Where has the time gone? Heck, I haven't blogged since last summer, so here goes:
Still flying my E-flite Blade 400 and still loving it. However, I haven't had as much opportunity to fly fixed wing in the last few months since my wife and I moved. I'm now nearly fifty miles from my club field...ouch! On the up side, the powers-that-be granted me free membership this year thanks to my publicity efforts of the past year, so it certainly works out. Besides, I still have family out that way, so it's the perfect excuse to toss a plane in the car and drive out.
There's a dry lake bed considerably closer to home, but it's on a rather rough dirt road and the rains here in Southern California have pretty much turned it into a gigantic mudhole, or so I'm told. I went one heck of a long way down that same dirt road without finding the fork which would have taken me to the flying site. Had I gone any further out, I'm convinced that I would have found the ten lost tribes of Israel.
Nice part about the new place is that I have plenty of room to fly an eggbeater, so I do.
Two of my nephews have been bitten hard by the R/C flying bug. One is making absolutely incredible progress on helicopter flight thanks to lots of simulator time. He'd bought an indoor/outdoor coaxial just before Christmas and flew it beautifully here at my place.
About a week ago, he sent me a text message saying that he'd bought a used but very nice and nicely modified T-Rex 450.
Ooh, big jump, thought I.
He's not only hovering, but he's into forward flight...and he even went inverted and in control, again thanks to the sim.
I don't even like going inverted with a simulated heli, let alone a real one without a magic reset button which puts everything back together.
To be perfectly frank, I can't wait to see him in action!