Well I began the task of trying to get a twist back in the air last night.

After examining the newly crashed twist, I was not looking forward to the extensive repair job that was needed. Then I got out the remains of my other previously retired twist, remember the one that the horizontal stabilizer had snapped off of in flight and it came straight down like a lawn dart leaving nothing remaining in front of the wing. The rest of the fuse, except for the missing tail feathers was in tip top shape. The new one (from the knife edge stunt two sundays ago) had most of it's damage behind the wing but the tail feathers were in good shape. At first I was skeptical if it could be done but the best course of action seemed to be making 1 good plane from two smashed ones.

I took both planes and ran them both through the band saw, I managed to get both of them sliced straight across the fuse. I sliced the one with the good rear section just in front of the 1/16 inch ply cross former at about the mid point of the wing cut out section. The other one I sliced right through the center of the same former. Then I glued them together with 5 minute epoxy, making the plane 1/32 inch longer than original specs. I then did a little re-enforcement of the spliced section and took the good Horizontal stab out of the one twist and replaced the broken one in the new complete fuse.

Now I just have to recover it and put all the push rods, engine, fuel tank and elctronics back in place and it will be back in the air saturday. Maybe I'll keep that knife edge a little higher this time, even if Frits encourages me to go "LOWER!!!". :no:

Hey Mr. Incredible

I am glad to hear that the rapairs went well If Osirus 711 can put a twist back together and finish armegeddon with some ca, epoxy and popsicle sticks in 15 minutes and you have had two weeks and a band saw it will hold together for a while. I hope you have learned from your past misadventures and before you get the wind under your wings check the electronic out extensively (servos stripped) and do a good range check on your reciever I would hate for an old dog to rare up and bite you again and pile it up from a real glitch from which it would be accredited to dumb thumb no matter what unfortunate events happens :banghead:

That is the second time you made a comment about my "dumb thumbs" so now the gloves are off.

Just bring your SOLOing self with something to fly Saturday or Sunday and try to keep up, we will see who brings something home in a plastic bag.

heres the challenge;
We each use a 40 size plane with a .46 two stroke or bigger engine. A ten minute flight each, You must have your plane inverted within 3 seconds of the the wheels leaving the runway and keep it inverted for the entire 10 minute flight, you must have the throttle wide open and never let off for the entire flight, and you have to make 10 passes down the runway below 10 feet.

Thanks for the advice on the repairs but don't worry it will fly straight and true and hold together just fine.

Hey now!!!!!!!!! We just did an extensive restoration of the runway.
I don't know just how much more abuse it can take.

I have an idea for a game you fellows with too high a thrill threshold can play.
We paint a bull's eye target on the side of the dirt mountain to south of runway.
You take turns makeing a high speed run down the runway and continue on right to the target. Ever who can get closest to the target before pulling up wins the remains of the other contestant's airplane.
Eternal admiration and grudging respect for not pulling up and sticking her right into the target.

Good Job Steve :thumbup: :dance:

You can't keep a good Twist down :banana:

And rember, I still have that extra wing if you need it back.

I did a two part job like that to my Advance 40 last summer :D

Temper Temper steve We all know you are a great pilot and have some serious BALLS to push the edge of the envelope on a daily basis. Why would you pick on a little ol' boy like me. I was just dropped out of the nest and spead my wings for the first time but that Sounds like a recipe for disaster I Like it! B) i am leaning towards alvins Idea of a game of chicken . That would even it up a bit you have been practicing those maneuvers for a while though unsucessful but still you have been practicing. if you win I will recover my fourstar (if it survives) pink and add a graphic across the wing "MR. INCREDIBLE seves up crow" from wing tip to wing tip or invest in a twist and paint it cammoflage and name it "OL' Crow" but if i win You will have to Put a graphic of my selection on one of your fully functioning planes. :spin:
Now that would be a contest of great proportions It would provide great entertainment for the entire club and the loser would be know for as long as he came to the field and winner would have some serious bragging rights. :yes:

I think you guys should hash it out at, say, Armageddon. That way cryptic stylz gets some more time to practice, Mr. Incredible can continue to practice, and when you both splatter your planes at least you'll do it with a big audience. I'd hate to see y'all destroy your planes and not be able to compete in Armageddon. B)

good one mike I think that is a good Idea if steve is up for the challange. We are just kidding anyways nothing serious just a little trash talk since we can never seem to make it to the feild on the same day. I know steve is a good pilot and i am just a rookie but i may take steves idea and do a little flying round the house there are a lot of big hay fields that are ripe to get some practice that way if i tear something up i wont have any hecklers besides my kids to give me a hard time. :hyper: :ouch: but things are looking good this weekend so we may have an encounter.

