Sunday, May 14, 2006
The first in the fleet...
The first Aurora Hobbies Superstar 40. I earned my wings on this baby. Powered by a 46FX, it flew circles around the 40 powered version. She was a good ship. Can't remember what finally happened to it. Somebody bagged it finally but I can't recall who it was. I know it was not me.
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I have a feeling I know what happened to it. After I destroyed my avistar(for the millionth time, this time beyond repair), I bought off that superstar 40 with the blue and pinkish coloring(ugly thing), and flew it for a few weeks, eventually doing that great takeoff, when it landed upside down on top of the warehouse that was next to our "runway". When the spar broke, I used a good piece of stainless steel rod I bought at home depot to make a new "spar", like osme of the newer avistars and superstars were using. Next flight I was doing one of my famous high speed nose dives and when I pulled out of it hauling ass, the wings "clapped"(they bent together into one, as the metal rod didn;t hold). SO my next plane, which was I think either a gift, or you sold it to me for like $20, was this one. It sure as hell didn't look like that when you handed it to me, as it already had a few war scars.
ReplyDeleteThe plane still flew good, and it was this plane that I bought my 46fx for, as I think my 40 was slightly destoryed on the nose down, no wings crash of the superstar. This plane saw a lot of airtime with me, until at some point I messed up the wings(can't remember how in the world that happened, and then I started flyting it with the avistar wings. That's the plane that had avistar wings, the yellow plane's body, and a 6 inch white rudder made of solid hardwood. We used to call that thing the "Patty Wagstaff" because of the big rudder, andme trying to do 3D hovers with it. I honestly can't remember what happened to that fuselage, as after that I bought "Greenie" and forgot about any other plane I had before that(until it's early demise, but that, is another story).
You recall perfectly dude.. I remember that oversize "patty wagstaff" rudder. But I think before you bought greenie you were flying that corrugated orange sign material contraption you built from internet plans..
ReplyDeleteThe Coroplast plane was somewhere around that era, I think it was between the Superstar and the one in the picture above. Too bad, I can;t remember what was the final demise of this planes Wings and Fuselage(though I know they were separate because of the facts above).
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