Don Fry

Not saying

That made me cry. All you can do is try your best, to be the best you can be. I suspect an intellect lurking in your skull. Work out what you can do, need to do. As you say, you still have responsibilities, but grief is transitory, heals some say, but reality then kicks in. Stick with the exercises, only route back.

Game of blood. Sorry as I fancy one of these. On the subject of risk. Get it out of the house, visit to casualty, accept. Out of house toy plane, hose, long way away, you have the mindset of a fireman, given it is a fire on a lawn. This is not a humerous post. Think about it before acting. P.S. true fireman mindset, or his bosses mindset. No one in house, hose, a long way off.

Practice inverted flying………

Many years ago, i was a young copper. We has an angry call from a motorist that a lady had scraped her child’s pram, child onboard, all along the side of his car, parked on pavement, rather than push precious bundle on road. It seems she had so scraped a load of cars. So my inspector sent me rounds to issue parking ticket on the car owner. He also came in, slightly damaged, for assaulting me. Not his day methinks. The instruction also said, issue a ticket to all the cars on the pavement, 21 of them. A boring exercise, explain, resentment that peasents also have rights, and another slightly damaged car owner who assaulted me. Easier than upsetting my boss. Said tickets of course, made a claim against the lady a waste of time.

Yes depron will do that, but balsa will do it better. Suggest, do a life expectancy assessment. Of you and the model. If no, rest. If yes do a dozen sheets of 1/16. I need 1/16. My box used to have 1/16, one airframe swallowed a dozen. if you die,ask, ask the mrs to E mail me. I will buy it, proviso, less a post cost over a proper order. serious, in a scale of one to ten, do you actually cost balsa, against all the rest of the bills in the hobby.

Mind Koi ponds are also useful, have you ever tried Sichwan crispy fried carp, pwooah!!!

Sorry t hear the demise of your tool. That lot is repairable, but it won’t be pretty, and it would take time. But it’s also an opportunity in learning repair skills. But if you don’t have the desire to do so, it’s a hobby, not a job. One point, check out if the airframe comes as a kit, ie, airframe only, then what’s good from yours swaps over, as you still need the tool. That lipo is scrap, discharge it to zero volts so it can’t burn the house down. I don’t think I would have it in the house, under a bucket in the garden it would look nice. game up blood, upwards and onwards.

Next driving course to me, someone made an error, 4 dead.

Google “102 mm wheels for model aircraft”. Loads to choose. For a light aircraft like that, a foam wheel is lighter that a rubber Dubro type, bur that model will fly with either.

Errr that’s what I said PatMc. Cars are nowadays pretty safe to travel in, recent small reversals of death rates are largely due to pedestrian's and bike riders getting struck, or possibly committing suicide, by collision.

I used to earn a living driving 300/400 hp cars, hard/fast. Tyres could go new to scrap in 6 months. No computers. No ABS, skid control, traction limiter, started raining turn the wipers on, nothing. Lethal machines, made safer cos make a mistake in it, you died, no proper passenger protection box, nothing to do the maths on to design it. Concentrates attention span. Lethal things, reflecting road death numbers. Those are the facts. Say I am wrong

Never known an aileron hinge fail when glued in Toto. Some drill a vertical hole through the hinge, and fill with a cocktail stick, glued it. Drill from underneath so the hole does not blemish the top finish. I trust glue joints, but you are the engineer in charge, your shout. But weight is our enemy.

Then, you could buy a bazooka, to deter those who need it. Or even, cheaper still, a land mine. Concentrate attention span. Or the lady this morning, brunette, 35, nice visage, 60 mph (converted), 2 meters off the boot, on her phone, ( kid you not ) doing something with her hair ( curly). Being bald, know nowt about hair. About 3 miles, fell away uphill, even closer down hill. I have cruise control, she turns driver aids off it seems. You will be happy, I resisted the desire to test her reaction times. Anyway, I need that old banger to last till Christmas, while I get the model carrier, forget you read that, camper van sorted out.

Done that. Didn’t end well.