What are you talking about, I just want to kick your butt! :angry:

seriously, just having fun, I don't want to bait MR. Stylz into trashing any of his hard worked on planes. I would rather just sit back and watch him do that all on his own, so i can enjoy it without feeling in any way responsible. :hysterical:

Armagedon will be a different story, looking forward to some good destruction. I have a combat plane that I should have very little $'s invested in when the time comes, so watch out I will be trying for an awsome midair with whoever I can catch up to. :biggrin:

I got news for all yall in this A$$ kicking that is going to take place during Armageddon Combat.

Some of you newbie Armageddon Wannabees may not be aware that I was banned from Armageddon for last four years due to winning too much and was relegated to just kitchen duties. :angry:

Now, I am out of the penalty box :biggrin: and the U.G.L.Y. plane and I will be razor edge tuned to wreck mayhem and terror on the combat competition (and I use that word loosely).

I am going to go through that little swarm of circleing/looping planes and crepe paper streamers, like sheet through a goose. :fullmoon:

I am going to the mattresses on this one. :boxers: Total thermo nuclear war. :pirate:
:roflmao:

Your modesty is overwhelming. :)

Now that sounds like a gauntlet being thrown down, maybe I will put a little more into a combat machine than previously planned. I look forward to finally seeing the ugly plane in action, and possibly exploding in mid air. I'll kick in the first $10 for a bounty on the UGLY plane, whoever takes it down for the count gets the pot (if that is allowed under the rules) who else would be willing to pay $10 to see it go down?

Think about it, Alvin the self proclaimed undisputed King of Combat VS. the entire field gunning for him. If he survives he gets the Pot himself, but he can't run and hide like a scared turd, he must stay in the center of the field and fight back. :yickes:

Alvin is my chopper instructor hero. :wub:

I should put that set of Combat Avenger plans in my garage to good use and throw something together by then. Don't think I'll have the time though with everything else I have going on. If the Decathlon gets finished ahead of schedule, we'll see.

Y'all have too many others gunning for you now, with all that trash you are talking... :rolleyes:

Just remember that Combat is just one event, separate from the Armageddon events. You must have some real balls to win the overall Armageddon competition... :lol:

Best to have a separate plane for Combat and one for the other events. You MUST do all events (except Combat) with the same plane. The challenge is to make your plane flyable again after you crash it early in the day. A big thanks to cryptic_stylz — who helped me repair my plane and who donated a coat hanger to the cause — I was able to continue with my Sonic after a crash during the Carrier Landing event last year. :thumbup:

He was the same cryptic-stylz who sabotaged my Combat experience by throwing my new combat plane — the one with "Balls" — straight into the ground during his pityfully lacking hand launch. I WILL get even with him this upcoming Armageddon... :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

Oh, and lest you forget, I ended up placing third, coming away from the day-long carnage with a nice prize, an airplane kit. And did anyone notice that I was the ONLY ONE to do the Limbo INVERTED to get double points? I want y'all to try to top THAT!

I know, Steve claims he's going to do Limbo KNIFE-EDGE, to get triple points. You can forget that! If he continues practicing that knife-edge Limbo, he won't have any planes left by the time Armageddon rolls around anyway. I'm sure Margo will put a stop to it before he runs out! :roflmao:

:hysterical:

Come to think of it, who has won Armageddon the last 2 or 3 years?

Look out Steve :o

I don't think you have seen Alvin fly a airplane????

I am in for $10 to see him survive :D

You are correct, I have not seen him fly airplanes except for quick test flights on some of my planes before I was brave enough to start testing my own. But reliable sources tell me that Frits is a much better pilot than Alvin on the planks.

In fact these same sources say that is why he sticks to just flying choppers where he is an excellent pilot, he hates for people to see his extremely mediocre to slightly below average skills with airplanes. Apparently he is some sort of Helicopter idiot savant, or maybe not the savant part, I can't exactly remember what Frits -er uh- the sources said on that.

I guess if he doesn't show me something then I will just have to assume the rumors to be true.

Well this may be my last post from me for awhile, I am at 60% warn level prior to posting this and I don't think this will help me out any. I'll suck up to Alvin later to make up for it if he does the chicken manuer thing and abuses his power to cut me off. :toiletpaper: :fullmoon:

OK...... :D

I just noticed that my original posting had been altered, the avbove quote was not part of my original text.

This is a perfect example of the abuse of power I have warned about in the past. I tried to take a stand but no one stepped up and I was left hanging in the wind taking all the punishment myself.

