Random Thoughts - Part III The Search for Spark (No Politics)

[blsfrs]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Helicopters will eat that "surplus" up fast. Not only are they expensive to acquire, but they are expensive to run.

I'll help you get started. Here you go.

Naw, they're not that expensive.

[NoHaveMSG]

I bet I can make something fly. Not sure about the landing part

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I bet I can make something fly. Not sure about the landing part

Oh don't worry, you'll land. Whether you get to try again or not is the issue.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I bet I can make something fly. Not sure about the landing part

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[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Helicopters will eat that "surplus" up fast. Not only are they expensive to acquire, but they are expensive to run.

I'll help you get started. Here you go.

I have no desire to own anything that flys. I have enough money pits as it is.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Oh don't worry, you'll land. Whether you get to try again or not is the issue.

Sometimes you don't even get off the ground..

[Sapphireho]

Congratulations @Dadhawk. First day of retirement. Welcome to the club. Enjoy retirement. I hope you get in lots of flying time, and whatever else you enjoy.

[JD001]

Wife and I were in town yesterday, last minute shopping.. happen upon the following abode..

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by blsfrs

Naw, they're not that expensive.

That's all I'd want to do with one anyhow. Just practice with it, study it,

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Helicopters will eat that "surplus" up fast. Not only are they expensive to acquire, but they are expensive to run.

I'll help you get started. Here you go.

There was never a shortage of Trade-A-Planes and JC Whitneys in my childhood home.


edit: Hey, congrats! I'm looking forward to lots of fun road trips with Mrs. Ultra.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Sometimes you don't even get off the ground.

I would spend all my time practicing autorotation, managing tail rotor failure, & all kinds of shit. That guy straight-up panicked.

[Stephen W.]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

<snip> That guy straight-up panicked.

We don't see what caused him to smack the boom into the ground. However, we can clearly see the tail rotor parts flying across the screen. He should have killed the engine immediately to stop the rotation. Instead it was still driving the rotor blades even after coming to rest against the plane.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Stephen W.

We don't see what caused him to smack the boom into the ground. However, we can clearly see the tail rotor parts flying across the screen. He should have killed the engine immediately to stop the rotation. Instead it was still driving the rotor blades even after coming to rest against the plane.

I remember when I handed my RM400 over to a friend who said he knew how to ride. As soon as the clutch started to grab, he panicked and dumped it. Held a death grip through a thick stand of bamboo and bounced off the back of my mom's car.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I remember when I handed my RM400 over to a friend who said he knew how to ride. As soon as the clutch started to grab, he panicked and dumped it. Held a death grip through a thick stand of bamboo and bounced off the back of my mom's car.

I remember when Danny across the street got a mini bike. His older sister wanted to try it. She hit the gas, kept it on full throttle across the yard, across the street, and smack into the steel streetlight pole in our front yard. It wasn't pretty.