Finally Flying

In addition to our zoo trip on fall break, we went flying. It had been since the expo in August! That's a really long time for us. Aaron has been getting flight simulator time on his computer but it's just not the same. We went flying in September but had an unfortunate accident before takeoff. That was disappointing, but Aaron has done a great repair job.

We got two great flights in on Thursday. It would have been three, but on landing #2 the Super Sportster's propellar hit the runway -- it took a full centimeter off the propellar!

Yay For Corner Brackets

Shortly after we moved the desk drawer on my computer desk broke off the front piece and was barely holding together. Lately Zeke has taken to opening that drawer (among the many that we try to teach him are off-limits). Yesterday we picked up some metal corner braces from Smith's Marketplace and I got them installed in the drawer today. So far my bloody knuckle, scraped it against another screw in the drawer, seems to be worth it and it doesn't look too bad either (knuckle and the drawer) :).

No Planes Left to Fly

My first attempts at flying my Mitsubishi Zero didn't go so well last Wednesday. As the picture on the left shows the firewall broke out on the flips that it did because it hit the weeds at the end of the field and because it was so heavy it wouldn't take off without getting up to 30 mph and the engine I have in it won't pull it that fast anyway.

My T-28 trojan flew just fine except for the wind was a little high for it to fly well. Comming in for a landing it got really hairy and it belly landed in the grass; throwing pieces right, left and center. I need to repair the wing mount again.

The Hobbico NexStar that has done so well for me thus far (the go to airplane when all the others break or just won't handle the wind) landed hard and broke out the landing gear mount area. I had great flights with it today but that landing just did the poor thing in. So now I get to have fun doing the repair part of the hobby. :)