Author Topic: You Slob! (Read 17337 times)

Tom Niebuhr · « **on:** October 08, 2006, 08:47:35 AM »

"You Slob!" is the greeting that Dan Banjock and I created about 12 years ago to greet anyone flying "BiSlobs".

Since publishing the "BiSlob" in Flying Models it has become a national, and international disease. Bob Hunt told me that it was one of the best selling plans that FM ever had. I wish I was in the kit business before John Brodak asked for permission to make the kit. It's success is a great tribute to the designer, Ron Pavloer. I feel lucky that I had a part in it.

Since Elwyn posted this picture in the "Wingover" thread, I figured it is time to start another one on the "BiSlob".

I will post more "Slob" pictures, including some of Ron's, after I scan them.

Elwyn. who's "Slob" is in the picture?

Bill Little · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2006, 08:49:22 AM »

You Slob!!!!!!!!!!!

Bill <><

Alan Hahn · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2006, 11:27:49 AM »

I was talking to Fred K. the other day after flying my Bi-Slob, and mentioned to him that it might be fun to have a "Slob-A-Rama" event either at the Fermilab or TreeTown Contests.

Just thinking aloud, but the rules would be to impress Jim Renkar over a 4 minute period (now no indecent comments --please!). I put down 4 minutes because I can barely get a 5 minute flight on my Slob and a 4 oz tank (Fox 35). Any plane could be used, but perhaps -10 pts if more than 2 control lines are used.

Elwyn Aud · « **Reply #3 on:** October 08, 2006, 05:40:03 PM »

Elwyn. who's "Slob" is in the picture?

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That "Slob" belongs to Joe Gilbert. It's getting it's first flight following repair due to damage incurred while trying to occupy the same airspace as Mike Donovan's "Slob"

frank carlisle · « **Reply #4 on:** October 08, 2006, 06:07:43 PM »

Hi everbody! My name is Frank C. and I'm a Slobaholic.

frank carlisle · « **Reply #5 on:** October 08, 2006, 09:43:48 PM »

Here are a couple pix of John Paris and myself flying Bi-Slobs. I cannot for the life of me understand why EVERYBODY doesn't have one.

Bill Little · « **Reply #6 on:** October 08, 2006, 09:46:53 PM »

Quote from: frank carlisle on October 08, 2006, 06:07:43 PM

Hi everbody! My name is Frank C. and I'm a Slobaholic.

Hhi Frank,

I am SO glad that you realized your affliction and have taken steps to correct the problem. Admitting is the first step! But......... there is really NO CURE for slobaholism...... it only gets worse and worse until your face takes on a silly grin permanently and you walk around muttering to yourself incessantly.!

Bill <><

Keith Spriggs · « **Reply #7 on:** October 08, 2006, 09:50:15 PM »

Quote from: frank carlisle on October 08, 2006, 06:07:43 PM

Hi everbody! My name is Frank C. and I'm a Slobaholic.

Is there a "Slobberholics Anonymous" ?

frank carlisle · « **Reply #8 on:** October 08, 2006, 10:07:23 PM »

Yes Bill,
I feel much better now that finally I've come out of the closet and admitted that I'm hooked on slobbin'. We do this duet thing John and I and we also do Slob-bat. Truly an excellent way to spend 3 or 4 minutes on a sunny fall afternoon. The slobs are a hit everywhere we take them.

No Kieth there is no "slobaholics annonymous" ...I think because people tend to notice them when they are 52 feet in the air making noise and spewing smoke. Ahh well..........I'm a slob and I'm proud.

Here is a picture of Fletch who suffered some Slob damage during a bout of slob-bat.

Bill Little · « **Reply #9 on:** October 08, 2006, 10:11:13 PM »

Poor Frank................
Slob duets and Slob-Bat...........
I believe you have reached the point of no return! Do you have a good sponsor

Maybe you can volunteer for a medical study.................

You're having WAY TOO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!!!

Bill <><

frank carlisle · « **Reply #10 on:** October 08, 2006, 10:27:22 PM »

Bill you know there is no such thing as too much fun.

