My New Workshop

 

We moved a year ago, and I had not flown or worked on aircraft that entire time. Work had, and continues to do so to some degree, dominated my life. There was no time to play (isn't capitalism awesome!). Recently my wife noting my despondent mental state pushed me to just get in the garage and set up a workshop. This was complicated by its being rather full of shit, and that we had to move more shit from our storage unit into the garage so we could stop paying for it. In the process we managed to reduce the amount of shit, and I had a surprising amount of space to work with.

The floor is partly wood covered but mostly its dirt, so its going to be dusty and difficult to keep dirt out of the  instruments and aircraft. But its works, and its better than nothing.

Now I need to find an AMA club with a field I like. Of those in the area, the only one to come closest to meeting my wishes was of course, Hudson and SNHRCC. But we lost our access when the town decided (and it seems a lot of butt hurt politicians made some crap pup to disparage us) took the land back and plan to build a solar field on it. Merrimack has a nice field with a great geotex runway, but sits in a hole cut into the forest so its tight, especially out of the south end. Others are kinda far. So for now I fly out of Joppa Hill fields, but its not an AMA field, and the grass is never short enough making decent takeoffs and landings nearly impossible, esp for my park fliers.

I have had my first 3d weekend off work as a letter carrier, I was wiped out yesterday and took the day to recover. Today is rainy and stormy. Tomorrow I hope to be able to take the Waco out, and if it will fit, charge the received pack on the PulseXT60 and take her out ass well. Since I expect the grass to be too much for my park fliers, they will necessarily remain hangered.

Goals are to get a couple helis up, and I really want to start building the U10cc Ultra Stick, my all time favorite. Learned I need to keep the weight down and keep the rudder/elevator servos centered rather than the more wishful aft (looks good, more stiff and direct, but move CG aft considerably adding a ton of weight needed forward to counterbalance. This weight and a huge receiver pack as well as a generous fuel tank just added to much weight for her to fly well).