Sunday:
After the big day of flying we were a little too tired for church. I cloned a new hard drive for Vera's laptop and installed it. Then I started to head for the shop when I realized the flowers needed watering. When I finally got to the shop I pulled the Fokker Triplane apart to repair the battery which wouldn't take a charge after the second flight Saturday. It turned out one cell was bad, but I had the exact replacement that I had salvaged out of a cordless screwdriver. Then I added some more down thrust to the outboard motors of the Trimotor, it wants to climb under full power. This evening I put two flights on the racing quad flying out on the trails. I had left the camera in the motor home, when I went out to get it was fairly dark and all the solar lights were on. These digital cameras do a great job in low light, I ended up wandering around and took a half a dozen pictures in the dark.
Today:
Vera was going to a birthday breakfast for one of the ladies in her bible study group this morning so I decided to go up and spray the flying field. It is getting to the point that all we are mowing up there is the dandelions. If you let them grow they can punch holes in the planes' covering.
When I finished and got the mower all loaded I got the Sabach 342 out and put in 3 flights before heading home. Of course I had to stop at Betty's for a chocolate peanut butter milkshake. I cleaned up the spray equipment and put it away before doing a little maintenance on the Sukhoi. Some how I had lost the wing hold down screws and of course they were metric. I was just about to tap the blind nuts out to 8-32 when I found a box of metric plastic screws and there was a 4 MM just the right length in it. I got my normal two flights with the quad tonight and tried a couple of new routes out through the tree rather than following the trails. That was lots of fun!
Here is a link to a video I took today.
Flying the trails
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