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  1. akflyer added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar   

    Sorry Steve
    One of the few things I am good at is being a smart ass... I tend to show my strengths when give a chance...I know you would never wear fingernail polish when you head out for a date  :lol:


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  2. akflyer added a topic in Jokes   

    lost churches
    Lost Churches in New Orleans



    A local television station in South Louisiana aired an interview with a woman from New Orleans.

    The interviewee was asked if the complete devastation of the churches in the area had affected their lives.

    Without hesitation, the woman replied, "I don't know about all those other peoples, but we haven't gone to Churches in years.  We gets our chicken from Popeye's."
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  3. akflyer added a topic in Jokes   

    women killed by garden snake
    Woman ....Snake....Dead

    Never bring outdoor plants into the house. Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, Here's why..........Headlines from The Baltimore Sun Times...

    Baltimore Woman Dead...Cause of Death Garden Grass Snake...


    A couple in Baltimore, Maryland had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze.


    It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.

    She let out a very loud scream! The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa.


    He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.


    His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance. The attendants rushed in, wouldn't listen to his protests and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out.


    About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital.


    The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor. He volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.


    But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa. The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her.


    The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.


    The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that he had been bitten by the snake. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.


    By now the police had arrived. They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all happened over a little green snake.


    The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife. The little snake again crawled out from under the sofa. One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it.


    He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over and the lamp on it shattered and as the bulb broke it started a fire in the drapes. The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.


    Meanwhile, the burning drapes were seen by the neighbors who called the fire department. The firemen had started raising the fire truck ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and put out the electricity and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area (but they did get the house fire out).


    Time passed! Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car, and all was right with their world.


    A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night.


    That's when he shot her.
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  4. akflyer added a post in a topic Experimental Amateur-Built "gross weight" myth. (work in progress)   

    Steve,

    Thanks alot!  I just spent my 10.00 and have the CD headed my way.  Who the hell woulda thunk the FAA had something in place that was easy to do to get info!!!!!
    Nice score!


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  5. akflyer added a topic in Jokes   

    Leni is missing...
    Leni was in trouble -- He forgot his wedding anniversary (again). His wife was really angry.

    She told him, 'Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in less than 6 seconds AND IT HAD BETTER BE THERE!!'


    The next morning, Leni got up early and left for work.  When his wife woke up she looked out the window and sure enough there was a box gift-wrapped in the middle of the driveway.

    Confused and curious, the wife put on her robe and ran out to the driveway, and brought the box back in the house.

    She opened it and found a brand new....

    BATHROOM SCALE.


    Leni has been missing since Friday.

    Please pray for him.
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  6. akflyer added a topic in Jokes   

    Heaven or Hell.. a polititians decision.
    THIS IS A NONPARTISAN JOKE THAT CAN BE ENJOYED BY BOTH PARTIES!

    While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies.

    His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.

    'Welcome to heaven,' says St. Peter. 'Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you.'

    'No problem, just let me in,' says the man.

    'Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity.'

    'Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,' says the senator.

    'I'm sorry, but we have our rules.'

    And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.

    Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, Shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting Rich at the expense of the people.

    They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne.

    Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go.

    Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises...

    The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him.

    'Now it's time to visit heaven.'

    So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.

    'Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity.'

    The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: 'Well, I would Never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell.'

    So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.

    Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage.

    He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.

    The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. 'I don't understand,' stammers the senator. 'Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?'

    The devil looks at him, smiles and says, 'Yesterday we were campaigning.



    Today you voted.'
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  7. akflyer added a post in a topic Experimental Amateur-Built "gross weight" myth. (work in progress)   

    sum bitch... ya got me.. I am at work and dont have my paperwork in front of me, but I dont recall anywhere on the paperwork, other than the original bill of sale from the dealer that has a hand written gross wgt 1085 on the top of the paper.... No where else is it mentioned.  All I have is the airworthiness, limitations (called out as a motor glider), and the bill of sale / order form.  All other paperwork and build logs were destroyed in a house fire before i bought it.

    I do know that if you are ramp checked you better have a current WB.  That would be the ONLY place I could see the number being used just to show how you keep the CG in range for your load.

    come on with the rest and enlighten us, I look forward to a good uhhh discussion on this subject.  Wonder how long it will take them to ban your IP again   



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  8. akflyer added a post in a topic Cowboy's New Watch   

    bwaaaaaaah... good one!
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  9. akflyer added a post in a topic RE:Steve are ya lost buddy   

        Here we go again... You are correct as it is not anywhere on my registration or airworthiness or any other place on my paperwork....  They guys are being a bit anal.  Senario, I buy a kit, see where I can make a few improvements and beef it up.  The kit manufacture says gross weight is hmmm say 950.  I have done my own number crunching and say it is now good for 1500# with the mods I did...  I as the MANUFACTURE of the aircraft can put any damn number I want on it for a gross weight.  It is MY experiment to do with as I please period.

