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Hahahahaha my little one is bigger ... 3.0CI in a Marquette Charger, a 74" Biplane, I carved the motor out of McCulloch chain saw on a mill and rotary table.
I was big into R/C Aircraft ... Still got them, they were stored in the shed when the house burnt.
I was big into R/C Aircraft ... Still got them, they were stored in the shed when the house burnt.
72.080 - brown & white
And just for Gary
And just cuz I found it
Someplace down there I have a brand-new, in-the-box, never-been-flown (although I think I ran it) K&B .40 as well as my FCC license from ~1975 but I couldn't easily find that stuff, might be behind the SHO doors.
Chris - Cool! You found the owner's manual! Pity about Elvis. Hadn't heard. And, that's a ton of aircraft stuff. I never flew R/C, just control-line, but I dreamed of R/C.
Festus - Mill? Rotary table? You are my kinda guy. Used those, as well as the lathe, to make the adapter to allow the ZF5 to work on the 351M.
Yes, *** was the brand of my Piper Cub. My brother had a *** P51 Mustang with that engine. And Testors was the brand of fuel. I can still smell and taste it.
Testors also made the model glue that some put in plastic bags and sniffed.
I've sniffed a lot of glue, never intentionally ...
Welp, after a bunch of digging, this is the best I can do for pics, they are buried way deep in the shed ... I did find my small flight box and a few photos to make images from.
I was no kid at the time ... Well, maybe I was acting like one, I was fighting an alcohol issue at the time! Mid to late eighties.
Small flight box ...
The 1/4 scale Walt Moucha Marquart Charger before it was completed, It has never been flown, all I have done is ground tested it, I am not good enough on the R/C controls to risk it ... I did have a gent that was going to do it's first flight but I wound up in jail!
I cannot find newer photos of it or the McCulloch motor for it ... thought I had pics in my flight box.
In the far back ground you can see a 43" trainer (Yellow/White/Red), Then closer in the background you can just see the Maltese Cross on the Big Ugly Stick, it's got a 60" Wing span and powered by a two stroke Maloney 100 (1.0CI) on gasoline.
56" Rotor Helicopter ... Ken and Barbie are the pilots, has a modified weed eater motor for power. It fell from it's current location and got all busted up!
My first 43" trainer ...
And the results of my first R/C flight ...
Somewhere in all the boxes I have 22" string line F4U Corsair that I built into R/C, it's fast and very hard to handle because of it's small size, but a blast to fly! The gent I had mentoring me in flight loved it.
Two controllers, 4 channel Airtronics and a 6 channel Futaba.
I also have a large transport box to carry the big ones safely in the back of a pickup.
FCC license ... Ha, I just flew in farmers fields! All the room one wants and nothing to harm, even flew at the Byron Airport at times ...
Hotel California ... You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave!
They took offense to my use of alcohol while driving ... 7 times!
All in the range of .32-.36 and still sucking on a bottle, not to mention TWO on the same DATE!
Have you been working out with that weight bench behind the fan much?
My great grandad was in the process of building a Cesna when he died so I have a lot of aviation tools. Sadly, most of them are aviation specific tools so they will not work with trucks. The copper tubing tools are nice though.
Have you been working out with that weight bench behind the fan much?
That's a Weslo Cross Training System my brother gave me, I call it the Rubber Band Machine. Supposed to look like this:
It doesn't use weights or even springs (like the Bowflex machine) it uses these "bands" that look kinda like automotive fan belts:
But too many of them have broken at this point and right now I only use the end of the bench to sit on and do wrist curls & dumbbell curls and such.
The rest of my workout stuff down there looks like this:
I just try to keep myself in relatively decent condition is all, high blood pressure and heart disease run in my family (my mom just died of a heart attack last year, she used to live here with me) and I'm one of those who believe that cardiovascular exercise is one of the best things you can do for your body. Besides, I'm 53 yo and also have high BP and don't want to be following my mom.
And a Sun Microsystems Sparc 5 workstation, just for the halibut.
My great grandad was in the process of building a Cesna when he died so I have a lot of aviation tools. Sadly, most of them are aviation specific tools so they will not work with trucks. The copper tubing tools are nice though.
I know absolutely nothing about real airplanes, you are worlds more knowledgable on that stuff than I am.
Chris, in the 4th pic (also seen in the hharris quote), whats that low wood wing to?
EDIT
O-yea, like the Sparc ... I was looking for one a while back, I needed a big endian system to test code on, I wound up getting a G5 ... Baaaah what a mistake!
Tim called and the engine is assembled. In fact, he said he'll snap some pics and send them. The only thing it lacks is a distributor. We are going with one of his new products, as explained in the Track Boss Duraspark Ready To Run Distributor thread on the 335 Series forum. Tim machines the bodies and ships them to DUI, where they are finished with a 4-pin GM module internally. In other words, no DS-II module is needed but the system is otherwise stock-looking with an external coil. So, I will have some wiring changes to make in order to bypass the DS-II module, but Tim says DUI will provide that information.
However, in this case I want to powder coat the distributor body to keep it "new". So Tim is shipping me one of the bodies and I'll PC it and then ship it on to DUI. They'll do their magic and ship it to Tim. He'll install it and dyno the engine, adjusting the air/fuel ratio, timing, etc. Then my wife and I'll go up in mid-October to see it run on the dyno.
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But, what's this about being in jail? 
Pity about Elvis. Hadn't heard. And, that's a ton of aircraft stuff. I never flew R/C, just control-line, but I dreamed of R/C.
No wonder I enjoy building models so much 
