What would you do if the vette was not your hobby ?

Dunno, been through SO many other hobbies....houses, cars, guns, stereo, ,electronics, electrical, cabinet making, Boats, both sail and power...

jack of all trades, master of some.....

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big_G said:
My second hobby is Radio-controlled aircraft. Of course, the fast ones...:devil:
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I never forget leaving a house after doing some big job, and the guy across the street fired up a RC HELICOPTER.....I about shit, just staring at the thing....

never heard of one till then......:bonkers::yahoo:
 
I'd have me a good ol' time :

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6yyQ_328mA[/ame]
 
The Vette kept me from buying an airplane.. I was looking really hard at a Piper Comanche. And then the guy that had Ol' Red since 1971 called..
 
A Camaro/Firebird... maybe a mid 60's Mustang..... or a Barracuda..... maybe a Harley....
well... if I didn't have the Vette, what would I do ???? Maybe finish the other 8975 projects that I started ???? :lol:
 
Hm, RC airplanes. Looks fun.

It's just that having cars is getting more difficult by the day over here. I like wrenching though or making parts...

My body is coming back all painted soon and then i'm going to finish assembling her. Then it's all about driving and like i said : that getting increasingly more difficult every day.
 
Radio controlled airplanes/helicopters.

Several months ago, I pulled into a residential street here and was confronted by a F16 taxiing in the middle of the road heading towards me! Actually it was a model RC airplane. The fuselage was something like 3 or 4 feet. It stopped and it made a U turn. I followed it until I came to a man holding the RC transmitter. I had rolled my window down, when following the airplane, but the expected chain saw engine like sound from a 2 cycle gas engine was absent. When the owner stopped the airplane near him I could hear a rrrrrrrr sound. I pulled up and stopped. I yelled and asked it it was an electric fan (ducted fan) engine. No he shouted back and said it was a turbo jet!! and about the same time I smelled the kerosene fumes. Impressive.

It was only later, I realized that was a sophisticated model airplane...it had made a U turn! It had nosewheel steering.

I used to build model planes as a teenager up until I went to college.
I got interested in cars in college, and as a proud Triumph TR3 owner I started learning how to repair cars. The TR3 had a major breakdown of some sorts every 6 months, minor problems between, and I had almost no money.
Learning how to repair cars lead to modding cars. If I get my 70 finished, I could well find myself buying a model airplane.

When I want good super-glues, some specialty paints, etc, I go to a "profession" model RC airplane/helicopoter/car store near where I live. By professional, I mean, these things aren't toys for children. They are expensive for adults.
 
68/70Vette said:
Radio controlled airplanes/helicopters.

Several months ago, I pulled into a residential street here and was confronted by a F16 taxiing in the middle of the road heading towards me! Actually it was a model RC airplane. The fuselage was something like 3 or 4 feet. It stopped and it made a U turn. I followed it until I came to a man holding the RC transmitter. I had rolled my window down, when following the airplane, but the expected chain saw engine like sound from a 2 cycle gas engine was absent. When the owner stopped the airplane near him I could hear a rrrrrrrr sound. I pulled up and stopped. I yelled and asked it it was an electric fan (ducted fan) engine. No he shouted back and said it was a turbo jet!! and about the same time I smelled the kerosene fumes. Impressive.

It was only later, I realized that was a sophisticated model airplane...it had made a U turn! It had nosewheel steering.

I used to build model planes as a teenager up until I went to college.
I got interested in cars in college, and as a proud Triumph TR3 owner I started learning how to repair cars. The TR3 had a major breakdown of some sorts every 6 months, minor problems between, and I had almost no money.
Learning how to repair cars lead to modding cars. If I get my 70 finished, I could well find myself buying a model airplane.

When I want good super-glues, some specialty paints, etc, I go to a "profession" model RC airplane/helicopoter/car store near where I live. By professional, I mean, these things aren't toys for children. They are expensive for adults.
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The jet engines for the models are self-starting and the smallest ones make about 12 lbs. of thrust and go for about $2K. The bad boys make 30-40 lbs. thrust and go for about $3,500. Not uncommon to have a 2 engine jet have $10K up in the air. Not a cheap hobby. But they easily exceed 200 mph true airspeed, and they sound fantastic at speed!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6y46B6G_3c[/ame]
 
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I agree, I'd have a lot more money but then I would have had another piece of Detroit Iron to throw it at too.

I like boating, another expensive venture. Of course I have two foot-itis - you always want a boat at least 2 feet bigger than the one you currently have. We dream of a forty footer one day but what with fuel costs constantly going North we would probably have to keep it at the dock.
 
There is a vid on the net, probably U tube, of a guy who modeled a SR71 Blackbird, and it's really COOL....when I saw it, I assumed he made the engines,....but not know he probably did not....

surely it can be found with a search....cool as a moose....

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68/70Vette said:
Radio controlled airplanes/helicopters.

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Thanks for that video posting. Just amazing, particularly to stationary hovering towards the end a few feet above the run-way. You'd think an airplane could not hover like that without thrust vectoring since there would be no airflow of significance across the flight control surfaces. That hovering at single digit foot altitudes was dangerous..one mistake and a lot of money would go down the drain.

I replayed the video and noticed he didn't do any truly stationary hovering at the beginning, the plane was probably too fuel heavy at that point.
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68/70Vette said:
big_G said:
68/70Vette said:
Radio controlled airplanes/helicopters.

I
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Thanks for that video posting. Just amazing, particularly to stationary hovering towards the end a few feet above the run-way. You'd think an airplane could not hover like that without thrust vectoring since there would be no airflow of significance across the flight control surfaces. That hovering at single digit foot altitudes was dangerous..one mistake and a lot of money would go down the drain.

I replayed the video and noticed he didn't do any truly stationary hovering at the beginning, the plane was probably too fuel heavy at that point.
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That is affirmative. The larger jets carry in excess of 1 gallon of kerosene, and the extra weight (sometimes the tank location) hinder the power to weight ratio/center of gravity. There are several models that use true thrust vectoring, but a lot of work to pull it off. I'll post up some prop planes doing high-alpha and hovering maneuvers. Truly amazing skills required. I am only just starting to accomplish this.
This one is electric....I'll let Gene guess the amps/watts the C-50 motors consume. The rolling circles are Very hard to do, this guy makes it look easy. Just think about the visual coordination required with elevator and rudder controls reversing every 180* of rotation.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDhxSZARvXI&feature=related[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6XIeGGrtI&tracker=False&NR=1&feature=fvwp[/ame]
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