    I think you are going for the "max take off weight" shit storm.  I still cant beleive that even with it in black and white in the regs, the listers still can only see gross weight...

    Hell it has been way to quiet lately, kick that behive again lol... I am gonna be gone from April 7 till the 15th so I may miss some of the fireworks, but rest assured I will read all about it when I get back


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  10. akflyer added a topic in Jokes   

    more on the Irish... ya gotta lovem
    Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra
     

    Paddy was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking place.  Looking up to heaven he said, "Lord take pity on me.  If you find me a parking place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest of me life and give up me Irish Whiskey!"

    Miraculously, a parking place appeared.

    Paddy looked up again and said, "Never mind, I found one."



     
    Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra







    Father Murphy walks into a pub in Donegal, and says to the first man he meets, "Do you want to go to heaven?"

    The man said, "I do, Father."

    The priest said, "Then stand over there against the wall."

    Then the priest asked the second man, "Do you want to go to heaven?"

    "Certainly, Father," was the man's reply.

    "Then stand over there against the wall," said the priest.

    Then Father Murphy walked up to O'Toole and said, "Do you want to go to heaven?"

    O'Toole said, "No, I don't Father."

    The priest said, "I don't believe this.  You mean to tell me that when you die you don't want to go to heaven?"

    O'Toole said , "Oh, when I die, yes.  I thought you were getting a group together to go right now."



     
    Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra
     




    Paddy was in New York

    He was patiently waiting and watching the traffic cop on a busy street crossing.  The cop stopped the flow of traffic and shouted, "Okay, pedestrians."  Then he'd allow the traffic to pass.

    He'd done this several times, and Paddy still stood on the sidewalk.

    After the cop had shouted, "Pedestrians!" for the tenth time, Paddy went over to him and said, "Is it not about time ye let the Catholics across?"



     
     
    Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra




    Gallagher opened the morning newspaper and was dumbfounded to read in the obituary column that he had died.  He quickly phoned his best friend, Finney.

    "Did you see the paper?" asked Gallagher. "They say I died!!"

    "Yes, I saw it!" replied Finney.  "Where are ye callin' from?"



     
    Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra




    An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut  The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest's breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car.

    He says, "Sir, have you been drinking?"

    "Just water," says the priest.

    The trooper says, "Then why do I smell wine?"

    The priest looks at the bottle and says, "Good Lord! He's done it again!"



     
    Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra




    Walking into the bar, Mike said to Charlie the bartender, "Pour me a stiff one - just had another fight with the little woman."

    "Oh yeah?" said Charlie, "And how did this one end?"

    "When it was over," Mike replied, "She came to me on her hands and knees.

    "Really," said Charles, "Now that's a switch!  What did she say?"

    She said, "Come out from under the bed, you little chicken."



     
    Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra




    Flynn staggered home very late after another evening with his drinking buddy, Paddy.  He took off his shoes to avoid waking his wife, Mary.

    He tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the stairs leading to their upstairs bedroom, but misjudged the bottom step.  As he caught himself by grabbing the banister, his body swung around and he landed heavily on his rump.  A whiskey bottle in each back pocket broke and made the landing especially painful.

    Managing not to yell, Flynn sprung up, pulled down his pants, and looked in the hall mirror to see that his butt cheeks were cut and bleeding.  He managed to quietly find a full box of Band-Aids and began putting a Band-Aid as best he could on each place he saw blood.

    He then hid the now almost empty Band-Aid box and shuffled and stumbled h is way to bed.

    In the morning, Flynn woke up with searing pain in both h is head and butt and Mary staring at him from across the room.

    She said, "You were drunk again last night weren't you?"

    Flynn said, "Why you say such a mean thing?"

    "Well," Mary said, "it could be the open front door, it could be the broken glass at the bottom of the stairs, it could be the drops of blood trailing through the house, it could be your bloodshot eyes, but mostly.....it's all those Band-Aids stuck on the hall mirror.
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  11. akflyer added a post in a topic Steve are ya lost buddy   

    The crotchety guys are not over here.  They dont like freedom of speech I guess.  For the most part, if they are acting like a jackass they dont like it that I can and will call them a jackass.  This site is intended to be more than stricktly a "builders reference" more of a place to hang out and talk about flying in general, building or modding you plane, and general BSing that is not allowed on the "list".  You know, and fun place to go and get info too!

    John does not have bubble doors on his KF II, they are just full lexan (I know cause I put almost 200 hrs on it last year) lol.  I have a bussy local that is re-building a mod I right now and he is looking for full bubble doors also.  If we find any that will work I will let you know.  Good luck with the test flights and keep us posted on how it goes.

