We finally got a real rain, its been messing around with a couple tenths here and there, but last night I was woke by thunder, big crack right over the house that shook it. this morning there was 1.2" in the gauge, doesn't look like it came with hail or wind, so things are looking up, makes that early cut of water less stingy. 

Nobody except us old guys wants glow engines anymore.  Everything has gone gas or electric.  There are very few kits available anymore, and no one scratchbuilds.  I have a whole garage full of old kits, plans, engines and hardware that I have slowly been selling off.  I'm hoping my old RC club has a swap meet coming soon.

For what my friend is paying for that Skyraider, motor and accessories, I could probably buy myself a new AR or an old clunker car to play with!

Oh, and I have never built an ARF, ever.

Even from our arcane era, that is weird 

Quote from: Onepoint on Yesterday at 05:47:57 AMYou know what is sad though. 

 Kind of weird to realize you old enough to be part of an era that is gone entirely anymore..

Everything modeling that I own is 25+ years old or more, some of it MUCH more. I even have a couple of those little MVVS control line diesels still NIB. Also a selection of Duke Fox diesel conversions that have never been run, bench or otherwise. The only electric I've ever owned is a small laser cut Lazer 300 (yes, still in the box!).

I was really hoping to make a dollar on this stuff, but at this point I can visualize it all winding up in a dumpster behind Buc Ees or a museum of R/C relics.   

You know what is sad though.  We have had a farm equipment auction company move in from Illinois. I think the owner married a someone from here is the story of how they found us. Nice people, churchy and all.  So I spent money on more junk I don't really need which is too easy since they have an online live auction app.  I went to pay for it and pick it up a couple days after, and as I'm standing there waiting for the 20 something guy (who is a good friend and partner of the owner it turned out), to finish on the phone with someone I spot a Real Flight box behind him.   I asked about it, and turns out he is beginning RC, he wants to fly full scale since they travel all over the country for auctions, but he loves all aviation and was drawn to RC, like many of us got started in it.  So we are chatting and he asked how long I have been flying, and I had to reply since the 1900s    I said I have not flown too much in the last few years though, but I still have a lot of planes, some back from the glory days of glow engines. He had the most blank look on his face and after a pause asked "what is that?" He had never heard of glow engines, like ever.    I explained what they were, what glow fuel was etc and he shook his head and muttered something like "huh, wild" and I could just hear it resonate from his head as his silent thought said man this guy has been around a looong time. 

 Kind of weird to realize you old enough to be part of an era that is gone entirely anymore, I'm sure the old timers thought the same when ARFs became more popular than kits,    which unfortunately seems to be extending to everything I do or have, except maybe guns. Kind of bouncing somewhere between legacy and relic I think.

I've got a butt-road of engines, mostly glow. I think the biggest one in an OS 91 fs. It used to lift a 72" Telemaster 2000 in about 10 feet of runway.

We'll have to talk, Jaime. Soon would be good!

And here's Cyrano.  Both airplanes went to the boneyard a long time ago.  Methow got them a few years after the company I worked for went out of business.

Been a long time since I flew anything, so I'm probably sub-beginner by now!

I worked on Beech 18s for several years back in my traveling mechanic freight rat days.  Not normal Twin Beeches, though.  Ours were a mod called Hamilton Westwinds that had PT-6 turboprop engines instead of the usual R985s.  The extended noses made them look a little ridiculous, but they could haul some freight.  N432U was named Pinocchio, N926T was Cyrano. They were both instrumental in adding to my cache of bulls.....war stories!

"and flying an airplane around in a circle while roasting outside just isn't fun anymore." Or freezing. I have not flown in a couple years again. But my biggest hitch isn't weather, but ambition and time, takes me a lot longer and more energy to do what needs done that I have little left for fun stuff, and it feels better to just sit in the AC.  But I still have all the RC stuff hanging in the way and still mow the runway just in case. 

 That is a cool plane though, I have a E-flite air tractor I have flown just a couple times. Sadly my skill level is down to barely trainers again.   

Aside from almost every airplane known,  I'm kind of wishing I had a Beech C18 hanging the in the way as well. 

Slogging through the summer here.  Its been hot until yesterday, had near 100 or better for 7 days straight until yesterday with a high of about 78 and some rain showers, picked up a couple tenths over night but came with thunder and the power went out a couple times, which woke me up since we are running fans at night.

My irrigation is off since yesterday morning. I ran out of water for the 1st time we have been here, about 32 years I think. Never have been able to use all my water share until this year.  We have had years where the ditch was shut down because of the tunnel collapse or one year they were working on a dam and could not store enough, but I always had water right to use if they could get it to me. They even had shut me out a couple days earlier than they said I had due to bad math I guess, but the ditch is getting shut down the 15th anyway, so I would have had only 4 or 5 days of water anyway.  A lot of the poorer fields and pasture didn't ever get wet, but I did hit the main fields pretty well and it shows now.  Not enough to make up for 1st cutting loss, but maybe won't have to buy multiple semi loads of hay.  And I guess I should be thankful, a ditch company across the border that serves north of the river they got 2 weeks of water is all since they opted to use their reserve water last year, some areas had none at all. 

Now we all get to start worrying about next year because reservoirs nearly empty if not dry altogether, and I am hearing talk they are going to divert part of our allocation down stream next season to keep cities going.

Just to give an idea how bad it is, Pathfinder reservoir in central WY is where we store and get our shares of water right from, its max capacity is 1,200,000 acre feet of water, normally is between 1,000,000 spring and 7-600,000 acre feet in fall after draw down, and I saw its has less than 200000' left and they have to keep releasing all winter for the North Platte river flow. 

Visually, the lake is in a canyon basin, steep walls in some places, with total depth to original river bed about 200' deep, they use elevation for water level measurement, full is 5,850 ft, current Level 5,786.1 ft and when they consider it dead and shut off all but river minimal output is 5746 ft. Between that which runs off east into the Missouri river, and Flaming Gorge reservoir which is the upper feed for the Colorado river, which they drained 30% off to lake Powell already, if we don't get a real winter, next year is going to make this one look like a picnic. If we face the same conditions we have now next year, we will see things none of us alive have been around to see since the dust bowl, like entire little towns abandoned because they dried up and Vegas going dark.

Fun times.
I bounce between worrying about that, and a Blizzard of 49 situation as nature tries a rebalance.