flight
the beautiful and talented alisa and g are off having a blast at cub scout camp. b and i weren't invited. we had baseball to play. and firefly episodes to watch. and pizza to eat. i took him to work on thursday. he played video games all day. well, "played". he launched every game in our portfolio to see if my latest code had broken anything. of course it had. sigh. something was broken at work on friday. not my fault. and i couldn't fix it. so we took the rc airplane to the park. last time the plane was seriously nose heavy. so we moved the battery pack away from the nose. a test glide unexpectedly flew flawlessly. we tore pages out of the manual to stuff into the nose to keep the battery pack from shifting forward on the hard landings. course every landing that day was hard. we had several flights that lasted over a minute. i think there's an updraft over the park. cause once the plane got over 50 feet it wanted to just keep going up. in short order we learned to re-trim the plane after flight. to align the wings and tail so it'd have a hope of flying straight on the next flight. the park guys showed up with a lawnmower. we were running out of juice anywho. so just one more flight. which broke a wing. time to go home. we've repaired it. and hope to try it out again soon. was fun day with my boy.