wickedsprint
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So while building, do you guys find your other hobbies a pleasant distraction to avoid burn-out..or do you put all other hobbies on the back burner once work on the plane starts?
Tony,So while building, do you guys find your other hobbies a pleasant distraction to avoid burn-out..or do you put all other hobbies on the back burner once work on the plane starts?
I've taken up trying to teach myself to fly RC helicopters.
Non-buidling time is for Flying, of course!! (It helps to have a flying airplane while you are building...
I couldn't agree more. I try to leave my VAF addition at work (if my boss is reading this, I only browse VAF during down time when I would otherwise be staring blankly at build messages ).browsing this forum, reading and answering completely non-technical questions, sometimes take way too much time that would be better spended on building
I've taken up trying to teach myself to fly RC helicopters.
Flying RC choppers is perhaps the hardest thing I have ever learned to do, one brain glitch and your done. (At least on the 60/90 size.) Simulator's really help.
Funny this should come up now. I've been building on a tear for about 2 yrs till this spring. All metal construction was done some time ago, and a good part of the last year was spent on the canopy and the wiring. Both are done, the last thing I did was mount the cowl. I've been picking at the fwf stuff but have been getting a case of burn out.
So my step-son got a Honda CRF 150 over the winter. ( I'm a dirt bike guy from back when I was a kid. ) I put off the inevitable for months, but with the combo of burn out, watching him ride, not to mention there's just a few years left that he'll be here wanting to do stuff together..........I'm now the proud owner of a 2000 KTM 300 EXC !!! Didn't cost too much to get into that game. So I was a one trick pony, but it's time to slack off for a bit.
Just a bit
I've taken up trying to teach myself to fly RC helicopters.
How about a nice model rocket?
Motorcycles I've been riding since the ripe old age of 6, raced back in the 90's a bit, good but not good enough to win mostly a mid pack runner. My current rides, a Ducati S2R 1000 and a Kawa ZX-6.
Mountain Biking Raced for a few years and a couple of Championships later I ride only for fun now. Specialized FSR S-Works and a Old school Gary Fischer Sugar 1x9.
Snowboarding and Cross Country Skiing in the winter time (Oregon is a great place for this one)
Play in a band. Breedlove Custom, Fender Stratocaster and a Wasburn beater. Four of my mountain bike buddies take up the slack. They are very good and I aspire to be as good as them. For my 50th birthday I had a new Breedlove custom guitar made. The factory is about 4 blocks from my office. What a wonderful experince to go there and hand pick every peice of wood the went into the work of art called a guitar.
Don't get to crazy on that orange scooter, before you know it you'll be spending more time on ktmtalk.com than VAF. My situation is similiar, started a RV8 project which took pretty much all of my spare time. Felt the urge to get back on a dirt bike and bought an 07' KTM 250sx.For a variety of reasons I put the 8 project on the backburner and spent my spare time at the motocross track. Was having fun with it until I took a good spill and broke my leg tib/fib and a couple fingers. Two months on crutches gives you time to think about what you want to do when you're all healed up. The first weekend after the cast came off I was in the garage working on the wings. I now have a two year old son and a six month old daughter, so now I have to try to balance building time and family.
I've taken up trying to teach myself to fly RC helicopters.
I've taken up trying to teach myself to fly RC helicopters.
How about a nice model rocket? This is a model of the Nike Smoke sounding rocket.
Performance of this model on a J420 motor (way less than max for this size rocket, but 40 times as powerful as the largest Hobby Lobby Estes motors):
Initial rate of climb - 20,000 fpm
Zero to 325 mph in 1.75 seconds - straight up.
Yes, it is loud, and has a very cool looking flame.