What a hassle to even get on a flying field. I end up having to renew my AMA membership for $70, then renew my drone authorization with the FAA for another $50, and then join the club for another $70. And that’s before I’ve ever bought or built a plane.
After all that said, we await the hangar, where all my planes are built and assembled and prepared. At this point I might as well be a private pilot, do the amount of maintenance set up making sure everything is ready and good to go before I ever leave the house. Once I get to the flying field before I take off, I have to go ahead and do the same thing again and make sure everything is just right before I ever lift off otherwise you end up crashing planes and that’s not fun.
I have 3 more planes to finish in my squadron. And then I should be ready to fly, maybe in the next 2 weeks, barring disc golf tournaments and all that kind of happy bullshit. But here we have it.
Damn, those are pretty. Mean Machine looks kinda old school (real plane), but I might be mis-seeing it. I think the QiDi is my favorite looking of the three, but I’d need to see ’em in person.
Since we’re more than a half hour in:
Sorry, Mr. Ilium.
I saw that on X this morning, clown world…..
ISTR this was a thing when I lived there in the late 90s – they’ve been doing this for decades.
You’re gonna need an AWACS, Bobbo, to cover all bases.
Nice planes.
As a 1/2 Score I would watch some of the older kids flying their 25 cent balsa planes. I never had a quarter to buy one though. Still, it was fun.
Flea and Nick Cave collaborating on a cover of Wichita Lineman
We have achieved the singularity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73P2drWXulM&list=RD73P2drWXulM&start_radio=1
Well . . . . I didn’t hate it.
Oh, how I laughed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/teacher-calls-out-students-for-having-same-skills-as-older-boomers/ar-AA1ZLVQU
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One teacher recalled, “I once watched a kid completely ignore the mouse and keyboard in front of them, only to smash their finger into the computer monitor multiple times.
“When that didn’t work, they started screaming that it was broken. When I told them it wasn’t touchscreen and they needed to use the mouse and keyboard, they looked at me like I had six heads.
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visual aid: https://youtu.be/LkqiDu1BQXY?si=z8F9dKATdUGcedCB&t=72
“Touchscreen” is suitable only for phones.
It is completely impractical for desktops and laptops and those children should feel shame.
Never fret, deary! Soon, your mind itself will seamlessly connect with devices, so ya won’t have to use those stubby littler fingers of yours!
You’ll be so HAPPY when your fridge beeps in your brain, reminding you of whatcha need! (‘We can do this *everything!* And we shall!’)
My laptop is touchscreen and I like it but I only use it to expand or contract the view. I prefer mouse and keyboard for everything else. I don’t get people who use the touchpad exclusively – it simply doesn’t give you the fine control a mouse has.
My take on the business.
We have an iPad, we use if for the kids music program almost exclusively. I’ve tried to use it for other things and can’t. I’m 99% phone but when I want detailed pictures or hopefully more in depth search and shopping I go to the desktop. I can barely use the iPad. And Apple thinks it’s the primary devise between the phone pad pair.
My old Windows Surface is a touchscreen. I disabled the touchscreen functionality. Smudgy disgusting fingerprints are bad enough on a phone screen – what masochistic bastard wants that all over a bigger screen.
Now I’m rocking a MacBook and they were not interested in that except I heard they’re working on a touchscreen now. 🙄
This is what happens when you haven’t watched Star Trek 4.
https://youtu.be/LkqiDu1BQXY?si=SGsKlMzhKwhKrZC9
Digital ‘skills’ are not important.
Nice planes, Bobbo.
Good luck getting them up and away! It’s kite flying season here. Mostly been either still or 25 MPH. Mother Nature needs to calm her tits.
They make you get drone registration on RC now?!
We had an asshole (Robert Blair) on our central committee when all the drone regulation was being discussed back in DC. That clown who didn’t know a damn thing about aircraft or RC kept flying back and forth lobbying for the FAA to clamp down on drones. Of course he has a finger in the cookie jar, runs some GIS service for farming. He tried to get an Idaho house seat (he’d need two) on the basis that he got regulations created. Thankfully we kept him out of that and ran successful primarily candidates against him in two elections.