The doc says I won't qualify for research study until I have to wear a bib because I'm slobbering!!

Bill Little · « **Reply #11 on:** October 08, 2006, 10:28:39 PM »

Quote from: frank carlisle on October 08, 2006, 10:27:22 PM

Bill you know there is no such thing as too much fun.

The doc says I won't qualify for research study until I have to wear a bib because I'm slobbering!!

Bill <><

John Paris · « **Reply #12 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:13:01 PM »

Quote from: frank carlisle on October 08, 2006, 06:07:43 PM

Hi everbody! My name is Frank C. and I'm a Slobaholic.

My name is John P. and I have been shown the way of the Slob by Frank C. For his honor I salute him with the Bunny Ears. Also included is my Slob.

Keith Spriggs · « **Reply #13 on:** October 09, 2006, 10:58:41 PM »

Someone please help. I have thought several times, today, about becoming a "Slob". I know it would be a lonely life as I don't even know any other "Slobs"

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #14 on:** October 10, 2006, 12:34:45 AM »

Joe Gilbert and I will have BiSlobs at the Gleason's fish fry Oct 28th.. Y'all come now!

Bill Little · « **Reply #15 on:** October 10, 2006, 05:46:20 AM »

Quote from: John Paris on October 09, 2006, 07:13:01 PM

My name is John P. and I have been shown the way of the Slob by Frank C. For his honor I salute him with the Bunny Ears. Also included is my Slob.

Big John,

There is help available! Let your friends help you.............. Once you take that first flight, there is no hope..........

Hope to see you soon!

Bill <><

frank carlisle · « **Reply #16 on:** October 10, 2006, 06:02:21 AM »

Hey John!!

Kieth -- get started by ordering an ARF Bi-Slob from Brodak and put a Fox .35 on it. Then just start flying it. The Slob isn't a one trick airplane and you can do a lot more neat tricks with it than just hover. At first try loops , lazy eights and the like. You'll have a load of fun!

Tom---I checked the events calendar but couldn't find the fish fry info. I'd seriously consider traveling to get to fly Slobs. Reply here with that info puleez.

Bill--do you got a Slob in your fleet?

Will Hinton · « **Reply #17 on:** October 10, 2006, 07:22:39 AM »

Hey guys,
There may not be a slobaholics annymous, but it looks like there may soon be a slobaholics UNANAMOUS. You've convinced me to get out the one I've had framed up for four years and finish it this winter!
Will

Jim Kraft · « **Reply #18 on:** October 10, 2006, 07:34:46 AM »

I can't stand it any longer! I have given in to the sickness and ordered plans and magazine yersterday.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #19 on:** October 10, 2006, 09:01:04 AM »

The old DOC here, I have two Slobs hanging in the basement. Melvin of MBS Model Supply let me have two kits if I built one for him. One has been flown several times with one mishap. The other one is waiting on Melvin. You should have seen the smile on John Benders face when he flew mine. Of course he out flew me. DOC Holliday

frank carlisle · « **Reply #20 on:** October 10, 2006, 12:07:42 PM »

The best way to approach becoming a slobber is to fly the stunts you already knew.
After a couple flights the hover comes out of hiding from behind a tight , very tight inside loop.
The slob tricks come along all by themselves. They are hidden inside the tricks you already know. quote from the "Book of Slob"

Tom Perry · « **Reply #21 on:** October 10, 2006, 01:09:08 PM »

Maybe we should start something similar to the brotherhood of the ring like the guys have for the Ringmaster. I thought of Slobberhood of the BI's but that could be taken differently and I wouldn't want to explain it to outsiders

Maybe just Slobberhood would do.

Mike Spiess · « **Reply #22 on:** October 10, 2006, 03:49:47 PM »

I just pulled out my plans and article for the Slob. But I really need a good stunter first.

John Paris · « **Reply #23 on:** October 10, 2006, 06:24:46 PM »

Quote from: Bill Little on October 10, 2006, 05:46:20 AM

Big John,

There is help available! Let your friends help you.............. Once you take that first flight, there is no hope..........

