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Old 11-01-2024, 02:58 PM
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that's interesting. when i was young, (a few eons ago) i had an os 35. sweet little engine that always started with a couple flips of the propellor.
otoh, i had an enya, that was the finickiest thing ever. so i always thought os was better.
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One of the former club members posted on my local clubs FaceBook page that he had a car load of old model airplanes to give away. They where all started and sort of forgotten and left in his storage building for a very long time I showed up with one other club member and Matt Kirk showed up later and end up with two Stukas kits an ARF and a royal model that had been setting somewhere way too long.. I ended up with fully framed quarter scale Bud Nosen Citabria and two GP RV 4s and an GP biplane that the tail was bust off.. I would like to find a home for some of these as I did not want to see these airplanes go in the trash! I also got a stripped Phoneix models Tiger 3 ARF model airplane and I am going to finish covering it a go fly it soon.
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If you don't already know them let me introduce to you the Petrincic brothers, Robert and Blasc, from Slovenia. They fly all sorts of model aeroplanes from very expensive ARTFs to knocked together bitzas.They speak excellent English and make the most amusing videos like this one.

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Amusing! I got woke up early this morning to the sound of Tornado sirens. We had 3 small ones on the ground but they all missed me.
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I've been watching Capt. Blasc for several years now.
I'm glad you dodged the twisters Flyer. Growing up in Oklahoma, a trip to the storm shelter was a common occurrence.
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Originally Posted by FlyerInOKC
Amusing! I got woke up early this morning to the sound of Tornado sirens. We had 3 small ones on the ground but they all missed me.
No tornadoes here today, but it has been wet and windy.
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Every autumn, those harbingers of winter, the Common European Crane fly over my house. Thousands turned up yesterday afternoon on their way to their wintering grounds in the South of Spain and North Africa. In the spring they fly north to their breeding grounds in Russia and Scandinavia but rarely over my house. Different atmospheric conditions I suppose.


These were filmed by a friend in the next village.

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Well that didn't work but a few days ago my tame computer engineer rigged up a way of putting pictures from my phone onto something called the iCloud and after a few false steps I managed to download a picture of the cranes as they flew over my house yesterday afternoon. Sorry about the electricity cable. These birds must be the rear echelon. According to the dates on other pictures in my folder, we normally see them in early October.



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