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Disaster Stories

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Dump TruckMerry Leap Year Bonus Day!

I’ve been sidelined for a couple of days with an eye infection but I plan to venture out to Baylands today.

Meanwhile, here are two of my favorite R/C stories.

Mike Nadler told me this Best Crash Story just the other day.

A Pulverizing Mishap. A few years ago, he belonged to a group that flew on a leveled section of a dump site.

One of his friends flew his plane over his head and, as happens, lost orientation and control as the plane passed behind him.

Unfortunately, the plane landed in the bed of a passing dump truck.

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Turning 1,000,003

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Flying CloseTomorrow is my birthday.

I like to joke that it’s my 1 millionth birthday, but I’ve made that joke for several years now, so I must be at least 1,000,003.

As long as I’m picking numbers, I’d prefer a prime number. But whaddya know, 1,000,003 is prime, so that’ll be the new age I claim.

How did I get so old?

Actually, I’ll be 68. Leaving a prime year—67—for an age that’s divisible by 4 and 17.

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Gary’s Hammer Symposium

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Four So Far

Saturday, Gary Morgan hosted what he called a “Combat Hammer Build Symposium” at Baylands.

Wikipedia tells me that Symposium originally meant a drinking party but has since come to refer to any academic conference, whether or not drinking takes place.

This academic conference focused on the profile foam Hammer plane, which Gary, Mike Nadler, Rick Carmichael and others have been building and modifying for the past six months or so.

It’s cheap, acrobatic and easy to build: perfect for streamer combat.

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Rainy Day Thoughts

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Dice

When the weather forecast suggests a 50% chance of rain tomorrow, it means this:

In the past when conditions were similar to today, it rained tomorrow 50% of the time.

What this doesn’t tell you is how often it will rain tomorrow: will you have periods of an hour or two with no showers?

But just as you’re thinking about this you notice that the wind is forecast for 10, 20, 30mph during various parts of the day.

So even though the sun is shining for a moment right now I won’t try to fly today.

Instead, I’ve returned to assembling my T-Rex 450 kit.

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More Rain!

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Rain Forecast

I hope the plants and the frogs and the ducks and all mud-loving things are enjoying themselves. ;-)

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