Davey,

What size are these models?  

Do they have to adhere to a specific size?

So does Davey!!

Seriously, they're great models, my grandson is just taking an interest and would love to get his hand on those!

Are you too old Ray ?

My reactions are still A1

Grandson want to play with big boys toys? These are not for kids and our youngest member is 18 but normally at about that age they develope an interest in girls or boys if they are bent. They move on.

My son left at 18 to join the army as a chopper techo.....now stationed at Townsville.

Well Davey doubt whether my grandson will want to play with big boys' toys, think this little guy is aiming on building the real thing! At age 7 he built his first model airplane (wood) always been interested in anything to do with flying, he did his HSC a year ago and is bent on aerospace engineering, has the brains for it too!! Taking flying lessons at the moment. His goal was even more cemented when after his HSC his parents took him on a holiday to UK and elsewhere and in the UK he had the opportunity to meet with one of his heroes Richard Branson at a charity event. Already proud of him and think will be even more so in the future!

As for me,too taken up with my sport, golf, riding,cricket, want to keep pursuing these until the bones start creaking, then might seek out something more sedentary..

Ray,

It is great when a young person has made a decision about his future based on an apparent passion and has the aptitude to follow through.

Good luck to him.

You are right a new model has to be trimmed correctly and adjusted to fly straight and level at half throttle. Most get the the club instructor to do this but after a lifetime in the hobby I mostly do it myself.

Some fly mode one and others prefer mode two ( throttle right or left)

Yes Abby many have them....we call them drones and they can carry cameras /videos or a fishing sinker out to sea.

Some have six props or even eight.

They have GPS and can hover outside your bedroom window transmitting pictures  back to a smart phone. Press return to base and it flies back on it's own.

Wasn't there some problem during the NSW bushfires with people flying drones across the flight paths of water carriers?

 I will have to buy one ... think I could have tons of fun with one :)

You will get a video clip of pensioners doing the hundred yard dash ..

No that's crone racing

I spent an hour yesterday looking through my digital photo library and couldn't find them. I may have to go through a backup or two to locate them. May take some time but I do hope to find them somewhere.

Hi Banjo, hard finding something "male" to reply to these days. Like working with wood too, took this up a couple of years ago and at the moment building a very special bookcase for my wife. Not the usual run of the mill ones, this one has drawers on the side. An old Dutch design. One day she'll see the finished product!

Cheers

Hi Ray, your project sounds a bit more complicated. I dont know how to put pictures up here from camera,but I found this on the internet,gives a

good idea of a table I made recently,for use in the family room.It holds masses of stuff. Cheers 

Hey Banjo, that table is great, you've got some talent mate. Got some nice jarrah for the bookcase I'm making, if I get into difficulties will be calling on you!

Cheers,enjoy your Sunday

Thanks Ray, nice to see your bookcase when finished.

Haven't got another project in mind yet,but the wife keeps hinting at a sewing box, might do that for her Christmas present.

I'll take off now ...lolol

That's a great story Cranky,yes I could imagine how emotional that

would have been.Would have moved me too,thanks for telling it.Cheers

what an achievment cranky - good story