Pilot Recruiting
You know you’re addicted to RC flying if:
You have ruined more than one article of nice clothing working on your aircrafts
You have answered the question “why do you need so many planes” with “because they all fly different”
You have planes or helicopters in two or more rooms in your house
You have a plane or helicopter in your car ”just in case it stops raining”
You have flown in weather that required you to wear gloves
Prior to finishing a plane and maiden-ing it you are already searching for your next plane.
You have crashed an aircraft costing more than $500 and haven’t given up on the hobby
You have ruined a desk, coffee or kitchen table with CA glue
RC Definitions
Time: The time between the engine falling out and the airplane hitting the ground.
Aeromodeling: The art of turning precision cut and glued balsa wood and foam into toothpicks and confetti.
Receiver: Part of the radio that picks up interference.
Tank: Temporary storage place for chemicals before they saturate the plane.
Mixture Screw: Device to meter too little fuel to the engine at critical moments.
Nose Wheel: Device that prevents an airplane from landing without bouncing.
Spinner: Critical part of landing gear
Luck: Very sparse on your side, but plenty with your flying colleagues only they refer to it as SKILL.
Tough Luck: This is what you usually have. Your flying colleagues refer to it as lack of skill.
Bad Luck: Same as TOUGH.
Good Luck: What you need the most, but rarely have.
Crash: Quick method of removing radio and engine from a model to fit them in your new one.
Crash: Also: Synonym for "rekitting" a model
Center Of Gravity: Point in which G-forces, dedicated to separating wing from fuselage, do their stuff.
Cyanoacrylate: Special glue, designed to instantly glue fingers to balsa structures.
Cyanoacrylate: Also: Special glue, instantly curing when parts are misaligned, will hardly (if at all) cure when parts are correctly aligned.
Dead Stick: Two of these can be found on your transmitter after failing to properly charge your batteries.
Engine: Device designed to make noise. Will suddenly stop making this noise when beyond glide-in distance.
Epoxy: The stuff that has replaced the balsa after the flying season.
Fail Safe: Option on PCM radio's that allows a pilot to choose whether to crash near him, or a long way away
Fuel Tank: Plastic bottle, designed to leak when placed in totally inaccessible locations.
Fuselage: Optional interconnecting structure between wings and engine.
Glitch: What you shout when you pull up elevator while flying inverted at 10 feet.
Landing Gear: Structure to separate fuselage from runway after landing. Does not always succeed in doing so.
Mixture Screw - Device to meter too little fuel to engine at critical moments.
Propeller: Handy tool to cut away excess skin on knuckles.