Hope to see you soon!

Bill <><

Bill,
Perhaps at the Brodak event next year? I have found that letting people fly the Slob turns them into Slobaholics as well. One day we will all be walking around with a grin and muttering to ourselves about the Glory of the Slob.
John

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #24 on:** October 11, 2006, 02:37:48 AM »

Frank,

The fish fry is not an official event. It is a very social Dallas Club thing at the Gleason's house. They have room for 2 flying circles. No one is turned away, and there are generaly about 90 people attending. This includes wive, girlfriends, airplanes, musical instruments etc, etc. It is the greatest social event we have in Texas! We have had people from Texas, Arkansas. Missouri, California, Canada, Arizona, and more. No one is turned away. I have a guest coming from San Diego this year.

E-mail me your address and send you a flier.

frank carlisle · « **Reply #25 on:** October 11, 2006, 03:15:11 AM »

You are SO FAR AWAY!! Map Quest tells me that it is an 18 hr. 15 minute drive from Detroit to Dallas. 1186.75 miles. MY MY MY but I ain't up to it .This year anyway.

Bill Little · « **Reply #26 on:** October 11, 2006, 06:40:15 AM »

Quote from: John Paris on October 10, 2006, 06:24:46 PM

Ah............ John.............. truer words were never spoken!!

Have a lot of fun, Buddy.

Bill <><

Ryan Taylor · « **Reply #27 on:** October 11, 2006, 02:32:46 PM »

I like Slobs.

frank carlisle · « **Reply #28 on:** October 12, 2006, 12:30:48 PM »

Sometimes I take my Slob out to the Mall. I clean her up real good and shine her up and she's ready to go.
Here she is all dressed up nd purdy at our clubs 2006 mall show at the Macomb Mall in Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

Mike Spiess · « **Reply #29 on:** October 12, 2006, 02:14:02 PM »

Kewl Frank

frank carlisle · « **Reply #30 on:** October 12, 2006, 04:29:10 PM »

Thanks Mike.

Does no one else have Sob-pix?

Joey Mathison 9806 · « **Reply #31 on:** October 12, 2006, 06:14:51 PM »

slob in vegas

frank carlisle · « **Reply #32 on:** October 12, 2006, 07:18:05 PM »

Thanks Joey----------so tell us.............how do you like flying this little puppy, and how long have you been slobbing?

Joey Mathison 9806 · « **Reply #33 on:** October 12, 2006, 09:08:33 PM »

frank i don't have a slob but one of the sunday regular fliers does he let me fly it last sunday i must admitt i am now a slobber they are a ton of fun.i think i will get me one. will a mcoy 35 be enough power?

Richard Grogan · « **Reply #34 on:** October 12, 2006, 09:15:38 PM »

Your all living like a bunch of Slobs!

Bill Little · « **Reply #35 on:** October 12, 2006, 09:30:58 PM »

Quote from: Joey Mathison 9806 on October 12, 2006, 09:08:33 PM

frank i don't have a slob but one of the sunday regular fliers does he let me fly it last sunday i must admitt i am now a slobber they are a ton of fun.i think i will get me one. will a mcoy 35 be enough power?

Joey,

A McCoy 35 will be plenty of power!

And another one bites the dust!

Bill Little · « **Reply #36 on:** October 12, 2006, 09:35:18 PM »

Quote from: Prop buster on October 11, 2006, 02:32:46 PM

I like Slobs.

Ryan........................ drop the handle SLOWLY! .............. now step away from the Slob.................. that's right slowly move back............

There is still time to turn away from the Slob, Ryan!!!!!!!!!!!! You are much too young for slobbin'!!!!!!!!!!

Now look at what we've done, guys....... we have contributed to the slobbing of a minor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, the horror of it all!!!!!!!!!

Bill <><

Joey Mathison 9806 · « **Reply #37 on:** October 15, 2006, 06:37:14 PM »

10/15/06 slobin in vegas

Richard Grogan · « **Reply #38 on:** October 15, 2006, 07:36:13 PM »

Quote from: Joey Mathison 9806 on October 15, 2006, 06:37:14 PM

10/15/06 slobin in vegas

A Lazy Slob!!

