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Re: Chicago RC Racing - Carpet Racing

#127
From: kenji
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:32
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In article <Vfydnaci6aDxtUPXnZ2dnUVZ_h-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
 "Gregory Morrow" <flyokayflycsa@csaok.cz> wrote:

> kenji wrote:
> 
> > In article <pMKdnZ45ba88vkPXnZ2dnUVZ_gCdnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
> >  "Gregory Morrow" <flyokayflycsa@csaok.cz> wrote:
> >
> >> Michele wrote:
> >>
> >>> kenji wrote:
> >>>> The only RC racing in Chicago. Carpet racing three times a week.
> >>>> Now in our third year of club racing. Beginners to sponsored
> >>>> racers find a race every week.
> >>>>
> >>>> Underground RC Racetrack, 40 E. 54th St. Chicago IL
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.undergroundrcracetrack.com
> >>>>
> >>>> Visit us on rctech.net too:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> <http://www.rctech.net/forum/wisconsin-illinois-racing/157260-underground
> >>>> -rc-race-track-chicago-41.html>
> >>>>
> >>>> See us on YouTube:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xy_a1vL9Nc
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I can't help but think this is like watching show jumping.  It's
> >>> only exciting if you're the rider.  Or in this case, driver.
> >>
> >>
> >> kenij posting this would be like me posting, "Hey, come on over and
> >> watch while I assemble my new model airplanes...!!!"
> >>
> >> I'd rather watch potholes form, basically...
> >
> > you build airplanes? Electric or nitro?
> >
> > cool.
> >
> > Where do you fly?
> >
> > We have three planes and four heli's.
> >
> > RC flight generally speaking isn't as social as surface RC
> 
> 
> I collect those plastic model airliners...they are cool-looking, but they
> basically just hang around and collect dust.  They are civil airliners,
> everything from an old Cubana Tupolevs to A380's in various Asian liveries.
> 
> Most I've gotten as gifts, they run about 25-30 bux.  If you have the bux
> there are some real nice and expensive ones, handmade from wood, the kind
> you used to see in travel agency or airline office (remember them!?)
> windows, those can run up to a thou or more...
> 
> Basically I am a geek at heart...

come to our small scale track at the hobbyshop. there's a flying 
simulator. we're there tomorrow evening. Between Cumberland and Harlem 
on Lawrence
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Subject: Re: Chicago RC Racing - Carpet Racing
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