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Old 01-24-2010, 03:36 PM
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Only if you get caught.

But yes, I'm kidding.


You know, when I was a kid, we had a guy in our neighborhood who wouldn't let us go into his yard to retrieve our baseballs, wiffleballs, etc, when they landed there. I bet a lot of us had the same thing. Some people are just jerks.
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Old 01-24-2010, 06:10 PM
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I have attached a copy of the instructions that came with the plastic fin stock. The fin stock measures 3" x 9".

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Old 01-24-2010, 11:32 PM
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Have you tried giving the neighbor gifts?

Everyone likes gifts, especially ones with pictures of presidents on them.

We moved recently and we threw away a lot of trash. When I say a lot, I mean the peak was at the bottom of the roof as the spreading pile grew. When the trash pickup came, they balked and said that they wouldn't pick it up because it needed to be at the curb. After my wife finished passing out the $20's to the work crew and humbly asked for their help, attitudes changed and we all worked together to clear the mess. Sometimes you got to do what you got to do to get the desired outcome. Yes, we were out of the money, but we had the goal was achieved so we could move on to the next thing.

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Old 01-25-2010, 01:20 AM
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Don't want to steal Bob's thunder, but he built it, brought it to today's launch, flew it, and lost it.
The model looked very good and the fin can was *so* not noticeable.
Flew quite straight, popped right at peak and was taken by the stiff winds into the
next door neighbor's field, where we don't have permission to go.
If you know anyone who owns a small aircraft (an ultralight or even a Rotorway Scorpion helicopter or some such machine), a quick "touch-and-go" at the right spot in the forbidden field could get your model back, and your neighbor never needs to know why it happened...
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Old 01-26-2010, 03:22 AM
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I haven't checked in for a while and saw some activity here. No worries Roy, the only thunder was me slapping myself upside the head for going with the C6-5s instead of using B6-4s. That was the kid in me. I am going to rebuild. 'I have the technology'. Thanks to Kurt, I have several fin cans in reserve. Also, I have all the materials except for the nose cone which is on order. So, there will be another Gemini Titan built shortly. (I can correct all of the little mistakes that were nagging me anyway)
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