Falco - Kit plane or Plans-built?

On 2005-08-13 12:40:10 -0400, "Rich S." said:

I glued my head to the floor once. Does that count?

I thought Wes was just making that up when he used it in a Klyde Morris
cartoon. Are you Bob Overev's secret identity?

Given the reappearance of sock puppets over in r.a.r., where Dennis
Fetters was praising himself and graciously accepting such praise,
anything is possible. For a minute, I thought it was 1998 again.

cheers

-=K=-

Rule #1: Don't hit anything big.

On 2005-08-13 12:20:42 -0400, Ron Wanttaja said:

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:08:41 -0400, Kevin O'Brien
kevin@org-header-is-my-domain-name wrote:

The judges are naturally also drawn to the big-buck, big, fast,
powerful plane, when the resto job on a Mooney Mite or Aeronca C-3, or
the handwork on a Pietenpol, goes unrecognised. This also favours the
sleek, complex Falco. Not fair, but there it is.

It's not just natural inclination, it's also the way the rules are written. In
addition to how well the builder did, the designs themselves are rated for
complexity.snip one through five, with one being the "easiest".

I'll be dipped. I didn't know that.

I sure wouldn't want the responsibility of trying to come up with a
fair judging system. This is all done by volunteers, and I bet there
are times they regret they ever volunteered.
--
cheers

-=K=-

Rule #1: Don't hit anything big.

Thanks Rich!
I needed to laugh at somebody today.

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"Rich S." wrote

I glued my head to the floor once. Does that count?

chuckle
I *have* been called "Jim the toolman" before, and I haven't done that!

Come on, tell all. After all, you -did- bring it up! g

Well, I was fabricating a 1/4" plywood battery box that uses the back side
of the spar as the front side of the box. Since I *really* wanted it to be
secure, I was slopping T-88 epoxy liberally whilst gluing it in place.

Then I had to get underneath the uncovered bare-bones fuselage to finish
the job. I failed to notice the 2" wide x 1/4" deep puddle of T-88 on the
concrete floor. I slid under the plane and plopped my semi-balding head
right smack in the middle of the puddle.

Fortunately, I still had a few minutes before the epoxy cooked off. Since
my wife was at work, I looked around for assistance in removing the
long-chain polymer glop from my Northernmost appendage. My 85 year-old
neighbor, Ruth Gutherie, was home and working in her garden. She answered
my plaintive calls and came over. Thank gosh she came - I really didn't
want to shampoo in MEK. She patiently worked all of the epoxy out - well,
most of it anyway - while gaily make fun of my stupidity.

She's 95 now and still remembers the occasion.

Rich S.

On 2005-08-16 19:00:20 -0400, Richard Riley said:

I assume mountains in Greece also count as big?

Ouch. Mountains by definition are big, whether they be in Greece or
Venezuela. Indeed, I'm rather selective about where I choose to return
to terra firma while wearing an aircraft. Some areas are rather
drearily unsuitable.

Some poor ******* has hit the mountains on every continent. Air New
Zealand stuffed a DC-10 on a rather screwy VFR flight in Antarctica
some years back -- what a mess that was.

Oceans are big, too, and lakes (especially the Great Lakes, I note that
LaSalle or Pontiac or whoever named them didn't call them The Ickle
Ponds) and there's hardly a one that doesn't have an airplane at the
bottom somewhere.

Y'all be careful out there.

cheers

-=K=-

Rule #1: Don't hit anything big.