I think I must be doing it wrong.
On Aug 7, 2013 7:53 PM, <jandi_at_adam.com.au> wrote:
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> hi Kang
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> Sounds like a good reason to fly indoor models... the graceful tranquil
> freedom of flight is soothing stuff
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> kind regards... Jack Metcalf, Adelaide, Australia
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> [Indoor_Construction] On Indoor Flying
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> Larry Cailliau is one of the inductees to the NFFS Hall of Fame in 2013.
> Here is what he wrote in 1984 about why he (and we) fly indoors.
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> By Larry Cailliau
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> I often ask myself why I travel half way around the world, expose myself
> to physical exhaustion and spend hours at painstaking precision model
> building. I most often ask myself this question after a rough day of flying
> when all I got to show for it is a fist full of extremely light micrometer
> cut balsa sticks.
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> All this effort is certainly not due to monetary value. Then why am I
> doing it?
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> Some people feel that friendship and competition is worth it and they have
> a valid point. Model building and flying particularly indoor flying is
> great therapy to take one's mind away from the hustle and bustle of the
> modern-day world.
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> There is something indoor flyers have in common that I can't put my finger
> on. I do know that it has something to do with the flight of the model
> aircraft. It is the slow, graceful and dreamlike image that an F1D gives
> that makes people stare in wonderment. Cezar Banks calls it an "aura," for
> the lack of a better description.
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> The Japanese, known for their philosophy, seem to relate it to freedom.
> According to the president of the Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Col, the "sight
> of model airplanes flying unmanned through the air seems to embody our
> subconscious desires for freedom."
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> If you are the kind of person who stops to watch a hawk float effortlessly
> in the sky, then indoor flying could be the answer to recapture those calm
> and peaceful moments that are so rare in today's fast-paced life.
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> I still can't put my finger on the exact reason why I enjoy indoor flying,
> but maybe the models, seemingly suspended in mi-air, transfer naturally to
> me that tranquil feeling that so many people seem to have lost in the 20th
> Century.
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