Pics of the bird I actually fly at the contest will follow after the weekend. I couldn't get this one flying and trimmed for the event, a buddy lent me a plane, excuses are all gone...his plane flies real good...it's all on me now...

OK friends, I have the oportunity to create my first blog so here we go.
I live in Merida Yucatan Mexico, southern part of the country.
I love building and flying planes, more into 3D than nothing else.
Started with contorl line at age 10 and rubber band free flight.
Fast forward some years and in 2003 I found The Profile Brotherhood. I was amazed!!! Finally a non expensive way to try my hand at 3D with the profile planes!!
Since then I have built (and crashed) several planes but finaly I'm hovering and flat spinning my planes at my will.
Along the way I met some of the finest people in the world, and found ways to buy stuff that wasn't available here in my country.
The Brothers have helped me a lot.
So to round up, thanks to FG tl let me share all this with the comunity.
Jose.

well i have thought it out and i think my winter build will be an Hostetler 35% edge 540t.i have always wanted this plane and i am finally going to have one.i am trying to get some of my building skills worked back up so i can start building a way to retire soon.i was taught by aj lee the finer tools of the trade but he has held over a few secrects i think. i will post pictures when i get back from tucson when i start it from a builders kit form.i have been building since i started in rc in 1963 so i do hold a fair bit of experience

The beginning of it all...

Back in 2004 I bought a H9 Twist 3D, I had always been a sport flyer and seen some vids and thought the 3D stuff was neat.

So in being new to this type of flying I looked to get something fairly inexpensive and bought a Twist 3D designed by Mike McConville at Horizon Hobby.

It dead sticked on the first flight and floated to the ground like a falling leaf and broke the fuse in half. I at the time only knew about RC Universe ( sorry ) and was posting there as to what happened and got several replies.

This is now the funny part !!! Wayne, you always told me that I needed to tell this story so here it comes.

While posting in the forum about what had happened, this guy by the name of Mike McConville made a post in reply to mine. Now keep in mind, Im new to all of this and had no idea about IMAC and Freestyle and competing, none of it !

So, I see this post made by Mike and see all the sponsors under his name, I set and think ok, this is some rep from Horizon that is just trying to sooth and smooth things over...I had no idea who Mike was at all, had never heard the name before in all these years flying.

Time went on, discussing what had happened, I finally talk to Mike on the phone and he gets me to check the CG....it was WAY to far forward making the plane tail heavy. I told Mike that was what the instructions said, he had me check the instructions, low and behold there had been a misprint in the instructions, so the culprit was found.

Mike offered to send me a new plane, it was already fixed and I thanked him anyways for his offer. As time went on we stayed in touch via email.

I started seeing videos of Mark Leeseberg and thought man that is awesome, you know where this is going....

I start emailing Mike links to the pages where I found videos of Mark, again remember I dont know who Mike is or what he does !

This went on for a few weeks, I sent Mike another one and said something about it, Mike replied and said Mark is an awesome pilot, very talented young man, that he knew who Mark was because he had flown with and competed against Mark.

Im setting that thinking, ok, I know Mark does all of this and he is one of the top dogs doing this, sooooo how does Mike fly and compete with Mark...Google is a shocking form of information at times let me tell ya !

I go to Google, type in Mike McConville, hit enter and BAM !!! Page after page, Mike McConville TOC competitor, Don Lowe Masters, Tuscon Shootout, JR Challenge, Im setting with my chin now down on my desk.

I then see another link with Mikes name and also Horizon Hobby, I think ok, I know he works for Horizon from the sponsors under his name and now talking to him, so I go to that page.

Ummmmmm, Mike McConville, lead aircraft designer for the H9 planes for Horizon Hobby. HOLY COW !!! Now im setting and thinking to myself, I bet he really thinks that im crazy carrying on about Mark and him realizing that i had no idea who he is. Actually Mike thought it was funny and got several good laughs from my emails, so I brightened his days some at work lol.

So this was my first encounter with Mike McConville, not knowing who he was at all or what he did and does.

This crashing of an airplane because of an honest mistake later leads to a growing life long friendship which I will tell the storys about now that Max has given us a place to do so.

Thanks Max !!!

so when I'm having a bad day at work or something in life isn't going my way..i always grab some foam or a 3d bird and fly it like i hate it.... now thats the greatest stress reliever of all time

As of right now, there's not a whole lot going on down here. This is about to change, the weather is getting a little cooler, we can actually spend a few hours outside without passing out.

I have an IMAC contest this weekend, I'll let you know how it went.

c'ya for now!!

The beginning of it all...

Back in 2004 I bought a H9 Twist 3D, I had always been a sport flyer and seen some vids and thought the 3D stuff was neat.

So in being new to this type of flying I looked to get something fairly inexpensive and bought a Twist 3D designed by Mike McConville at Horizon Hobby.

It dead sticked on the first flight and floated to the ground like a falling leaf and broke the fuse in half. I at the time only knew about RC Universe ( sorry ) and was posting there as to what happened and got several replies.

This is now the funny part !!!

After the weekend trip into KY a couple of weeks ago, my RC skydiver was in need of major surgery. The body box was in pieces after a 200' dirt dive.

Well after two periods on the operating table, for a total of about 3 hours surgery, Lucky lives.

I gave him a few days to get his strength back and he was airborne again. the jump was a success, but the landing was off. He landed about 25 yards out in the bean field. I have worked on the steering lines on his chute and he is ready for another jump.

Today me and my buddy Brett Bayless (HeyDick on FG) took our brand new DW Foamies BAF Yak out for some flying. Little windy, but had a blast. Tore through about 5 packs before the wind became too much. Good times.