For those of you unfamiliar with the masochistic hobby called "R/C"...
Note the 6 gallons of fuel in the background. Of course that stuff is flammable... wonder if the wife knows?
Note also the jet nearing completion in the background. Is that a Bob Violett? You haven't seen a properly performed "figure 9" until you see a ducted fan do this... the debris pattern is very tight. And deep.
Note the cowl in the background. Looks like there is a 1/5th scale P47 coming soon to a bedroom near you!
I also count what appears to be 4 more kits lying around the room. You are following one of my dictums "always have one near completion". Why? Because of the other universal truth; "if you fly them, you crash them".
Back in '88 I was a flight judge at the Scale Masters qualifier at Fort Knox, Kentucky. There were always 4 planes up, and pilots needed spotters to help them track the other craft. This proved to be an imperfect science, as a 1/5 scale Piper Cub tried to share the same air space as a 1/4 scale Fokker Dr1. The pilots guessed a crash was impending, but reacted a bit too late. The Cub lost a wheel, but the Dr1 lost 1/4 of the upper wing (the whole aileron and wing). It went into an irrecoverable spin, and crashed onto the highway a quarter mile away. I can still hear the squeal of the truck brakes as the mangled mass dropped to the ground in front of the startled driver, and his even louder "whhooooOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAH!"
I had a room that looked like that once, but kids took that time from me. Of course, I discovered PC, and the wife doesn't complain about the smell of my PC the way she did the castor oil from the engines. Funny thing, you do grow to like the smell of burnt castor oil...
