plane speaking
I was just chatting to bloke-I'm-dating and I asked him this week's question.

"So, what would you save if your flat was on fire?" (This is not unlikely - it's a timebomb of charging LiPo batteries, petrol cannisters, dodgy wiring and no smoke alarm.)

Without hesitation he replied: "my guitar and my plane".

It was what I'd suspected. After all, the guitar is his livelihood and the plane - six feet of radio-controlled wood and expensive bits of kit - is his passion.

"How would you get them downstairs?" I asked.

He thought for a second. "I'd take the guitar first, then I'd come back for the plane". He paused. "I'd let you carry the wings."

I don't know whether to be annoyed that I have to hover round a burning flat rescuing costly pieces of timber or whether to be delighted that our blossoming romance has moved to a new level where I am entrusted to touch the most precious thing in his life...

(...length of which is 110 inches, very rigid and goes straight up on full throttle.)
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 8 May 2008, 14:00, 12 replies)

Couldn't he just
fly it out of the window?
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 8 May 2008, 14:04, closed)

hell, no
'tis too big and requires a runway.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 8 May 2008, 14:05, closed)

I was
just going to suggest tying the guitar to it, then flying both out of the window together.

It needs a runway??
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 8 May 2008, 14:07, closed)

Depends on height though
if the flat were high enough up, the plane would reach an airspeed sufficient to give enough lift for flight before it plummeted into the ground.

You might be struggling on the first couple of floors right enough.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 8 May 2008, 14:09, closed)

110 inches?
*translates*

Jesus, 2.8m?

is that wingspan, or the length of the actual plane?
( Thinker, Thu 8 May 2008, 14:09, closed)

110 inches
is the wingspan.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 8 May 2008, 14:12, closed)

You keep..
..a 110" PETROL model in a FLAT?!?!

Sheesh, my biggest model is a 20%er and that's only 81" W/S and i can only just get that up and down stairs.

I thought MY missus was tolerant!!
( FlexAlux laughed at something inappropriate on, Thu 8 May 2008, 14:23, closed)

Just over nine feet.
Got to be some sort of sailplane? Humpty would be jumping up and down to have a go I'm sure...
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 8 May 2008, 14:23, closed)

@FlexAlux
not my flat, his flat! We've only been seeing each other for a wee while. I'm new to all this plane stuff so still find it amusing and interesting. It's pretty cool, I can see the attraction, though my 3D spatial awareness is so shit I'm not allowed near them.

Teh plane:

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 8 May 2008, 14:27, closed)

Ooooh,
That be an EF Yak 55 - not 110" though :) Think your fella might be adding a few inches to impress you... ha ha

That's the 74" fella - very nice though :)
( FlexAlux laughed at something inappropriate on, Thu 8 May 2008, 15:27, closed)

surely men don't lie about inches!
He could tell me whatever he wanted - I wouldn't know any better, so it'd be pointless. They all look remarkably similar to me. I like cars, ffs.

EF 110" Yak 54: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMbQJADA60A (Edit: "use the 2nd flight video", he tells me. Possibly because he's not brickin' it quite so much as the maiden flight.)
He has an 88" too. Christ on a bicycle, I never thought I'd hear myself talk planes... He's going to piss himself laughing at me when I tell him I had this conversation.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 8 May 2008, 16:11, closed)

Looks a hell of a lot bigger in the vid than it does the pic - maybe it was just further away than I thought... ha ha

Your fella flies really well :)
( FlexAlux laughed at something inappropriate on, Thu 8 May 2008, 18:23, closed)