Stranded on a desert island ...

WHAT IF you were going to be marooned on a desert island and could only take one flying outfit (engine plane, etc.) with you. By the way, there's a good flying field and unlimited fuel on the island. You'll be flying all by yourself so there won't be any competition or prizes. You'll be the only male on the island but all the young Chinese girls from the Brodak ARF factory will be stranded with you.

What plane would you bring? Why?

Ditto engine.

LAST EDITED ON Oct-17-06 AT 04:43 PM (CST)
 
A C5 Galaxy full of items from Fredericks of Hollywood and the toy store. Oh yeah, a battery and pint of fuel and a flying clown with a fox 25.. Wont have much time for flying.

Magician with either a Fox .35 with the zoot crank and stuffer backplate or an OS Max-S .35.

> Wont have much time for flying.

You got that right. First, the young ladies won't want to sleep outside, so they'll expect you to come up with some sort of living quarters. You won't be allowed to DESIGN it, but you'll be expected to build it, or at least do the heavy lifting parts.

Then, since you can't be tracking dirt INSIDE the living quarters, you'll have to help design/create some type of foot wear (unless you brought some over on the C-5) to wear when going outside.

Some of the ladies will no doubt be concerned about your health, so you'll be expected to excersize on a somewhat regular basis. Basically, the more time you want to spend doing things you like, the more time they'll want you to excersize.

Some of them will want to get off the island, so you'll be expected to come up with a plan to do that, and implement it. If you're lucky. If you're not lucky, they will come up with their own plan and expect you to help implement it.

LOL. Flying isn't the only thing you won't have time for:)

I know these things because my wife is Chinese. There is a Chine proverb goes something like "Man is the head, but woman is the neck that controls where the head turns."

cheers,
Ken

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What is Tatoo's favorite kind of M&M's?

answer- De Plain! De Plain!

What does a flight attendant say after a flight?

answer- De Plane! De Plane!

Bill Ervin (Silly Goose Stunt Squadron)

I Guess I'm not "Hardcore" enough, because I'm with Jon. Who would worry about an airplane under those conditions and who would have enough strength to fly. Biggest problem woud be conserving energy...

LAST EDITED ON Oct-17-06 AT 06:30 PM (CST)
 
Green box Nobler or mk1 T'bird with a MAX-S .35.

Also, a large crate of energy drinks.

Uh OOOOoooh!

I think I know where this thread is headed!

LAST EDITED ON Oct-17-06 AT 06:47 PM (CST)
 
The energy drinks were so the ARF girls could work harder building me replacement Noblers & t-birds for when I do dumb things.

What did you think I meant?

(Come to think of it, I better smuggle in some spare MAX-S .35s, maybe a couple of BriStunt's ABC upgrades!)

Hey - if you were only allowed to use ONE type of engine ever again, what would it be? My choice should be obvious from above.

If they can't have a good conversation, the rest will get old fast. Trust me the most important part of a woman is between their ears, the rest is just for fun.

ARF girls gotta know SOMETHING!

LORDY! I just had a great idea:

How about some of you magazine and publishing guys come out with an

ARF GIRLS CALENDAR

WHOOOEEE!

One thing for sure - NO MUFFLER.

>One thing for sure - NO MUFFLER.

With all those women on the island, it's probably better you can't hear anyway.

For the record, Nobler, Fox 35.

>...the most important part of a woman is
>between their ears, the rest is just for fun.

<smooch>

You made my day, Dick. Thank you.

>>...the most important part of a woman is
>>between their ears, the rest is just for fun.
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>You made my day, Dick. Thank you.
>
>Randi

Randi,

Is the above a literal or figurative statement?

Now if Howard had written something similar, there would not be much question...

But Randi, my dear Randi...?

Dan

>>>...the most important part of a woman is
>>>between their ears, the rest is just for fun.
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>>You made my day, Dick. Thank you.
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>>Randi
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>Randi,
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>Is the above a literal or figurative statement?
>
>Now if Howard had written something similar, there would not
>be much question...
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>But Randi, my dear Randi...?
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>Dan
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No it is not figurative at all. Just think about it.

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LAST EDITED ON Oct-17-06 AT 07:04 PM (CST)
 
>WHAT IF you were going to be marooned on a desert island and
>could only take one flying outfit (engine plane, etc.) with
>you. By the way, there's a good flying field and unlimited
>fuel on the island. You'll be flying all by yourself so
>there won't be any competition or prizes. You'll be the only
>male on the island but all the young Chinese girls from the
>Brodak ARF factory will be stranded with you.
>
>What plane would you bring? Why?
>
>Ditto engine.

My Checkmate 2.

Why? It is the best flying plane I have ever flown.
After close to a thousand flights on it, I am very comfortable flying it, it actually seems to fly itself.

Ramrod 432, OS Max-III .15 ... disable the D/T, don't trip the timer, watch it climb to a speck and disappear with the trade winds. Then turn to the ladies and ask, "NOW what do y'all want to do?"

>Ramrod 432, OS Max-III .15 ... disable the D/T, don't trip
>the timer, watch it climb to a speck and disappear with the
>trade winds. Then turn to the ladies and ask, "NOW what do
>y'all want to do?"
>
>Mike Keville
>Tucson

Best answer so far. Mike wins !!!

Ching wong chon don lo wree?

Translation:

What's he doing and what the dickens is that jerk talking about?

Wing jing lo ming dang how wow?

Translation:

Are we having fun yet?

>>Ramrod 432, OS Max-III .15 ... disable the D/T, don't trip
>>the timer, watch it climb to a speck and disappear with the
>>trade winds. Then turn to the ladies and ask, "NOW what do
>>y'all want to do?"
>>
>>Mike Keville
>>Tucson
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>Best answer so far. Mike wins !!!
>
>Larry, NorCal Circle Jerks

That's when they show up withe the loaded out chase helicopter and say: "Ok, no problem. we go get it for you!"...

