🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <-bOdnXubo46OsEPXnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
 "Gregory Morrow" <flyokayflycsa@csaok.cz> wrote:

> kenji wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> 
> I'm having a friend over for chicken and dumplings tomorrow eve, but thanx
> for the invite...
> 
> Are there still any hobby shops around...???

nearest you:

http://strictlyrc.net , Lawrence Ave. Norridge, mostly flight RC

http://chicagoland-hobby.com , Nprthwest Highway, Edison Park, mostly 
trains

http://alshobbyshop.com , Elmhurst IL

Sadly Stanton Hobbyshop closed a while back after 49 years in biz.

Being that yer an old fart and prolly enjoy something more experiential, 
Al's Hobbyshop in Elmhurst is where I'd tell you to go if you were 
looking for that "old time" feeling, something that might hark back to 
when your dad or uncle took you to a hobbyshop. Al's has been there for 
62 years and they have TON's of merchandise on their shelves. If you go 
plan on lunch downtown or dinner. It's a pretty nice downtown area there 
in Elmhurst. Very upper-middle and very white with lots of boutique 
kinda places. Not as huge as downtown Naperville but just as nice.