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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Lady Pilot

[This post is obsolete. The new gallery software was too temperamental and I’ve taken it offline and restored the old, reliable, gallery.]

With the help of a robotic script and all too much fiddling, I’ve copied all 750 or so the Ups & Downs photos into the new Photos section.

Why bother with this upgrade?

Mainly because I now have more publishing flexibility, including the ability to publish albums within albums. So, for instance, I moved the Return of Pickleweed Red and Fast Boats albums into the 2007 Photos: December album.

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The Webcam Always Wins

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

The Barn

Early this year, I volunteered to manage the website for the Peninsula Channel Commanders R/C group.

The group’s site, launched in 2001, was functional but needed a new coat of pixels.

I redesigned the site. Actually, I redesigned the site a number of times, refining the look and feel with each iteration as I learned more about what I was doing.

Months Later… That went quite well, though it took me lots of hours. In February when I told her what I’d signed up for, Suzette said, “See you in May.” She’s an excellent prophet.

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Going to a Fun Fly

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Fun Fly

It was billed as a Fun Fly and I wanted to shoot fresh pictures for the PCC website. Also, I thought it would provide a good topic for my blog.

So I drove to the club’s Half Moon Bay airfield on an overcast Sunday morning.

Paul Lum, Mike Peck and Eric Einarsson are there when I arrive, all flying in the breeze.

I take some pictures.

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The Life Aquatic

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Slow Stick Flying Over Lake Hennessey

Saturday, Gary and I drove north into Wine Country, seeking not wine but water.

Gary packed two Slow Sticks into his truck, one with a pair of standard GWS styrofoam and plastic floats, the other with a honkin’ big central float carved out of glued-together pieces of Blue Core foam and two smaller wing floats.

He’s flown both on the grass at Baylands, where floats work better than wheels for most planes.

I don’t have any planes with floats. Instead, I brought my two current favorite flyers, both of which weigh less than 7 ounces: a Mini Speed Wing and a blue foam space cruiser. They’re so small they can fly just about anywhere.

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Jake’s Tri-Motor Postal Plane

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Jake’s Tri-Motor

One day last winter, Bruce, Mike and I attended the monthly meeting of the PCC (Peninsula Channel Commanders — an imposing name for what turns out to be a nice group of guys). There we saw some amazing planes: mostly big, beautifully built, elaborately detailed, with a mix of gas engines and electric motors for power plants.

Balsa Skeleton. One table held a remarkable work in progress, a balsa skeleton at this point, of an unusual World War II troop transport glider, a WACO CG-4A. It was a scale model with a wingspan of about 6.5 feet. While most of the planes in the room were built from kits or purchased almost-ready-to-fly, this was scratch built, balsa toothpick by balsa toothpick.

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