Buy an Indoor RC helicopter, great for scaring cat/Fish/Children/Wife

just don’t try Nose-in Hovering unless you have a good stock of spare blades…..

They say hindsight is 20/20 don’t they! Hope your wife and daughter don’t read your posts :p

Hmm… I don’t get what’s so appealing about her!

Anyone who used to own three 707’s has to spark a little interest

😀 Be flex ible.

Luckily Not!
I have just pulled a master stroke though….having let my PPL slide in ’89, and having spent a fortune on Radio Control aircraft….I am about to hit mid-life crisis age.
I have a mate that has just bought a Porsche, another one has just bought a 40 ft sailing boat..and a Porsche…so I mentioned this to my wife.
Anyway, after much discussion, it has been decided that for my 40th birthday(2.5 years away) that I should get my PPL back! (It was either that or find a nubile young lady with one…and a Porsche!)

The aim must be to train as you intend to fight otherwise the mortality rate on going against the bad guys will be astronomic. The only problem is that the nationality of the bad guys has altered in the last 15 years as has the nature of the threat. PGM’s now mean the proverbial accuracy of that ascribed to the Norden bombsight in the early days of WW2 can now be achieved without going in at suicidally low level. We found that out the hard way in Gulf war 1 in losing far too many fine Tornado GR1 crews. Why then do we persist in ultra low level training that costs lives and p***es off the UK population…??? I would be grateful for some responses.
Cheers,
Trapper 69

Back in my short spell on Wessex in the late ’80s, the minimum height for fixed wing in a Low Flying Area was 250′, so we tended to transit at 1500′, then drop to 100′, unless we were on Pre-Ireland training where we operated at 50′ (scary, expecially doing formation!).
We used to listen out keenly for radio calls of fixed wing entering & leaving the LFA. Jags, Tornados & Harriers, didn’t concern us too much, we would keep a general eye out, what scared us was A10s and Herks.
If we heard ‘Alpha one zero’ in an american accent we immediately went to high alert and flew a zig-zag pattern with me hanging out the door watching the rear.

The Herks didn’t bother rising to follow contours & obstacles so much as they should have done, they just ploughed on regardless, but we tended to see them sooner, and they were a little slower….

Does anyone try to ‘improve’ on the authenticity by making it look flown, that is putting dirt and mock oil marks around the exhausts etc?

I cant do those kits now as my other half says she cant stand the smell of the glue!

My RC ones tend to get weathered fairly quickly, and not always by choice!
I put a machine gun on my Flair Attilla, (Sportscale WWI Fokker Monoplane), expecting to lose it on my first unscheduled arrival, only to have had at least 3 heavy (!) landings, including one inverted, where the gun has stayed intact and affixed while I have bent the gearbox output shaft each time (£15 each!)

In terms of the other half, I used to build my models on the floor in the lounge before we had kids (get a chick-flick on DVD, and hey! 2 hours of building time!) but after we moved I converted a third of my double garage into a 99 square foot workshop (9’x11′) with heating, light & power…oh and a Fridge full of beer!

Does anyone remember the Documentary on the TSR2 that was shown on Discovery a couple of years back?
2 things stick in my mind:
1. In a project meeting 45 people turned up, the project Manager cancelled the meeting as there were too many people for it to be effective, he re-called the meeting for the following week, with the instructions that only the really necessarry people need attend……54 people turned up!

2. The first Re-heat test, filmed from a Lightning Chase plane, you heard the countdown, the lightning went to full power, the TSR lit up one ‘burner and just disappeared into the distance….that really put it into perspective for me, just imagine the acceleration if both Burners were used!

I must go to the next Air Atlantique Open day, My Dad has been and says it’s great!
I took my family to the 2003 Coventry show and took my Daughter (then 3) for a flight in the Rapide (G-AGTM) and she loved it!
I thought about going in the Prentice but felt that at that age the Rapide was a better bet for her…but next time…..!

Tales of the Golden Monkey featured a Grumman Goose – Cutter’s Goose to be exact.

Now I have thought about it, you are right, the Goose had radials and the Widgeon had in-line engines…..I love all of that Genre of Grumman ‘boats, on my RC ‘must build’ list….

The best use of a Goose has to be in the Arnie Film where he rescues his daughter, Commando, I think. a, because the split door at the back allows one to stand up at the back and manfully spray following bad guys with bullets, and b, the evocative scene at the end when it is silhouetted as it flies off into the sunset…….