early 70's. I've been flying them almost exclusively since then.

mind you I don't fly owt with

Not a bastard 4 stroke I hope. I'm happy with y 90 powered Futura's and
X-cell's. 2 stroke, of course.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Nearly all 2 smokers...

Extra 300s 68" SC 108 (nearly a 120)
Edge 540 66" Magnum 120
ARC carousel Thunder 61
Converted Slope soarer (Star Gazer) Thunder GP 25 (bloody quick with 11x7
APC)

I do have 1 FS but it's a 91 shoehorned into CT40 trainer, it's interesting
to fly (almost prop hangs) )

 

I never had much longevity out of SC motors. Shit load of grunt, but short
lived. Mind you, they were in heli's and having a pretty hard time of it. My
current favoured engine is the YS 90, coz I like the pressurised tank idea.
Not had a YS quit for many a year and I quite like that, even though
backwards auto's are among my favourite manoeuvres. I've got an OS 108
sitting in the workshop too (unrun) waiting to go into a scale Huey Cobra
"Whisky" model.. One day.

Nice. VERY nice.

I put a converted sloper (powered by an OS 40 on a Burley pipe) through a
blokes roof back in the 70's. Early Sunday morning and he was at church with
his missus. When he came back, I was stood on my dad's and a mate's
shoulders trying to grab all the bits that were in the cieling (bungalow).
800 quids worth of roofing later and he was Ok, but we all thought he was
going to have a heart attack after seeing 3 balaclava'd blokes trying to
"gain entry" to his house via the roof. That was in the days when people
didn't sue for the fun of it.

Reason for the crash? The OS overpowered the shitty balsa pushrod to t'
elevator

The last big motored plank I flew in anger was an Extra 300 with a 60cc
gasser motor. That'd prop hang all day, but 4 strokes just don't "have it"
for me. I once bought a Webra 80 FS and nailed it into a Zlin (can't
remember the number though) then promptly ran my son down on landing The
little shit wrote about it at school the following week too when he did one
of those "What I did this weekend" His book read "On Sunday, I was run over
by a Zlin when it came in to land". The teacher thought he was imagining
things, til he showed her the bruises. He was 6 at the time IIRC



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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19