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Re: Chicago RC Racing - Carpet Racing

#131
From: kenji
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:54
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In article <ftSdndxQEciLs0PXnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d@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
> 
> 
> BTW about 15 years ago a friend who worked for TWA in St. Louis took me to a
> *real* flying simulator at their HQ at Lambert Field there, it was one of
> their 747 simulators that pilots used to train on.  We "landed" at London
> Gatwick...
> 
> Corporate security was pretty lax in those daze, you could not get away with
> that shit now...

I'll bet yer in The Mile High Club
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From: kenji <kenji@ripco.com>
Newsgroups: chi.places,milw.general,chi.general
Subject: Re: Chicago RC Racing - Carpet Racing
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:54:59 -0500
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