Comments on: I Hate Slow Sticks http://petej.com/blog/2007/10/14/hate-slow-sticks/ Fresh stories and photos of radio-control flying in Northern California. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:59:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Gary http://petej.com/blog/2007/10/14/hate-slow-sticks/#comment-240 Gary Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:49:11 +0000 /blog/2007/10/14/hate-slow-sticks/#comment-240 Oh so many points to refute - delicious... I am heading to the field at the moment so I will visit later today. In the immortal words of "Tammy Faye Baker" I Rebuke You!!! Gary Oh so many points to refute - delicious…

I am heading to the field at the moment so I will visit later today. In the immortal words of “Tammy Faye Baker”

I Rebuke You!!!

Gary

]]> By: Dave http://petej.com/blog/2007/10/14/hate-slow-sticks/#comment-228 Dave Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:16:24 +0000 /blog/2007/10/14/hate-slow-sticks/#comment-228 Me too. Having flown a stock SS inverted, hovered, managed a rudder roll and briefly even held knife edge, I think maybe I have some idea how to fly them. And the answer is: in combat. Violent combat that is nasty, brutish and short. The postwar gratification of ripping off any remaining useful parts and stomping the remains into a trash can is ... ecstasy. I'll never forget FINALLY getting rid of mine after it haunted the garage for years. If I ever get another, it will be with the sole intention of owning it for one day. Better yet, I just won't. Scroot. And the obsession to mess with slow sticks even when you should know better? I can kind of understand, in a "pity the handicapped" way. They are So Wrong From The Start that they beg you to help them improve. "Oh please," mine would ask, "give me a some control! Make my wings firm!" etc. It was endless moaning, I tellya. But I am a deaf and cruel owner who knows a bad investment when it squats on his wallet. "No way, stupid plane. Die!" Put a fork in it. Now the Pico Stick, that's another thing entirely... Me too. Having flown a stock SS inverted, hovered, managed a rudder roll and briefly even held knife edge, I think maybe I have some idea how to fly them. And the answer is: in combat. Violent combat that is nasty, brutish and short.

The postwar gratification of ripping off any remaining useful parts and stomping the remains into a trash can is … ecstasy. I’ll never forget FINALLY getting rid of mine after it haunted the garage for years.

If I ever get another, it will be with the sole intention of owning it for one day. Better yet, I just won’t. Scroot.

And the obsession to mess with slow sticks even when you should know better? I can kind of understand, in a “pity the handicapped” way. They are So Wrong From The Start that they beg you to help them improve. “Oh please,” mine would ask, “give me a some control! Make my wings firm!” etc. It was endless moaning, I tellya. But I am a deaf and cruel owner who knows a bad investment when it squats on his wallet.

“No way, stupid plane. Die!” Put a fork in it.

Now the Pico Stick, that’s another thing entirely…

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