>>>Ramrod 432, OS Max-III .15 ... disable the D/T, don't trip
>>>the timer, watch it climb to a speck and disappear with the
>>>trade winds. Then turn to the ladies and ask, "NOW what do
>>>y'all want to do?"
>>>
>>>Mike Keville
>>>Tucson
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>>Best answer so far. Mike wins !!!
>>
>>Larry, NorCal Circle Jerks
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>
>That's when they show up withe the loaded out chase
>helicopter and say: "Ok, no problem. we go get it for
>you!"...
>
>JAK

I dont think thats what Mike had in mind. ( I could be wrong)

No, Larry, you're not wrong.

I'm glad I don't really have to decide.

I'd want to take one of PW's ImpActs...the one with the RO-Jett .61, preferably. The .40VF would never do, with those tradewinds that Randy Powell was talking about. Are there any earthquakes on this desert island? I'm not worried a bit about the ARF Girls. How do you say "Form a line, mach schnell!" in Chinese? Steve

One of Windy's foam-winged, 900 square in. Sweepers, so if I crash it into a coconut tree I could use the wing as a surfboard.

Come On Ladies! Let's hang ten!

Bill Ervin (Desert Dog Surf and Stunt Team)

Mike,You old devil,My kind of flying, etc

Ever see the movie "Castaway"? I wonder how much he would have wanted to escape if Helen Hunt had been on the island with him.

Knowing my luck, I'd get Germaine Greer instead.

Oh, LORDY! All of us D. O. M.s are jumping out of the woodwork ... er ... sand dunes.

The real subject here is planes and engines. Maybe I should have made up a Pharaoh & pyramid story line: which plane and engine do ya wanna be buried with to go flying in enternity.

OK, OK! You can take along a couple of ARF girls!

Trick question. It would have to be a beginner plane for the 100+ kids you'll have to raise.

>...the 100+ kids you'll have to raise.
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Would not apply to those of us who've had the 15-minute outpatient surgery.

LAST EDITED ON Oct-18-06 AT 08:53 AM (CST)
 
Nor unfortunately to those of us who have been taking insulin injections and especially Flomax for the swollen parts for years. But Mike I still applaud yoyr spirit.

any 1/2A. and norvel engine and a case of ear plugs. ok, so i'm jaded.

LAST EDITED ON Oct-18-06 AT 06:43 PM (CST)
 
I did some serious thinking about airplanes that I really enjoyed flying.

The old-rule F2d combat planes with wide-open venturis, no mufflers, all the nitro you could buy were just the best to fly.

Those were the days, my friends. I wished they'd never end.

Roaring around behind the axle plant at 120 MPH on 52' 2-3/8" of .012' lines.
Barely able to keep up with it? You bet !!
But with unlimited time in the day, the stated companions at night, I could get the feel of it.

If you're just out the by yourself flying for fun, this is it.

LAST EDITED ON Oct-18-06 AT 07:24 PM (CST)
 
If I had to nominate the plane I have most enjoyed, in a shambolic, speed obsessed, teenage sort of way, it would be the Aeroflyte semi-scale Spitfire I built over Christmas 1982. Over powered with a PAW 19DS turning a 9x6. Couldn't do much other than wingovers and very wide loops with it because it was cranking around at about 70 mph / 110 km/h. But talk about FUN!!!!

I now have the plans for the Aeroflyte kit, courtesy of Peter White in Perth, so another one (with more appropriate powerplant) is in my future.

BUT - I'd still probably want a Nobler / OS MAX-S .35 to take with me.

Okay, seriously . . . Super Clown, OS .20FP (but thanx for the vote of confidence on the posts above, guys!)

OOoooops! I forgot to vote.

Li'l Duper Zilch and (original) Torpedo .29. AND a pickup truck load of propellers. Will post a picture when my wife gets back from VA.

And a few trinkets for the girls. PLUS, a Chinese/English dictionary.

As a youngster, the most fun I ever had with a plane was my green box Nobler and ETA-29

As a youngster . . . I'd have been chasing the ARF girls all over the place.

Now . . . I'd ask "Which of you knows how to do a real good back rub?"

And I'd still take the green box Nobler and my trusty old ETA 29!

Well said!

A USA-1 with a PA 51.

I'd bring . . . . my guitar.

You do much better with the girls with a guitar than you do with a model airplane.

The premise was an unlimited supply of Chinese ARF girls and I get to select only one model airplane.

I'd prefer to have an unlimited supply of model airplanes and select only one American woman.

>The premise was an unlimited supply of Chinese ARF girls and
>I get to select only one model airplane.
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>I'd prefer to have an unlimited supply of model airplanes
>and select only one American woman.

Australian woman! I'd take my wife over an ARF girl any day ...

In HS I had a hot rod '34 Ford and a ukelele ... worked for me!

Hmmmm ... wonder if I can bring those along?

With my luck I'd be stranded with the Kathy Bates from Misery and a Cox plastic 1/2A!

GOOD LORD!

Whoa!

Fantasy ... NOT nightmare!

Under the described circumstances, one might not have much time for flying. Therefore, I would take a plane that's *really* fun to fly.
My choice would be a fast combat plane called the Underdog, and a Nelson to pull it through the tropical air.

John Thompson

RON SMITH
airplane ?

>With my luck I'd be stranded with the Kathy Bates from
>Misery and a Cox plastic 1/2A!

Ohhh I don't know...... Stranded on an island where none of your friends will ever find out???.... Ole' Crazy Kathy might be pretty fun.

Mike

"Rudeness is a weak mans imitation of strength."