I've never really done a "what's going on in the hobby for me" type thread so I'm thinking I'm going to give it a try.
The last 6 weeks have been pretty tough with a lot of travel for work. I've spent a total of 11 nights at home in that time period. I arrived home a little before noon yesterday from 11 days in Argentina. I sat next to a professor from Argentina but working at Azusa University in LA so we had something to talk about since my brother and his family are in nearby San Gabriel. Had to deal with a toddler a few seats away though that was having a bad time with the flight and screamed on and off for the entire 11 hour flight from Buenos Aires to Dallas. Wasn't much that could be done about it so I spent yesterday recovering from all the travels. My bosses daughter by random chance was also on the flight to go visit her brother in Iowa so he asked me to make sure she got where she needed to be since it's been a long time that she traveled to the US. It was nice to have someone to talk to even though she didn't speak much english.
Anyways it's finally warming up here in the panhandle and the weather was pretty nice today. Winds were mostly calm with occasional gusts to around 15 mph. I was still pretty tired but I didn't want to pass up the nice weather so I charged up the batteries for the Slick, a few packs for the 300X, and the flight pack for the 600N. I also had to mix up some fresh gas for the Slick but that was just a minor nuisance.
I flew the Slick once, the 300X twice, and the 600N once. I just mostly wanted to burn some fuel in the 600N and Slick. I also notice the Slick was kind of slight rolling back and forth while it was in the air and discovered that the wings were loose and had probably been for some time. I traced the root of the problem back to the anti-rotation dowel pins which is an easy fix.
One of our club members who also has the 89" Slick had his fairly new 104" Slick out too. He was trying to get it started before I went up and couldn't get the motor to fire. I helped go through everything since he had made pulled the Redwing power distribution panel out and went to a JR Powersafe receiver. He had also made some programming changes and I helped him figure out where his mistake was and got it running. He was happy for the help.
Neglected to take some pictures from the field so I'll be sure to do that next time. Got home and turned on the Stars game. I set the Slick up on the porch to work on it while I watched the game. The weather was nice so I could leave the door open without the house getting to hot or cold. The flies and mosquito's aren't out so no worries for pests either. I cut some pieces of light ply and drilled holes for the anti-rotation pins. I had to be careful and under drill some of the holes and slowly get them to the right size. There was play but not enough to really make a difference on the incidence.
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When it was all done, I cracked open one of the bottles of wine I brought back with me.
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