Hobbies
TAMIYA Mitsubishi Pajero Metaltop Wide
May 17th
It only dawned on me recently that, while I’ve been posting stories about my remote control helicopters, I already had a remote control vehicle which I’d owned for years and not mentioned at all.
The vehicle in question is the TAMIYA Mitsubishi Pajero Metaltop Wide – a radio controlled car I bought many years ago. In fact, I still have the box it came in, and everything else I bought at the time – plus the receipt! It cost £159.99 and I bought it on 6th March 1995.
Lucky Boy 9961 R/C helicopter
Mar 25th
Yes, it’s yet another helicopter post! This time, the Lucky Boy 9961
I had originally purchased a smaller, infra-red model
SYMA S018 Aurora & S026G Mini Chinook
Feb 6th
After a bit of a break, I recently started flying my Apache helicopter again, and enjoyed it as much as ever. So much so that I got fed up waiting for it to recharge ready for the next flight, and – yes – bought some more.
My first published program
Oct 15th
Yesterday, I was looking through some old images on my PC, trying to tidy things up and maybe reclaim a little space, and found some scans I took a couple of years ago from an old magazine. I was going to upload them to my ‘old’ website, but never got around to it. Thought I’d stick them on here now in a blog post, since they have a bit of sentimental value to me. What’s so special about them? Well, it was the first time I ever made money from programming a computer!
Watch out for those crosswinds!
Mar 27th
Having endured the hell that is the first lawn cutting of the year, and with no sign of the rain which the MET office had promised us for the weekend, I decided yesterday that it was the perfect opportunity to get the batteries charged up and take my helicopters out into the garden for the first time.
