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.

How you sound with smashed up face

Ditto John, having to look for the mirror knob to switch them, before reversing into a tight parking spot deserves and gets a swear word response.

But, proving basic competence occasionally is not arduous. Mind, reading the Highway Code every decade helps. Slightly less acceptable is having a look at crash scene photos. They can sober you. “ I sentence you, look at this lot, and pass a memory test of detached body parts” . Bit like the robot test, tick photos with traffic lights.

Good idea. Most designs have a bit of sacrificial material, to be used as sandpaper on the landing surface. Perhaps a centimetre or two.

That in fairness John, is the same as asking you to do an A test from time to time. The standard driving test is no great shakes. Mind what is the more dangerous environment. I realise, in fairness, you might not trust government promises. I’ve got a distant memory of buying a driving licence for life, no more update fees, so even if the promise is a small fee, it won’t get a lot bigger. Bad drivers can’t pass every time, potential reckless drivers are just criminals testing the system.

Check the plug?

One point Toto, it looks like your leading edge is straight, no rake. Make sure your sanded result gives a straight leading edge or whatever the plan says it should be. Mind we are suggesting deluxe fixes. I’d be tempted to carry on and fill the gap with foaming gorilla glue when it’s together. Heathen solution. Won’t see it when it’s covered. Or balsa dust and white glue. Invisible repair even with a transparent covering.

I dont quite now how to say this with any sort gentleness, so here goes. Modern cars are safe. So much so, not a lot of point making them safer. Perhaps an old suggestion, make it obligatory, to have a 9 inch spike sticking out of the steering wheel, and ban seat belts in drivers seats. Not a popular customer choice, not a great suggestion of a politician trying to sell to important folk driving cars, but would work. Dare say the spike is cheaper than the absent seat belt, so win, win. So we get gizmos, that work, that also distract when the car finds its murderer in charge, is demonstrating again, a lack of car control. Blame young drivers, ok, no experience, young. What goes wrong. But why I ask, if drivers “off a certain age”, find their insurance is rising. Suggestion insurers can’t do their risk mathematics?

Is the problem the gap in the middle? Cure for that, measure the gap at its widest, then glue spacer to each root face, just over half the gap, sand flat. Don’t cover the end result with clear film. A friend, a builder always told me, the customer only sees the finish. .

Absolute correct. Conversations, ‘how fast were you going’. ‘What is the speed limit Officer.’ Abs brakes are good, simplifies braking. My instructor said, I buy your pints if you break the pedal. Stand on it. Merc found out people die, didn’t use use it, and hit, and died what they were trying to miss. ABS not engaged. Hence a computer tries to detect a panicky touch on the pedal. Not a proper 100 kilos on it. Auto is good, reduces driver load, so you can sit there and look for the problem. Another instructor said relax, assume those about you are homicidal maniacs, and the stress of the unexpected goes away. And complaining about speed limit preventing devices. Hit a peasant. At 30mph, 10% chance of dying, at 40mph, 90% chance of dying. Not me, but a mate related, scrote complained about the size of the dent in his GT 1600 non turbo diesel, after sending a peasant to his final destination. Rant over.