When I'm not motorcycling I'm into radio controlled gliders. I fly slope gliders, thermal, discuss launch and the most fun of all, dynamic soaring. I mess about with electric aeroplanes and helicopters too, but mostly just for the company. Gliding is where its at for me. Lately I've been messing about with pulse jets. Got a HK special, Dyna Jet and just got gifted a (I think) old Bailey jet by a riding buddy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSjHuEYXLo&feature=c4-overview&list=UUa7gJ5EE...
for a look at my HK pulse jet going on the test stand. It's loud. 140db.
I'm a surfer, ride mostly my longboard these days and occasionally a retro single fin or 5'6" fish
I fly paragliders, ridge soaring and cross country thermal flying, have my tandem endorsement. I love flying with passengers. Got about 400hrs logged. It's great fun.
And I like spending time with the wife and kids, hanging around at home, camping and 4 wheeling or skiing at the river.
Sometimes I find some time to go to work.

Sounds like Gizzo has a lot of fun,,
I played with RC stuff a while,,I had a 60 on an Ugly Stick & had modified the rear control surfaces to be larger and then gave the servos leverage to swing them hard. It was coming along as a nice stunter when some A55HOLE decided to flip his transmitter on & it was the same channel as mine. No one else noticed what he did, or the club woulda made him pay for my plane, He did it on purpose, Id been flying less time & was able to take off & land & could fly circles around him, he was just jealous. I decided then that if a plane could go from fun to trash sack in that amount of time & at that expense, Id find a new hobby,,Sold the engine & radio, I DO still have an Enya 35 & a Veco T-,, Hmm,, dang,, Itll come to me,, A Veco Tank & the handle to build a You Control. May build one for the grand kid one day,,Hafta get an .049 & teach him how to fly, tho,,cant afford to l;et him stuff big ones in the ground till he learns ;

Heck, just walk by & look in the shop.. The other day he asked me
"Papa,, why are you always building something?"

I am STILL working on getting that propane tank & regulator mounted.
Listened to Coast to Coast last nite & fiddle farted around with it some more. Gonna be a real tidy, well thot out installation, but dang, finding that "Just right" piece of junk, cutting, fitting, cleaning,, AAAGGHHH!!
It just takes a lot longer than it looks like it should, Finally got all the bits & pieces cut out, just 2 more plates to weld onto the generator frame, to hold the vapor regulator.
To make the "seat" for the tank I sliced across the 1X2 bracket & laid in pieces of 1/2" square tubing( you dont even wanna know how long it took to get the distance between & angle of the cuts & then opening them  to the right depth to lay the tubing in & making sure I didnt set them deep enough to have the bottle sitting on the bracket where the bottom of the bottle is kinda rounded instead of sitting on the ring/base its supposed to sit on.) that I cut one side out of, tack welded & then brazed up gaps. Ive used parts from a manual treadmill, a regular bed frame, the 1/2" square tubing was part of a hospital bed some guy had me store for him,, It didnt sell, so, he gave it to me, & the last 2 bits came from a junk riding lawnmower. A cut off disk in a grinder is a mighty handy tool,,OHH, & FWIW,, I may be the worlds worst welder..weld & grind & weld again, grind some more,,, BUT, NOt blowin holes in that stuff is more important than getting a full weld down on the first pass..The welder is at its lowest setting, using some skinny rods. Theyre not 1/8th, idk what they are,, I like them, so, I better get some more. NOT from Harbor Freight..

Tinker on the computer. Keep up with the wife and kids... which ensures that there is always something on the honeydo list.  I have a reloader for ammo.. so if I am completely out of things to do I have that.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 12/09/13 at 21:40:42:


What JOG is saying...... if yer successful there will be tons of folks wanting one...
I would be in the line myself
Screw the man, make'm work and sell them on the sly, what they gonna do? arrest you for selling experimental power machines?

walterpump wrote on 12/10/13 at 13:06:36:




What is CW? Seems I have a CW option on a knob on the shortwave but cant get squat

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 12/10/13 at 16:28:51:


JOG CW is short for continous wave. In simpler terms....Morse Code. When radio first came to be,and Morse Code was the only mode of radio communication operators used "spark gap" transmitters. These produced a continous wave at a given frequency and the "spark gap" was just a break in the radio wave. the gap was produced similar to the Jacobs Ladder we learned in science class as kids. The lenght of time the gap was open determined either the dot or dash.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 12/10/13 at 16:28:51:


CW is amateur radio talk for Morse Code, used by a lot of amateur radio operators to communicate with each other.  It is kinda neat and getting a little rare, but I enjoy it.