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Had to chuckle…
I meet my buddy at a nearby field to fly RC planes whenever the wind is calm. He showed up a few minutes late yesterday and saw the white 30" powered glider lazing around a couple hundred feet above me. My trusty red Carbon Cub was sitting at my feet.
Perpetually amused and a little annoyed with my single-guy philosophy (he who dies with all the toys wins), he asked "So, what the hell is this now?"
"My new glider, you like it? I can get it way up there, let it float, switch channels and launch the Cub too. That's 20 years of air traffic control experience right there… multi-tasking at its finest. Watch this!"
Zoom! Off goes the little red Cub! Loops, aileron rolls, flat-hat fly-bys, etc. Glider slowly circling above on a thermal. "I'm just glad they're different colors."
Rarely at a loss for commentary, he stood and watched silently. After about 5 minutes he finally said, "Okay, I'm impressed. How the #@$% do you do that?"
I said, "See that couple sitting 100 yards up the hill over there? I can't really tell from here, but I suspect that's a radio in his lap."
I meet my buddy at a nearby field to fly RC planes whenever the wind is calm. He showed up a few minutes late yesterday and saw the white 30" powered glider lazing around a couple hundred feet above me. My trusty red Carbon Cub was sitting at my feet.
Perpetually amused and a little annoyed with my single-guy philosophy (he who dies with all the toys wins), he asked "So, what the hell is this now?"
"My new glider, you like it? I can get it way up there, let it float, switch channels and launch the Cub too. That's 20 years of air traffic control experience right there… multi-tasking at its finest. Watch this!"
Zoom! Off goes the little red Cub! Loops, aileron rolls, flat-hat fly-bys, etc. Glider slowly circling above on a thermal. "I'm just glad they're different colors."
Rarely at a loss for commentary, he stood and watched silently. After about 5 minutes he finally said, "Okay, I'm impressed. How the #@$% do you do that?"
I said, "See that couple sitting 100 yards up the hill over there? I can't really tell from here, but I suspect that's a radio in his lap."
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