Re: [RCSE] sailplanes as art
In a message dated 9/29/2001 6:34:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Hey now, I'm one of the luckey ones. I've got fourty foot open beam ceilings. So I hang all my planes from those like at the hobby shop or a small boys room...Now that the wife is used to it she even likes them. RobII >> Limited to one plane in our "vaulted" living room...currently a small un is up there, I should shock the wife with my 3.5M Fox, but then it ain't no hanger queen. Eric RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] sailplanes as art
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey now, > I'm one of the luckey ones. I've got fourty foot open beam > ceilings. So I hang all my planes from those like at the hobby shop or a > small boys room...Now that the wife is used to it she even likes them. > RobII >> > Limited to one plane in our "vaulted" living room...currently a small un is > up there, I should shock the wife with my 3.5M Fox, but then it ain't no > hanger queen. > Hey now, Right now there's about 25 planes hanging up right now, only three are hanger queens. A slimer trainer, a slimer aerobat, and a two meter poly. The rest fly often. I have lines slung over the rafters and cleated off to the walls so I can raise or lower them at any time. Mostly this keeps them out of the hands of my kids (three and six yrs). Works well, looks cool. RobII ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Erica Frank & Rob CarterII [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Everybody understands Mickey mouse. Few understand Herman Hesse. Hardly anyone understands Albert Einstein. And nobody understands Emperor Norten" -Malaclypse the younger- RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] sailplanes as art
This has possibilities. I thought that this site http://www.maxpoweraero.com/homes/pageone.htm was a little extreme, but now that I think about it more... :) --Bill >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [RCSE] sailplanes as art >Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 19:30:22 EDT > >In a message dated 09/29/2001 4:27:03 PM Central Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Some of the planes we fly are beautiful. My Eclipse is a gorgeous > > plane. Elegant sculpture. I would like to hang it on the wall in the > > living room. (I am single.) > > > > Is there any obvious reason why I should not do this?? Has anyone else > > done this? Got any ideas on the best way to hang them??? Any >comments > > most welcome. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bill > >Here's what I've decided I want to say SAILPLANES! to the world. A nice big >scale plane with a big fat fuselage, big enough to tote watermelons in, and >freeze it forever in a high bank turn and plant one wing in the ground and >use the cockpit and canopy as a mailbox. It doesn't even have to be >airworthy, just cosmetically intact (until the mailbox baseball gang shows >up...) > >Bill Wingstedt > >RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and >"unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] sailplanes as art
Absolutely absolute. I live in an older country home with 7' ceilings, so for the most part, hanging aeroplanes from the ceiling is out. As wall hangings, they are superb. My Zagi resides above the TV and my mantle gets an HLG (Summer only, I worry about the heat in the Winter). Even back in the '80's, before I got indoctrinated into R/C, I had a silkspan-covered Thermic 50 on the wall. --Bill >From: "Scobie Puchtler or Sarah Felstiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "RCSE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [RCSE] sailplanes as art >Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 16:04:49 -0700 > >Sailplanes as art? absolutely. > >I have a lofty 2 story high entrance in my very open-plan house here in >Seattle. Hanging fairly high from the peaked ceiling is an all-white molded >mini-Salto. Just white with black canopy, all numerals and logos removed. >It >hangs from a single strand of 30lb test spectra at a nice bank angle as if >frozen in a turn. Occasionally the air currents in the house will get it >rotating very very slowly. When visitors look up (SO many people never look >up) and see it, they invariably think it's quite beautiful, and I get this >sentiment from folks who don't really even know what a glider is, much less >a molded model RC glider. When the sun comes through the clerestory window >and bounces off the glossy wing, it can cast these amazing patchy light >reflections that move in slow motion across the wall. And when the sun >shines through the skylight above, you can see the spar construction >outlined in the wings. It brings me as much visual pleasure as any other >art >in my home, while reflecting my passion for flight and lift. My wife and I >hung it together, and we BOTH love it. > >Lift, >Scobie. > > > > >RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and >"unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
