SkymonkeyONE

Nice photos, Chris

Powered by a prop? No way it's road legal.

I have a three-cell 2100 maH Lipo in my Blade CP (the whirling death device!). It will fly, or attempt to fly, for over 20 minutes with the LiPo. Talk about COMEDY, you should have seen Kevin (McDuck) and I at the Dublin boogie! I was flying my Aerobird Extreme through the tent/vendor area on Thursday morning having a blast. Landed right in front of my camper on the little traffic road. Kevin goes and fetches his Challenger and THE SHIT WAS ON. I launched it for him and made sure it was in trim and then handed the radio off to him. "UP, UP, UP!!" "Left! Right! Pull UP!" It was nuts. He finally death-spiralled through some trees and into the side of a camper! That was lovely, but not nearly as lovely as him flying that thing straight into the side of a hangar! "Up!!!! Whoa!" Blam! Amazingly, the plane flew immediately after application of one small piece of electrical tape. I had my Blade CP there and had the crowd roaring in laughter and running for their lives as I tried in vain to control the thing. I spun the armature in the tail motor, so it would not trim out, no matter how much I adjusted the pot. The tail motor was the only spare part I didn't bring, so I said fuck it and tried to fly it anyway. It was a HOOT! People were running for their lives. Of course I was trying to fly the thing right in front of my camper. Ultimately, I only snapped one landing gear and beat up, but did not break, one set of main rotors. Ask Kevin how funny that shit was. I flew my P-51 a few times much to the pleasure of the crowd. I can fly the ass out of that plane now. Same with my Extreme. I wrecked the piss out of my modded Stryker at dusk on Thursday. I simply could not tell if it was coming or going; inverted or upright. I snapped the nose off in a wreck and then put it away. One minute with some CA and a bit of gaffer tape had it back in the air today. I fly the hell out of that one now too. My buddy Chris Young pounded my Extreme in twice today. It was his first flight, so I, of course, handed him the radio with the plane in Pro mode. "UP, UP, UP!!!" "Right!" He snapped a main wing and that was it for that plane today. Good RC indoctrination if you ask me. I was showing off with my P-51 and my battery came undone. No-control death spiral from about 75 feet. Prop and wing done. I swore I wouldn't do it again, but I guess I am going to go buy another wing tomorrow. I already have a prop. Chuck

A bunch of us AFF instructors went up to the one they had at the Dublin Boogie and decided that we would do it exactly like we do from an Otter or Caravan at our home dropzones. Reserve side JM outside on the step holding the floater bar with left hand across body and student left legstrap with right hand. Student in standard "right hand, right foot, left hand, left foot" posture. Head outside, both hands on leading edge of door frame, facing into the wind. Mainside JM inside the plane with both grips complete. Outside JM has the benefit of being able to stand down on the step. Chuck

do you mean ante chamber, Mar?

I chopped a bunch of mindless banter off the tail end of this thread. Please remember, folks, that this is a topical forum. No Laurel and Hardy acts please. Chuck

Background shots around the campfire are fine. It's the OTHER shots that always seem to make it; right Gimpy? Ugh.

Happy birthday, fool! No, you can't borrow my Corvette.

Sinker is a STINKER!

Me too........THANK GOD

I never really got the "chicken little" thing. Sure, he's the smallest guy, but he IS as big as that pencil neck Ryan Seacrest.

Too bad for you, FOO! Don't worry, big brother will be there to take care of business! Chuck

There are plenty of people who will be at Wildwood for Nationals, prize money or not. I will be one of them, competing in Open. Though my PST pro card has "expired" due to not making one of Jim's meets last year, I am still positively qualified (and required due to my past competition experience) to compete in that category. Joe Bennet falls into that same category as do a bunch of other older ECPA-PPPB-PST/Red Bull guys. Wildwood is a fantastic venue. We all had a blast at the first meet there. Certainly MUCH more fun than when we were pounding into the busted up gravel at Perris a few years ago. Nationals has a very long history of being a "split up" meet. For many, many years, the RW and "classical" events were bid on separately and quite often held at different venues. We hosted the classical events here at Raeford plenty of times when the RW was held elsewhere. This is nothing new. Chuck

Last season in the Carolinas, I had no other pros to compete with, so I would do the occasional run through the standard course just for fun, but could not compete. It sucked.

BWAHAHAHAHA!! Dude, you're fucking KILLING ME!

You know, I think you got it. He would be a good soap opera boy.

Some of my favorite memories are of Kevin (McDuck) wildly flying his RC airplane into: 1) the side of an RV, by way of a bunch of trees 2) the side of a hangar at full throttle Terms commonly heard during flight time: 1) "UP! UP! UP!" 2) "stop flying over the million dollar airplane please" 3) "OHHHH!" Chuck

Oh yeah, I forgot: Bucky Covington sucked last night. Thankfully, since it's still going for two long hours, the majority of the performances were good.

Once again, I really wish you were voting for the worst performer, not your favorite. "Fan Club-based" voting is silly, particularly towards the end. No matter how shitty a performer is, their fans will vote five and six times a night to keep them there longer than they need be. That's certainly the case with Kevin and Lisa right now. I am not a Paris fan either, though she is a great singer and had a very-polished performance last night. I still think Chris will win, but his arrangement last night started out very slow. Kelly really pulled herself out of the hole last night. I thought she sucked completely last week. Her problem is that she just doesn't know anything but country. I think she is likely to tank some of the later "themed" performances. Lisa just needs to go. Kevin sings well, but he needs to go quickly as well. Ace can fucking blow me; he needs to beat it. I hate cheesy guys like that. That is all, Chuck

BWAHAHAHAHA! Nice one!

Actually, they made their best music in the late '70s. I find it fascinating that the public only got repeated doses of Whip It in the early '80s, which I consider a pathetic example of their music. They tell us that we lost our tails evolving up from little snails I say it's all just wind in sails Are we not men? We are DEVO Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid he had one chromosone too many Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid and it determined what he could see And he, wore a hat and he, had a job and he, brought home the bacon so that no one knew... I could never forget those lyrics. Just like I could never forget the lyrics to The Sex Pistols' "Bodies" : Fuck this and fuck that, fucking all those fucking fucked up blacks She don't want a baby that looks like that, I don't want a baby that looks like that! Bodies....I'm not an animal.

I think it was microsft that paid them a little over $1,000,000 for one reunion show a while back. Uncontrollable urge has to be one of my all time favorite songs. The first two devo albums were positively the best. Smart Patrol/Mister DNA, S.I.B. (swelling itching brain), Jocko Homo, etc. Fantastic stuff.

Devo are a band from Ohio, not Britain and certainly not germany. Mark Mothersbaugh recently did the music for the Steve Zisou (underwater Jaques Coustau spoof) and it was bad ass. I was a huge devo fan as a teenager in the '70s.

My rush parts for the Blade got here yesterday (feathering spindle), so I am all set to carry it to Dublin and wreck the shit out of it. I plan on bringing three planes with me. Anyone else bringing their's to the boogie for weather days? Chuck

Definitely not .00 Buckshot; too "smokey". I have a seriously hard time thinking that is anything but a staged video. Entertaining though.