Hi Jim, Interesting. When I was younger, before I lost my sight, I use to help my dad build gas powered model airplanes that we took out and flew on the weekends. the nice thing about where we lived is there was a little airport made especially for model airplanes not far from our house and I spent hours of fun flying model aircraft over the summer break. Its one of the things I truly miss as an adult as my dad and I don't really have that kind of time to share any more.
Another type of model aircraft I was into is model rockets. We would pick one up at the store build it, put a little gas powered engine in the bottom, and then take it down to the model airport and launch them off. One of the coolest model rockets I owned was called the Camrock. The Camrock had a small 110 camra mounted in the nose cone, and if you put a roll of 110 film in it you could do airial photography using the rocket.The way it worked is you launched the rocket, it went up to say 500 feet I think, and then came back down. As it rolled over the parachute would deploy triggering the camra and it would take a snapshot of the ground below. Somewhere around here I have a framed photograph of my old neighborhood I took with the camrock when I was 9 or 10 years old. However, now days like you I mainly spend my time with radio controlled vehicles. My son and I sometimes take them down to the local park and race them when the weather is nice. I've got a Dodge Ram pickup, a Hummer, a couple of dune buggies, and a large 1/6 scale four wheeler. I've even got a radio controlled boat my son and I take turns playing with in my in-laws pond. I think the next thing I want to buy is a radio controlled submarine. Cheers! On 12/23/11, Jim Kitchen <j...@kitchensinc.net> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Yes, Puppy 1 is a game and not a flight simulation program. The only thing > that is real about it is that all of the planes and each bullet do have an > x, y and z coordinate that are up dated about 20 times per second. > > If I could write a real flight simulation program I would want to use real > longitude, latitude and altitude coordinates. You know like maybe start out > at the correct longitude, latitude and altitude coordinates of the Cleveland > Hopkins International airport. Then be able to fly to and land at Burk > Lakefront airport. And then maybe fly to the Cuyahauga airport. And then > back to the Cleveland Hopkins International airport. But to fly say from > the Cleveland Hopkins International airport to say L.A.X. would just be > boring. One would just take off, gain altitude, set a heading and let the > plane fly for hours and hours, until you got near L.A.X. I did really enjoy > the Microsoft flight simulation program when I still had a tiny bit of > sight. It even allowed me to set longitude, latitude and altitude > coordinates. And soon I was flying around the Brooklyn bridge, the Statue > of Liberty and even the Twin Towers. > > BTW My Dad's life long hobby was building and flying remote control gas > powered model airplanes. Most were built from kits that you buy, but he did > at one point start designing and building his own planes. The first was a > biplane and was named Puppy 1. Puppy 2 was also a biplane, but puppy 3 was > not. I myself have always been more into gas or electric powered remote > control cars, trucks and all terrain vehicles. I have ten of them. > > BFN > > Jim > > There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." > > j...@kitchensinc.net > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
