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First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
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First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Our annual February meeting at Watt Field was today. Watt Moore, of course. And so I drove up to Chester, SC to hangout with my club buddies. I got a few pics and a video, none of me, but I'll post them later. Will Davis was not going to let me get away without flying. I was a bit dubious about it. But he dragged a swiveling high-backed bar stool out of Watt's shop, so tall my feet couldn't touch the ground. Then he went to his truck and got an electric Flite Streak on 60' of Spider Wire, rigged it up and I got on the chair. It was supposed to be set for only a minute, but it turned out to be about 3. He turned the chair and I flew. Even did some loops. Once or twice the lines got a little loose in the breeze, so that made it even more exciting, but I flew it out and landed on the wheels. For a few minutes there, I was happy boy. Actually, I already was anyway, but that made the day even better.
Eddie RickenRusty, reporting for duty!
Eddie RickenRusty, reporting for duty!
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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
That is AWESOME!!!! Just hearing such great news brought a huge smile to my face. Glad to hear you are making it back so quickly and so well! God bless you!
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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Glad to hear that Rusty. I'm quite certain just being at Watt's house is quite therapeutic. His shop is pretty amazing and it certainly sounds like a good time. Shawn and I managed to get out this past Sunday. It was a day out which was way overdue. I have a lot of unfinished projects that need completing and I've decided to finish them before moving onto others. Ken
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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Very glad to read that Rusty..the best therapy one can get is a gradual return to the hobby. I also flew my TeeDeeVoodoo last weekend and cannot tell you how relieving it was even if I had been off before due to simple weather conditions only.
I wish you do that and without the barstool more and more often and looking forward to seeing your vids and pics.
The beautiful gesture of your friend to help you fly again is exemplary.
I wish you do that and without the barstool more and more often and looking forward to seeing your vids and pics.
The beautiful gesture of your friend to help you fly again is exemplary.
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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Glad to hear Rusty!!!! Full power for 2018 !!!!!
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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Whoo Hoo !! That's great you got a little air time , Man thats what friends are for Helping you with something they all know you want and making Happy times !

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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
You can't keep a good man down.
Congrats RickenRusty!
Bob
Congrats RickenRusty!
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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Great day! Great Friends! Good to hear your out and about, even if it is just spinning on a bar stool. Sounds like fun to me, glad you can share your experience with us.

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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Watt Moore could you ask for..
Great to hear this Rusty!


Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Hahaha, Watt Moore indeed! Love you guys, thanks a bunch. Yeah, I really am healing pretty fast. I always have, luckily for me.
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Way to go Rusty
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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Great to hear, Rusty.
You must be on cloud nine, hell you made my day.
Bob
You must be on cloud nine, hell you made my day.

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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Great news Rusty! So glad to hear you got to fly!
Jim
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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Tight lines for the rest of 2018. Good to hear you were able to get some flight time in.
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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Shoot Fire! That is so good to hear. Keep it up brother!
Looks like you have a plan now.
Looks like you have a plan now.
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Re: First flight report of 2018. I Flew a plane today!
Hi Ron,Cribbs74 wrote:Shoot Fire! That is so good to hear. Keep it up brother!
Looks like you have a plan now.
It's been kind of hard to plan around things, but I'll settle for rolling with the punches if it gets me through it all. I just want to make a clean run past the end of flu season. I shook hands about 20 times yesterday and used almost the whole bottle of alcohol gel I had in my pocket. Holley and I shared monster colds and lived to talk about it. Sheez, what a winter

I considered fist-bumping at the meeting, but it wasn't really a crowd of fist-bump kind of people. But I spent most of today walking without the cane, so there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Tight lines and fair winds, Jason. Thanks for the sunny face, Bob, it's been nice to have some spring-like sun here lately. That's like new life energy. Fred, that's a pretty good and accurate li'l emoticostory. And Jim, I'll see you on our show tomorrow night. I was posting the re-runs here, but haven't kept up with it for a few weeks now. I'll have to catch up on that, I think we have a couple of watchers from CEF. I hope you got some good wx to maiden that Twister this weekend. It's time for some flying for all of us!
Goodnight, all,
Rusty
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