Before you choose silence again and let someone else fight the battles for you, ask your self this one sinple question. What will the world be like if admins in forums everywhere are alowed to run amuck and change our text to make the straight seem gay and the gay seem straight?

People will become confused and loose touch with their own sexual orientation. Procreation will end and all human life will cease to exist.This must be nipped in the bud before it gets out of hand.

good bye :D

I am staying out of this :o

I almost got my radio imponded the last time I stuck my :twocents: in :P

:banana: :P

This is getting intresting. Side pots; planning plotting with a hint of sabbotage. I bet there will be some great highlights from this upcoming armeggedon. I know alvin wont bring out the ulgly plane if he hope to keep it in one piece.

Steve wont have a plane to fly due to unfortunate events pre armeggdon(hope hobbytown opens early so steve can get a plane to fly he'll probably pancake them all the day before).

The Dutchman did make it to third (not first or second)place last year he may even have made it in second or first if my beautiful hand launch with a crappy engine resulted in a dq. Even a blind squirrel finds an ak'ern er' now and then :yes:

I want in on the pool on alvin i got $10 that if alvin gets in he will take steve out in the first round and then we will fly the missing man formation for him before we land .Hey mike I have 3 964 avenger kits waiting to put together

OR 3 ... The repairs are done and she is ready to fly, I think this bird is as flight worthy as a brand new ARF, I am calling it a ABOFUTIO ... A Bunch Of Flubbed Up Twists In One.

I actually wound up using portions of all three of my previously owned and flown Twist's, # 1 that I inherited from Don after his crash (which is where I learned a thing or two about wing support as it was retired after the wing ejected itself at about 300 feet) and the Two Arf's I bought from HTUSA, # 2 did the cartwheel while doing the inverted rolls as the wheels came up on touch and goes (it was then repaired and the tail stab broke in the test flight leaving it with no front end remaining to speak of), and the most recent # 3 which was smashed in the Knife Edge stunt the sunday before last.

I used the front end, the wing, the Hozizontal Stab and the right elevator from Twist # 3. The back end, vertical stab, and Rudder from Twist # 2, and the left elevator from Twist # 1. So now they all live to fly another day or two.

The best part is I had collected such a supply of Twist parts that I didn't have to buy anything new (except some epoxy and mixing cups and brushes) to complete this repair, it was like getting one for free which I really needed after just coming off of the Hawk repair which sucked the $$$$$$$$$$$$ out of my wallet faster than my wife.

Was that a challenge?!? It sounded like a challenge :banana: :dance:

Thats why, Don't Never Through Nuttin Away ;)

You got a frebeeeeeee :banana:

Well sort of :)

I think Don forgot to add "If your name is steve :fuming: :yes: "

4 Flights on it today with no incidents, gave it the full inspection when I got home and everything held together like a brand new ARF. Then I made some minor tweeks and adjustments, I think this is gonna be my best Flyin Twist yet! :D

So the new ranking is as follows;

1st Twist was 4th best (it was was a second hand crashed and repaired)

2nd Twist was 2nd best

3rd was 1st best before it's 1st crash but then was third best after the 1st crash

Combo of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Twists is bestest Twist ever in my history of Twisting Twists. I pledge to not Twist this one into the ground before it's takes home the trophy at Armagedon!!! (much like the shiny Yellow trophy at the bottom of this posting :biggrin: )

Witnesses told me that Alvin seemed a little intimidated watching me fly it today and was expressing some regret for shooting off so much about defeating me at armagedon. I think he is feeling pressured to back it up, so everyone should let him know that we won't think any lesser of him if he chickens out (oops! I mean does the smart thing and backs down) :P

IF the Twist makes it to Armageddon.
IF Steve enters it in combat.
I WILL take it out with the U.G.L.Y airplane.
That bright yellow target will be right in my crosshairs.
No need to tie on a streamer.
I am going right for that glue joint in canopy area.

ohhh I never figured alvin to be YELLOW . but i still got my 10 dollars on alvin to wipe you out in the first round. All Al is doing is giving you a false sense of security. I am going to my secret flying spot in a few to test out the rebuit, insestructable, blessed by the gods of rc ultra stick to tweek it and do some knife edge passes at about 3 foot off the ground. I would hate to ruin your superbowl party by watching such a magnificant feat of daring :pilot: I dont even know how high the limbo bar will be set at but if not i will just go inverted

All y'all's hot air is a bit refreshing on this cold day... :rolleyes:

Be prepared for the battle of all battles... :lol:

I will be prepared for all insueing battles