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Topic: Tales of Hobbies!
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted May 24, 2019 09:37 AM
I have a friend at work who is very big into RC aircraft. He bought a house a couple of years ago and the story goes that every ceiling in the house has some (-or several) small aircraft dangling from it. (...he's single.)
He's a nice guy: follows tales of my Amphibious Jeep project with great interest and helps where he can (-he could probably build one in a week!). He's been making some hard to fabricate parts for me with 3D printing.
He told me a story this morning:
A few years ago he was at a major RC event. This guy is flying this scratch-built jet powered B-52 bomber, doing lazy passes back and forth across the field. Suddenly he really throttles up, does this scorching flyover, but something goes wrong and the thing spirals into the ground and makes this small, flaming, expensive crater.
There he is, standing there stunned with his now useless RC controller still in his hands:
-from behind him, his...Wife speaks up: "Well, there goes twenty thousand dollars."
-so if you bought a couple of films or even a projector this month...
-It's okay!
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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