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Aged 8 I got a model plane kit for Christmas.
Spent about two weeks building it then took it down to the local park to fly - filled it to the very brim with fuel.
Last seen heading towards Coventry.
As far as I know it is still going.
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Brilliant. You gave me a chuckle 
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Nah, mine is still in the box. It's too cold to go outside. 
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: filled it to the very brim with fuel.
These things are quite unsafe.
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Same with Estes rockets. As a kid I spent an entire Minnesota winter sanding and polishing a new missile. I was rewarded for all my efforts by how fast and true it's flight.
Never saw it again.
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Been there. Was a very sad kid for a few days one summer.
Learned the hard way that the best rockets are the ones where you simply glue a nosecone and a couple of fins direcly to the engine.
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Very much the same as what happened to the two I sent up into the air. Spent half a year for each of them and then it was overin minutes. I did not see it, but others told me they exploded.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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When in High School, a gang in our class had a home alone New Year's party, but I'll say we were reasonably well behaved. For firing off the rockets, we set bottles firmly into the snow as a launch ramp and moved away to safe distance after the fuse was lit.
When I lit my biggest rocket, it went straight into the air, hit a 22 kV power line, bounced right back and made its grand explosion right in front of the neighbour's living room panorama window, where the couple were standing looking out. Their reaction was what I'd call 'noteworthy'.
I was very happy that they never demanded to know who was responsible for that rocket launch. And really: I didn't feel guilty. I had taken all standard precautions, and I certainly was not the one deciciding to run that power line right there.
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Accidents do happen. They probably did not assume that the missile attack was on purpose.
The rockets I wrote about were a little bigger.[^] And what a bang they did make, not that I got to see anything because I was staring at a radar screen when they were on their way.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I once sent a homemade D20 bottle rocket through the eves of the house by accident/stupidity. Only took 2m to build up enough speed to punch out a perfectly round hole complete with nipple from the stick through the cement sheeting. 
We laughed about it till we cried the other day - enough years had passed that dad wouldn't get the look of death from mum for finding such a stupid act so funny.
I've still got the nearly 20 year old newspaper clips from when people thought our massively overpowered bottle-rockets were UFOs. You shouldv'e seen the way those endburners got up and boogied when the black powder ran out and the double-base shotgun reloading-powder started to provide the thrust!! 
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Hahaha - I've still got an Estes Executioner and pack of D12s waiting for assembly (for the past 5 years!)
I used to scratch-build both the motors and the airframes. I could start in the morning and fly in the arvo, as long as I'd rolled the motor tubes the day before and let em dry. The one time I made a 3 stage A-10 taking model, it kicked over sideways during the 1st --> 2nd stage separation. Last seen flying towards the unfinished houses at over 800kmh. 
It was soo worth it! 
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Was it one with the tiny Cox motors? Free flight models usually had very small motors and less than a minute of fuel, so that it does not get too far away.
As to your question:
1) I don't like multicopters.
2) I had a new T-Rex 500X under the tree, but it's not assembled yet.
3) The weather not good enough to go flying with my other helicopters.
3) I still have work to do on my Huey, so the bad weather was quite ok. At the moment I'm arming it.[^]
This is still a prototype, put together from test prints of the parts. I have designed the parts in Blender and printed them on my 3D printer. The camera is unvorgiving. I should use more sandpaper on the final version.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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8 years old was a very long time ago but I do remember it disappeared in a manner that didn't give much hope of ever getting it back over some tall trees that edged the accessible park.
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Not yet; mine is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow by lunch time; I pray it will survive long enough to video dinner being barbecued on the porch.
DJI Mavic Pro Platinum[^]
Will Rogers never met me.
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IS a CCC expected today? I was kind of assuming to return next Tuesday with one, but if there are enough of you around looking for something to ease the old grey cells back into shape, then I'll come up with something...
...meanwhile, if anyone wants a real challenge, you can always have a go at the RSS annual quiz[^]...
modified 27-Dec-17 4:23am.
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Nope, not expected until the new year ... 'tis always quiet here between Badtis and New Year.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Scary; I'm 63 tomorrow...
Will Rogers never met me.
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We got a Sony.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: We got a Sony.
And sorted in less than 9 hours. Impressive.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Believe it or not, it came down to a coin toss.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Believe it or not, it came down to a coin toss.
Don't think I would have gotten anywhere near a store to buy it in that time frame let alone have made a choice.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I'm highly disappointed. When I was a kid in the 1960s, Sony was more or less built by introducing new technology to the world. Transistor radios, the Sony walkman, some very good quality audio equipment (aka "Stereo"), tape recorders, video devices, etc.
Over the years, Sony has become a major player in the evil empire. They are one of the main supporters of DRM, spyware, stupid copyright laws; They build root kits into their software. Google's motto is "don't be evil", apparently derived by looking at the actions of Sony, who seems to be at the forefront of all of the evil things on the internet.
I bought my last Sony product more than a decade ago.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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If you go to the special Google Dictionary page you will find ‘evil’ defined as ‘anything that would hurt profits’
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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