Leroy Heikes · « **Reply #39 on:** November 27, 2006, 06:22:35 AM »

As of the 26 Nov 2006 I have become a Slobaholic. I had to fly my Slob for the first time yesterday, and I'm hooked.

It was a wonderful experience to be able to fly

in a T shirt here in Michigan on the the last weekend in November.

However I'm now hooked on flying Bi Slobs.

Leroy

frank carlisle · « **Reply #40 on:** November 27, 2006, 06:43:42 AM »

Congratulations Leroy!! You did a nice job on your Slob -- she's very pretty.
I threw in a couple pix from Flint this weekend. Apparently we had the same ideas you guys did and we all went flying.

It would be cool to have a Bi-Slob fly-in.

Leroy Heikes · « **Reply #41 on:** November 27, 2006, 07:01:44 AM »

We will most likely have to wait for spring, but it would be fun to have a low key Bi Slob event at the Air Zoo field. We would be guaranteed lots of spectators! Maybe a date late March or early April before all of the other events get going?

You Guys

will fly circles around me though.

Leroy

frank carlisle · « **Reply #42 on:** November 27, 2006, 07:08:33 AM »

Early spring would be great for a Slob Day. I'm sure Jihn would come up with me. Fletcher has a Slob and Jim Moreway is getting one.

Now that you have one---don't you wonder why you waited so long to get it?

Leroy Heikes · « **Reply #43 on:** November 27, 2006, 07:33:32 AM »

I wonder why

I left it sitting in its box since last Christmas when my wife gave it to me

Now she thinks I only finished it so she would give me another airplane this year

That was not the idea, but I'll go along with it.
We will have to keep an eye on the weather come March and see how much snow is on the ground.
We are going to schedule a training day at the Air Zoo in May and let the kids have some handle time. We are going to build several of the Brodak Flite streak Trainers so we have a fleet of fairly easy to repair airplanes for the day. We have two so far will need to get a couple of more to make sure we have enough.

Leroy

Bill Little · « **Reply #44 on:** November 27, 2006, 09:40:19 AM »

I have to get to work on that Slob kit I got at Huntersville...... I have too many airplanes to finish, first!!!!

Roger Vizioli · « **Reply #45 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:09:35 AM »

Bill,
You should build it now.

It builds quickly, probably while dope is drying ;-).
Go for it.
Dick A. brought two of his Slobs to P.Coopy's Fun Fly Saturday and asked me to fly two up with him after all the "normal" flying was finished.
Hadn't flown one in a few years, but had a ball, no fatalities! Simultaneous laps - upright and inverted, hovers, loops...............
When I got home I took mine off the wall and started getting it cleaned up to "Fly Again!".
Roger

frank carlisle · « **Reply #46 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:46:53 AM »

Quote from: Bill Little on November 27, 2006, 09:40:19 AM

I have to get to work on that Slob kit I got at Huntersville...... I have too many airplanes to finish, first!!!!

EXCUSES_EXCUSES_EXCUSES

don Burke · « **Reply #47 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:59:03 AM »

I flew my SLOB at an R/C club funfly. It made me look good! After the standing ovation

, one of the spectators said he had never in his his life seen a CL airplane fly.

Bill Little · « **Reply #48 on:** November 28, 2006, 11:24:20 AM »

Quote from: frank carlisle on November 27, 2006, 10:46:53 AM

EXCUSES_EXCUSES_EXCUSES

Ok there, Big fella! How's about that LA Heat?

??

I will get 'er done. Let's see, three planes for customers, a plane for a magazine article, and all of 1 plane for me!

frank carlisle · « **Reply #49 on:** November 28, 2006, 12:40:35 PM »

Quote from: Bill Little on November 28, 2006, 11:24:20 AM

Ok there, Big fella! How's about that LA Heat???

I'm letting the dope gas off//////

Author Topic: You Slob! (Read 17337 times)

Alan Hahn