Vic Smith said:(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo294/krellday/Jules%20Verne/Albatrossmodel.jpg)
Vic - Do you have a higher resolution version of the Albatross image? If so, could you email it to me: [email protected]
Vic Smith said:
Could you just imaging seeing some joker run their $1800 Accucraft steamer at full clip around a bend, have go flying off the table onto the concrete floor and then chuff that same comment? More likely they cry a wailing wail heard two counties over…
Saw that very thing at the National Large scale convention. No words were said but the fella was seething mad.
Steve Featherkile said:
A “good landing” is one that you can walk away from.
A “great landing” is one where you can use the airplane again.
An “excellent landing” is one where you can’t tell the plane was in the air already. :-p
That cartoon reminded me to go back to work on the FA1 today.
Maybe I’ll use some new words!
[youtube]http://youtu.be/68WZ6PgsBhM[/youtube]
First and last flight of a R/C model B-52, the BUFF.
I can’t get it to embed, for some reason.
(https://ff.duckduckgo.com/favicon.ico)(http://www.bing.com/favicon.ico)
Andrew Moore said:
Vic Smith said:(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo294/krellday/Jules%20Verne/Albatrossmodel.jpg)
Vic - Do you have a higher resolution version of the Albatross image? If so, could you email it to me: [email protected]
Thats the best I could find, I have some other images including a plan view on another computer, I’ll try and forward them to you sometime this week.
BTW that image is one of the very few known to exist of the studio model, there was only one original and was destroyed filming the climax of the movie.
When I was young lad I bought a Revell Jaguar XKE kit. Although the finished car is only about 7 inches long, I remember the box was huge and contained racks of parts, many of them chromed.
http://manuals.hobbico.com/rvl/80-7291.pdf
Each of the parts had to be carefully removed, and the nubs on the chrome ones scraped clean or they would not hold together with Testors glue. I carefully worked on it determined that “this one would be the PERFECT model”. When I got tired or impatient I would put it down and wait until the next day. After weeks of toil I was down to the last two parts: the clear plastic covers for the headlights. I carefully applied a couple of tiny drops of glue to the first with a toothpick and applied it. Then repeated the same procedure for the second one. It fogged!
That car hit the wall at about 200 scale miles per hour. I found pieces of it for years in my room every time I moved something.
We are kinda drifting off point a bit, but since you guys started it, here’s my Olden Goldie.
When I was I dunno, five maybe, my mother’s friend’s son, George Malinowski, built a stick and paper model of a Luscombe high-wing monoplane. It was a work of art, white with miniature Gulf decals on the fuselage and a full interior, which you could observe by looking down through a portal in the wing. George, being a nice guy, handed it to me to check out. I grabbed it, made an airplane flying sound like, “Ayerr, rrrr, rrroom,” and stuffed that puppy into the living room wall. Standing there holding a fistfull of balsa splinters and tissue paper–as tears welled up in George’s eyes–I proclaimed, “Hitler did it!” I don’t know what kept George from killing me, probably because he was a much better man than I.
Smashed MANY an R/C airplane. Most lasted a year or two. Only once wrecked one on the maiden flight, but it was easily repaired, and corrected, and I enjoyed that one for some time.
A moment’s inattention is much less disasterous with trains. Though I do miss flight.
Well Tom, it’s your thread…I don’t want to totally hijack it but we are talking model planes!
My 1st R/C trainer was hand built from a kit…flew for 30 seconds, made it half way through a circuit before being mid-aired by another trainer. All that work came down in a light balsa rain!
That’s OK, Mark… I’ll hijack it for you.
Love Tom’s quote from Huck Finn. Did you guys notice Joe’s got a whole new cool avatar? I guess that guy isn’t Casey Jones, tho’, ‘coz they didn’t have color photography back in those days… Maybe it’s Joe Cool himself (?)
As for messin’ with plastic, I avoid the stuff. As for smashing trains and planes, shucks, lately the prototypes do a far better job of it than we can, with some real blood and cussin’ in several languages too. I heard there was some French Canadian cussin’ three weeks ago, and another trainwreck somewhere or other soon after that, and Spanish cussin’ just last week…
And another thing: that Ken fella’s having 'way too much fun! Thread derailed.
There, Mark. That wasn’t so hard, now, was it! 
Those Canadians started this rash of wrecks! It’s Monday, I had to stir the pot!
Those Canadians started this rash of wrecks! It’s Monday, I had to stir the pot!
Oh yeah, the second one was in France, wasn’t it… funny how I just couldn’t remember that when I wrote that post. Convenient racial Lethe, I guess… meanwhile, let’s all hope that it’s over. Had dinner at a friend’s this weekend, a non-railroader. He said that with all these rail accidents lately, he had been feeling sorry for me. That’s kinda’ cute I guess, in a weird way.
I’ll hafta’ getcha’ later, Doug! I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this, but I’d love to come down to that desert of yours someday and play trains with you. I promise to make sure all necessary brakes are applied, (Quebec), switches correctly aligned (France), and there’s no speed demon at the throttle (Spain).
This is derailing the original topic but I worry about those brake applications. At least we are at the top of Cajon Pass and not around the bottom where the runaway train piled up a number of years ago and took out most of a neighborhood!
You’ll have to come down to our part of the desert. Even though it’s hot in the summer it’s a good place to build a railroad.
I was laying track this morning for a trolley line that’s going to run to the town.
Boomer,
Always admire your pictures. To me, the color is so unique and looks so natural, though I don’t know of another example. Is there a prototype for the color? looks great!!!
I agree Boomer, as you know I only steal from the best!
Ric Golding said:
Boomer,
Always admire your pictures. To me, the color is so unique and looks so natural, though I don’t know of another example. Is there a prototype for the color? looks great!!!
(http://imagestorage.greatrails.net/photos/2010/05/29/201005291844349952.jpg)
David Russell said:
Ric Golding said:
Boomer,
Always admire your pictures. To me, the color is so unique and looks so natural, though I don’t know of another example. Is there a prototype for the color? looks great!!!
(http://imagestorage.greatrails.net/photos/2010/05/29/201005291844349952.jpg)
Hey, watta ya know!
I like it because it reminds me of the heavy construction equipment when I was a kid…Just the thing a short-line should have!
Wow. Never had a midair in R/C flight.
I figured out the trick was to have 2 in the shop. One on which you lavish all your skill in making a beautiful flying machine, and one you can finish up and get flying quickly in case you destroy the plane you’re currently flying.
As far as “trainers” go, forget them. Underpowered things with practically no response. If something disturbs them in flight, you’re not likely to get it out of the dive/roll/spiral it’s in before it meets the ground. For training, go for something with ailerons and a “.40” size engine or bigger that’s capable of aerobatics. You’ll have a much easier time learning to fly that. Oh yes, it helps a LOT to have somebody experienced in flying R/C to help. My first plane was a typical trainer. Had an awful time with that. Then I got an “RCM Trainer.” I think the design is still around. It’s responsive and powerful enough for aerobatics and very well mannered.
Derailing my thread? Na. How can you possible derail an off-topic thread like this? DERAIL AS YOU LIKE!