    Leni
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  12. akflyer added a post in a topic Shamus O'Malley's death   

    damn, the perfect "man's death".  I just figured out how I wanna go!
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  13. akflyer added a post in a topic Paddy Murphy   

      Good one!


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  14. akflyer added a post in a topic are you kidding me???   

    it warmed up a bit and made shit real dangerous.  lost a few sledders to the mountain last week.. it turned colder again and froze back up.  Hell here at work it went from -45 to +25 and now back to -38 in the last 3 weeks... weird weather this year!
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  15. akflyer added a post in a topic back on the project   

    damnit, I wouldput the bad mouth on ya for not getting it done and flying, but I have been sidetracked myself... I got my blinders back on though and am ready to get'er done.

    Where abouts in OK are you?  I just talked a buddy here at work that lives in OK into buys a fox.  He is on the phone making the deal as I am typing lol.
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  16. akflyer added a topic in Hardcore Avidfoxflyers   

    are you kidding me???
    I still cant beleive that someone would be offended by Guys comment... I got an idea.. if it offends you piss off.  You are too damn stupid to fly a plane to begin with.  How can one deal with the real issues that come up in the cockpit if you cant deal with a simple "test pilot" comment.

    Post up here, no one will censor you, but we may belittle you in a good natured way! (its called busting your balls, you need to put on your big boy panties and deal with it)

    end of rant, for now.


    ARCHIVE THIS ONE
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  17. akflyer added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar   

    back on the project
    Well after not touching the plane for 8 months I finaly got my ass in gear and got back to work on it.  I only worked on it for the last day and a half I was home, but  I replaced 3 of the rib tails on the left wing and the cap strips.. two more and I will be ready for a little fiberglassing on the wing tip, making / fairing in the mount for the nav light then covering.  It is possible to get the bugger in the air in sometime next month.

    Anyone else having fun in their fox or avid?


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  18. akflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox Bubble Doors   

    I think you may be SOL on this one unless you pull them yourself.  One off sets are not going to be a feasable option.  If you are still in the building, or re-building phase, you can make your own "wide body" kit and a new set of doors, but that is a bit of fabrication.  I did not see the wide body kit till after I had just got done covering mine.. I was tempted to pull the covering off and start over, but in the end, I am sticking with stock width.... maybe if I ding it up in a few years I will widen it out.
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  19. akflyer added a post in a topic Avid Flyer STOL Wings   

    have you tried Steve at www.airdale.com ?  You can buy new from him.
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  20. akflyer added a post in a topic Sweating hangers   

    hey Steve, you still getting pissed on in the hangar?

    I was gonna make an honest effort to get my plane in the air this time home.... then it started snowing again.. and my other passion kicked in.  Looks like the plane will have to wait a couple more months.

    this is my 16 yr old.. one of the best pics I have ever taken.

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  21. akflyer added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar   

    anyone flying?
    Anyone out burning some air?  I be stuck at work for a couple more weeks, but I have been dreaming of flying lol.  I got in one flight on eskflyers Kitfox last time home.  I love the looks from guys when you take off on floats... in the middle of winter lol..
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  22. akflyer added a post in a topic RC Fun....? was-Landing gear questions...   

    I would say it is more like comparing say... grove gear flyers to bungie gear flyers  .  Good luck with it, they are a hell ova lota fun!  I will try and get some airwolf vids up next time I am home.
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  23. akflyer added a post in a topic RC Fun....? was-Landing gear questions...   

    The walkeras are pauged by radio glitches and poor QC.  I have flown one that was great and another that was un-flyable.  I lost several helis to radio glitches. I finnaly sprang for a 7DX spectrum radio and all problems went away.  The other option is something like the eflite blade CP pro.  it comes with the spectrum radio and is not outrageous on the price.  and for under 200, you can get one of the twin rotor jobbies like the blade CX.  they will get you a long way down the road for flying helis.  the controls are the same but they are damn near impossible to destroy.

    One other tip.  you need to pop the heli off the ground 2-3 feet.  any lower and you are in ground effect and it is real skittish.  it will be alot more stable when you get the rotors into clean air.  Do you have training gear for it?

      <hooked on helis brew
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  24. akflyer added a post in a topic John Oakley tells it like it is.....   

    I cant beleive that MG had to ask... I am pretty sure he is the unfriendly dick...  I have to atleast give Guy props for answering my emails and being a decent person... even if he is king 


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  25. akflyer added a post in a topic Sweating hangers   

    better insulation.... the only way I know.  I have seen alot of them up here sweat like a biatch.. but several that have the spray on foam dont sweat a drop..I had an aluminum boat that was the same way..
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