I kept telling him that the FAA already had rules for RC and that the drone rules should be less restrictive because they generally are more stable, are flown from the camera in the drone, and have return home functions.
The bad guys won.
It seems the AMA was consulted when forming the drone rules, its right from our common sense guidlines we fly RC under. Drone operator’s are idiots, they dont realize the danger.
Did the AMA white heads yell about those damn kids?!
No, but you need a commercial license to do anything business wise, helps root out the fools, this stuff will hurt you or others.
I’m waiting with bated breath in case you build a Fokker Dr.I or a Sopwith Camel.
As a model, they would be fun to build but as for flying, they arent very acrobatic, rather sedate.
Built a Sopwith in a balsa model kit as a kid. I was a masochist, apparently.
Nice planes, Yusef!
I wonder where planes are on the autism scale? Not as high as trains, but I suspect they’re up there.
To build? Details,
Setup? Details
Paint scheme?
As long as it looks good in the air,
I begged my folks for years for an RC plane.
Eventually they got me an aerostar40, it took all winter and most of the spring to build it, got to hang out with the old guys at the club and fly it twice.
Couldn’t get my folks to take me to the field but one more time after that.
End of dream.
Third time was several years later. There was one guy at the field who was leaving, I taxied a few times and did a couple short hops inline with the runway.
Packed up my plane and I never flew again.
Hypothesis: Humans arrived in the Americas shortly after leaving Africa. Possibly even pre-humans. The Americas have seen several waves of human migration over the past 100,000 years. We don’t have much archaeological evidence because they had primitive technology and didn’t create persistent artifacts. Also archaeology is only a couple hundred years old so it’s ridiculous to believe we’ve uncovered everything and that the Clovis people are the first Americans and that’s the final word is absurd. And therefore the story were told about the natives being the first people and being here since time immemorial and lived in harmony with the land on turtle Island is bullshit.
The Nimipoopoo have told me otherwise.
They have been here forever, literally in the same drainage and have talked to brother fish for just as long.
They sprang from the earth and are the only People.
That’s not terribly inclusive.
I’m not viewed as human to many of them.
I read something recently, for the life of me I can’t remember what it was, suggesting the land bridge theory is deeply flawed and humanity is older than we currently acknowledge. Thus, humans probably started populating North America far earlier than we realize.
Wouldn’t surprise me. Fact is, we have no way of knowing yet.
The white sands footprints push it back quite a ways.
I find the evidence for Pre-Clovis people pretty convincing, but not the ‘shortly after leaving Africa’. No evidence for Homo erectus in the Americas, the first major group to get out of Africa. Homo sapiens maybe sometime during the last major glaciation but not before (stone tools do not deteriorate). My understanding that there were at least two major waves of colonization via Beringia and the ice-free corridor between the Rocks and the interior glaciers and/or down the AK/BC coastline. The first wave got all the way down to Tierra del Fuego, their descendants are the inhabitants of SA at European contact. The second wave got down maybe to Central American and replaced/displaced the first wave. There may have been a third wave that mostly stayed in the north (their descendants would be the Dinneh) except for some times who later on ended up in the US Southwest. I’m going by memory here.
This ‘timeline’ does not include the Inuit expansion, who displaced the Dorset culture sometime before 1000 AD and eventually reached Greenland after the Norse had planted colonies there. They didn’t get along too well.
That sounds like the more recent stuff I’ve read.
Also, I understand the Clovis culture vanished approximately the same time as much of the megafauna, so any NA Indians would have had a presence here for only around 12-14K. Not long by geologic standards.
And the Indians fought frequently over resources pre-contact, with the losers (if they survived) often trekking hundreds of miles to escape their enemies/find new hunting grounds/cropfields (once maize was introduced from further south). The Tuscarora ended up in the southern Appalachians. The Lakota were driven out of most of Minnesota by the Ojibwe. The Absaroka (Crow) were driven by successive enemies from Ohio all the way to the Rockies. A map of Indian tribes 500 years before contact would look remarkably different than what was encountered by Europeans. Any claim by any tribe to eternal residence in a particular place should be treated with the same skepticism as the last will and testament of Constantine the Great bequeathing his Empire to the Papacy.