On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:44:07 -0700, "Kevin McCue"
wrote:

We used to get complaints from homeowners about noise when we flew R/C
sailplanes!

Actually the full size ones sound a lot like a jet coming toward you,
but no roar when going away.

When we lived on the farm I was out washing the car one day and heard
a jet. I couldn't find it...Then I looked straight up.

Over the "freshly cut" wheat field was a column of sail planes.
There must have been 8 or 10 (maybe more), but that was a long time
ago. I grabbed the VCR...Yes, I had a VCR...all mechanical and the
camera was one of the so called "Minicams" used by TV stations.

Time I got the whole works hooked up and a tape inserted there were
just some tiny dots many thousands of feet above that looked as much
like birds as airplanes.

I was trying to watch those graceful birds while also trying to get
the VCR and Minicam to talk to each other.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)