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xmob:
Just wondering if anybody else on here is also into similar stuff to me:

RC aircraft (particularly helis)
Vintage (computer) games
Mobile phones
livejournal
General computing

V8MoneyPit:
Used to fly fixed wing R/C aircraft many years ago. Crashed them too often though and it got too expensive!! I still have a couple of boats, but they haven't seen the light of day for some years. Like greenlaning, R/C models can be politically difficult because of the noise, can't they? It seems increasingly difficult to do anything these days without someone complaining about it  :(

So now I own a politically incorrect, fuel guzzling, oil dripping, noisy, expensive to run, road hogging Land Rover ....... and proud of it  :lol:

xmob:
Before I got into Helis, I was (and to a certain extent still am) into soaring.  I had a SAS Wild Thing that was made out of expanded polypropylene packaging.  What a machine.  Quite literally indestructable!

Because of my location, the perfect flying spot was the Hole of Horcum on the North Yorkshire Moors.  I was part of a formal club, with approval from the Parks Authority, with additional liability insurance (PA requirement), flying SILENT models.  But people still wanted to ban us.  Guess which group of people?   :twisted:

V8MoneyPit:
The Wandering Biped Society, maybe?? Hmm.

When I lived in Hertfordshire we used to go up the Ivinghoe Beacon where they flew slope soarers. Again, a perfect location with a nice curved hill face to channel the wind.

Never done slope soaring, but I did enjoy my 72" termal soarer when I needed a relaxing afternoon.

strapping young lad:
a 72" thermal soarer

thats conjuring alsorts of images in my head!  :wink:

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