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Title: If anyone criticizes you for flying toy airplanes
Post by: Tim Wescott on March 08, 2018, 09:16:40 PM

Show them this this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CdNHdXnb24)

Title: Re: If anyone criticizes you for flying toy airplanes
Post by: Dan Berry on March 08, 2018, 09:33:16 PM

No one has ever criticized me for building and flying toy airplanes.
Many have smirked or snickered at the idea.
I can always tell'em there are other ways to use their time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq6GbuVgDZg

Title: Re: If anyone criticizes you for flying toy airplanes
Post by: gian perez on March 08, 2018, 10:43:32 PM

     Hello there. I have a better one for you.  True story. I went with my Daughter to the 2016 World Championship as spectator in Australia. Two competitors ask me the same question;" Why did I travel so far to watch toy airplane flying". Ironic since they travel that far to fly toy airplanes. Go figure.

Title: Re: If anyone criticizes you for flying toy airplanes
Post by: john e. holliday on March 09, 2018, 10:40:38 AM

No limit on what us old boys will spend on what is called toys.   Look at the custom car field. H^^

Title: Re: If anyone criticizes you for flying toy airplanes
Post by: FLOYD CARTER on March 09, 2018, 11:23:57 AM

We sometimes do crazy things.  I once spent a year and several thousand dollars restoring a Mercedes 190.  When I finished, it was valued at "a few thousand", ( less than I spent! ).   (it wasn't a classic).  I neglected to add enough anti-freeze, and the block cracked in cold weather.  It was then worth even less!

Title: Re: If anyone criticizes you for flying toy airplanes
Post by: Jim Kraft on March 09, 2018, 11:27:23 AM

I tell my wife it is her insurance policy. When I am gone she can put an add in the paper. Have toys, need man.

Title: Re: If anyone criticizes you for flying toy airplanes
Post by: goozgog on March 09, 2018, 11:40:16 AM

I make no apologies about my  I.C.E. 
That is an "Innocent Creative Endeavor"

  When challenged about toy airplanes,
 I ask the person if they remember when they were a child.

 "Did you play with your friends in the sunshine? 
Did you run around laughing and challenging yourself
with new experiences?
When was the last time you did that? "

They always get thoughtful and say it was a long time ago.
Then they realize why I fly toy airplanes.

Title: Re: If anyone criticizes you for flying toy airplanes
Post by: Ted Fancher on March 10, 2018, 10:58:36 AM

Quote from: goozgog on March 09, 2018, 11:40:16 AM

I make no apologies about my  I.C.E. 
That is an "Innocent Creative Endeavor"

  When challenged about toy airplanes,
 I ask the person if they remember when they were a child.

 "Did you play with your friends in the sunshine? 
Did you run around laughing and challenging yourself
with new experiences?
When was the last time you did that? "

They always get thoughtful and say it was a long time ago.
Then they realize why I fly toy airplanes.

Bravo!

Title: Re: If anyone criticizes you for flying toy airplanes
Post by: Jim Kraft on March 11, 2018, 11:57:44 AM

I love the smell of ignition fuel in the morning.