After work fun

[N601RX]

Here is my 1st venture at flying several years ago.  Nothing like getting home from work and taking off from the backyard.  Kind of wish I still had it.  For some reason I never seemed to have any gas for the lawnmower when it came time to cut the grass.

 

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Takeoff 11-3-02 HQ.mov

2Touch&Go Smooth 11-30-02 HQ.mov

[Marauder]

Wow! That looks fun. I would be too scared to fly one (afraid of heights)

[kmyfm20s]

How much range did you get out of that cordless phone?

[N601RX]

Its a old cell phone.  This was about 10 years ago when I had the flying go-kart as my wife called it.  I had some parachute jumpers tell me I was crazy, but they usually got pretty quite when I told them that it would not leave the ground unless the parachute was open and reminded them that when they jump out of a plane they were just hoping their parachute would open.   Actually its pretty safe, It only goes 30mph and can land almost anywhere.  I flew it for about 300 hrs and never had any problems.

 

The funniest thing that ever happened was that someone called the police department and told them that a plane had crashed and the occupants had parachuted out and were caught in a updraft and being blown away by the wind. The dispatcher knew me and ask the person to describe what it looked like and then told them that everything was ok.  I had several people follow me for several miles back to my house just to ask for a ride.

[flyboy]

Wow! That looks fun. I would be too scared to fly one (afraid of heights)

So am I. I just don't have that fear when inside an airplane. Makes no sense.

[scottfromiowa]

+1 on the heights thing...

O.K. to do zip-lines and repel, but climbing the tower...standing on platform before tied in...Not good. I am unsafe on a roof and on a ladder. Maybe too many reviews of falls....

Those sure look fun, though. My sister-in-law has one. Rotax. I don't think she has operated in years, but still has it.

[Joe Zuffoletto]

Looks like a blast. How far we have come, from Nokia cell phone rubber band mounts to fancy iPad yoke mounts!